2025 Distinguished
Communicator of the Year Nominations
Coming Soon: Details on how to nominate a colleague for the 2025 award.
The Salesian Guild’s 2024 Distinguished Communicator of the Year was Patricia McGeever. A professional communicator for more than 30 years, Patricia McGeever currently is an award-winning writer and editor at WKRC-TV.
This award is presented annually at the gathering of the Salesian Guild, a community of Catholic communicators in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky.
The Salesian Guild offers Catholic communicators in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky a spiritual connection to each other and their Creator through fellowship, shared faith, and dialogue through community.
The Distinguished Communicator of the Year should be a Catholic active in the communications field who exemplifies the Guild’s core values:
- Integrity
- Professionalism
- Fellowship
- Idealism
Since 1994, the Salesian Guild has awarded the Distinguished Communicator of the Year award to a Catholic communicator who exemplifies the Guild’s core values of integrity, professionalism, fellowship, and idealism.
These Catholic communicators have demonstrated excellent communication skills, have impacted the people in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati through their work, and have exemplified religious values in work and in life.
Past Winners Include:
Year
Name
1994
Dane Kane
1995
Harriet Janszen
1996
Norman Perry, O.F.M.
1997
Charles Carey
1998
Elizabeth Bookser Barkley
1999
Dan Hurley
2000
Scott Barkley
2001
John Kiesewetter
2002
Jeremy Harrington, O.F.M.
2003
Dan Andriacco
2004
Sr. Angela Ann Zukowski, MHSH
2005
Michael Flannery
2006
Melvin Grier
2007
Patricia A. Frey
2008
Brian Patrick
2009
Rev. Greg Friedman, O.F.M.
2010
Judy Ball
2011
Most Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk
2012
Nick Clooney
2013
Mark Curnutte
2014
Tom Sparough
2015
Rev. Robert Hater
2016
Maryanne Zeleznik
2017
Michael D. Pitman
2018
Jeanne Hunt
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024