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ALUMNI AWARDS For the past 56 years, the CCAA has taken great pride in recognizing deserving alumni for their accomplishments at the annual Alumni Awards Banquet. While this year’s celebration was canceled due to the pandemic, it is our honor to introduce our 2020 award recipients who will be formally recognized in 2021.
VICTOR CIARDELLI ’89
DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD
Victor Ciardelli is president and CEO of Guaranteed Rate. Based in Chicago, it is one of the largest independent retail-mortgage companies in the United States. Since its inception in 2012, the Guaranteed Rate Foundation has donated nearly $2.5 million to support famillies and their communities in times of hardship or unexpected need. Ciardelli graduated from the Columbia College Day Program in 1989 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration.
VIRGINIA STEWART ’76 Summer 2020
COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD
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Virginia Stewart has served as a longtime volunteer in her community. In 2014, she and her husband — former University of Missouri basketball coach Norm Stewart — founded the Virginia and Norman Stewart Cancer Center at Boone Hospital Center in Columbia, Missouri. Stewart graduated from the Columbia College Evening Program in 1976 with a human services degree in individual studies.
