INDIANAPOLIS (October 15, 2012) – The Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee announced today that David Shane will receive the 2012 Charles L. Whistler Award – an honor given by GIPC and presented annually by the Mayor of Indianapolis.
The award recognizes individuals who, outside the regular duties of their chosen profession, have brought together the public and private sectors for civic improvement in Indianapolis. Mayor Greg Ballard will present the Whistler Award to Shane during a private ceremony on Thursday, Nov. 15.
Shane is the Chief Executive Officer of LDI Ltd., LLC, where he has worked since 1997. From 1975 to 1995, he served as an education and employment lawyer with Faegre Baker Daniels.
For more than 20 years, Shane has been actively working to improve education in Indianapolis, Central Indiana and the state. He currently is a Member At-Large of the Indiana State Board of Education, a board member of The Mind Trust, and serves on education advisory boards for the Indiana and Indianapolis Chambers of Commerce. He previously served as an education and workforce advisor to Governor Mitch Daniels, on the Indiana Education Roundtable, the Indianapolis Charter School Board, the K-12 Education Subcommittee of the Indiana Government Efficiency Commission, and the IPS GRADES citizen advisory group. His continuing focus has been on educational results that prepare each student, and thus families and communities, for success in further education, work and life in the knowledge-based, technology-enabled, global world of the 21st Century.
Shane also currently serves on the boards of the following organizations: the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership, the Capital Improvement Board of Marion County, the Economic Club of Indiana, and Lilly Endowment, Inc. Shane previously served in leadership roles with Damar Homes, Inc., the 1987 Pan American Games, and Second Presbyterian Church.
Shane and his wife Anne were inducted into the Indiana Academy in 2010, and in 2009 the Boy Scouts of America Crossroads Council presented them with the Thomas W. Moses Award for outstanding contributions to the community. They have a daughter, Molly, currently a physician in Chicago; a son Ben, who works for Target Corporation in Toronto, Canada; and three grandchildren.
“Dave Shane is exactly the type of humble, effective, private sector Indianapolis leader Chuck Whistler exemplified,” said Murray Clark, GIPC Board Chair and Chair of the 2012 Charles L. Whistler Award Committee. “The sheer volume of his civic contributions, and the depth of community initiatives he has touched, make him a perfect addition to the list of extraordinary men and women who have previously received this remarkable award and helped establish a culture of private-public collaboration so critical to the remarkable success of our great city.”
In its 28th year, 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 Baker & Daniels and chairman of both the Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee’s Urban Growth and Revitalization Task Force and the White River State Park Citizen’s Advisory Committee.
Shane’s name will be added to a limestone and granite monument recognizing award winners that is located in the Charles L. Whistler Memorial Plaza at the City Market in downtown Indianapolis.