HOUSE COMMEMORATION   NO. 1011
          

        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.