{"id":11822,"date":"2024-12-05T10:13:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T15:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=11822"},"modified":"2024-12-05T10:13:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T15:13:39","slug":"robbins-79-receives-2024-sachem-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2024\/12\/05\/robbins-79-receives-2024-sachem-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Robbins &#8217;79 receives 2024 Sachem Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/12\/sachem-2024_crop.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/12\/sachem-2024_crop.jpg\" alt=\"Clay Robbins \u201979 and Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb\" class=\"wp-image-11823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/12\/sachem-2024_crop.jpg 590w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/12\/sachem-2024_crop-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An Indianapolis philanthropic leader <a href=\"https:\/\/indianacapitalchronicle.com\/briefs\/lilly-endowment-ceo-gets-2024-sachem-award\/\">received the 2024 Sachem Award <\/a>from Gov. Eric Holcomb, the latest in a long line of Hoosiers honored for their community contributions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clay Robbins, the chair and CEO of the Lilly Endowment, Inc., is a lifelong Hoosier, born and raised in the state\u2019s largest city. This is Holcomb\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/indianacapitalchronicle.com\/2023\/10\/06\/albert-chen-founder-of-carmel-based-telamon-corporation-to-receive-2023-sachem-award\/\">eighth and final<\/a>&nbsp;Sachem Award honoree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cClay is a transformational leader in Indiana, and his humble service to our great state truly represents the very best of what it means to be an exemplary Hoosier,\u201d Holcomb said. \u201cHis thoughtful approach to philanthropy and heart for improving the lives of Hoosiers will continue to inspire those who seek to create positive change in their communities, and it is for this reason, and many more, that I am bestowing my eighth and final Sachem to Mr. Robbins.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While at Wabash he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta, Glee Club, The Bachelor, and the Student Senate. He majored in religion and minored in philosophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indianapolis philanthropic leader received the 2024 Sachem Award from Gov. Eric Holcomb, the latest in a long line of Hoosiers honored for their community contributions. Clay Robbins, the chair and CEO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":11823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/12\/sachem-2024_crop.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11824,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11822\/revisions\/11824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}