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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2017

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H O U S E   R E S O L U T I O N

CONGRATULATING C.J. CHIVERS ON BEING A 2017 PULITZER PRIZE AWARD

WINNER

     Introduced By: Representatives Tanzi, Shekarchi, Ajello, Filippi, and Corvese

     Date Introduced: April 11, 2017

     Referred To: House read and passed

     WHEREAS, The Pulitzer Prize awards for excellence in journalism and the arts are

awarded in 14 designated categories including reporting, photography, cartooning, criticism and

commentary, and seven categories for the arts, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama and

music; and

     WHEREAS, C.J. 'Chris' Chivers, currently a reporter with The New York Times, and

formerly a Providence Journal reporter, was awarded journalism's highest honor, a 2017 Pulitzer

Prize in the category of Feature Writing; and

     WHEREAS, As a reporter with The New York Times, Mr. Chivers was awarded his

2017 Pulitzer for his illuminating story on a 24-year old Marine Corps veteran's postwar descent

into violence after returning from Afghanistan; and

     WHEREAS, Mr. Chivers is a graduate of Cornell University and the Columbia School of

Journalism. He served as an infantry officer in the United States Marines during the first Gulf

War, in peacekeeping operations during the Los Angeles riots, and was honorably discharged as a

captain; and

     WHEREAS, Upon graduation from Columbia, Mr. Chivers joined the staff of the

Providence Journal, where he covered North Providence and Providence politics. During his

years with the Journal, he won the acclaim of his fellow reporters and was honored with a

Livingston Award for International Reporting. He is also the author of "The Gun," a historical

work; and

     WHEREAS, Often referred to by colleagues as "the best war correspondent of his

generation," Mr. Chivers also won a Pulitzer in 2009 as part of a team of New York Times

reporters "honored for their dispatches from Pakistan and Afghanistan"; and

     WHEREAS, Currently, Mr. Chivers makes his home in South Kingstown with his wife

Suzanne Keating and their five children and is an avid fisherman in his rare spare time; and

     WHEREAS, With a comprehensive and thoughtful approach Mr. Chivers' reporting and

writing have contributed fresh insights into myriad areas. He is eminently deserving of the

accolades and regard he has been afforded and has fully distinguished himself as a person worthy

of our recognition and admiration; now, therefore be it

     RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives of the State of Rhode Island and

Providence Plantations hereby congratulates and honors C.J. Chivers on the prestigious honor of

being selected as a 2017 Pulitzer Prize award winner. We furthermore wish him the very best

health, happiness, and continued success in all his future endeavors; and be it further

     RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to

transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to Mr. C.J. Chivers.

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