2025 Distinguished
Communicator of the Year Nominations
Nomination period for the 2025 award is closed, as of November 21, 2024.
Nominations are currently being accepted for the annual Distinguished Communicator of the Year Award sponsored by the Salesian Guild, the community of Catholic Communicators in Cincinnati.
The award will be presented at the Salesian Guild’s annual gathering on February 1, 2025.
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 communicator who exemplifies the Guild’s core values:
- Integrity
- Professionalism
- Fellowship
- Idealism
Please complete the online nomination form by Thursday, November 21, 2024.
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
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
Jeanne Hunt
2017
Michael D. Pitman
2016
Maryanne Zeleznik
2015
Rev. Robert Hater
2014
Tom Sparough
2013
Mark Curnutte
2012
Nick Clooney
2011
Most Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk
2010
Judy Ball
2009
Rev. Greg Friedman, O.F.M.
2008
Brian Patrick
2007
Patricia A. Frey
2006
Melvin Grier
2005
Michael Flannery
2004
Sr. Angela Ann Zukowski, MHSH
2003
Dan Andriacco
2002
Jeremy Harrington, O.F.M.
2001
John Kiesewetter
2000
Scott Barkley
1999
Dan Hurley
1998
Elizabeth Bookser Barkley
1997
Charles Carey
1996
Norman Perry, O.F.M.
1995
Harriet Janszen
1994
Dane Kane