SELINSGROVE – Teaching students the importance of financial literacy is the goal of EconomicsPennsylvania, and a local state representative has been honored for her support of that goal. Lynda Schlegel Culver (R-108th, Sunbury) was recognized at a luncheon yesterday and received the Adam Smith Leadership Award from EconomicsPA.
Culver said she really appreciates the award and was surprised to be chosen, “I’d much rather give the award than receive the award. I feel pressure when you receive an award, like you haven’t done enough or you need to do more. So, I always think of an award as a challenge. A challenge to give more to the community and inspire other people to do the same thing.”
She was also honored to receive an award that was also given to her predecessor Merle Phillips, “Merle and I worked together for 23 years and knew each other for 27. There is not a day that goes by that I don’t think about him. He was my best friend. The lessons that he taught me resonate day in and day out, so it was an honor have this luncheon in his memorial today.”
Other past recipients of the Adam Smith Leadership award include Evangelical Community Hospital CEO Kendra Aucker, Sunbury Broadcasting President and CEO Roger Haddon Jr. and John Moran, president and CEO of Moran Industries, just to name a few. (Ali Stevens)