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Bill Senior, 54-year Club member, ex-Kiplinger exec, dies at 80
William "Bill" Senior, a 54-year member of the National Press Club and retired editorial manager at The Kiplinger Washington Editors, died June 7 at the age of 90 at his home in Ashburn, Va. He and his wife of 63 years, Lorraine, who died on May 9, had lived for many years in Reston, Va. Senior's 31-year career at Kiplinger began in 1970 when he joined the organization as editor of its agriculture letter. A native of Rhode Island, he was a graduate of the University of Rhode Island and had a masters degree from Rutgers University. "Always kind and helpful, as well as damned smart and a top-…
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Former board member, committee chair, familiar Club presence Katherine Turpin, 67, dies
Katherine "Kaky" Turpin, 67, a National Press Club Silver Owl, past board member, House and Bar committee chair and energetic volunteer in many other Club activities, passed away May 7 after an extended illness. Kaky, who took her advanced degree in Russian history from Georgetown and George Washington universities, made her career with the U.S. Information Agency after graduation. In the mid-1980s, she was assigned to USIA's Foreign Press Center in the National Press Building and soon became a valued friend, confidant and professional guide to countless foreign correspondents trying to cut…
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Member for 16 years, Edgar A. Poe, Jr. dies
Edgar A. Poe, Jr., a veteran editor at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, died Oct. 24, 2016, after suffering a stroke. He was 80, had lived in Lancaster, Virginia, and had been a National Press Club member for 16 years. "He was a wonderful man to work with," said Brenda Curtis-Heiken, a former broadcast journalist at USDA. "He put together the USDA Yearbook, a classic for years that covered everything from food stamps to the Forest Service, the Russian grain deal to sustainable gardening." His father, Edgar A. Poe, Sr., was also a long-time Club member, a Washington reporter for The Times-…
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Dan Olmsted UPI and Gannett veteran dies at 64
Daniel "Dan" J. Olmsted of Falls Church, Virginia., former Washington bureau chief for United Press International, died Jan. 23. He was 64 and had been a member of the National Press Club for 17 years. The following obituary was posted by Fairfax Memorial Founder Home. Dan Olmsted was born in Oak Park, Illinois, to Robert and Catharine (Hatfield) Olmsted. He moved to Danville, Illinois, and graduated from Danville High School in 1970. He was the news editor of the high school newspaper and worked part time at Gannett's Commercial-News. He was an Eagle Scout. He was inducted into the Wall…
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Peter Blank, long-time Kiplinger editor, Club Silver Owl, 63
Peter Blank, 63, long-time editor of the Kiplinger Tax Letter and a Silver Owl member of the National Press Club, died Nov. 7 after a long battle with cancer. Peter’s wife, Georgeann, reports that Peter died peacefully at home, with her and their daughter, Elizabeth, at his side. Beyond his journalistic accomplishments, Peter was well known for his athleticism around the Club. He was instrumental in starting the media softball league, and often referred to as the “commish.” He was a regular at the fitness center, exercising at noontime nearly every work day, either on the treadmill or using…
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Obit: Rachael Bail, journalist, playwright, and 41-year member of NPC
Rachael Elizabeth Bail, a journalist, playwright, producer and 41-year member of the National Press Club, died August 27 at her home in Arlington, Va. Funeral services will be at her parents’ church in Arcadia and a memorial service is planned by MDC at the Club on a date to be announced. Donations in her memory may be given to the McLean Drama Company, at Bail/MDC, 520 12th Street South, #303, Arlington, VA, 22202, or the Arcadia Church of the Brethren, 25 Mills Ave., Arcadia, FL, 34266-4616. Bail, who said she was "frustrated by the lack of venues in the Washington area presenting new…
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Robert Vitarelli, innovator at both CBS and Press Club
Robert Vitarelli, who capped his CBS career as an innovator of television news by directing the Club’s “Kalb Report,” died July 30 at the age of 86, just a year after working on his last program at the National Press Club. Vitarelli, known to his friends as “Vit,” was the man working behind the scenes for Walter Cronkite and CBS News, traveling the world and keeping the CBS Washington Bureau on top of breaking news during his 39-year network career. Starting in the CBS mailroom in 1953, Vitarelli climbed to become director of the “CBS Evening News,” working with both Cronkite and Dan Rather…
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Donald Ford, 86, educator
Donald Ford, 86, died June 12 at his home in Alexandria, Va., after a brief illness. He was born in Medford, Mass., and spent most of his life in the Boston area working as a science educator. He served stateside in the Army during the Korean War and attended college under the GI Bill, earning an undergraduate degree in physics at Boston University and a master's in education at Harvard University. Ford helped develop children's science education material at the Education Development Center. He taught at Skidmore College, was an elementary school principal in the Boston area, and became…
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Longest-ever National Press Club member George B. Bookman dies at 103
George B. Bookman, the longest-ever member of the National Press Club at 79 years, died in his sleep on Jan. 24 in Seattle at the age of 103. He joined the Club on Nov. 1, 1938, while a reporter for the Washington Post, and maintained his membership during a career in journalism and public affairs that took him to Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Europe. Bookman was a native of New York City and moved to Seattle recently to be close to family. His first effort in journalism was writing a society column as a teenager for a New Jersey Shore newspaper in the 1920s. He was a Phi Beta Kappa…
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Longtime National Press Club member Debra Hughes passes away
Debra Hughes, a widely published medical writer and 39-year member of the National Press Club, died Sept. 2. She was 61 and lived in Lusby, Maryland. Hughes was a former editor of Oncology Times and was a writer and editor on a wide variety of cancer subjects for more than 30 years. She worked as a journalist, educator and publisher and in 1997 founded D.A. Hughes & Associates, a provider of medical communications services for academic institutions, medical associations and societies, publishing companies and pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms. She was a graduate of Columbia…
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