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Pat McNarny receives Distinguished Service Award
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KOKOMO, Ind.—Past chairman of the IU Kokomo Advisory Board and an active member for more than two decades, Patrick E. McNarny, will receive the 2003 Distinguished Service Award from the IU Kokomo Alumni Association (IUKAA). He is the President of Salin Bank and Trust Company in Logansport. IU Kokomo Chancellor Hugh Thompson first appointed McNarny to the Advisory Board in the 1980s, and honored McNarny’s efforts with the 1990 IU Kokomo Service Award. IUKAA board member Deanna Crispen, who nominated McNarny for the current award, said McNarny has supported IU Kokomo “with a commitment and integrity that is unsurpassed.” “If Pat McNarny says he’s going to do something, he does it,” Crispen said. “He works on legislative concerns with Hoosiers for Higher Education, he comes to events, he has supported IU Kokomo financially.” McNarny was among campus leaders who successfully “lobbied with a passion” for IU Kokomo to have its own Master’s of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree program. “We had the ambition to match the quality of the M.B.A. programs at IU in Indianapolis and Bloomington,” he recalled. “We wouldn’t settle for just any program. We wanted an IU M.B.A. with all the trimmings, and we got it” in 1991. McNarny said he frequently recommends IU Kokomo to potential area students, emphasizing that full professors teach even first-year students. “It’s the highest quality of education,” McNarny said. He counts the construction of several new campus buildings in the last decade, and “the constant upgrading of faculty” as significant campus accomplishments he’s witnessed and helped along. McNarny’s enthusiasm for education came from the aunt and uncle who raised him in upstate New York. “My uncle was the first in his family to graduate from high school. In the 1920s, that was like graduating from college. He always said, ‘Knowledge is power.’ In that home, nothing was valued more than education.” McNarny holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration from the University of Mississippi and earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Indiana University School of Law in 1966. After several years as a banking executive in Indianapolis and various Illinois cities, McNarny came to Logansport in 1976 as President and CEO of First National Bank of Indiana. In 1993, he became area president and Regional Executive for National City Bank of Indiana, and then president of Salin Bank and Trust Co. in 1998. McNarny has served as president or chairman of the board for the Indiana Bankers Association, the Indiana Community Business Credit Corporation and Alternative Dispute Resolution, Inc. and has been a member of several boards of directors, including those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce. McNarny has taught economics and business law at nine different institutions of higher learning, including the Rutgers University and University of Wisconsin Graduate Schools of Banking. Currently the president of the Logansport Community School Corporation Board of Trustees, McNarny is particularly proud of Project PEACE, a conflict mediation and resolution training program he helped establish at Logansport’s Columbia Middle School years ago. As legal counsel to the program’s sponsor, the Indiana State Bar Association, McNarny secured funding for the local Project PEACE (Peaceful Endings through Attorneys, Children, and Educators). His other community involvements benefiting Cass County and the City of Logansport include board membership for the local United Way, Chamber of Commerce, Public Library, Economic Development Foundation, and Historic Preservation Foundation. For his many services to the state of Indiana, McNarny received the Sagamore of the Wabash and the Distinguished Hoosier awards from Governor Robert Orr. His wife, Judy Allen McNarny, holds a bachelor’s degree in business from IU, and their daughter, Kelly, received her M.B.A. from Indiana University. The McNarnys also had a son, Michael, who died in his teens. They have three grandsons, whom McNarny hopes “will all be IU grads.”
The IU Kokomo Alumni Association will present its 2003 Distinguished Service Award and Distinguished Alumni Award at the Cream and Crimson Dinner Saturday, May 10, in Kelley Student Center at 6 p.m. The dinner is open to all alumni and friends of the campus. For information, call the Office of Alumni Affairs at (765) 455-9411.
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