Everybody im steve it is my privilege to preside over this speakers pride ceremony our program is a little bit of it introduction a little bit of things in a discussion with her three winners that is great to see a good group here and thank you all for sharing this part of the evening with us. Let me first tell you about this prize since not all of you maybe is acquainted with it as we are. This is a memory of tony lucas was fired my generation of journalists by the time we were in college and started to think about what we wanted to know and what we wanted to write. And social issues in Common Ground was one of the big books on that shelf. When tony passed a lot of experience to come together to create this prize. So that is where this prize began. It has expanded gradually to include the history prize which is named for the late mark hinton who is a Senior Executive in the netherlands for the time of his death in 1997 and a deep reader and supporter of serious history. His wife maria
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