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Robert Webb, longtime Club volunteer, dies at 89
Robert W. Webb, former Washington bureau chief for the Cincinnati Enquirer who was a major contributor to National Press Club programs during his 28-year membership, died Aug. 23 at Cherrydale Health and Rehabilitation Center in Arlington, Va., where he had been a patient for 15 months. He was 89. Myron Belkin, who served as the Club's president in 2014, said Webb "lived a very full life, and we were all blessed to know him through is active involvement in the National Press Club." Until five years ago Webb was a frequent contributor to the Wire, covering Headliners Luncheons and other…
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Steven Ivins, ex-Kiplinger editor, dies at 81
Steven D. Ivins, A National Press Club member during his 27 years as editor of The Kiplinger Tax Letter, died June 7 after a long battle with cancer. He was 81. A native of Philadelphia and a tax attorney before joining Kiplinger, Steve lived in Arlington, Va., where his volunteer work included serving as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Arlington County Employees Retirement System. He is survived by a son and two daughters.
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Naaman Seigel, 45-year Club member, dies at 94
Naaman Seigle, a former reporter, editor and economic researcher at the U.S. Department of Agriculture who for 45 years made the National Press Club an important part of his life, died on Aug. 5 in Georgetown University Hospital of respiratory and heart failure. He was 94 and had been hospitalized in July after suffering a fall in his apartment in Southwest D.C. Naaman, who preferred to be called Seigle because of his unusual first name, enjoyed the comradeship he found at the Club and its Reliable Source bar. "Anytime I want to find him," he told author Adam Langer, "I should come to the (…
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Longtime Club member John Koenig Jr. dies at 102
John Koenig Jr., a former Associated Press staffer in Washington, D.C., and a long-time National Press Club member, died in July at the age of 102 at his retirement residence in Athens, Ga. Koenig joined the Washington AP bureau and the Club in 1956 after working for the wire service in Philadelphia and Harrisburg, Pa. He covered Congress and specialized in Pennsylvania and Virginia news. He was a prolific freelance writer of travel articles for major publications throughout the United States. After leaving the AP he worked in Washington in public relations for the National Forest Products…
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Jan King, 74, former Press Club member
Janice Prahovic King, a former member of the National Press Club, passed away after a long battle with cancer in San Diego on Aug. 11. She was 74. King, who was known as Jan, joined the Club in 2007. She was the recording secretary for several years for the former Book and Author Committee and a member of the Headliners Team before she moved to San Diego in August 2017. She also wrote for the Wire. “Jan lit up a room by simply walking into it,” said Eleanor Herman, who introduced King to the Club. She wrote nearly 30 humor books including Hormones from Hell, which sold more than a million…
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Gwendolyn Gibson, 93, former Washington correspondent
Gwendolyn Gibson, a pioneer female journalist whose career took her from the New York Herald Tribune to United Press International, died Monday from complications due to vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. She passed away in the home of her daughter in Austin, Texas, surrounded by family and in the care of home hospice and her immediate family. She was a former vice president of the Washington Press Club and a lifetime member of the National Press Club. Gibson moved to Austin from Washington in 2005 where her only daughter and granddaughter lived and where she worked as a part-time…
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Peggy Goodrich, active in Club with husband and former Head Hoot Bernie
Peggy Goodrich, 85, wife of the founder of the National Press Club’s Silver Owls, died June 2 in Ocean City, NJ, following a short illness. She and her husband, Bernie Goodrich, were long active in the Club and the National Press Foundation, where Bernie served for many years as a member of the board. He had worked as a staff member of the old Washington Star and later became one of the top public relations professionals in Washington. In 1985, noting a decline in member participation at the Club after four years of demolition and reconstruction, he conceived the idea of the Silver Owls, a…
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Don Larrabee, 1973 Club president and advocate for journalism, dies at 93
Donald R. Larrabee, National Press Club president in 1973 and a founding member of the board of the National Press Foundation in 1976, died July 18 at the Sunrise on Connecticut home in Washington. Larrabee, born in Portland, Maine, was a sergeant in an Army Air Corps public relations unit in the Philippines when Japan surrendered in August, 1945. He was one of the first Americans to arrive in Japan, landing in Yokohama. "I carried a carbine and a typewriter and didn't use either one," he recalled in an interview 50 years after the event. He said he didn't need the rifle because the…
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1985 NPC President David Hess, who presided over Washington Press Club merger, dies at 83
David Hess, who served as president of the National Press Club in 1985, died July 19, 2017 at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, where he had moved to live near family after many decades in Washington, D.C. He was 83. Hess made his mark in Washington with his encyclopedic knowledge of Congress, his mentoring and encouragement of young reporters and his journalistic integrity. Born in Glendale, West Virginia, Hess served in Army intelligence during the Korean War. He learned Korean at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in Monterey, Calif., and spent much of his…
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Former board member Stan Hamilton, 60-year Club veteran, dies in Kansas
Stanley W. Hamilton, a 60-year member of the National Press Club where he had served on the Board of Governors, and a veteran Washington writer for trade and government publications, died May 26 in Lawrence, Kans., his residence since his retirement. He was 83. Hamilton was a reporter for the Kansas City Star from 1953 until 1957 when he moved to Washington to cover Congress as an associate editor of Traffic World magazine. He became head of the publications staff at the Department of Transportation, public affairs director for the National Association of Motor Bus Owners, executive director…
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