{"id":16354,"date":"2012-05-03T07:04:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T12:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=16354"},"modified":"2015-09-25T13:33:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T17:33:16","slug":"video-alumni-of-distinction-awards-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/05\/video-alumni-of-distinction-awards-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Alumni of Distinction Awards gala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the 2011-12 school year, the <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/alumni-association\" target=\"_blank\">Brock University Alumni Association<\/a> (BUAA) is celebrating its 35th anniversary of incorporation.<\/p>\n<p>As a special tribute to mark the occasion, the BUAA honoured thirty-five graduates at an awards gala at Amici&#8217;s Banquet Centre in Thorold on March 31, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>This distinguished group of alumni exemplify the spirit of Brock through their scholarly, creative, humanitarian and professional contributions to Canada and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>The MC for the evening was Rick Campanelli (BPhEd \u201894), co-host of ET Canada, and one of Canada&#8217;s most recognizable TV personalities. Campanelli is also a recipient of a <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/alumni-association\/awards\/alumni-of-distinction-awards\/30-30-awards\" target=\"_blank\">30 From the Past 30 Award<\/a> &#8211; the original name for the Alumni of Distinction Awards when the BUAA celebrated its 30th anniversary in the 2006-07 school year.<\/p>\n<p>Video coverage from the gala can be seen embedded below. A photo album from the event can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10150725363671262.385959.28385701261&amp;type=1\" target=\"_blank\">viewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a complete list of award recipients, including individual photos and bios, please <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/alumni-association\/awards\/alumni-of-distinction-awards\/2012-recipients\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"315\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wYX4nRLB3Ag?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wYX4nRLB3Ag?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the 2011-12 school year, the Brock University Alumni Association (BUAA) is celebrating its 35th anniversary of incorporation. As a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119],"tags":[3333,142,237,108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16354"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35515,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16354\/revisions\/35515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}