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Congressmen Israel, Price to preview U.S. congressional races at Oct. 30 Newsmaker
The National Press Club will provide a congressional campaign update one week before the election, at 11 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 30, with Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) and House Republican Policy Committee Chairman Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.). Each will give an opening presentation on the status and issues in the race, where all 435 members of the House of Representatives are up for election or re-election. They will discuss the chances of a change in control of the House or in the current ratio (240 Republicans, 190 Democrats, five vacancies) and the…
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Women’s health group to blanket Congress with landmark book
Our Bodies Ourselves, a women’s health organization named for the book, “Our Bodies, Ourselves,” announced an initiative to place a copy of the 40th anniversary edition of the book in every congressional office at a Newsmaker event Oct. 22. The original book, a seminal study of women’s health and sexual issues that was published in 1971, is one of 88 books included in the 2012 Library of Congress exhibit, “Books that Shaped America.” According to Amazon, more than four million copies of previous editions have been sold. Debra Silimeo, the Newsmaker committee member who organized the event,…
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Improvement in Elementary Education
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Spend election night at the National Press Club
The Club will host an election night party Tuesday, Nov. 6, for members and guests only in the Truman Lounge and for all in the First Amendment Lounge and the Bloomberg Room. The cost will be $10 for members and $15 for non-members. Hors d'oeuvres will be served at both sites and there will be a cash bar in the First Amendment Lounge, which opens at 6:30 p.m. Members can order drinks and food in the Truman Lounge. Register here.
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Take lessons in social media from NASA manager
Jason Townsend, NASA's deputy social media manager, will present case studies from recent NASA news that illustrate working with multiple social media platorms and tailoring information for their audiences at noon, Nov. 20. The "Get It Online" lunch discussion series brings experts in social media and digital communication to the Club for a members-only lunch discussion. The speaker will provide a five to ten minute introduction, and then will answer questions and lead a discussion. Members should plan to be seated by noon and may use their member number to order lunch. There is no cost to…
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Last call: The Silver Owl hoot is this Saturday, so reserve now!
This is it, your last chance to make reservations to attend the Owls' hoot at the National Press Club at noon this Saturday. The hoot will celebrate two "golden ages" - the heyday of American presidential politics and the era of American swing music. The hoot will occur only 10 days before the national election, so the Silver Owls will be testing attendees, via a quiz, on the activities of U.S. presidents and presidential candidates at the Press Club throughout its 104-year history. The afternoon's star attraction, however, likely won't be memories of candidates and campaigns past, but our…
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Silver Owl Thomas L. Hoy, retired news photographer and association executive, dies
Thomas Larkin Hoy, an award-winning news photographer at The Washington Star who became the longtime public relations director for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, died Oct. 20 at Sibley Hospital in Washington. Hoy, who lived in Bethesda, was 76. He was a Silver Owl member of the Club, which he joined in the mid-1960s. He also was a former board member of the White House News Photographers Association A native of Cincinnati, Hoy was still a student at Falls Church High School in Northern Virginia, when he joined The Star in 1953 at age 17. His twin brother, Frank Hay, who…
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William C. Keller, lawyer, government official and Silver Owl, dies at 93
William Charles Keller, a Silver Owl member of the Club who was a lawyer and official with several government lending and claims settlement agencies, died Aug. 22 in his adopted hometown of Gaithersburg, Md, after a short illness. He was 93. Keller first worked at the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission from 1952 to 1958, settling claims made by countries for damages sustained in World War II. From 1958 to 1960, he was general consul for the American Medical Association in Chicago. He then returned to Washington where from 1960 until 1972 he worked at the Export-Import Bank, negotiating…
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Seven journalists to air live from the Truman Lounge Friday
Julia Mason, host of the Sirius XM radio program Press Pool, will host Politics Straight Up live from the Truman Lounge Friday, October 26, from 7 p.m.to 9 p.m. This program continues Mason's coverage of the 2012 presidential campaign through witty and insightful discussions with leading political journalists. The seven guest journalists listed in the order of their appearance are: Jennifer Bendery, White House reporter for Huffington Post; Josh Rogin, author of The Cable Blog at Foreign Policy Magazine; Beth Reinhard, political correspondent National Journal; Niall Stanage, staff writer for…
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Book fair and authors' night scheduled Tuesday, Nov. 13
The National Press Club’s 35th annual Book Fair and Authors’ Night will showcase up to 100 authors from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13. The authors will be on hand to meet their fans and sign books From Michael Gordon’s New York Time's bestselling work chronicling the end of the war in Iraq, to Hedrick Smith’s book on the loss of the American dream to Stuart Eizenstat’s work on the future of the Jewish people, volumes on history and politics, mysteries, cookbooks, children’s books and memoirs will fill the tables. In addition to the smorgasbord of 2012 books, patrons also will have…
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