Artist, community leader, and 2016 Butler University Legacy Award winner Kanwal Prakash Singh will receive an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters and serve as the keynote speaker for Winter Commencement on Saturday, December 16, at 9:00 AM in Clowes Memorial Hall.

Robert Postlethwait MBA ’74 and Kathleen Postlethwait MS ’74 will receive Honorary Doctors of Science and Humane Letters, respectively.

A native of India, KP Singh is one of the Hoosier State’s most prolific and well-known artists. His pen-and-ink images of great buildings, colleges, places of worship, and other historic sites are displayed in public and private collections throughout the United States and the world. In 2007, three of his drawings were installed in The Sikh Heritage Gallery at The Museum of Natural History, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

Singh earned his Bachelor of Arts from Punjab University and Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Technology in Regional Planning from The Indian Institute of Technology. He also earned a Master of City Planning from The University of Michigan. He founded KP Singh Designs, a firm specializing in fine art, in 1972.

Singh considers community service to be a major focus and commitment of his Sikh faith as well as a civic responsibility. He is a founding member of The International Center of Indianapolis, a past member of the Butler University Center for Faith and Vocation Advisory Board, and has tirelessly served many other local and national organizations.

Bob and Kathi Postlethwait are fellow exemplars in their dedication to serving others. Bob Postlethwait, Retired President of the Neuroscience Project Group at Eli Lilly and Company, is a former Butler University Trustee and current member of the Butler Business Consulting Group Advisory Board. Among many other activities, he has served on the Advisory Council for the National Alliance on Mental Illness and the Board of Directors of the National Foundation of Suicide Prevention.

Kathi Postlethwait, a former Analytic Chemist at Eli Lilly and Company, is a member of the boards of WFYI and The Villages, as well as a past member of the Indianapolis Museum of Art Board of Governors.

Together, the Postlethwaits served as co-facilitators of the 2016–2017 One Butler: Brain Project Committee. In 2013, they established the Kathi and Bob Postlethwait Mental Health Recovery Center at Eskenazi Health, an inpatient facility for individuals with serious mental illness who require a safe environment for their recovery.

 

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