Remember when the first woman Club president was sworn in?

President Ronald Reagan administered the oath of office in 1982 when Vivian Vahlberg was sworn in as the National Press Club's first woman president. At the time, female journalists had only been allowed as members for 11 years. Since Vahlberg's inauguration, eight women presidents have followed in her footsteps.

This snippet was one of many put together by the late Art Wiese, who served as Club president in 1979. He was responsible for planning much of the reconstruction of the Club during its renovation in the early 1980s. In his later years, he put together a series of snippets on the Club's history. In honor of his passing this year, the Wire will run one of them each week.