Photos: Inauguration of NPC President Mark Schoeff Jr.

Photo Credit: Alan Kotok Head table place setting for Mark Schoeff Jr., an alumnus of Purdue University.

Photo Credit: Alan Kotok Former NPC president Donna Leinwand Leger, who served as MC for the event.

Photo Credit: Alan Kotok Jason Dick, Editor-in-Chief of CQ Roll Call, Schoeff's employer.

Photo Credit: Alan Kotok Christina Nelson, managing editor at the Center for Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, and former colleague of Schoeff at Investment News.

Photo Credit: Alan Kotok Sylvia Smith, former National Press Club president who recruited Schoeff into the Club.

Photo Credit: Alan Kotok Sam Feist, CEO of C-SPAN, gives remarks before administering the oath of office.

Photo Credit: Alan Kotok Sam Feist swears-in Mark Schoeff Jr. as 119th National Press Club president, using a Purdue University basketball held by Anna Cielinski, Schoeff's wife.

Photo Credit: Alan Kotok Outgoing Club president Mike Balsamo, Associated Press law enforcement editor, toasts his successor.

Photo Credit: Alan Kotok Mark Schoeff Jr., financial reporter for CQ Roll Call, gives inaugural remarks after his swearing-in as National Press Club president.

Photo Credit: Alan Kotok Mark Schoeff Jr. gives inaugural remarks after his swearing-in as National Press Club president.

Photo Credit: Alan Kotok In closing his inaugural remarks, new Club president Mark Schoeff Jr. displays an issue of the Purdue Exponent, the campus newspaper produced to support fellow student journalists at cross-state rival Indiana University.