2001

Clockwise from left: Roger R. Blunt, Chairman and CEO, Blunt Enterprises LLC; John T. "Til" Hazel, Jr., Attorney at Law, Reed Smith Hazel & Thomas; John J. Curley, Former Chairman, President and CEO, Gannett Co., Inc.; Mario Morino, Chairman, Marino Institute; Wilhelmina "Billie" Cole Holladay, Founder, National Museum of Women in the Arts.

Amy Tran, a sixth-grader at Graham Road Elementary School in Falls Church, Virginia, says a few words about honoree Mario Morino.

Darrell Green of the Washington Redskins shares words of wisdom before giving the invocation.

Brenda Ramirez, a sixth-grader at Graham Road Elementary in Falls Church, Virginia, introduces honoree John Curley, as Channel 9 WUSA television President and General Manager Ardy Diercks and news anchor Gordon Peterson look on.

The Potomac High School Choir from Oxon Hill, Maryland, inspires the crowd.