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Former Governor John P. Donnelly Passes Away
John P. Donnelly, a former member of the National Press Club Board of Governors, passed away Nov. 7 after several months battling liver cancer. Donnelly is the father of John M. Donnelly, also a former board member and Press Club officer who still chairs the NPC's Press Freedom Committee. The elder Donnelly was a successful public-relations executive in business, government and the non-profit sector. On the NPC board, the elder Donnelly was an ardent advocate for embracing all communications professionals as club members. For many years, he was a lunchtime fixture at the NPC's Reliable Source…
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Obituary for Butler Derrick
Retired Representative Butler Derrick (D-SC), an associate member of the National Press Club since 2008, died of cancer on May 5 at his home in Easley, S.C. He was 77. Butler was first elected to Congress in 1975 and served as chief deputy whip before retiring in 1995. He joined the Washington office of the law firm Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough in 2004 and retired from the firm in 2012. He is survived by his wife Beverly and two daughters and two sons. While in Congress he served on the House Budget, Banking and Finance and Rules committees. Other duties included being a member…
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Winthrop P. Carty, member 28 years, died Oct 10, 2014
Winthrop Peirce Carty died peacefully at home on October 10, 2014, surrounded by his family. Born April 18, 1927, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Win never quite lost his Boston accent even though his family moved to Forest Hills, New York, when he was very young. His parents were both New Englanders: Mary Peirce, the daughter of H. Winthrop Peirce, a prominent artist, and John Russell Carty, a radiologist and the son of General John J. Carty, chief engineer of Bell Labs and an innovator in the early days of the telephone. In 1953, Win married Lee Anderson. A year later, the couple moved from…
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W. Rice Odell, Washington newspaper and longtime NPC member, dies at 86
W. Rice Odell, 86, a former Washington newspaper reporter, author of books about environmental issues, and member of the National Press Club for 23 years, died Feb. 3. His death, at a hospital in Washington, was caused by complications from a stroke, according to his son, Colin Odell. Born in Lake Forest, Ill., Odell moved in 1950 to the District and lived there for the rest of his life. In the 1950s and 1960s, he covered consumer issues and courts as a reporter and columnist for the old Washington Daily News. He later wrote environmental newsletters for the Conservation Foundation and was…
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Death of NPC veteran member Ed Essertier
Edward P. Essertier, a newspaperman, government spokesman and a 39-year member of the NPC, died Sept. 11, in Culpeper, Va., at the age of 93. Ed was born and raised in Hackensack, N.J., where his father was a prominent physician. He was a member of the Princeton University "Tigers" basketball team and graduated early to enlist as a private in the U.S. Army in 1942. He served in tank corps of Patton's Third Army and ended his hitch managing a hotel in Paris for U.S. service personnel. He was a member of the NPC's American Legion Post 20 and other service organizations. He worked for a New…
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Golden Owl Samuel H. Murray, 91, died May 17
Samuel H. Murray, a tax lawyer, writer and 55-year member of the National Press Club, died May 17 in Leesburg, Virginia. He was 91. Murray was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, and earned undergraduate and law degrees at the University of Virginia. He worked for a circuit court judge in New York City before moving to the Washington area in the late 1950s. He was editor of The Kiplinger Tax Letter from 1959 to 1971. Murray did legal tax work at the publishing firm Matthew Bender and at the accounting firms of Cooper & Lybrand and Arthur Andersen. In 1986, Murray served on a committee tasked…
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Death of NPC Member John Oravec
John R. Oravec, a veteran of the Washington Star and AFL-CIO News and a Silver Owl member of the National Press Club, died Tuesday morning, March 18. He was 83 and lived in Rockville, Md. Often called "Teal" by friends and family, he joined the NPC in 1985 and loved to discuss politics and current events with colleagues at the Club, especially on Friday nights. And he enjoyed telling colorful stories, including about his Catholic upbringing and days as a mischievous altar boy. Oravec served as an Air Force photographer during the Korean War and subsequently had what he described as "not a bad…
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David Dear, an appreciation
Older members of the National Press Club remember David Dear as an unassuming but stalwart member who contributed substantially to the development of the Press Building and the fledgling National Press Foundation. He was 86 when he died Feb. 22. Starting in the late 1970s, he served as an officer or board member of all three entities. He was elected to the Press Club board, eventually becoming vice-president, and was an original board member of the foundation, which was incorporated as an arm of the club by Robert Ames Alden when he was the club’s president in 1976. A few years later, when…
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Jerry Norton burial and reception at Arlington National Cemetery, April 11
Jerry Norton, 67, longtime journalist, National Press Club member, and Vietnam war veteran, will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery on April 11. His family invites friends and colleagues to join them at Arlington at 9:30 a.m. for a 10 a.m. service, followed by a reception in his memory in downtown D.C. Norton was a Commodity News Services/Unicom News reporter in Washington before becoming regional editor in Hong Kong and executive editor in London. He spent 25 years in Reuters as a senior correspondent or veteran editor in Hong Kong and Tokyo; was bureau chief in Singapore; bureau…
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Obituary for George Embrey
George Allen Embrey, 81, a 48-year member, of Nags Head, N.C., died June 5. Embrey graduated from Ohio State University in 1955 with a BA in Journalism-Editorial and was commissioned a lieutenant in the Army Armor Corps, serving eight years, two active. On the staff of the Columbus Dispatch, Embrey variously wrote military, education and gas and oil stories. He served as City Hall reporter for nearly five years and covered state government as well. In 1966, he joined the Dispatch Washington Bureau, where he served for 29 years until his retirement in 1995. He covered every presidential…
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