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Fourth Estate winner, PBS Newshour anchor Jim Lehrer dies
Jim Lehrer was the 2011 Fourth Estate Winner. He is on the right. 2011 NPC President Mark Hamrick is on the left. Photo: Noel St. John Jim Lehrer was the 2011 Fourth Estate Winner. He is on the right. 2011 National Press Club President Mark Hamrick is on the left. Photo: Noel St. John National Press Club President Mike Freedman said in a statement that "America has lost a true reporter's reporter" when he learned of the death on Thursday of PBS Newshour founding anchor Jim Lehrer. Lehrer was the 2011 Fourth Estate Award honoree and he appeared at several Book Fairs over the years for…
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William "Bill" Seamans, Emmy-winning journalist, 92
William "Bill" Seamans, an Emmy-winning journalist and National Press Club member from 1992 to 2011, died April 21 in Bedford, N.H. The following are excerpts from an obituary in The Keene (N.H.) Sentinel: Bill was born on July 8, 1925, in Providence, R.I. He was a decorated World War II veteran who earned two Bronze stars and a Purple Heart for his service in the U.S. Army as a sharpshooter with the 302nd Regiment of the 94th Infantry Division. He participated in three fields of combat: northern France, Ardennes (Battle of the Bulge) and the Rhineland. In Pontivy, France, he trained members…
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Max Fine, 56-year Club member, Medicare pioneer in Kennedy administration, 92
Max W. Fine, a 56-year National Press Club communicator member and pioneer champion of making Medicare available to all Americans, died April 19 at the age of 92. He had lived in Rockville, Md. "If commitment to the public good is the measure of a person, then Max Fine’s life was one well-lived," Carl Ginsburg, Fine’s nephew and director of communications for the New York State Nurses Association, wrote in a tribute to his uncle. Born in Nashville, Tenn., Fine became an advocate of health care for all as a right after being named by President John F. Kennedy to a legislative task force that…
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Memorial service Saturday for member James G. Apple
A memorial service for James G. Apple, a prominent attorney and 26-year communicator member of the National Press Club, will be held Saturday, March 23, at 1 p.m. in Old Presbyterian Meeting House, 321 S. Fairfax. St., Alexandria, Va. He died Jan. 22 at age 81. His varied career included being a private practice lawyer, special assistant and counsel to the director during a decade with the Federal Judicial Center in Washington and president of the International Judicial Academy, where he served until his semi-retirement in 2017. He was an amateur photographer, avid traveler and a prolific…
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Sho Chandra, Bloomberg News reporter, National Press Club volunteer, 53
Shobhana Chandra, an economics reporter in the Bloomberg News Washington bureau and a National Press Club member for more than 13 years, died Wednesday, Feb. 20, following a flight from India to the United States. Chandra, 53, was in India on an annual trip to visit family. She developed a blood clot in her leg on the journey home and collapsed shortly after landing at Dulles International Airport, according to her friend and former colleague Vineeta Anand. Known as “Sho,” Chandra joined the Club in June 2005. Since 2012, she has served as one of eight editors of the Wire, the Club's…
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Barry J. Carroll, 35-year Club member, 74
Barry J. Carroll, a businessman, adventurer, photographer, filmmaker and 35-year member of the National Press Club, died Dec. 23 after brief illness in Lake Forest, Ill. He was 74 and had homes in Lake Forest and East Chop, Martha's Vineyard, Mass. The following is a summary of information from an obituary provided by his family. Carroll's multiple careers included working as a manufacturing executive, real estate developer, bank director, university trustee, photographer, and filmmaker. He graduated from Lake Forest High School and earned a B.A. in humanities from Shimer College, which…
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Member James McCaskill dies
James McCaskill, a seven-year member of the National Press Club, died Nov. 5 at the age of 81. James lived in Arlington, Virginia, and was active in various civic associations, including serving as president of the Arlington County Civic Association from 1977-79, and president of the South Arlington Kiwanis Club in 1996-97. He served in the U.S. Army and was a member of NPC American Legion Post 20. The Murphy Funeral Homes of Arlington is handling arrangements which have not yet been announced.
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Evelyn Y. Davis, Journalism Institute Benefactor, Dies at 89
The National Press Club Journalism Institute (NPCJI) mourns the death of Evelyn Y. Davis, editor and publisher of an investor newsletter whose philanthropy benefited nonprofit journalism organizations. Davis died in Washington on Sunday, Nov. 4, at 89. She achieved fame as a shareholder who demanded that corporations show transparency and accountability. She attended –- and often disrupted -- shareholder meetings for more than 50 years and insisted that company CEOs subscribe to her newsletter. The Evelyn Y. Davis Foundation granted $107,000 to the NPCJI in 2018 to support programs examining…
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Obit: Adam Clymer, well-known political reporter and NPC member
Adam Clymer, a veteran political reporter who enjoyed dining at the National Press Club's Reliable Source grill after retiring as chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times in 2003, died of cancer on Sept. 10 at his home in Washington. He was 81. Clymer, who spent much of his career covering presidents and Congress for the Times, and before that, for the Baltimore Sun, became widely known in 2000 when presidential candidate George W. Bush was overheard uttering what CNN dubbed "the vulgarity heard 'round the world" during a campaign rally when Bush called Clymer a "major league…
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John Morrocco, ex-aviation writer and Boeing executive, dies at 65
John D. Morrocco, a nine-year member of the National Press Club and an aviation reporter before becoming director of communications for Boeing, died July 30 at his home in Bethesda. He was 65. John was born in Providence and raised in Cranston, R.I. He earned a bachelor's degree in history from Boston College and a master's degree in international history from the London School of Economics. He did post-graduate war studies at King's College in London. His 15-year career at Aviation Week & Space Technology included stints as Pentagon correspondent, European bureau chief and senior…
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