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Celebrate the life of longtime Club member Will Lester tonight
The National Press Club and The Associated Press invite you to join in celebrating the life of our beloved friend and colleague Will Lester at a memorial event being held at 6 p.m. tonight, Wednesday, May 15, in the conference rooms at the Club. The event is open to members and friends of Lester, a longtime Press Club member who served as chair of the Awards Team for many years. Lester died unexpectedly in February. He joined the Club 1998 and won the Club’s highest volunteer honor, the Berny Krug Award, in 2013 for his work as chair of the Awards Team. Lester spent nearly 40 years at The…
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Memorial service for Svetlana G. Orekhova-Tibbits today at local church
The son of a National Press Club member who died recently wants the members of the Club to know of her passing and invites them to a service in her memory taking place today, Wednesday, May 15. Andrei E. Orekhov sent this message by email: "Our beloved Mrs. Svetlana G. Orekhova-Tibbits, the mother of 4 children, Ph.D., the widow of Mr. William B. John Tibbits, the National Press Club of Washington member, the Union of Journalists of Russia member, just passed away recently. "The final ceremony will take place on May, 15th, 1 p.m., at the St. John the Baptist Russian Orthodox Cathedral, 4001…
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Former National Press Club Newsmaker Committee chair, Ron Baygents, passes away at 70
Former National Press Club Newsmakers Committee Chair Ron Baygents passed away from colon cancer in Ocala, Florida, on May 18. He was 70. Ron Baygents, former chairman of the National Press Club Newsmaker Committee, and Rolling Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell on March 29,2011, at the Club. Baygents was a Club member for nearly 20 years, serving on both the Newsmakers and Speakers Committees. Ronald Macon Baygents was born June 26, 1953, in Macon, Georgia. After graduating from the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications in 1975, during a…
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Past NPC president Frank A. Aukofer, age 90
Frank A. Aukofer, who parlayed an apprenticeship in the printing trade into a 40-year career as an award-winning newspaper reporter in Washington and Milwaukee, has died. Frank A. Aukofer He passed away peacefully on the morning of July 14 surrounded by friends and family at his residence at Goodwin House in Falls Church, Virginia. He was 90. Along the way, he served as president of the National Press Club in 1978, and first president and chairman, as well as a board member, of the National Press Foundation from 1978 to 2004. Earlier, from 1974 to 1976, he was elected to and served as…
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Tom Squitieri, 71
Tom Squitieri, an award-winning reporter and former National Press Club vice president, died Sept. 1. He was 71. A native of Pennsylvania, Tom started his career in Washington in the 1970s at the Thomson Newspapers bureau in the National Press Building. He was a National Press Club officer in the mid-1980s and served as vice president in 1987. A remembrance will be held on Oct. 5 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Palisades Community Church in Washington. Read his obituary here.
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Rod Nordland, globe trotting international correspondent, died June 18
Rod Nordland, a longtime loyal National Press Club member and globe trotting International correspondent for The New York Times and other publications, passed away at his home in New York City June 18 at the age of 75. His obituary in the Sunday Times said that for 40 years he was constantly on the go, never moving back to the United States until he was forced to by illness. Yet for Nordland, his National Press Club membership card was precious to him since joining in 1988. When he collapsed in a Delhi, India park in 2019, his card was lost. He appealed to the Club for a replacement, leading…
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Ken Mellgren, former Board chair and passionate Broadcast Team leader, helped plan Club's broadcast center
Longtime National Press Club member Ken Mellgren, who served as chair of the Board of Governors and of the Broadcast team, died Tuesday, Jan. 7. He was 79.
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Ron Nessen, former White House Press Secretary, NBC newsman and Club member dies at 90
White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen holding daily briefing, Nov. 6, 1974. Photo: White House Former National Press Club member Ron Nessen died Wednesday, March 12. He was 90. Nessen joined the club in the spring of 2014 and, until his health declined, was an active member of the Club's Broadcast and Podcast Team. Before he retired from active journalism and communications work, he was press secretary to President Gerald Ford and was a correspondent at NBC News, including covering the Nixon White House and five stints reporting from Vietnam. In 1966, he was wounded while covering a battle…
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Florence Parrish-St. John, 30-year Club member, dies at 94
Florence Parrish-St. John, a retired writer, federal agency administrator, and a 30-year member of the National Press Club, died May 28. She was 94 and had lived in Ft. Belvoir, Va. Parrish-St. John received multiple Vivian Awards from 1998 to 2003 for contributions to the Club, including chairing the oral history committee from 1995 to 2009 and serving on the events committee. Born in Greenville, Miss., her career in government included being assistant director for senior training at national headquarters for the Civil Air Patrol; equal employment opportunity officer for the D.C.…
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Aaron Epstein, longtime Club member, renowned Supreme Court reporter
Aaron Bernard Epstein, a newspaper journalist and longtime National Press Club member who with vigorous skepticism and uncommon zeal pursued truth, impactful reporting, clear writing, and the dubious claims of the powerful, died March 11 of debilitating side-effects from immunotherapy. He was 93. During the 1980s and 1990’s, Epstein humanized decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, covered legal affairs and the Justice Department, and tackled many other national stories for millions of readers of Knight Ridder, then the second largest newspaper publisher in the U.S. In 1996, he won the American…
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