William B. Grant, Esq. ’75 is receiving an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. He retired as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of First United Bank & Trust in Oakland, MD in 2016. He has served Wesleyan as both a trustee and an alumni/admission volunteer. He has helped identify and recruit students to the College from Garrett County, MD for over 30 years and has served as a trustee since 2006. He will retire from the Board at the end of this fiscal year. He was a member of the West Virginia Bankers Association and was elected to the board of directors of the American Bankers Association. A past chair of the Leadership Maryland Board of Directors, he also has served as chair on the Board of Directors of the Baltimore Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, chair of the Board for the Foundation of Garrett Regional Medical Center, chair of the American Bankers Association Community Bankers Council, and a past member of the University System of Maryland Foundation Board. In 2017, he was the recipient of the Community Trust Foundation of Cumberland, MD’s Humanitarian Leadership Award for his service to many local organizations. His happiest accomplishment is being a 40-year member of the Oakland-Mountain Lake Park Lions Club. A 1975 graduate of Wesleyan, he earned a Juris Doctor from Duquesne University School of Law. He resides in Oakland, MD with is wife Laurie Van Arsdale Grant ’74.
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PLM 5/14/2019