Emmy Award Winning Reporter and Former Archbishop Curley High School Student Byron Pitts Expresses Gratitude to Conventual Franciscan Friars

Emmy award winning and globe-trotting reporter, Byron Pitts has written a memoir titled Step Out on Nothing. In the memoir, the Baltimore, Maryland native speaks about the difficulties he faced early in life. He stuttered until he was 20 and was deemed functionally illiterate at age 12. Many were ready to forget Byron. It seemed to them that the challenges he was confronting could never be overcome. But Byron would not give up. He was and is a person of great faith.

As time passed, key people people in Byron's life supported and encouraged him. They provided guidance and advice. Some of these people included his mother, a football coach, and the Conventual Franciscan Friars from Archbishop Curley High School in Baltimore. The friars believe that education should be available to everybody. They have been maintaining a tradition of education and scholarship for many centuries; they also continue to shape the lives of countless young people who go on to achieve great things the way Byron Pitts has done. Watch CBS News Videos Online