sterling, but that's not what this is about. what you're really doing here in this ballroom is funding scholarships for the next jen ration of the fourth estate. over the last ten -- over the last ten years the whca has given out nearly $1.1 million in scholarships and leveraged another 1 million in additional aid to aspiring journalists like julia benbrook. in 2021 while a student at northwestern university she won our debra orin scholarship. tonight she is here as a washington correspondent for spectrum news. yesterday we had 28 of this year's scholarship recipients meeting white house