2024 Hellinger Awards: Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024

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The Mark Hellinger Awards

The annual Hellinger Awards Ceremony honors the Jandoli School's top graduates and recognizes the accomplishments of outstanding alumni.

Hellinger Awards background

The Hellinger Award is named for Mark John Hellinger, an American journalist, theater columnist and film producer. It was established in 1960 by Jim Bishop, who worked with Hellinger at the New York Daily News and considered him his mentor.

Bishop would go on to establish his own fame as a syndicated columnist whose work appeared in hundreds of newspapers across the country, and as a best-selling author. Among Bishop's many works is "The Mark Hellinger Story: A Biography of Broadway and Hollywood."

Bishop began a long relationship with St. Bonaventure in 1958 when he was invited to speak at the university's Press Day event and was awarded an honorary doctorate. Soon afterward, Bishop began donating manuscripts and notebooks to form an archives of his writings at the university's Friedsam Memorial Library.

Mark Hellinger Born in New York City in 1903, Hellinger decided as a young boy that he wanted to be a writer. He went to work for the New York Daily News in 1923. His "About Town" column, dealing with Broadway, became the most-read feature in the paper and was published across the country. He is known as American journalism's first Broadway reporter.

Hellinger later moved to Hollywood to become a motion picture writer-producer for Warner Productions. He moved on to Twentieth Century-Fox, then, as an independent producer, to Universal Pictures, which financed and distributed his films.

"The Naked City," considered by many to be Hellinger's finest film, and the first movie to be shot entirely in the streets of New York City, came out in 1947 and was hailed as one of the year's major films. Hellinger was in his heyday as a writer and producer and was about to establish his own studio. But he had lifelong heart issues and died later that same year, at the age of 44.

In spirit of determination and hard-earned success, traits that defined Hellinger, the Mark Hellinger Award honors the Jandoli School of Communication's top students and celebrates the continuing accomplishments of its graduates.

Winners of the Mark Hellinger Award, presented annually by the Jandoli School of Communication at St. Bonaventure University.

2023 — Deandre Allen

2022 — Meghan Hall

2021 — Mike Hogan

2020 — Cameron Hurst

2019 — Michael Clare Nelson

2018 — Ethan I. Kibbe

2017 — Lian A. Bunny

2016 — Andrew J. Bevevino

2015 — Emily Steves

2014 — Madison Thieman

2013 — Maddie Gionet

2012 — Shannon Shepherd

2011 — Kristy Kibler

2010 — Charlie Specht

2009 — Jordan Steves

2008 — Tanya Reynolds

2007 — Hallie Steube

2006 — Rachel George

2005 — James Miller

2004 — Carri Gregorski

2003 — Rebecca Campana

2002 — Brooke Sherman

2001 — David Longolucco

2000 — Elizabeth T. Licamele

1999 — Greg Licamele and Corrie S. Spike

1998 — Evelyn Kinnah

1997 — Michele Passalugo

1996 — Michael E. Hill

1995 — Elaine H. Rocchi

1994 — Tonya Littlefield Cummings

1993 — Marsha Ducey

1992 — Amy Carr Wojnarowski & Michelle Maloney

1991 — RoseAnn Kern Haseley

1990 — Lynne Sherwin

1989 — Michael Vaccaro

1988 — William J. Stephens

1987 — Mary Roche Maher

1986 — Kelly Rota

1985 — Kevin Kirkland

1984 — Linda M. Smith

1983 — David Szymanski

1982 — Kevin Keenan

1981 — Catherine Artman

1980 — Neil Cavuto

1979 — Donna Rucci Collins

1978 — Carol Anne Schumacher

1977 — Valerie Mottes Reed

1976 — Sue Ann Agos

1975 — William Reed

1974 — Donald Then

1973 — Matthew Dudek

1972 — Rosemary Kelly Robinson

1971 — Margaret Stomierowski

1970 — Christine Krysiak Dodd

1969 — Pamela Cheles Miller

1968 — Michael Zavadil

1967 — Rita Fahey O'Sullivan

1966 — Jane McGuire

1965 — Joan Roeben Licursi

1964 — Anthony Cardinale

1963 — Charles MacRoy

1962 — Sal DeVivo

1961 — Bernard Creighton, O.F.M.

1960 — John Checkett

Winners of the Jandoli School of Communication's Alumna/Alumnus of the Year Award, part of the Hellinger Award celebration.

2023 — David Yaun, '85

2022 — Denise Doring VanBuren, '83

2021 — Danica Roem, '06

2020 — Charlie Specht, '10

2019 — Adrian Wojnarowski, '91

2015 — William Holzerland, Esq., '02

2014 — Steve Lingle, '10, and Jerry Lee, '11

2013 — Kristan McMahon, '97

2012 — John Hanchette, '64

2011 — Robert J. McCarthy, '76

2010 — Dan Herbeck, '78

2009 — Jeff D'Alessio, '91

2008 — Greg Mitchell, '70

2007 — Jim Aroune, '87

2006 — Michael Ryan, '77

2005 — Victoria Corderi, '79

2004 — Shaun Sheehan, '66

2003 — Daniel Collins, '73

2002 — John Krieger, '51

2001 — Edward Casey, '52

2000 — Gerard J. Monaghan, '67

1999 — Lisa A. Biedenbach, '76

1998 — Monica Nollet Roland, '68

1997 — Donna Rucci Collins, '79

1996 — Leslie M. Easton, '86

1995 — Christopher M. LaPlaca, '79

1994 — Daniel Barry, '80

1993 — Kathy M. Kozdemba, '75

1992 — Robert P. Carr Jr., '75

1991 — Carol Anne Schumacher, '78

1990 — Laurence J. McQuillan, '69

1989 — Janet Bodnar, '71

1988 — Charles J. Hanley, '68

1987 — Joette Riehle, '71

1986 — Jim Peppard, '69

1985 — Robert Dubill, '58

1984 — Kathleen Brady, '68, & Lawrence B. Sackett, '71

1983 — Allen Bruce, '63

1982 — Margaret "Peg" Breen, '68

1981 — Joan Roeben Licursi, '65