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HOUSE COMMEMORATION
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1011
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| Introduced by: Representatives Patterson, Broderick, Brown (Richard), Chicoine, Davis, Fischer-Clemens, Hagen, Haley, Hanson, Hunt, Kazmerzak, Koetzle, Lockner, Lucas, McIntyre, Nachtigal, Roe, Sutton (Daniel), Volesky, Waltman, and Wilson and Senators Duxbury, Hainje, Munson (David), Olson, and Symens |
A LEGISLATIVE COMMEMORATION,
Honoring Ms. Dayna Smith, a native of South Dakota and
a photojournalist for the Washington Post, for winning the 1998 World Press Photo of the Year
competition.
WHEREAS,
Dayna Smith has been a photojournalist at the Washington Post for the last fourteen
years, and her work with the newspaper at Brandon Valley High School first sparked her interest in
a career in journalism; and
WHEREAS,
Dayna Smith won the 1998 World Press Photo of the Year competition for the
portrait she took of a grieving woman at the funeral of a guerrilla leader in Kosovo, Siberia; and
WHEREAS,
the World Press Photo of the Year competition is one of the top three most
prestigious awards given to photojournalists; and
WHEREAS,
Dayna Smith's portrait was chosen from nearly thirty-nine thousand entries
submitted by almost four thousand photographers from one hundred sixteen different countries:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT COMMEMORATED,
by the Seventy-fourth Legislature of the
State of South Dakota, that Ms. Dayna Smith be recognized for her receipt of the 1998 World Press
Photo of the Year award.
