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Frank Kane, former Club governor and 48-year member, dies at 92
Frank R. Kane, a retired Washington correspondent for The Toledo Blade and a 48-year member of the NPC, died Jan. 5 at a retirement community in Midlothian, Va., where he had lived for the last four years. He was 92. His career at The Blade spanned coverage of Toledo city hall, the Ohio statehouse and the nation's capital. He retired in 1984 after more than a decade in the Washington bureau and a final four years working in Toledo as national news editor and assistant managing editor for features. He was city editor of The Blade before moving to Arlington, Va., to become the newspaper's…
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Former NPC President Drew Von Bergen, 77
Louis Andrew (Drew) Von Bergen, a long-time Washington journalist and communications specialist and former president of the National Press Club, died on Monday, Dec. 18, of complications from congestive heart failure. He was 77 and lived in Alexandria, Va. In addition to heading the Club in 1980, Von Bergen also served as president of the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington from 1995 to 1997 and led a friendship trip to Japan with members of the Cherry Blossom Festival Board and key Festival participants in 1995. Von Bergen was a reporter and editor for United Press International…
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Obit: Arthur Garrison, Jr.
Arthur Garrison, Jr., a long-time member of the National Press Club who contributed his skill as a photographer to covering many Club events, died Dec. 2 in Arlington, Va. He was 96. A memorial serve will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 16, at Cherrydale United Methodist Church, 3701 Lorcom Lane, Arlington. He will be buried in his hometown, Columbus, Ohio. Art joined the Club in 1981 and dropped his membership in 2012 when declining eyesight kept him from participating in Club activities. A U.S. Army veteran of World War II, Art maintained his membership in NPC American Legion Post…
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Obit: Fourth Estate Award winner Simeon Booker
Simeon Booker, a Golden Owl member and National Press Club Fourth Estate Award winner, died Sunday, Dec. 10, at the age of 99. His widow, Carol Booker, said he passed peacefully surrounded by family. Booker, who in 1956 became the second African-American to join the Club, won its top award in 1982. In January he held the Bible on which Club President Jeff Ballou took the oath to become the Club's first African-American male president. Tributes to Booker are at the following: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/simeon-booker-intrepid-chronicler-of-civil-rights-struggle-for-jet-and-…
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Memorial service set for Bill Royce, Dec. 16
William R. "Bill" Royce, 74, a retired senior advisor and Middle East expert at the Voice of America (VOA) and a 22-year member of the National Press Club, died Nov. 24 at Shady Grove Medical Center in Rockville, Md. A memorial service is scheduled for Dec. 16 at 10 a.m. at the Club. Bill especially enjoyed the Club's Friday taco nights, where he shared lively chats about travel and politics with his many friends and colleagues. His expertise on the Middle East began with living in Iran for two years under a Fulbright Scholarship after graduating from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service…
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Kenneth Eskey, 87, former Speakers Committee chairman dies
National Press Club Silver Owl Kenneth Eskey died Wednesday in Hanover, New Hampshire. Ken was once chairman of the NPC Speakers Committee, and according to the death notice his family placed in The Washington Post on Saturday, he helped arrange 200 newsmaker events from 1997 through 1999. He joined the Club on Oct. 1, 1984. Eskey, 87, was an avid tennis player at courts near his home in Bethesda. Before his retirement, he spent 26 years at the Scripps Howard News Service office in Washington as copy editor, reporter, editorial writer and columnist. A graduate of the Medill School of…
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Obit: Louise Hutchinson, groundbreaking journalist
Louise Hutchinson, a groundbreaking journalist who was president of the Women's National Press Club in 1970 before its merger in 1985 with the National Press Club, died March 29 in Williamsburg, Va. She was 90. An obituary in the Chicago Sun Times can be found here.
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Newsmaker 'Ambassador' Peter Hickman dead at 85
Peter J. Hickman, a former foreign-service officer who became a major contributor to the success of the National Press Club's Newsmaker program, died of heart failure Sunday, April 2, in Tuscon, Arizona. He was 85 and a Club member for 28 years. "Peter absolutely loved the Press Club, it's mandate, and all the people who worked there," said his son, Michael. "It kept him busy, motivated, involved, and most importantly, happy, for decades after he retired from the civil service." A memorial service will be held at 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 13, in the Club Ballroom. Peter moved to Tuscon,…
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Obituary for Bimal Ghosh
Dr. Bimal Ghosh, a 32-year member of the National Press Club, who in 1985 was part of the team of doctors that operated on President Ronald Reagan for colon cancer, died Jan. 9. He was 79 and lived in River Forest, Ill. Dr. Ghosh received his medical degree from Calcutta National Medical College in 1977 and did surgical residencies at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He retired as professor of surgery at the Veterans Administration medical center in New York City. He held the rank of commander and was head of surgical oncology at…
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Obituary for Richard W. Bradee
Richard W. Bradee, a 35-year member of the National Press Club, who from 1969 until his retirement in 1992 was a one-man bureau for the Milwaukee Sentinel, died Jan. 26 in Cherry Hill, N.J. He was 85. Born in Waukesha, Wis., Bradee was a U.S. Army veteran who earned a communications degree from Marquette University. He worked for the Milwaukee Catholic Herald and the Madison Capitol Times before joining the Sentinel and starting its Madison bureau in 1962. He moved to Washington in 1969, set up shop in the National Press Building and "covered anybody I could find from Wisconsin: governors…
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