Former high school English teacher Joyce Kulhawik establishes a successful career in television.
There are many fine educators who establish careers in television. One of these is Joyce Kulhawik, a former English teacher from Vermont who also earned fame as a television personality in Boston, Massachusetts.
Joyce was born in 1954 in Connecticut. At a very young age, Joyce was exposed to arts. As a child, she played piano, sang, and played organ in her parish church. After her high school graduation, she earned her Bachelor’s degree in English and Secondary Education from Simmons College. That was in 1974. As one of the top two graduating seniors, she garnered a Crown Zellerbach Award and a full fellowship from the University of Vermont. She enrolled there, and in 1977 she completed the requirements for a Master’s degree in English Education.
Once she earned her degrees, Joyce inaugurated her career as a teacher at Brookline High School. She taught there from 1976 to 1978. She also taught at the Boston Architectural Center from 1977 to 1979.
Joyce has covered local and national events from Boston and Broadway to Hollywood. She has reported live from the Oscars, the Emmys and the Grammys. Nationally, the former teacher co-hosted the syndicated movie-review show Hot Ticket with Leonard Maltin, and she was a continuing host on Roger Ebert and the Movies. For her work in the entertainment industry, Joyce was inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2007. In addition, she earned the N.E. Emmy’s Governor’s Award.
A three-time cancer survivor, Joyce testified before Congress on the 20th anniversary of the National Cancer Act. Since 1983 she has chaired the American Cancer Society’s largest spring fundraising campaign, serves on the ACS advisory board, and continues to help raise millions of dollars for the ACS first “Hope Lodge” in Boston. For this work, the ACS honored Joyce with their national bronze medal.
Currently Joyce serves as the president of the Boston Theater Critics Association, a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics, and a member of the Boston Online Film Critics Association. In addition, she performs as a guest narrator with the Boston Pops, the New England Philharmonic, Boston Musica Viva, the Boston Civic Symphony, and the Concord Orchestra.
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