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FAU Honors College to Pay Tribute to
Soll Selko at Annual Luncheon
John Walsh from “America’s Most Wanted” to Serve as Keynote Speaker
JUPITER, FL (February 15, 2006) – Florida Atlantic University’s Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College will pay tribute to benefactor and advisory board member Soll Selko at its annual Speakers Forum luncheon on Thursday, March 2 at Frenchman’s Creek Country Club, 13495 Tournament Drive, Palm Beach Gardens. The luncheon speaker will be John Walsh from America ’s Most Wanted.
An entrepreneurial success story, Selko started a corrugated box fabrication company in Baltimore, Maryland. His innovations in marketing, warehousing and servicing accounts led to a successful tenure as president of Monumental Paper Company. This resulted in a merger with Alco Standard Corporation in 1991. Selko is known for his long term involvement with the Adam Walsh Children’s Fund, Junior Achievement, Associated Jewish Charities in Baltimore, University of North Carolina, Loyola College in Baltimore and FAU’s Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College.
Walsh, a tireless advocate for victims rights and missing children, has turned his passion for justice into the nation’s number one crime fighting show, America’s Most Wanted. Walsh is known for his activism against criminals, particularly those who target children. In the summer of 1981, Walsh’s son, Adam, was abducted from a South Florida shopping mall. The Walsh family turned their grief into action, helping missing and exploited children. Their efforts eventually led to the creation of the Missing Children Act of 1982 and the Missing Children’s Assistance Act of 1984. Subsequently, they founded the Adam Walsh Child Resource Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to legislative reform. Today, Walsh continues to testify before Congress and state legislatures on crime, missing children and victims’ rights issues. His latest efforts include lobbying for a Constitutional amendment for victims’ rights.
Tickets cost $100. Proceeds from the event will benefit the scholarship programs of the Wilkes Honors College. For ticket information, call 561-799-8105.
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The Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, located on FAU’s John D. MacArthur Campus, is a small four-year residential liberal arts & science college with highly selective admissions criteria.
