Dan Cirucci: And Now, The Latest Round Off Inductees . . .

Thursday, August 12, 2021

And Now, The Latest Round Off Inductees . . .

The NJ Hall of Fame Class of 2021!

*Being honored posthumously.

**Previous inductee, but being formally inducted this year.

Enterprise

Madeline McWhinney Dale*

Middletown | First female officer/vice-president of the Federal Reserve Bank

Madam Louise Scott*

Newark | Founder of Scott School of Beauty Culture & chain of beauty salons

Paul Volcker*

Teaneck | 12th Chair of the Federal Reserve

Sara Spencer Washington*

Atlantic City | Founder of Apex News and Hair Company

Sports

Val Ackerman

Pennington | First president of the Women’s National Basketball Association

Monte Irvin*

Orange | Left and right fielder in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball who played with the Newark Eagles, New York Giants, and Chicago Cubs

Ron Jaworski

Voorhees | Former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback and National Football League (NFL) analyst

Performing Arts

George Benson

Englewood | Jazz guitarist, Singer, and Songwriter

Sarah Dash

Trenton | Award-winning vocalist who co-founded Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles

Buddy Hackett*

Fort Lee | Actor and Comedian

Patti Smith & Lenny Kaye

Pitman/Deptford Township & New Brunswick Legendary singer-songwriter and her longtime guitarist who were part of the New York City punk rock movement in the 1970s

Mary Chapin Carpenter**

Princeton | Singer and Songwriter

Public Service

Margaret Bancroft*

Haddonfield | Founder of Bancroft, nonprofit serving individuals with disabilities

Alexander Hamilton*

Elizabeth | Founding father and first secretary of the treasury

David Mixner

Elmer | Political Activist and Author

William Paterson*

South Branch | Signer of the U.S. Constitution, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and 2nd Governor of New Jersey

Gustave F. Perna

Rockaway | U.S. Army four-star general/COO of the federal COVID-19 response

Antonin Scalia*

Trenton | Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1986 until his death in 2016

Arts & Letters

Dorothea Lange*

Hoboken | Documentary Photographer

Anne Morrow Lindbergh*

Englewood | Author and Aviator

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About Dan Cirucci

He's been cited by the late Rush Limbaugh, quoted in the New York Times, featured at Real Clear Politics and Lucianne.com and interviewed across all media.

He's Dan Cirucci, the founder and editor-in chief of the Dan Cirucci Blog, a Save Jersey blog columnist, frequent guest on the Matt Rooney radio show and one of the most widely honored public relations professionals in his field. He's also been a public relations consultant to numerous organizations and individuals and hosted The Advocates on RVN-TV.

Inducted into the Philadelphia Public Relations Hall of Fame, for many years he served as a Lecturer in Corporate Communication at Penn State University. A former President of the Philadelphia Public Relations Association (PPRA) he has lectured at Rowan University, Temple University, The College of New Jersey and Arcadia University. He has conducted workshops on public relations for thousands of participants throughout the nation and has taught countless others the art of public speaking. He has also advised numerous lawyers, judges, public officials and political candidates.

Cirucci is a prolific writer and his op-ed pieces have appeared in the Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Courier-Post, Broad and Liberty and other print and online platforms.

A native of Camden NJ, Cirucci is a former President of the Philadelphia chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators. Cirucci served as Associate Executive Director of the Philadelphia Bar Association for nearly 30 years. He served as Chair of Penn State University's Professional Advisory Board for the Corporate Communication major at Penn State Abington and on the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Judicial Selection Commission.

He received his MA degree from Rowan University and his BA from Villanova University. He has been named a Distinguished Alumnus of Rowan's public relations program and received the E. A. "Wally" Richter Leadership Award, the highest honor from the National Association of Bar Executives' Communications Section. He has also been honored by numerous other local, state and national groups.

In his hometown of Camden, Cirucci taught fifth grade at the Ulysses Wiggins Elementary School named for the founder of the Camden NAACP. There he was one of the first teachers in the country to teach African-American history to inner city students. He later served as editor of a local weekly newspaper, as Assistant to the Township Manager of Cherry Hill Township and as Associate Director of Communications at the New Jersey State Bar Association.

Cirucci's passions include all things Italian, politics, the popular culture, books and authors, art, communication, music, theatre, movies, dining and travel.

He and his wife Carole have two grown children and seven grandchildren.

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