{"id":67013,"date":"2019-05-17T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=67013"},"modified":"2023-08-30T21:13:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T01:13:36","slug":"carol-jenkins-wheelock66-and-general-dennis-l-via-retired-wheelock88-named-2019-distinguished-alumni-award-recipients","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2019\/carol-jenkins-wheelock66-and-general-dennis-l-via-retired-wheelock88-named-2019-distinguished-alumni-award-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheelock Alums Receive BU  Distinguished Alumni Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin news-block-editorial-leadin has-media-focus-center-middle\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-lockup\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-leadin-media\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-inner\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-prepress-tag\">Alumni news<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"head\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWheelock Alums Receive BU  Distinguished Alumni Award <br>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"deck\">Carol Jenkins (Wheelock&#8217;66) and General Dennis Via (Wheelock&#8217;88) honored for their outstanding contributions.<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar js-block-editorial-metabar news-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">May 17, 2019<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul data-credit-type=\"By\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/authors\/grace-hagerty\/\">Grace Hagerty<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img src=\"\/wheelock\/files\/2019\/05\/via-photo-4-550x366-451x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43821\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, two BU Wheelock alumni have been selected as recipients of the Boston University Distinguished Alumni Award. Carol Jenkins (Wheelock\u201966) is an award-winning writer, producer and media consultant and&nbsp;General Dennis L. Via (retired) (Wheelock\u201988) is a retired four-star general who served in the US Army. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since its inception in 1946, the Boston University <a href=\"http:\/\/bostonu.imodules.com\/s\/1759\/2-bu\/alumniWeekend\/home.aspx?pgid=3246&amp;gid=2&amp;cid=6193\">Distinguished Alumni Awards<\/a> have been the highest honor that the University bestows upon alumni. Awardees are honored each year in the presence of the alumni, students, families, and guests gathered to celebrate this important tradition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/wheelock\/files\/2019\/05\/carol-new-photo-450x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2019\/05\/carol-new-photo-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2019\/05\/carol-new-photo.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, two BU Wheelock alumni have been selected as recipients of the Boston University Distinguished Alumni Award. Carol Jenkins (Wheelock\u201966) is an award-winning writer, producer and media consultant and&nbsp;General Dennis L. Via (retired) (Wheelock\u201988) is a retired four-star general who served in the US Army. Since its inception in 1946, the Boston University Distinguished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9274,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"Alumni news","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"tags":[],"bu-publication":[6614],"magazine-article-category":[],"magazine-topic":[],"news-article-category":[6658,6726],"news-topic":[6792],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/67013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67013"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/67013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72407,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/67013\/revisions\/72407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67013"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=67013"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-article-category?post=67013"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=67013"},{"taxonomy":"news-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-article-category?post=67013"},{"taxonomy":"news-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-topic?post=67013"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=67013"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=67013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}