Memorial for Peter Hickman Set for Thursday, April 13, at 6 p.m. in Club Ballroom

Friends and associates of Peter J. Hickman, the National Press Club's long-time "ambassador to embassies" and Newsmaker organizer, are invited to attend a memorial service from 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, April 13, in the Club Ballroom.

Hickman died of heart failure on April 2 at the age of 85.

Michael Hickman, Peter's son, plans to lead the memorial service and invite Peter's friends to join in reminiscing about his father's 28-year association with the Press Club.

Peter was a retired foreign-service officer who arranged for hundreds of Newsmaker press events, most of them with a foreign-policy theme.