WALTON TO RECEIVE CARTER LEADERSHIP AWARD
Posted on October 7, 2010
Alumnus Aaron Walton '68 will
be presented with this year's Jennie Carter Leadership Award during a
luncheon at noon Friday, Oct. 8 in room 206 of the Natali Student Center. The award is named in honor
of Elizabeth "Jennie" Adams Carter, Class of 1881, the university's first
African-American graduate. Cal U celebrates Jennie
Carter Day each year on Oct. 9, her birthday. Because the date falls on a
Saturday this year, the event has been moved ahead one day. Walton is the senior vice
president of corporate affairs for Highmark Inc., where he has worked since
1970. A member and past president
of the Cal U Council of Trustees, he is vice chairman of the PASSHE Board of
Governors. Walton also is a member of Cal U's Board of Presidential Advisors
and the 2008 recipient of the University's Lillian M. Bassi Core Values Award.
