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December 2016                                                                                          Dear Alumni and Friends, Season’s Greetings from the Cathy Hughes School of Communications! The holiday season is a time to reflect, rejoice and rejuvenate. We also acknowledge our gifts and share goodwill with others. Thanks to you this has been a great year for the School with a successful 45 th Anniversary Soirée in September and renaming of the School in October. We have more than four decades of preparing communication professionals who are known across the nation and around the globe; we have Pulitzer Prize and Gracie Award winners, a Marshall Scholar and Rhodes Scholar finalist, ASHA Honors winners, and s o much more among our faculty, staff, alumni and students. We look to 2017 with all the possibilities that a new year brings as Howard University celebrates its Sesquicentennial – 150 th Anniversary. As you consider your end of year giving, we encourage
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Fall Highlights The Fall 2016 semester was filled with activity and excitement. We celebrated the 45 th Anniversary Soiree in September; renamed the school to the Cathy Hughes School of Communications (CHSOC) in October; enjoyed alumni at the 2016 Alumni Homecoming Reception; and faculty and students continued an award winning tradition. Julie Dash filmmaking success    Filmmaker Julie Dash Congratulations to Julie Dash , our Time-Warner Visiting Professor, for the 25th anniversary re-release of   her acclaimed film  Daughters of the Dust and her  2016 Special Award  from the New York Film Critics Circle. The Critics Circle presents Special Awards “ to individuals and organizations that have made substantial contributions to the art of cinema, including producers, directors, actors, writers, critics, historians, film restorers and service organizations.” Daughters of the Dust will be at the AFI Silver Theater in Silver Springs, MD, on Feb. 17, 2017. Here's the schedule