WE ARE BACK EVERY YEAR IN
JANUARY PUTS BURG
MAGAZINEHONORS THE PITTSBURGHER
OF THE YEAR ONE PERSON
DESERVING OF THE TIGHTER AND
COVER IMAGE AND MADE A
DIFFERENCE IN OUR LIVES IN THE
YEAR JUST PAGHT PAST THIS YEAR
THE PITTSBURGH MAGAZINE STAFF
WENT IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION.
INSTEAD OF HONORING JUST ONE
PERSON THEY ARE HONORING 50 OF
THE GREATEST PITTSBURGHERS OF
ALL TIME.
MAGAZINE EDITOR IS WITH US NOW
TO TELL HOUSEMAID THE LIST FOR
THIS SPECIAL ISSUE.
FIRST CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ON
THE ANNIVERSARY.
AND WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE 50
GREATEST PITTSBURGHERS THAT'S I
MEAN AN EXCLUSIVE LIST AND
PEOPLE WHO HAD A SIGNIFICANT
IMPACT ON THIS CITY.
IT WAS A CHAL --
IT WAS CHALLENGING TASK WE
CREATED THIS LIST AND
BRAINSTORMED EVERY PITTSBURGHER
WE COULD THINK OF FROM THE
WHOLE 200 PLUS YEARS AND WE DID
MORE RESEARCH THINKING WE
MISSED PEOPLE AND WHAT IT WAS.
SO IT WAS BIG PROCESS FOR US.
YOU ARE SURPRISED AT SOME OF
THE NAMES I MEAN YOU CAN ONLY
HAVE 50 WERE YOU SURPRISED
ABOUT WHO WAS AND WHO WAS NOT
INCLUDED.
YEAH.
THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT
WHEN -- WE TOP OF OUR HEAD
STUFF AND DID RESEARCH AND
THERE WERE NOTEWORTHY
PITTSBURGHER WE THOUGHT DESERVE
OF A PLACE ON THE LIST THAT WAS
NOT ON BEFORE AND WE NEVER
RECOGNIZED IN THE PAST.
HOW DID YOU MAKE THE
DECISION TO INSTEAD OF CHOOSING
1 PERSON DO 50 OF ALL COINED.
-- COINED.
BECAUSE IT'S 50th -- KIND.
BECAUSE IT'S THE 50th
ANNIVERSARY WE WANTED TO DO
SOMETHING SPECIAL.
WE THOUGHT WE SHOULD FIND 50
PEOPLE PF WE -- IF WE STARTED
AT THE DAWN OF PITTSBURGH
HISTORY WOULD HAVE BEEN
RECOGNIZED AS THE PITTSBURGHER
OF THE YEAR.
THESE ARE ALL 50 PEOPLE WE
THINK ARE WILDLY DESERVING SO
THE CHALLENGE WAS RANKING THEM
BECAUSE IF WE COULD LIST 50
PEOPLE BUT LET'S GO ON A LIMB
AND SAY NUMBER ONE THROUGH 50.
YES.
SO I KNOW PEOPLE AT HOME ARE
SAYING GET TO THE LIST ALL
RIGHT SO WE ARE NOT GOING A
GIVE AWAY ALL 5 BUT START WITH
THE TOP 3. WE WILL START WITH
3.
YEAH.
AFTER MUCH DEBATE ANDREW
CARNEGIE.
OKAY.
SO.
WE PICKED HIM BECAUSE HE WAS
NOT ONLY PROBABLY NOT ONE.
INDUSTRIALISTS OF THE ERA BUT
AFTER THAT TIME HIS LIFE WAS
OVER, SPENT MOST OF THE REST OF
HIS CAREER IN LIFE GIVING AWAY
ALL OF HIS MONEY.
SO HIS INFLUENCE IS FELT HERE
WITH ALL THE THINGS THAT
CARNEGIE'S NAME ON IT FROM
MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES BUT
ACROSS THE COUNTRY THERE ARE
CARNEGIE LIBRARIES AND
OVERSEAS.
SO, AND EVERYONE ASSOCIATES
ANDREW CARNEGIE WITH PITTSBURGH
SO WE THOUGHT IT'S A GOOD
REPRESENTATIVE OF WHAT THE CITY
IS.
AGREED.
NUMBER 2.
AUGUST WILSON.
YES.
THE NOTEWORTHY PLAYWRIGHT.
HE HAS TWO PULITZER PRIZES.
WOULD BE CONSIDERED A ICON IN
HIS FIELD BUT BEYOND THAT, HIS
PLAYS ARE SET IN PITTSBURGH.
THEY ARE.
AND PITTSBURGH FOCUSED AND
HE HAS PUT PITTSBURGH ON THE
MAP AS FAR AS PLAYWRIGHTS AND
DENZEL WASHINGTON AND MOVIES
TOO SO IMPACT ON WHAT IS
PITTSBURGH AUGUST WILSON
WE HAVE ANDREW CARNEGIE
AUGUST WILSON AND NUMBER ONE
HAS TO DRUM ROLL.
FRED ROGER WHOERS.
OF COURSE.
--
OF COURSE.
WHEN IT CAME DOWN TO IT IT
WAS HARD TO ARGUE WHEN HE HAD A
DOCUMENTARY AND TOM HANKS IS
DOING A MOVIE ABOUT HIM.
AND THERE'S ALWAYS THIS
YEARNING FOR WHAT FRED ROGERS
STANDS FOR.
WE ACTUALLY HAD THE DOCUMENT
ARIAN WHO DID THE DOCUMENTARY
ABOUT MR. ROGERS WRITE THE
TRIBUTE AND IT'S REALLY
COMPELLING ESSAY HE WROTE ABOUT
HOW HE SEES MR. ROGERS AS BEING
THIS HEAD OF HIS -- AHEAD OF
HIS TIME AND REALLY WOULD HAVE
THE KIND OF KINDNESS AND
COMPASSION THAT IF WE HAD
EXPERIENCE THAT TODAY WE MIGHT
BE IN A BETTER PLACE.
AND TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE
NAMES THAT ARE ON THERE ROBERT
L VAN SOME PEOPLE MAY KNOW AND
SOT SOME MAY NOT SOME PEOPLE ON
THE LIST.
HE IS NUMBER 9. HE WAS THE
NOTEWORTHY LEADER OF THE
PITTSBURGH COURIER FOR MANY
DECADES.
RIGHT.
BUT UNDER HIS TENURE, THE
COURIER BEHAVE THE PREEMINENT
AFRICAN AMERICAN UP.
IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY.
IT IS.
IT BROUGHT THE MESSAGE OF
CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLES TO THE
SOUTH WHERE THERE WEREN'T
AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS.
IT WAS CARRIED BY PEOPLE DOWN
TO THE SOUTH AND REALLY WAS A
REALLY BIG, BIG MAJOR
INFLUENCE.
HE IS THE HIGHEST RANKING
JOURNALIST ON THE LIST.
THERE ARE QUITE A FEW
JOURNALIST PITTSBURGH HAS A BIG
HISTORY OF FAMOUS JOURNALIST.
ABSOLUTELY.
HE IS NUMBER ONE.
AND CROWE CAN READ THE FULL
LIST AND PITTSBURGH MAGAZINE
AND IT'S AVAILABLE ONLINE NOW.
ONLINE NOW.
AND IT WILL BE ON NEWSSTANDS AT
THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR.
THANKS SO MUCH FOR JOINING
US.
THAT'S GREAT LIST OF COURSE
CHECK IT OUT AS YOU HEARD.
