{"id":4216,"date":"2020-02-04T14:35:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T19:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=4216"},"modified":"2020-02-10T14:36:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T19:36:58","slug":"alumni-achievement-spirit-awards-honorees-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2020\/02\/04\/alumni-achievement-spirit-awards-honorees-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Achievement Spirit Awards honorees announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4221\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2020\/02\/spiritawards_400px.jpg?resize=350%2C116&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Alumni Achievement Spirit Awards logo\" width=\"350\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2020\/02\/spiritawards_400px.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2020\/02\/spiritawards_400px.jpg?resize=300%2C99&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 2020 University of Detroit Mercy Alumni Achievement Spirit Awards will recognize seven alumni with outstanding achievements and leadership in their work, and devotion to serve the community. Honorees reflect the University\u2019s mission of excellence and service and bring pride to their alma mater.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s awards will be on Friday, April 24 in the Student Union Ballroom at 5:30 p.m. Dinner and program will start at 7 p.m. Tickets will be $50 per person; RSVP by Wednesday, April 15. For more information visit or to register, visit udmercy.edu\/awards.<\/p>\n<h2>2020 Honorees<\/h2>\n<h3>Clifford C. Cook \u201969, \u201970<\/h3>\n<h4><em>Retired, Senior Vice President, Marathon Petroleum Company LLC<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><em>College of Engineering &amp; Science<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Derk Pronger \u201994<\/h3>\n<h4><em>Chief Operating Officer, Munson Medical Center<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><em>College of Health Professions<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Henry G. (Hank) Durkin \u201973<\/h3>\n<h4><em>Retired, Technical Account Manager, Microsoft Corp<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><em>College of Liberal Arts &amp; Education<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Joseph Coriaty \u201978<\/h3>\n<h4><em>Partner Frederick Fisher &amp; Partners<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><em>School of Architecture<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Vernon R. (Ven) Johnson \u201986<\/h3>\n<h4><em>Owner\/Founding Member Johnson Law PLC<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><em>School of Law<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Richard Persiani, D.D.S. M.S. \u201973<\/h3>\n<h4><em>Affiliate Professor, University of Detroit Mercy<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><em>School of Dentistry<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Eric J. Hespenheide \u201975,<\/h3>\n<h4><em>Retired, Partner, Deloitte &amp; Touche LLP<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><em>College of Business Administration<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2020 University of Detroit Mercy Alumni Achievement Spirit Awards will recognize seven alumni with outstanding achievements and leadership in their work, and devotion to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,2217],"tags":[500,1012,199,59,621,1259,2387,709,128,21,73,145,958,2389,2388,2386,16,1258],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-160","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4216"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4223,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions\/4223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}