INDIANAPOLIS (September 17, 2018) – The Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee (GIPC) is pleased to announce that Marianne Glick, President and Owner of GlickArt, will receive the 2018 Charles L. Whistler Award.

The annual award recognizes individuals who, outside the regular duties of their chosen professions, have brought together the public and private sectors for civic improvement in Indianapolis.

“Marianne Glick’s contribution to the progress of Indianapolis exemplifies our success when businesses, governments, and communities work as partners to advance our economy with opportunity and equity. Ms. Glick has strategically and effectively invested her time in the neighborhoods, people, and culture of our City, all with abundant grace and humility,” said GIPC Board Chair Mary Titsworth Chandler, Vice President of Community Relations at Cummins and CEO of The Cummins Foundation. “As a strong female community leader, Ms. Glick’s work also advances Indianapolis’ place among the most vibrant, diverse, and inclusive cities in the U.S.”

“Each year the Whistler Award is presented to the people and institutions that have helped to shape the very fabric of our community,” said Mayor Joe Hogsett. “The award recipients embody the vision, talent, and energy of Charles Whistler, the honor’s namesake, and carry on Indianapolis’ legacy of innovation and civic pride. It is an honor to celebrate the contributions of Marianne Glick this year, highlighting the influential ways she has given back to our community and helped to shape local culture.”

An Indianapolis native, Ms. Glick has a deep connection to the community and has worked to fulfill her personal mission of “igniting, inspiring, and directing energy for positive action” through not just philanthropy but by volunteering with and helping to lead more than 20 local organizations, as well. An accomplished artist, Ms. Glick often contributes her paintings to assist non-profit organizations. She is the founder of the Executive Women’s Training Program, Chair of the Board for the Eugene & Marilyn Glick Family Foundation, President of the Board for TeenWorks, and serves on the board of directors for the Gene B. Glick Company, United Way of Central Indiana, Ivy Tech Community College, IUPUI Chancellor’s Advisory Council, Goodwill, Ascend Indiana, and Community Health Foundation. She has served as a trustee for Ball State University, Central Indiana Community Foundation, the Women’s Hospital, Big Sisters, Habitat for Humanity, Women’s Fund, and Prevent Blindness Indiana.

Join us on Tuesday, November 13, 2018, at Ivy Tech Community College Culinary & Conference Center, beginning at 7:30 a.m., where Mayor Joe Hogsett will present Marianne Glick with the 2018 Charles L. Whistler Award. Thank you to our Title Sponsor Faegre Baker Daniels. To purchase tickets or tables, visit www.indygipc.org. Questions? Contact info@indygipc.org.

About the Charles L. Whistler Award:

Charles L. Whistler understood working for the future. To ensure Whistler’s legacy lives on, GIPC instituted The Charles L. Whistler Award – the most prestigious award given annually to a community volunteer. The Charles L. Whistler Award continues to honor the legacy of Whistler, a lawyer and community leader in the grand tradition, who gave his time and extraordinary abilities to the Indianapolis community without asking for power or position in return. At the time of his death in 1981, he was a senior partner at Faegre Baker Daniels and chair of both the GIPC’s Urban Growth and Revitalization Task Force and the White River State Park Citizen’s Advisory Committee.

Ms. Glick’s name will be added to a limestone and granite monument containing past award recipients’ names and located in the Charles L. Whistler Memorial Plaza at the City Market in downtown Indianapolis.

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Past Whistler Award Recipients:

1983: Thomas H. Lake
1984: Thomas W. Binford & David R. Frick
1985: Frank P. Lloyd
1986: Phillip R. Duke & Thomas W. Moses
1987: Mattie M. Coney
1988: Donald W. Tanselle
1989: Ramon L. Humke & Henry C. Ryder
1990: Richard O. Morris
1991: Eldon Campbell
1992: Michael A. Carroll
1993: William W. Mays & James T. Morris
1994: Fred C. Tucker, Jr.
1995: Robert H. Reynolds
1996: Thomas M. Miller & Sam H. Jones
1997: Dr. Gene Sease
1998: Jack Shaw & Dan & Lori Efroymson
1999: Andrew Paine & Yvonne Shaheen
2000: Rev. T. Garrott Benjamin & Michael Maurer
2001: Jerry Semler & Fay Williams
2003: Alex Carroll & Rev. Charles Williams
2004: Dr. Beurt Servaas & Gerald Bepko
2005: Joseph D. Barnette, Jr. & G. Frederick Glass
2007: P.E. MacAllister & Marge Tarplee
2008: Patrick J. Early
2009: John T. Neighbours & Sallie W. Rowland
2010: Michael G. Browning
2011: Samuel L. Odle
2012: David Shane
2013: John M. Mutz
2014: Martha Lamkin
2015: Thomas A. King
2016: Sarah & John Lechleiter
2017: Andre B. Lacy

More about Charles L. Whistler:

As an Indianapolis Star editorial noted shortly after his death in 1981, “Charles L. Whistler was a visionary, talented and energetic prime mover who had a leading role in shaping the Indianapolis of today and its modern political structure. He loved the capital city and the Hoosier state, town and county, urban scenes with beauty and character, and the great outdoors. He had the persuasive ability often associated with the authors of constitutions, and used it to win strong support and positive contributions from others, often representing diverse interests, for the array of projects and programs that he helped conceive and bring to fruition. He wrote much of the legislation consolidating city and county governments under UniGov. He also had a leading role in the modernization and beautification of downtown Indianapolis and the creation of the City Center on Monument Circle, the adaptive reuse of the Indiana Theater, the downtown retailing mall concept, and the planning of the White River State Park.”

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CONTACT:
Beth White
(317) 327-3820
Beth.White@indygipc.org