Towson Resident Shawn Halsey Receives Alumni Award from York College of PA

YORK, PA (05/13/2010)(readMedia)-- Towson resident Shawn Halsey recently received the Distinguished Recent Graduate Award from York College of Pennsylvania.

Halsey attended York College from 1997-2001, earning a bachelor's degree in Economics/Finance. Following his graduation, he secured a position as a financial advisor with Legg Mason in Baltimore. He moved to a similar position with Morgan Stanley, now Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, in 2001, and is now completing his ninth year with the firm. Halsey has played a leading role in transforming the position of financial advisor from a transactional basis to a client-centered strategy that emphasizes financial long-term planning, and asset management and protection. He has been given additional responsibilities for implementing the training program for new financial advisors in the Maryland region, and for the firm's Branch Continuity Program, which provides for contingency planning during disruptive external events.

Halsey devotes time to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, where he volunteers as a wish granter. In that capacity, he handles the details and arrangements that make the child's wish happen. He also actively volunteers on behalf of the College. He served on the Alumni Board of Directors from 2006-2008, and is currently a member of the Collegiate Council. He joined the Chesapeake Alumni Chapter Executive Committee in 2003, and became president of that group in 2009. He has also been a Success After College panelist for the past five years, and has been a member of the Alumni Golf Outing Committee.

Located in southcentral Pennsylvania, York College offers more than 50 baccalaureate majors in professional programs, the sciences and humanities to its 4,600 undergraduate students. The College also offers master's programs in business, education and nursing. A center of affordable academic excellence, York is dedicated to the intellectual, professional and social growth of its students. The College helps them develop a concrete plan to attain academic growth and career success; encourages them to try in the "real world" what they learn in the classroom; and prepares them to be professionals in whatever career they pursue.