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Jazz and barbecue celebrate summer in the Reliable Source Thursday
National Press Club members and their guests are invited to a Summer BBQ Buffet Thursday, June 25 at 6:30 p.m. Come enjoy your favorite food and a return performance of the Greater U Street Jazz Collective. Domestic, imported beers and wine will be available to compliment your dinner. The price of the buffet is $25 for Club members and $35 for guests. Please purchase tickets here. Menu: SoupTortilla Soup (chicken stock) Salads:Red potato salad with sour cream and deviled eggs Roasted red peppers, tomatoes and sweet onions Red cabbage buttermilk coleslaw with peanuts Cucumber, fresh pea,…
Type: News
Current Events in Poland
The Polish prime minister's appearance came during a 3-day visit in the United States during which he and President Bush signed business and economic treaties. His remarks were translated into English. Mr. Mazowiecki discussed the reunification of Germany and his country's efforts to develop a free-market economy.
Type: Media
This week In National Press Club history
June 15, 1958: The National Press Club’s Fourth Annual Family Frolic, held on the grounds of the Carter Barron Amphitheater in Rock Creek Park, features rides, carnival games, sports, rock and roll dancing and special prizes for children and grown-ups. Vice President Richard Nixon, Attorney General William Rogers and Senator Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) are among the estimated four thousand attendees. June 19, 2014: A commercial photographer and drone pilot, Parker Gyokeres, flies a helicopter-like drone in a cleared area of the National Press Club lobby. Approximately two feet in diameter, it…
Type: News
Golden Owl Samuel H. Murray, 91, died May 17
Samuel H. Murray, a tax lawyer, writer and 55-year member of the National Press Club, died May 17 in Leesburg, Virginia. He was 91. Murray was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, and earned undergraduate and law degrees at the University of Virginia. He worked for a circuit court judge in New York City before moving to the Washington area in the late 1950s. He was editor of The Kiplinger Tax Letter from 1959 to 1971. Murray did legal tax work at the publishing firm Matthew Bender and at the accounting firms of Cooper & Lybrand and Arthur Andersen. In 1986, Murray served on a committee tasked…
Type: News
US bishops to respond to papal encyclical on environment Thursday, June 18
Shortly after Pope Francis releases his encyclical on the environment on Thursday, June 18, Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz, President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Archbishop of Louisville, Kentucky, and Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington,D.C., will provide reaction from a U.S. Catholic perspective at a Newsmakers news conference in the Bloomberg room at 8:30 a.m. The Pope’s encyclical is expected to be a wide-ranging document that helps provide moral guidance on the responsibility to care both for our natural world and for those who suffer disproportionately from…
Type: News
Enter your memorable images in the Club Members' 16th Annual Photo Exhibit
Entries in the 16th Annual National Press Club Members' Photography Exhibition are due by Friday, Aug. 14, 2015. The exhibition, sponsored by the Photography Committee, is open to all Club members and will be displayed in the Club lobby Aug. 26 through September. Entries may be submitted to the Membership Office beginning Monday, Aug. 3. There will be a sign-in sheet to register your photos with contact information, including your membership number. It is important to note that this is a photo exhibition, not a contest, and it is not juried. Photo Submission Rules: --Photos must be taken by…
Type: News
Documentary maker lauds women's role in the Arab Spring
Gini Reticker executive director of a documentary, “The Trials of Spring," told a National Press Club audience June 10 that the film shows three Egyptian women fighting for freedom and social justice during the Arab Spring. In a discussion following the film's trailer and five accompanying digital films of North African, Arabian Gulf and Egyptian women, Reticker explained, “Women in the region are at the forefront of progressive change. They are tortured and targeted by violent extremists, but they are not invited to the table to talk about violent extremism.” She cited a petition on her film…
Type: News
Actor tells Press Club event: Rohingya camps like 'Polish ghetto under the Nazis'
Oscar-nominated actor Matt Dillon described harrowing scenes in Myanmar's western Rakhine state at a NPC Speakers press conference at the National Press Club on June 12, telling the crowd that during his visit to the Rohingya refugee camps, he encountered no non-governmental organizations and, on one occasion, was told to turn off his camera and leave. Dillon, who is currently starring in the Fox series "Wayward Pines," traveled to Myanmar six weeks ago after hearing about the persecuted and stateless Muslim minority group from activist Thun Khin, who is himself a Rohingya. As a member of…
Type: News
Build your speaking skills with Toastmasters at the National Press Club
Would you like to enhance your communication effectiveness and take your journalistic skills to greater heights? Get rid of those “uhms” and “ahs”? Tame your nerves when you speak in front of people? If so, consider joining the National Press Toastmasters Club. The National Press Toastmasters Club meets on the 13th floor of the Press Club at 7 p.m. on the second and fourth Mondays of each month. The next meeting is Monday, June 22. Drop in and see what it’s about! For less than the cost of three weekly cups of coffee, the Toastmasters program can help you enhance your public speaking presence…
Type: News
SPJ invites Club members to discussion on drones, privacy, media; June 17
Prying eyes in the sky or news you can use? Join the Society of Professional Journalists D.C. chapter at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 17 for a panel discussion about the First Amendment, privacy and other implications of news-media use of drones. The Specialized Information Publishers Association plans to host the event at the Software & Information Industry Association, the parent of the Specialized Information Publishers Association, at 1090 Vermont Ave. NW, in the sixth-floor boardroom: Admission is $5 for SPJ and National Press Club members, $10 for the public. Because space is…
Type: News