Owls Hoot
Dec 13 2024
WHEN:
Dec 13, 2024 at 5:30pm
WHERE:
Ballroom
CONTACT INFO:
Madison Siciliano
MORE INFO:
Social Event
Join us for the Owls Hoot at 5:30 p.m., Friday, December 13 at The National Press Club.
The Hoot is open to all Press Club members and their guests. Tickets are $70 for members and $80 for guests, which includes the Club's superb three-course dinner and two glasses of wine. The meal is preceded by a cocktail hour with passed hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar.
A pair of magicians will entertain the Owls during the cocktail hour. One is Club member Danny Selnick who is becoming an Owl this year. The other is Dwight Redman, who specializes in close-up illusions.
The program will feature recognition of new Owls and presentation of the 2024 Order of the Owl.
After much deliberation, the Council of Wisest Owls has decided to award the 2024 Order of the Owl to Llewellyn King, a 58-year member of the National Press Club.
King, who remains a working journalist, was the founder and editor of The Energy Daily where he trained a generation of reporters on the complex coverage of all things energy-related.
Silver Owls are those who have been members of the Press Club for 25 years or longer. Golden Owls are those who have been members 50 years or more. And Platinum Owls have roosted at the Club for 60 years or longer.
If you are a new Silver, Gold, or Platinum Owl and you attend the Hoot, you will be introduced and presented with a certificate attesting to your new honored status in the National Press Club.
Honoree & Guest Speaker
Llewellyn King is the creator, host, and executive producer of the long-running, weekly news and public affairs program, "White House Chronicle," which airs nationwide on PBS and public, educational and government cable access channels, and SiriusXM Radio's POTUS (Politics of the United States), Channel 124, and worldwide on Voice of America Television and Radio in English. He writes a weekly column for the InsideSources syndicate, which distributes it to 500 U.S. newspapers. He created the program in 1997.
In 2006, University Press of America published a collection of his columns, "Washington and The World 2001-2005." The columns appeared mainly in Knight-Ridder newspapers, including the Miami Herald, the Sacramento Bee, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the Kansas City Star, the Charlotte Observer, and the Columbus Dispatch.
He was the founder and editor in chief of The Energy Daily. The Washington-based newsletter was the flagship of his award-winning King Publishing Group, which he sold in 2006. The group's other titles included Defense Week, New Technology Week, and Navy News & Undersea Technology. He was awarded an honorary doctor of engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology. In 2014, the United States Energy Association presented him with its annual United States Energy Award -- in the long history of the association, he is the only journalist to have received that award.
Salad:
Endive, blue cheese, spinach, walnuts and pomegranate seeds
Main:
Chicken piccata, mushroom risotto and ginger-garlic Feta green beans
Dessert:
Apple french tart
*Indicate any dietary restrictions while purchasing your ticket*