Get In the Mood for News and great food at NPC Presidential Inaugural, Jan. 28

Come with your dancing shoes and your appetite for a gala night to inaugurate and honor our 2012 National Press Club President Theresa Werner.

NPC's Board of Governors will host In the Mood for News dinner dance on Jan. 28 in the ballroom. Tickets cost $95 per person and will include a cocktail hour, a three-course Americana dinner prepared by Chef Susan Delbert and plenty of libations.

The night's theme pays tribute to the 1940s USO canteens held at the National Press Club and will feature the food and treats of the 1940s. Feast on deviled eggs, shrimp cocktail and mini Reubens at the cocktail reception. Dinner will include a "Victory Garden" salad with a special garnish, grilled New York strip steak, and for dessert a molten chocolate cake. The 1940s was a great decade for candy, too: Tootsie Rolls, M&Ms and Junior Mints will make an appearance.

Werner, a freelance broadcast journalist, is known for her smooth moves on the dance floor as a competitive swing dancer and clogger.

More details about entertainment are forthcoming.

For more information, email Donna Leinwand Leger at [email protected]

To reserve, please call 202-662-7501.