Collegian Summer 2016

SUMMER 2016

Feature Stories

CGS News Briefs	Class Notes
Celebrate the ’60sCommemorating the College’s historic move to Comm Ave and this year’s Golden Terriers	Hosting radio shows, teaching kindergarten, producing films, getting married, selling tacos, working with veterans….See what’s happening in the lives of CGS alums.
Alum Shares Father’s Holocaust Story Distinguished Alumni Award winner returns to CGS to speak about the memorial he established in Poland
Empowering Women Leaders Film producer, groundbreaking journalist, and CGS author confront the roadblocks women still face

From Our Community

Alum Wins Pulitzer Prize for Photographyfrom Bostonia
Jessica Rinaldi (CGS’99, COM’01) honored for a photo story on a kindergartner born to poverty

Former BU Hoops Star Signed by Celtics from Bostonia
For John Holland (CGS’09, COM’11), return to Boston “a dream come true”

Alums Named to Forbes 30-Under-30 List from Bostonia
Social goals drive young entrepreneurs on influential list of breakout talents and change agents

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Upcoming Alumni Events
Distinguished Alumni Award Reception September 30 David Wluka (’66, CAS’68, GRS’70) receives the CGS Distinguished Alumni Award. Wluka is the founder of the Nowy Dwór Jewish Memorial, a nonprofit foundation he established in honor of his father, Icek, a Holocaust survivor. Stanley P. Stone Distinguished Lecture Series October 19 Author and historian Rosalind Williams is the featured speaker for the 2016 CGS Stanley Stone Lecture Series. Her newest book, The Triumph of Human Empire, explores “the dominance of human presence on the planet.”

Upcoming Alumni Events

Distinguished Alumni Award Reception September 30

David Wluka (’66, CAS’68, GRS’70) receives the CGS Distinguished Alumni Award. Wluka is the founder of the Nowy Dwór Jewish Memorial, a nonprofit foundation he established in honor of his father, Icek, a Holocaust survivor.

Stanley P. Stone Distinguished Lecture Series October 19
Author and historian Rosalind Williams is the featured speaker for the 2016 CGS Stanley Stone Lecture Series. Her newest book, The Triumph of Human Empire, explores “the dominance of human presence on the planet.”