Governor Kernan names Eutslers Sagamores of the Wabash

INDIANAPOLIS - Before leaving office, Governor Joe Kernan named Linden residents Therese and Mark Eutsler Sagamores of the Wabash. Former State Representative Brian K. Hasler of Indianapolis presented the award to them.

The award is the highest honor which the Governor of Indiana bestows. It is a personal tribute given to those who have rendered a distinguished service to the state or to the governor.

As members of the board of the Conner Center for East/West Reconciliation, the Eutslers enlisted the U.S. State Department, Russian Federation's Foreign Relations Office and Indiana Music Arranger Laureate Bill Moffit, Purdue professor of bands emeritus, to arrange the newly adopted Russian National Anthem. Copies were presented to city officials throughout Russia during a relationship-building trip across the country aboard the Trans Siberian Express in 1994.

Therese, a Indiana University School of Medicine graduate, is a senior staff physical therapist at St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Lafayette. She is an organist at St. Bernard Roman Catholic Church and Stockwell UMC.

Mark, a Purdue University graduate, is the Indiana 4-H Foundation's director of development. He chairs the Ivy Tech State College Business Administration Advisory Committee, co-chairs the 500 Festival Band Committee, is president of the Ouiatenon Club, and serves on the boards of Mid-Land Meals, Lacy Institute For Ecumenism and Metro Ministries. He also serves as a member of the United Methodist Indiana Area Communications Commission, Committee on the Episcopacy and Stockwell UMC.

Last updated on 25 Apr 2008

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