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Head table seat available for member at Grimsson National Press Club Luncheon on April 15
Got a Nordic connection or ice in your veins? Email organizer Donna Leinwand Leger at [email protected] for a head table seat at the National Press Club Luncheon featuring Iceland’s President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson on April 15. One head table seat remains for a Club member. If you are selected for the head table, you must arrive at the Club by 12 p.m. on April 15. The price of admission for the head table seat is two excellent questions for the speaker to be submitted to Leinwand Leger by April 13. Grimsson, who is serving a record fifth term as the island nation’s president, has…
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Wizards, Capitals offer tickets to National Press Club members
National Press Club members can receive special prices for Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals games. Washington Wizards vs. Miami Heat on Wednesday, April 10 at 7 p.m. Please note that there are very few seats remaining for this game. -- Lower Level Suite tickets: Catered, executive suites in the lower level with gourmet food, beer and soft drinks for $275 per ticket.-- Lexus Suite Level tickets: Catered executive suites in the 300s suite level with gourmet food, beer and soft drinks for $200 per ticket.-- Single game tickets are also available. Washington Wizards vs. Philadelphia…
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NPC members invited to lunch briefing on municipal securities market on May 8 at noon
National Press Club member Jennifer Galloway, chief communications officer at the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, invites NPC members to attend a lunch briefing on the municipal securities market and disclosure. The briefing will be held at at noon on Wednesday, May 8, 2013 in the Press Club's Zenger Room. The event is open to all Club members. The event is free but pre-registration is required. Click here to register. The on-the-record briefing will provide members with an introduction to the important role the municipal securities market plays in financing public projects nationwide…
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Annual National Press Club members' photo exhibit slated for September
Black and white, color, or hand-painted! It's time to start thinking about your best photos for the 14th Annual National Press Club Members' Photography Exhibition, slated to run the month of September in the NPC Lobby. Sponsored by the Photography Committee, the exhibition is open to all Press Club members who may submit up to four of their best shots. Each photo may not exceed 11" x 14" and prints must be securely mounted and matted. Photos are due in the Club's Membership Office between August 5-16. Complete exhibition rules will be published in the coming weeks, but please start shooting…
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National Press Club Scholarship Committee plans to judge applications Saturday, April 13
The National Press Club Scholarship Committee plans to judge the applications for the NPC's scholarship for journalism diversity at 9 a.m. on Saturday, April 13. Awarded to a high-school senior who plans to become a journalist, the scholarship is designed to foster diversity in the field. This is the Press Club's biggest scholarship; it amounts to as much as $10,000 over four years. Last year's winner, Sean Hurd, aims to be a sports writer and is using the award to study at George Washington University. Judging will span the morning of April 13, beginning by 9 a.m. and ending no later than…
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National Press Club Owls plan Spring Hoot featuring Mark Russell, Friday, April 19, 6 p.m.
The National Press Club Owls are planning their Spring Hoot featuring Mark Russell for Friday, April 19 at 6 p.m. The event, which opens with a cash bar followed by the traditional Owls roast beef sit-down dinner is open to all members and costs $35 per person. Make reservations by calling 202-662-7501 or by e-mail at reservations@press org. Russell is a famed topical humorist, satirist and a Washington institution. The Owls also will welcome new Silver Owls members of the Press Club (25 years of membership), Golden Owls (50 years) and a brand-new category for the seriously senior members:…
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National Press Club magic show tradition continues Wednesday, April 17 at 7 p.m.
For decades, members of the Society of American Magicians Assembly 23 have met and practiced monthly at the National Press Club. Their way of repaying the favor is to offer a free magic show to Press Club members and guests. This year’s show is set for Wednesday, April 17 at 7 p.m. in the conference rooms. The show is free, but please let us know if you are coming by calling 662-7501 (no e-mails please.). Prior to the family-friendly show, special children’s items have been added to the NPC's Reliable Source menu. To reserve a table at the Reliable Source, call 662-7443 or go to the club’s…
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This Week In National Press Club History: Goldberg appears at NPC Luncheon
April 7, 1997: Whoopi Goldberg, actress, comedienne, political activist and talk show host, covers many subjects in her National Press Club Luncheon appearance, including the National Endowment for the Arts, campaign fund-raising and the responsibilities of the press, criticizing it for failing to lead young people with positive reporting. Goldberg is one of many entertainment figures who bring their concerns about serious domestic issues to the Press Club, including Gary Sinise on disabled veterans, Dolly Parton on illiteracy, Celeste Holm on the need to support arts programming for…
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AMVETS honors National Press Club American Legion vice commander
AMVETS, the American Veterans nonprofit, honored John Fales, Jr., also known as "Sgt. Shaft" in his Washington Times newspaper column on veterans issues, was honored at its annual awards banquet April 6 at the Hilton Hotel in Alexandria, Va. Fales, who is a vice commander of National Press Club American Legion Post 20, received the AMVETS Silver Helmet Rehabilitation Award for his work as founder and president of the Blinded American Veterans Foundation. The AMVETS citation said his foundation has become "a leading force in research, information dissemination and educational efforts that…
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Golden Owl Brandt Ayers publishes memoir covering the South in the civil rights era
Brandt Ayers, publisher of the Anniston Star in Alabama, has published a memoir "In Love with Defeat: the Making of a Southern Liberal." Ayers has been the long-time editor/publisher of one of the South's last great progressive newspapers, the Anniston Star. In his capacity at the Star and before that at papers in Washington, D.C., Raleigh, N.C., and elsewhere, he covered some of the great Civil Rights stories. He reported on social and political change in the South and discussed it with influential national and international figures, including presidents (Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy),…
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