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Silver Owl Thomas L. Hoy, retired news photographer and association executive, dies
Thomas Larkin Hoy, an award-winning news photographer at The Washington Star who became the longtime public relations director for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, died Oct. 20 at Sibley Hospital in Washington. Hoy, who lived in Bethesda, was 76. He was a Silver Owl member of the Club, which he joined in the mid-1960s. He also was a former board member of the White House News Photographers Association A native of Cincinnati, Hoy was still a student at Falls Church High School in Northern Virginia, when he joined The Star in 1953 at age 17. His twin brother, Frank Hay, who…
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William C. Keller, lawyer, government official and Silver Owl, dies at 93
William Charles Keller, a Silver Owl member of the Club who was a lawyer and official with several government lending and claims settlement agencies, died Aug. 22 in his adopted hometown of Gaithersburg, Md, after a short illness. He was 93. Keller first worked at the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission from 1952 to 1958, settling claims made by countries for damages sustained in World War II. From 1958 to 1960, he was general consul for the American Medical Association in Chicago. He then returned to Washington where from 1960 until 1972 he worked at the Export-Import Bank, negotiating…
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Silver Owl Nick Longworth, former photojournalist and GOP official, dies at 82
Nick Longworth, an award-winning former newspaper photojournalist who became both a federal official and a Republican political consultant, died Sept. 3 at his home in Carmel, Ind. He was 82. Longworth -- who was not related to former U.S. House Speaker Nicholas Longworth -- had been a Communicator member of the National Press Club since 1986 and became a Silver Owl in 2011. In the 1950s and '60s, Nick Longworth was a photojournalist for The Fort Wayne News-Sentinel and The Indianapolis News, covering a wide range of stories from the erection of the Berlin Wall to the 1961 inauguration of…
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Samuel H. Murray, 91
Samuel H. Murray, a Club member for 55 years, died May 17 at the age of 91. He lived in North Potomac, Md.
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Laird Anderson, 78
Laird B. Anderson, a 22-year member of the NPC and professor emeritus of communication at American University, died Oct. 14, 2014, at the age of 78. He retired in 1996 after a 23-year teaching career at AU where he was director of journalism programs. Anderson was a frequent contributor to area publications on economic, media and military affairs, including the Washington Post and Baltimore Sun. He was a 31-year veteran of the U.S. Army Reserve, retiring as a colonel in 1989 after earning a Meritorious Service Medal and the Army Commendation Medal. He was the co-author of two books on…
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Grace Johnsen-Koss, longtime writer for Catholic publications, died March 27
Grace Johnsen-Koss of Luxemburg, Wis., a 36-year member of the National Press Club, died March 27 in Green Bay. She was 95. Mrs. Koss had a long career as a journalist writing for Catholic publications. A native of Wisconsin, she taught speech in parochial schools in Green Bay after graduating from Drake University. She started several businesses, including a speech studio and a cheese store in Green Bay. She began writing at Green Bay West High School, where she authored a sports column called "Gym Shorts." She wrote a column for The U.P. Catholic, a newspaper of the Diocese of Marquette in…
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Robert Steck, NPC Golden Owl, dies at 70
Robert N. Steck, 70, a Silver Owl member of the National Press Club, died March 9 at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in West Roxbury, Mass., after a long battle with cancers attributed to Agent Orange exposure during the Vietnam War. He was a communications consultant, college professor and speechwriter who lived in Washington, D.C., from 1986 to 2012, often spending time at his favorite book store, Politics and Prose. He had lived most recently in Boston. Mr. Steck was director of executive communications for Fannie Mae from 1986 to 1989 and wrote speeches for Dun &…
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Golden Owl Charles Rowe dies at 89
Charles S. Rowe, a National Press Club Golden Owl whose Club membership dated from 1953, died March 13 in Vero Beach, Fla., at the age of 89. He was editor and co-publisher of The Free Lance-Star (FLS) in Fredericksburg, Va., for 48 years before retiring in 1997. He had homes in Fredericksburg and Vero Beach. Mr. Rowe was a former president of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association and vice chairman of the Associated Press. He served on the board of directors of the Virginia Press Association, the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association, the American Newspaper Publishers…
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NPC member Thomas Rowan passes away
Longtime NPC member Thomas Rowan (membership #2194) died on June 28, 2014. He was 88 years old. Rowan joined the Club on Dec. 1, 1983.
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William Beller, Golden Owl and designer of the 'Spruce Goose', dies at 95
William Beller, a former Golden Owl member of the NPC, died Nov. 7 at the age of 95 in a hospital in Delray Beach, Fla. Mr. Beller retired in 1984 as the head of ocean island programs at the Environmental Protection Agency. He was an author and co-author of several books and numerous technical articles and played a role in the creation of several federal agencies. Born in Cleveland in 1919, Mr. Beller earned a masters degree in aeronautical engineering from New York University in 1942 and was one of the principal designers of the famed Howard Hughes eight-engined "Spruce Goose" transport…
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