Board. [applause] thank you very much. It is my pleasure to introduce a number of great winners to the Pulitzer Prizes tonight. Let me take a moment of personal privilege to recognize one of my predecessors both as the chair of the Tampa Bay Times company and of the Pulitzer Prize, andy barnes is with us. [applause] our purpose here this evening is to say happy birthday to the Pulitzer Prizes. They turn 100 years old this year, which is older than anybody in this room, i believe. [laughter] this is a great tribute to a robust and resilient american institution. So, lets also say thank you to Joseph Pulitzer who created these prizes. It is a very hard thing to when win a pulitzer. It is hard even to become one of the three finalists. Hundreds and hundreds of entries arrive in new york each year for prizes given in journalism, literature, and the arts. Volunteer juries of experts spend days willing down the entries down to a final three. These are submitted to the thetzer prize board and
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But in high school you wear dresses and i literally got a permission slip to my house and i shed a few tears i will say that much. I used that example of why i wrote the book to show how through it all to change a culture that i ended up able to wear pants and able to be the girl that could respond to start a petition drive or do Something Else but at that moment i did what she said and the one little tangent to the story is that when the book came out i actually got a call from someone and he said i am the son of her principal and he said i didnt like what you said about my mom and i said it was true she really did take me out of the school. And you know what you said about her hair and i said i jumped on the internet and she does have the beehive. All of a sudden you hear laughter and was our friend and my colleague. But that is how the book starts. One of the things i took from that story is that it is the process to learn how to stand up for yourself in a situation like that and it
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