Judy Woodruff, Al Hunt to headline Silver Owls Hoot, Nov. 10

Judy Woodruff and Al Hunt headline the fall Silver Owls Hoot Friday, Nov. 10, which includes a three-course dinner and entertainment by a New Orleans-style jazz band.

The Silver Owls, part of the Club since 1985, is made up of members of 25 years or more with the goal of supporting the Club and camaraderie. It holds these Hoots in the fall and spring. New Owls attending will be recognized and presented with a certificate attesting to their new honored status.

But all Club members are welcome and encouraged to join us for this fun evening.

Entertainment will be provided by the Jefferson Street Strutters, a seven-piece band that specializes in New Orleans-style jazz popular from the 1900s though the 1940s. Band Leader Joel Albert says, “We play happy music. The goal is to leave audiences with hands clapping, toes tapping and smiles on their faces.”

All of this for $65 each. Tickets can be purchased online.

Woodruff and Hunt, the long-time Washington journalism power couple, will talk about their careers and their lives together while taking questions from the audience. From the Nixon administration into the Biden presidency, they have been in the mix of everything that has happened in Washington and in national politics.

Hunt wrote for the Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau for 35 years beginning in 1969, covering congressional and national politics before rising to bureau chief and executive Washington editor. He hosted the Sunday morning talk show, "Political Capital," and was a weekly panelist on CNN’s "Capital Gang" and "Evans, Novak Hunt & Shields. "He became Bloomberg News’ Washington editor and anchor on Bloomberg’s "Political Capital with Al Hunt."

Woodruff was named White House correspondent for NBC News in 1976, leaving to join PBS six years later where she continued White House reports for the "PBS NewsHour." She moved to CNN in 1993 to host "Inside Politics" and "CNN WorldView" with Bernard Shaw. She returned to PBS and the NewsHour in 2006, and seven years later she and Gwen Ifill were named anchors. With Ifill’s passing, Judy was the sole anchor until the end of 2022.