photo by: Nick Krug

Members of the audience clap as nationally-syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. takes the stage on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at Liberty Memorial Central Middle School.

photo by: Nick Krug

Husband and wife, David Carttar and Claudia Olea, Lawrence, smile as they approach Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts Jr., along with Robert Trepinski, right, Lawrence, during a book signing and following Pitts' lecture on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at Liberty Memorial Central Middle School. Pitts lectured as the guest speaker for the second-annual Dad Days in which he shared his opinions about the importance of active fatherhood.

photo by: Nick Krug

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. of the Miami Herald shakes hands with Leroy Koehn of Atchison following his lecture "In the Measure of Man," on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at Liberty Memorial Central Middle School. Pitts lectured as the guest speaker for the second-annual Dad Days in which he shared his opinions about the importance of active fatherhood.

photo by: Nick Krug

In this file photo, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. of the Miami Herald smiles as he speaks to those attending his lecture "In the Measure of a Man," on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at Liberty Memorial Central Middle School.