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Club holds general membership meeting, noon May 13
A General Membership Meeting of the National Press Club will be held at noon Friday, May 13, in the Holeman Lounge. Officers will report on the Club’s operations since the last meeting. In addition, changes in the Articles of Incorporation to reflect that retired members serve on the Board of Governors will be considered. A sandwich buffet will be served.
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Sen. Barack Obama addresses Social Security in Club speech in 2006
This Week In National Press Club History April 26, 2006 -- Sen. Barack Obama addressed the National Press Club on the topic of Social Security and its future and thanks the Club for its work. April 29, 1993 -- The Dali Lama reports to a Club luncheon that conditions in Tibet are deteriorating because his country has no oil and help must come from moral principles. This Week In National Press Club history is brought to you by the History & Heritage committee, which preserves and revitalizes the Club’s history through displays, panel discussions, lectures and the oral history project. For…
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Tickets available for Oct. 28 dinner honoring Jim Lehrer
Tickets are on sale for National Press Club members only for the Oct. 28 Fourth Estate Award dinner honoring Jim Lehrer, longtime host of the PBS NewsHour. Ticket prices are $125 for Club members. Every member can buy one guest ticket at the member price. Reserve at [email protected] or (202) 662-7501. Tickets for non-members, at $195 each, will not be sold until later. Lehrer has set a standard for broadcast excellence at PBS for more than 35 years. He is also well known for moderating 11 debates over the course of the past six presidential elections. He will be the 39th recipient of…
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Turner, Pickens luncheon podcast now available
The "From the National Press Club" radio program featuring the April 19 luncheon on energy and climate change starring Ted Turner and T. Boone Pickens is now available at: http://www.press.org/news-multimedia/audio You also can find it iTunes for free download in the podcast section.
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Singh elected to board of Asian journalists association
National Press Club member Tejinder Singh was elected to the board of the Washington chapter of Asian American Journalists Association. Singh will serve as vice president for print for 2011-12. Former chair of the Club's Newsmakers Committee, Singh is currently a member of the Newsmakers Committee and International Correspondents Committee. Singh, a veteran multimedia political and business journalist, moved to Washington from Brussels, Belgium, two years ago to become White House correspondent for AHN Media Corp. and U.S. correspondent (multimedia) for India Today Group. Singh has lived in…
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Former NPC President Art Wiese honored for lifetime achievement
Arthur Wiese, who served as National Press Club president in 1979, is being honored April 30 with a lifetime achievement award from the communications school at one of his alma maters, Sam Houston State University in Texas. Wiese, a retired former journalist and public relations executive, earned a Bachelor's of Science degree in journalism, history and political science from the school in 1967. He received a similar award two years ago from Southern Illinois University, where hegraduated in 1958 with a Master's of Science degree in journalism and history.
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Memorial service for Richard Lawrence, 2 pm May 7
A memorial service will be held for longtime National Press Club member Richard Lawrence at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 7, at Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, Md. A much admired international trade reporter for The Journal of Commerce, Lawrence died in December. The church is located at 6601 Bradley Blvd. in Bethesda. The church office number is 301-365-2850.
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Club members win GWU business plan competition
Two National Press Club members, Anthony Shop and Thomas Sanchez, co-owners of thedigital strategy firm Social Driver, took home first place and $25,000 in seed funding from the prestigious George Washington University Business Plan Competition (www.gwbizplan.com). The two Kansas City natives, along with their teammates Danny Zaslavsky and Dave Raffel who still reside there, developed a software application that helps auto dealers enhance the customer experience and accelerate the car-buying process. The Business Plan Competition is a real-life “Shark Tank.” The team survived three rounds of…
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Pulitizer Prize winner Simons to meet with Young Members, 6:30 pm May 4
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Lew Simons will join the National Press Club's Young Members group for cocktails and conversation at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 4, to discuss his career as a foreign correspondent and his work for National Geographic Magazine. Space for the Young Members-only event is limited. To reserve, e-mail your name and member number to Ben Dooley at [email protected]. Simons has been a foreign correspondent since 1967, reporting from Vietnam and throughout Southeast Asia; India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran; China, Japan, North and South Korea, and the former…
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Golden Owl James Naughton dies
James Naughton, a Golden Owl and Communicator member of the National Press Club, died March 10. Naughton, 85, served from 1955 to 1983 as counsel to the House Intergovernmental Relations and Human Resources Subcommittee. In that role, he was instrumental in developing the legislation that established inspectors general in federal agencies, according to his obituary in the McLean Times. The obituary quotes an Oct. 22, 1992 article in the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News: "Most Americans have never heard of Jim Naughton. His name never gets mentioned in campaign speeches. But taxpayers have him to…
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