Corrao, Stanley, Friday and Williams selected for Hanover’s top alumni awards
Pete Corrao ’76, John Stanley ’72, Cassi Binkley Friday ’11 and Jenn Williams ‘10 have been selected to receive Hanover College’s highest alumni honors this fall. Corrao and Stanley will each receive the Alumni Achievement Award. Friday and Williams will be presented with the Distinguished Young Alumni Award.
The honorees will be saluted Saturday, Oct. 5, as part of Hanover’s 97th-annual Homecoming celebration. The awards ceremony is scheduled for noon in the J. Graham Brown Campus Center. (Note: Registration to attend this event will be available in July.)
The Alumni Achievement Awards, presented annually since 1960, recognize graduates who have enhanced the reputation of the College by making significant contributions to their community, state or nation through professional service, public service and/or civic activities.
A founding member of Neace Lukens, Inc./AssuredPartners, Corrao has worked for the company since 1991 and currently serves as senior vice president. For more than a decade, he provided oversight for the property and casualty division and, later, led the employee benefits division in Indiana and Kentucky for 10 years.
Prior to launching Neace Lukens, Inc., he served from 1987-91 as sales manager at Bunzl, Inc., an international packaging distributor, in their St. Louis and Louisville, Ky., offices.
Corrao, a 2002 inductee into Hanover’s athletic hall of fame, was an all-American lineman for the College’s football team in the 1970s. He followed his playing career with more than 35 years as an assistant coach at the high school and intercollegiate levels.
He was a volunteer assistant coach for Hanover’s football squad from 2012-14. He previously held football coaching positions at Eastern Kentucky University, College of the Holy Cross, University of Dayton and Decatur Central (Ind.) High School.
Corrao’s volunteer activities extend into his local communities and alma mater. He has served as chair of Leadership Southern Indiana and president of the Ivy Tech Development Council and Clark County Youth Shelter Board. He has also contributed to the leadership boards for Bridgepointe Services and Goodwill Industries and Providence (Ind.) High School.
His service to Hanover includes more than five years as chair of the Louisville-area golf outing. He currently oversees the annual Bruce Harbeson Memorial Scholarship Golf Outing, which has raised more than $100,000.
Corrao, who holds a master’s degree in educational administration from the University of Dayton, lives in New Albany, Ind., with his wife, Suzanne Spencer Corrao ’78.
Stanley’s extensive career has spanned more than 50 years with ventures into banking, business consulting, education and athletics.
He worked in the banking industry from 1975-2007, including roles as president of Old National Bank and regional chief executive officer of Old National Bancorp. He also worked as president and chief executive officer of Southern Region, president of Old National Bank-Evansville, executive vice-president at Old National Bank and regional chief credit officer at Old National Bancorp.
Stanley served as athletic director at the University of Evansville from 2007-14. He was a member of the Missouri Valley Conference’s executive committee and committees for media negotiations and sportsmanship. In 2013, he was honored as the Under Armour I-AAA athletic director of the year by the National Association of College Athletic Directors.
He continues to operate Stanley Consulting Services, LLC, which he started in 2014. He also works as president of the Evansville Otters baseball club (since 2017) and is a former president of the team’s independent Frontier League (2019-20).
A former member of Hanover’s Board of Trustees, Stanley’s history of community service is vast. He has contributed as president of numerous organizations, including St. Mary’s Foundation, Rehabilitation Center, United Way of Southwestern Indiana, Evansville-Vanderburgh Building Authority and Purple Aces Club. He has also served the boards of the Red Cross, Roberts Stadium Foundation, Operation City Beautiful, Evansville Sports Corporation and Reference Services, Inc., among many others.
Stanley holds a degree from the University of Delaware’s Stonier Graduate School of Banking and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Evansville.
He resides in Evansville, Ind., with his wife, Ede.
Hanover’s Distinguished Young Alumni Awards have been presented annually since 2013. The honor celebrates graduates under the age of 40 and recognizes alumni who have enhanced the reputation of the College through their outstanding professional achievements, personal accomplishments or their loyal service to their alma mater.
Friday is director of research programs and grants for Cure HHT, a nonprofit foundation that supports awareness, education and research for this genetic blood vessel disorder. She previously served the organization as a consultant and, in 2021, was named Cure HHT’s Trish Linke volunteer of the year.
Friday earned a master’s degree in medical science and a doctoral degree in philosophy from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. She was a graduate research assistant and earned the McCullers Scholar and her department’s Brian Harding Award. Her dissertation, “The Influence of APOE Genotype on Lipid Droplet Dynamics,” contributed to the study of neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease.
The wife of a soldier, Friday has been active in military spouse advocacy. While residing in South Korea, she was director of the Hiring Our Heroes Military Spouse Professional Network. She served on a task force to advise military leaders on spouse employment issues and received volunteer-of-the-year recognition. Her impact resulted in the implementation of an expedited hiring program for military spouses that originated in South Korea and was later adopted as the U.S. Department of Defense’s overseas policy.
She currently resides in Windham, Maine, with her husband, Anthony, and their three children.
Williams is director of learning and engagement at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn, N.Y. She is a founding member of the not-for-profit organization, which connects and convenes artists and resources in a reimagined 117-year-old power plant.
Williams earned a Master of Arts in art therapy, education and community engagement from New York University in 2012. She followed with eight years as founder, artist and designer at ArtJAW Designs.
Williams received the New York Foundation for the Arts’ Emerging Leader Award in 2019. Powerhouse Arts has recently earned numerous awards, including the Municipal Art Society’s MASTerworks Award (2023), Open House New York’s Open City Award (2023) and American Institute of Architects New York State’s award for adaptive reuse/historic preservation (2023).
A volunteer with Hanover’s COACH Mentoring Program, Williams is also an activist/mentor with IntegrateNYC, a youth-led organization for integration and equity in New York City Schools. Additionally, she serves as a member of the New York Department of Education Technology and Design Commission, NYC Arts and Education Roundtable and Urban Assembly Maker Academy Career and Technical Education board.
She resides in Brooklyn, with her partner, Grover Seestedt.
