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

2022

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