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More Than a Man of Steel, Brick, and Mortar
Y
ou may not know Ken McCarty if you saw him
walking across campus, but you would certainly know most of the buildings across campus that he has helped turn into a reality:
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BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies
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Caroline Hemenway Harmon Building
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Centennial Carillon Tower
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Cougar Room at LaVell Edwards Stadium
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Cougar Marching Band Hall
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Crabtree Engineering Building
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Ernest L. Wilkinson Center Expansion
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Gordon B. Hinckley Alumni and Visitors Center
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Harold B. Lee Library, Expansions 1 and 2
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J. Reuben Clark Building
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Joseph Smith Building
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Joseph F. Smith Building
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LaVell Edwards Stadium Expansion
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Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
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Miller Park (baseball and softball)
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N. Eldon Tanner Building
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Museum of Art (MOA)
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Spencer W. Kimball Tower
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Student Athlete Center and Indoor Practice Facility
Ken has played a major role for the past thirty-eight
Ken McCarty. Photo by Brent R. Nordgren.
projects at BYU and for other LDS Church charities. These
years in helping raise funds to construct these buildings
projects include thousands of scholarships, professorships,
in addition to raising funds for temples, humanitar-
fellowships, and endowments that are blessing the lives of
ian projects, family history work, missionary work, the
students and faculty at BYU today.
Tabernacle Choir, LDS Business College, BYU–Idaho, and
BYU–Hawaii.
a very warm and genuine person who befriends people.
He’s positive, straightforward, and encouraging. He
Regarding these efforts, Ken stated, “I am grateful
How has he attracted these donations? First, Ken is
that I have been able to play a small part in raising the
loves people and naturally builds them up. Second, he
funds for many of the buildings that dot the BYU campus.
shares a positive vision of how donations can bless the
Working for decades with generous donors who love the
kingdom. At firesides and cottage meetings, in phone
Lord and desire to use their treasure to bless and build
conversations, and during personal visits with donors,
the kingdom has been one of the greatest blessings in my
Ken assumes positive results. He feels that all donors
lifetime.”
want to help, and he helps them catch a tangible vision
of what their money will do. He helps potential donors
As a team member in LDS Philanthropies, Ken has
helped raise hundreds of millions of dollars for priority 24
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understand how they can honor their loved one’s legacy by