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45-year Club Member Ann Valuchek Dies
Ann Valuchek, a 45-year member of the National Pres Club and long-time resident of the Washington area, died Dec. 19 at a nursing home in Rockville, Maryland, where she had lived since 2013. She was 91. Mrs. Valuchek was born in Cohasset, Virginia, and grew up in Ocala, Florida. She moved to Washington to work for the federal government during World War II and met her first husband, Carl Bauersfeld, a lawyer in the Navy. After their divorce she worked at the Library of Congress and met and married Andrew Valuchek, former publisher of foreign language newspapers in New York, a liaison for…
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Barbara S. Bahny, 56, Club member for 14 years
Barbara S. Bahny, former director of public relations at the Willard InterContinental Hotel and a 14-year National Press Club member, died Dec. 19 in New York City. Bahny was 56 and had lung cancer. She had returned recently to her native New York to be director of public relations at the InterContinental New York Barclay Hotel. She enjoyed singing opera and had traveled extensively. She was a spokeswoman for the Israel Tourist Office in New York prior to her career with InterContinental Hotels. She is survived by her brothers, Nathan and Jay. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m.…
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Elaine Ziemba, 16-year Club member and former congressional staff dies at 62
Elaine M. Ziemba, a 16-year member of the National Press club and a former congressional staffer and lobbyist, died May 15 at her home in Pompano Beach, Fla. She was 62. Ms. Ziemba worked as a television reporter in Albuquerque, N.M., and then moved to the Washington area to work as press secretary to newly elected Rep. Bill Richardson in 1983. She was a graduate of Michigan State University and held an MBA from George Washington University. After working for Richardson, Ms. Ziemba became a lobbyist for various energy interests, including NRS Energy, Northern States Power, Xcel Energy and…
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Renowned press photographer and Club member Ed Wergeles dies
Ed Wergeles, an award-winning, globe-trotting photographer and editor for both Newsweek and Forbes, and a National Press Club member for more than 60 years, died in Solvang, Calif., Jan. 6 shortly before his 94th birthday. By the time he was 12, Wergeles had his own darkroom and was hooked on photography, his daughter, Wendy Wergeles said as she reviewed biographical notes of her father that her mother, Merry Hannula Wergeles, had put together. He joined the New York Journal in 1935 as a copy boy. One night while he was still attending high school, he was sent out to photograph a murder…
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Club member Irwin Goodwin dies; covered Sputnik, moon missions
A prize-winning journalist and long-time National Press Club member who covered major political events and scientific breakthroughs, Irwin Goodwin, died in September at age 85. "He was an eccentric pain but you couldn't help but love him," said Hanna Hunt, his companion of 32 years. Goodwin began his career as a freelance writer and book reviewer for the City News in Chicago. While there, he also began writing for Newsweek and would spend the next 13 years between the New York and London offices writing for the space and science sections. Goodwin covered Sputnik, moon explorations and nuclear…
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John Adams, former journalist, public affairs firm founder and NPC member, dies at 81
John Adams, who reported from Britain, Africa, Germany and the U.S., where he worked for ABC and CBS News, died at his home in Lovettsville, Virginia, according to an article posted Dec. 11 on Capitol Communicator. Adams had recently published a memoir, “In the Trenches: Adventures in Journalism and Public Affairs,” according to the Communicator article. The article describes how Adams worked for Radio Free Europe in Munich as an editor, later becoming Bonn bureau chief and acting head of the news division. He went on to be a writer and producer for ABC News, and later worked on news and…
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Club member Donald Frederick dies
Club member Donald J. Frederick died at aqe 81 on Nov. 18 of complications from pneumonia, the Washington Post reported. He was a retired science writer for the National Geographic Society's news service. He joined the news service in 1965 and retired in 1995, writing about subjects from the naked mole rat to subatomic neutrinos, the Post said.
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Sanford Ullman, club member for 40 years, passes away at age 97
Sanford Ullman, a club member for more than 40 years, passed away Nov. 1. He was 97 years old. He joined the club on Dec. 1, 1971.
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Journalist and conservative activist Joseph F. Borda III dies
Joseph Francis Borda III, a retired former journalist and conservative political activist who had been a National Press Club member for 10 years, died September 17 at Frederick Memorial Hospital in Frederick, Md., after a brief illness. Borda, 69, lived in Brunswick, Md. Borda, who joined the Club in 2002, was senior editor for the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation from 2003 until 2009. He retired a few months after the death of the organization's founder, conservative strategist Paul M. Weyrich, who had hired him. In that job Borda produced Weyrich's weekly radio broadcast, "…
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Dorothy Ing Russell, 84, trail-blazing Asian-American journalist, dies
Dorothy Diana Ing Russell, reputedly the first Asian-American journalist to work for The Washington Post and a Club member for 39 years, died Oct. 19 at a Maryland hospice. Russell, who lived in Chevy Chase, Md, was 84. In addition to a 40-year career as a foreign correspondent, reporter and copy editor, Russell was a co-founder and first treasurer of the Washington chapter of the Asian- American Journalists Association (AAJA). In 1995 she received a lifetime achievement award from the national AAJA. She also established within the AAJA the May Quan Ing Scholarship, in honor of her late…
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