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Sign up for international trips
Deadlines are approaching to sign up for two upcoming National Press Club trips. Turkey is the destination for a fantastic getaway from May 6-20 for only $2675 per person, sharing a double room, plus airfare. Our trip to Turkey last year sold out, and only five spaces remain for this year's visit. From June 30 to July 15, we are travelling to China, the Silk Road and Tibet -- another fabulous trip for only $4,725 per peson, double occupancy, plus international airfare. Eight spaces are still available. To sign up or for further information, contact Richard Meyer at [email protected] or 703-…
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New membership stickers in the mail
We recently mailed out your 2011 renewal stickers. Please look for them in your mail box and apply the new sticker to your membership card at your earliest convenience. If you have yet to receive your 2011 sticker, please contact the membership staff by emailing [email protected] or by calling (202) 662-7500 and asking for the membership department. Your membership card to the National Press Club is an important component of your experience at the Club. First and foremost, it shows the Club staff that you are a member and it helps us get to know you and your name. It also is the key entrance…
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Member appeals for help for New Zealand quake victims
Can you imagine an entire broadcast building falling down and crumbling? Can you envision the massive destruction in the well-kept, beautiful garden city of Christchurch, New Zealand? That is what happened when a 6.3 earthquake struck on Feb. 22. There were other earthquakes in September, and a massive series of aftershocks. At the most recent count, 163 were known dead in Christchurch. About 200 people are missing or unaccounted for. Those impacted were from around the world -- there were offices and a language school in the Christchurch Television Building. All deaths are tragic -- and some…
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Club moves to new location atop Riggs Building, 1914
This Week in National Press Club History March 6, 1914: The National Press Club moves to larger quarters on the top floor of the new Riggs Building at 15th and G streets, N.W., its third home. 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 more information on History & Heritage Committee activities or to join the committee, contact Bill Hickman at [email protected] Compiled by Elizabeth Smith Brownstein…
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Our members are terribly clever and know big words!
The History and Heritage Committee has challenged NPC members to a limerick contest using "sesquicentennial." In The Wire's inbox today, your entertained editors found this submission from Joyce Winslow: The date of our country’s civil warIs a hundred fifty years from our door.This sesquicentennialProves democracy perennial E pluribus unum evermore! If you think you can do better -- or even if you can't -- enter the competition. Submit entries to the editor of The Wire at [email protected]. The winner will be chosen by Harold Holzer, the great Abraham Lincoln and Civil War historian who will…
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Reliable Source to offer modified cold menu on Monday, March 14
On Monday, March 14, 2011, The Reliable source will serve a modified menu of cold sandwiches and salads only. No hot food will be prepared. Caesar and House Salads will be available in both appetizer and entrée sizes. Entrée salads will be available with cold chicken, cold chicken salad, tuna salad and shrimp salad. Cold turkey, ham, roast beef, corned beef, pastrami, bacon, tuna salad, chicken salad and shrimp salad sandwiches—with or without cheese-- will be available. No bread can be toasted; no meats can be warmed. The Reliable Source kitchen may re-open for hot food preparation for…
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Attention Golden Owls, Silver Owls and Owlets: Socialize on March 15
The Young Members Committee would like to invite all Silver and Golden Owls to join them for a night of socializing and drinking at the Reliable Source, March 15 at 6pm. The Young Members look forward to working with and learning from the experiences Owls of the Club! -- Tim Young, [email protected]
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Limerick Challenge: There once was a man from Nantucket...
A teaser word in the headline of a Wire story last week has sparked a limerick writing challenge. The word is "Sesquicentennial" and it means the 150-year anniversary, as in, the Civil War began 150 years ago. The challenger is Amy Henderson, a member of both the History & Heritage and Broadcast committees and is the historian of the National Portrait Gallery. Her challenge limerick is: There once was a Sesquicentennial,That scoffed its sibling, Perennial."Ha, ha," it declaimed."How fleeting is fame!You'll always be semi-biennial." If you think you can do better enter the competition.…
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Beat the Deadline 5K Committee -- Last Call for Volunteers
If you’re a new member or NPC veteran who wants to get involved in the Club's 2011 Beat the Deadline 5K race, time if running out. The first 5K Committee meeting will be held next week, so get your name in for consideration asap. We’re looking for energetic members who can want to help promote the event with members and the public, sign up race participants to run or walk the 5K, and do outreach with the business and health/sports community. The 5K is the Club’s premier event to raise funds for the Library’s scholarship and educational initiatives and to support diversity in journalism. To…
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Member sculpture wins art award
Club member Carol Morgan won a merit award in the student-faculty show at the Art League Gallery of Alexandria for her life-size scuplture of "Wendy". She and 20 winners, chosen from 400 entries, will be honored at the reception Sunday, March 6, at the gallery at South Union and King streets in Alexandria, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Carol studied sculpture for six years. She has been a watercolorist for more than 10 years and an actress for five years.
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