Vaughn Walker

Honors student Vaughn Walker is a member of the SLC Student Leadership Council, and is on Student Honors Advisory Board. But he has yet to declare his major, probably because he’s interested in so many things. Rock climbing, hiking, the boomerang, football, business, philosophy, and scrapbooking. Music looms large in his life, too. “I was in my high school jazz band, where I played the guitar, the piano, and the trombone – which is also my mother’s instrument,” Vaughn says. The unlikely pairing of football and the trombone played an important part in his life. Born with upper respiratory asthma, and the veteran of many trips to the ER, at age 8 his breathing range capacity tested at the capacity of a 70-year-old. “But playing the trombone help me gain lung capacity, so I joined the football team, and eventually made varsity,” he says. “Now I breathe in the normal range!”