Carleton Alumnus awarded Huron University College Medal of Distinction

Publication: UWO Western News
Date: Thursday June 3rd, 2010
Source: http://communications.uwo.ca/com/western_news/stories/cbc_radio_personality_honoured_by_huron_20100603446439/

CBC Radio personality honoured by Huron – UWO Western News

Rick Cluff, host of CBC Radio’s popular morning show, “The Early Edition” will be honoured by Huron University College on Monday, June 14 as part of the Convocation celebrations.

Students from Huron’s Faculty of Arts and Social Science will receive their university diploma at the Convocation ceremony held at Alumni Hall from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on June 14.

Prior to the Convocation ceremony, Huron will hold its own Celebration of Graduands at 12:30 p.m. in the Kingsmill Room
where Cluff, a Huron alumnus, will be awarded the 2010 Huron University College Medal of Distinction and address the graduates.

The Huron University College Medal of Distinction was established to recognize individuals whose life achievements set an example of excellence and reflect Huron’s arts and social science mission. Such achievements include noteworthy contributions to scholarship, to public service, to Huron University College, or to the local community. Previous recipients include Neil Hetherington, Joan Barfoot, and Jane Roy.

2010 MEDAL OF DISTINCTION AWARD RECIPIENT – Rick Cluff
Rick Cluff has been the host of “The Early Edition” since September of 1997. Prior to that, Cluff’s voice was well-known as an award-winning sports commentator and journalist. He has appeared as a host, reporter or commentator on a number of different CBC Radio and Television programs.

Leaving sports to return to news and current affairs was actually a return to his roots. Cluff began his career with CBC Radio in 1976 as a reporter/editor in the national radio newsroom. Two years later, he moved to the national sports department for what was supposed to be a “temporary” assignment. That temporary assignment lasted 20 years, during which time he traveled the world reporting on the accomplishments of Canadian athletes at home and abroad.

He has been a student of the political process which served him well during his years covering amateur sports, especially the Olympics Games. Cluff has reported on eight Olympic Games, the Commonwealth Games, the Masters, Canadian, British and U.S. Open golf championships, the Superbowl, Grey Cup and Stanley Cup championships, as well as many individual sports world championships from the South Pacific to the Arctic Circle. In 2000, Rick was made a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.

Cluff has a degree in Political Science from Huron University College and a degree in Journalism from Carleton University
in Ottawa.