{"id":39323,"date":"2016-06-06T13:12:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T17:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=39323"},"modified":"2016-06-06T13:13:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T17:13:55","slug":"new-alumni-video-to-make-convocation-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/06\/new-alumni-video-to-make-convocation-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"New Alumni video to make Convocation debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 3,500 students will be joining the ranks of Brock University alumni during Spring Convocation this week. They will be welcomed with the help of a new Alumni Association video to be shown during the graduation ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>Brock\u2019s office of Development and Alumni Relations worked together with the Marketing and Communications department to produce the video that introduces new graduates to the Brock University Alumni Association.<\/p>\n<p>The video features clips shot on campus, in the community and in the workplaces of several high-profile alumni. Those featured talk about how graduates from Brock are entitled to benefits such as <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.brocku.ca\/alumni\/benefits\/discounts\/\" target=\"_blank\">discounts<\/a>\u00a0on services, credit cards and insurance. They also benefit from the continued use of on-campus services,\u00a0including as access to the Walker Complex, the library and Career Services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want graduates to know that their time at Brock doesn\u2019t end today and they can take advantage of being a Brock Alumni every day for the rest of their life,\u201d said Shelley Huxley, Director, Alumni and Donor Relations<\/p>\n<p>Featured in the video are the following alumni:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chris Phillips (BBA \u201994), President, Brock University Alumni Association<br \/>\nSenior Advisor, Planning and Economic Development, City of Hamilton<\/li>\n<li>Tyronne Balthazaar (BBA \u201997), Manager, International Recruitment Services, Brock University<\/li>\n<li>Brittany Gogo (BA \u201906), Reporter, CHCH News<\/li>\n<li>Tonya Verbeek (B.RLS. \u201900, BEd \u201903, MEd \u201906), Olympic Wrestler and Coach, Wrestling Canada<\/li>\n<li>Greg Plata (BSM \u201908), Director, Content Creation, Traffik<\/li>\n<li>Kyle Dubas (BSM \u201907), Assistant General Manager, Toronto Maple Leafs<\/li>\n<li>Joel Dembe (BSM \u201907), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tenniscanada.com\/paralympian-joel-dembe-to-retire-from-wheelchair-tennis\/\">Paralympian<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Rick Campanelli (BPhEd \u201994), <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canadians\">Canadian<\/a>television and radio personality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i85BlHV7M_M\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 3,500 students will be joining the ranks of Brock University alumni during Spring Convocation this week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":39324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3319,4052,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39323"}],"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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39325,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39323\/revisions\/39325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}