Anthony "Tony" Sarbanes Receives Alumni Community Service Award from McDaniel College

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WESTMINSTER, MD (11/04/2011)(readMedia)-- Anthony "Tony" Sarbanes of Salisbury, Md., receives the alumni community service award from McDaniel College. He received a bachelor's degree from Western Maryland (now McDaniel) College in 1958 and master's degree in 1968.

Presented annually during McDaniel's Homecoming, the alumni community service award is presented to a graduate who has performed outstanding voluntary service to their community beyond normal business or professional obligations.

Tony Sarbanes had a varied career in many civic groups after serving in the U.S. Army and while pursuing a long career in public education and in business in the private sector. He has contributed his time and talents to the National Conference of Christian and Jews, the Maryland Congress of Parents and Teachers and with the Optimist Club, and the American Hellenic Education Progressive Association. He served Wicomico County residents through the Addiction Advisory Council, as coach of the Salvation Army Basketball Team and Senior Little League Baseball Team, as well as the chairman of the Department of Recreation and Parks. He has been a member of the Quarter Century Committee, served on the Board of Directors of the Historical Society, as well as chairman and board member of the United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore and member of the Audit Committee, the War Memorial Commission and the Tourism Commission.

Sarbanes also served Trinity United Methodist Church as the chair of the Board of Trustees and Pastor Parish Committee, as a lay leader and as a member of the administrative board. He has been a member of the Salisbury-Wicomico Arts Council, the Salisbury Neighborhood Redevelopment Task Force, the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore, American Legion Post #64 and as chairman of the Salisbury Neighborhood Housing Service Board of Directors. He was secretary and president of the Delmarva Water Transport Committee, and a member of the Lower Shore Private Industry Council and Hudson Health Services, Inc. He also served on the Salisbury University Town and Gown Council and Varsity Club.

Sarbanes is the recipient of various awards, including the Community Service Award from the Consulting Engineers Council of Maryland, the Distinguished Citizens Award from the Tri-County District of the Boy Scouts of America, the Salisbury Optimist Club President's Citation as the Outstanding Optimist Club member in 2007-2008 and the Salisbury Rotary Club Four Way Award in 2010. Most recently, he was honored by the United Way with the Jim Barrett Community Leadership Award for his many years of public service in various agencies and programs.

For more information about McDaniel College, visit www.mcdaniel.edu.

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McDaniel College, recognized nationally among "40 Colleges that Change Lives" and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 60 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 20 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research, teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel's degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 part-time graduate students, McDaniel also boasts a spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, an Amtrak station and BWI international airport.