Sylvan T. Warrington Visiting Lectureship in Ethics and Leadership

The annual Sylvan T. Warrington Visiting Lectureship in Ethics and Leadership, established by Edward and Jeannine James to honor Jeannine’s father Sylvan Warrington, invites c-suite leaders to campus to speak about ethics-related issues and topics for which they feel most passionate.

Sylvan Warrington was the first in his family to attend college and earned both a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree. After graduation he built the first frozen food locker for his parents’ use and then became a pioneer in the frozen food locker industry. During World War II, at the request of the secretary of agriculture, he spearheaded the development of a technique for preserving meat and other foods for use by the military and went on to develop the first commercial frozen food lockers. During his career with the Department of Agriculture, he played a key role in the transformation of the livestock industry. From 1948 to 1951, he served as secretary of the National Food Locker Association.