2007 Alumni Award Recipients Named

Former Trustee Joseph E. "Joe" Corcoran '59, chairman of the privately held real estate development firm Corcoran Jennison Companies, is the 2007 recipient of the William V. McKenney Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Alumni Association. Corcoran was a Boston College trustee from 1998 to 2002, chairing the Buildings and Properties Committee and serving on the Executive Committee. In 2000, he established the Corcoran Scholars Fund to provide financial assistance, mentoring, and internship programs for undergraduate students at BC. Corcoran will receive the McKenney Award at a ceremony to be held on Thursday, September 27, in Robsham Theater.

Joining Corcoran in being honored that evening is a fellow former trustee, Wayne Budd '63, the recipient of the 2007 Alumni Award of Excellence for Law. Senior counsel at Goodwin Procter LLP, Budd was the associate attorney general of the United States from 1992 to 1993 and later served as a commissioner on the US Sentencing Commission, which establishes federal court sentencing practices and advises Congress on crime policy.

This year's recipient of the health award is Rosanna DeMarco, MS'76, a community health and AIDS care registered nurse, who also serves as an associate professor in BC's Connell School of Nursing. DeMarco received the 2004 Nursing Research Excellence Award from the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses and is the co-producer of the film Women's Voices Women's Lives, an HIV prevention education film used in her intervention work with women in inner-city Boston.

Additional recipients of the 2007 Alumni Awards of Excellence are Henrik Syse MA'91 (Arts & Humanities), an ethicist with the Norwegian Ministry of Finance; Craig Sullivan '64 (Commerce), the former chairman of the Clorox Company and a member of the Ever to Excel Campaign Corporate Council and the National Campaign Committee; James Cotter '59 (Education), a football coach at BC High for 45 years; Daniel Hennessy '79 (Public Service), founder of a private equity firm in Chicago and a board member of Children's Memorial Hospital and the Illinois Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society; Rev. William Burckhart '49 (Religion), former Boston archdiocesan director of the Permanent Deaconate Formation program; John Kozarich '71 (Science), president of the biopharmaceutical company ActivX Biosciences; and Saya Hillman '00 (Young Alumni), founder of a community service program for Chicago-area alumni and a documentary filmmaker.

To RSVP for the awards ceremony, call 800-669-8430 or e-mail bcaa@bc.edu.