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March 4 Newsmaker with former Senator George Mitchell postponed due to weather
The Newsmaker event scheduled for Tuesday, March 4 at 10 a.m. has been postponed due to weather.
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This week In National Press Club history
March 2, 1933: President Roosevelt signs the Twenty-first Amendment repealing Prohibition. The National Press Club bar is the first to reopen in the District of Columbia and is granted Liquor License #1. March 3, 1971: Twenty-four women become the first female members of the National Press Club.March 4, 1964: President Lyndon B. Johnson unexpectedly announces at a Women’s National Press Club WNPC)dinner the appointment of 10 women to major positions in his new administration, two of then WNPC members. It’s front-page news on television and in the press. March 6, 1914: The fast-growing…
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March 5 Communicators Breakfast postponed
Due to severe weather, the Communicators Breakfast planned for Wednesday, March 5 is postponed. The guest speaker, best-selling author and business advisor Les McKeown, is unable to travel to Washington from his home in Boston. McKeown’s presentation on how organizations can break through gridlock to achieve world-class success will be rescheduled for another breakfast later this year.
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Honor violence Newsmaker scheduled for Monday, March 3, postponed due to weather
WASHINGTON, DC – Due to forecasts of extremely harsh winter weather, the Newsmakers news conference on Honor Violence scheduled for Monday, March 3 at 10 a.m. is being cancelled and will be rescheduled in the near future.
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Books & Brunch to discuss novel about World War I Saturday, March 15
The Club's Books & Brunch group will discuss ”The Sojourn” by Andrew Krivak at noon on Saturday, March 15, in the Fourth Estate Restaurant. The book is a novel of brotherhood, survival, and coming-of-age. It tells the story of Jozef Vinich who returns with his father from a 19th century Colorado mining town to an impoverished shepherd’s life in rural Austria-Hungary only to be uprooted again by WWI. Andrew Krivak is a faculty member in the Arts and Science Honors Program at Boston College He won the 2012 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for “The Sojourn.” Books & Brunch meets in the Fourth…
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Learn more about your membership at New Member Orientation Wednesday, March 12
Are you a new member of National Press Club? Want to learn more about what the Club has to offer you? You can find out at a choice of two New Member Orientation sessions Wednesday, March 12. To fit members' schedules, the Club's Membership Department is offering sessions at both breakfast and lunch. The breakfast orientation will begin at 8:30 a.m., the lunch session at noon. Both will be in the Reliable Source restaurant. Please RSVP with your choice of session to Recruitment Manager Allyson Cannon at [email protected] by Monday, March 10.
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Ukrainian protest leader to speak at Newsmaker Wednesday, March 5
One of Ukraine’s most internationally recognizable and politically active citizens will discuss the situation there at a Newsmakers news conference on Wednesday, March 5 at 3 p.m. in the club’s Conference Rooms. The news conference featuring pop music star and former Ukrainian Parliament member Ruslana Lyzhychko – known simply as Ruslana – comes one day after she receives the U.S. Secretary of State’s international Women of Courage Award. Ruslana has been a key figure in the EuroMaidan mass protests since they began last November, appearing on Kyiv’s Independence Square almost every night…
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Club welcomes 22 members in February
John O’Dwyer (Associate Editor, O’Dwyers), Lauren Morello (Assistant U.S. News Editor, Nature), Georgina Gustin (Staff Reporter, CQ Roll Call), Alex Dumortier (Writer, The Motley Fool), Rachelle Akuffo (Producer/Reporter, China Central Television), Sarah Schaffer (Professor, University of Maryland), Elizabeth Crowley (Media Relations Coordinator, U.S. Senate Press Gallery), Thomas Loverro (Sports Columnist, Washington Times), Maria Pallais (Bureau Chief, Telesur) Gabriel Debenedetti (National Political Correspondent, Thomson Reuters), Dina Maron (Associate Editor for Health, Scientific…
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Latin America's Debt Crisis
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Club's softball season starts in April
The National Press Club softball team is set for another year of action in the Metropolitan Media Softball League. The team hopes to build off of last year when it appeared in its first ever championship game, but ultimately fell short of its goal of winning the whole thing. All club members are eligible to play. Games in this coed league are played Saturday mornings in the Wheaton area of Montgomery County. The season starts in April and concludes with the playoffs in July. Anyone interested in playing, or who wants more information about the team, can email John Domen at johndomen@…
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