2001

Who: William Hanna
Major Accomplishment: He and Joseph Barbera created the highly successful Tom and Jerry cartoons, which featured the antics of a cat-and-mouse team and won seven Academy Awards, more than any other series with the same characters.
Legacy: “This writing-directing team may hold a record for producing consistently superior cartoons using the same characters year after year, without a break or change in routine,” Leonard Maltin wrote.

Who: Katharine Graham
Major Accomplishment: Graham capped her career when she was 80 years old in 1998 by winning a Pulitzer Prize for biography for her often painful reminiscence, ”Personal History’.”
Legacy: Graham was one of the most powerful figures in American journalism and, for the last decades of her life, at the pinnacle of Washington’s political and social establishments.

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