{"id":4881,"date":"2015-09-30T11:52:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T15:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?p=4881"},"modified":"2015-11-19T14:38:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T19:38:37","slug":"six-alumni-honored-at-annual-distinguished-alumni-awards-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/six-alumni-honored-at-annual-distinguished-alumni-awards-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Six alumni honored at annual Distinguished Alumni Awards Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The College of Communication (COM) honored an national newspaper&#8217;s Editor in Chief and an award-nominated television\u00a0Writer &amp; Producer among others\u00a0at the annual Distinguished Alumni Awards Ceremony. The annual award ceremony honors COM alumni for their personal and professional achievements.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s honorees included Audrey Cooper (CAS \u201999, COM \u201999), Corinne Brinkerhoff (\u201904), Thomas Cibrowski (\u201990), Walter Middlebrook (\u201976) and Michelle Sullivan (\u201995). The ceremony also presented the first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award to Major General Lewis Curtis (CGS \u201953, COM \u201955).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our annual Distinguished Alumni Awards is a great way to honor those individuals who have taken what they\u2019ve learned at COM and applied it to their professional lives,\u201d said College of Communication <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/profile\/thomas-fiedler\/\">Dean Tom Fiedler<\/a>. \u201cThis year\u2019s six recipients have excelled in their respective industries and have been a remarkable testament to the caliber of students COM strives to create.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden;\">\n<aside class=\"callout-square teal col-sm-third\"><div class=\"callout-image\"><img src=4889><\/div><div class=\"callout-content\"><h3 class=\"callout-title\">Audrey Cooper<\/h3><p>Editor in Chief of San Francisco Chronicle<\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside>\n<aside class=\"callout-square teal col-sm-third\"><div class=\"callout-image\"><img src=4888><\/div><div class=\"callout-content\"><h3 class=\"callout-title\">Corinne Brinkerhoff<\/h3><p>Writer &#038; Producer\u2014 Jane the Virgin, Boston Legal, The Good Wife, Elementary, and Reckless<\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside>\n<aside class=\"callout-square teal col-sm-third\"><div class=\"callout-image\"><img src=4887><\/div><div class=\"callout-content\"><h3 class=\"callout-title\">Thomas Cibrowski<\/h3><p>Senior Vice President ABC News Programs, News Gathering and Special Events<\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside>\n<aside class=\"callout-square teal col-sm-third\"><div class=\"callout-image\"><img src=4892><\/div><div class=\"callout-content\"><h3 class=\"callout-title\">Walter Middlebrook <\/h3><p>Assistant Managing Editor, The Detroit News<\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside>\n<aside class=\"callout-square teal col-sm-third\"><div class=\"callout-image\"><img src=4890><\/div><div class=\"callout-content\"><h3 class=\"callout-title\">Michelle Sullivan<\/h3><p>Head of Marketing, Boston Beer Company<\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside>\n<aside class=\"callout-square teal col-sm-third\"><div class=\"callout-image\"><img src=4891><\/div><div class=\"callout-content\"><h3 class=\"callout-title\">Major General Lewis Curtis<\/h3><p>Major General, United States Air Force (Retired)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College of Communication (COM) honored an national newspaper&#8217;s Editor in Chief and an award-nominated television\u00a0Writer &amp; Producer among others\u00a0at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10949,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[777,778,765,782,781,779,780],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/4881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10949"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/4881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4896,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/4881\/revisions\/4896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4881"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=4881"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=4881"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=4881"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=4881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}