{"id":58861,"date":"2019-06-14T10:45:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T14:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=58861"},"modified":"2019-06-14T16:18:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T20:18:08","slug":"donors-and-grads-come-together-to-celebrate-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/06\/donors-and-grads-come-together-to-celebrate-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Donors and grads come together to celebrate success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As she looked around at the lineup of graduates, longtime Brock supporter Phyllis Lottridge was overcome by the enthusiasm in the room.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The excitement was palpable and the founding member of the Niagara Area Business Women\u2019s Network (NABWN) was thrilled to be in attendance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lottridge, along with NABWN President Melanie Castrucci, was invited to the morning Convocation ceremony on Thursday, June 13 to celebrate the graduation of Celeste McKen, recipient of the 2018 Niagara Area Business Women\u2019s Network award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s so exciting to see our hard work in the success of these students,\u201d Lottridge said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NABWN has recognized entrepreneurs and businesswomen in the community since 1990 and has established bursaries at both Brock University and Niagara College.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe have given back to Brock University for more than 25 years and it\u2019s always so wonderful to watch our award recipients cross the stage as successful graduates,\u201d Lottridge said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since its inception in 1990, the organization has donated more than $96,000 to established bursaries in the community to support student success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Niagara Area Business Women\u2019s Network award is presented annually to a female student in a Brock business program who resides in the Niagara region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lottridge and Castrucci were honoured to attend Thursday\u2019s ceremony to watch McKen cross the stage and receive her Bachelor of Accounting degree.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While she was grateful for the financial boost the award provided, McKen was most moved by the inspiring message of women empowering other women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cReceiving this award gave me the confidence to continue down the career path that I am on,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">McKen is working full time as an accountant at McGovern Hurley LLP while she pursues her CPA designation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As she looked around at the lineup of graduates, longtime Brock supporter Phyllis Lottridge was overcome by the enthusiasm in the room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":58862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,39,1,4],"tags":[4783,594,8014,8012,8013],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58861"}],"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=58861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58863,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58861\/revisions\/58863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}