National Press Club

Longtime Press Club members organize the Silver Owls Spring Hoot on May 1 at 6 p.m.

Frank Aukofer

April 21, 2014

Thirty-one new Silver Owls of the National Press Club will be inducted and welcomed at the Spring Hoot, along with five new Golden Owls and two new Platinum Owls. All will be inducted at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 1.

Press Club members of all ages are welcome to the Hoot, which includes a sit-down dinner preceded by a cash bar. The Spring Hoot is a bargain at $35 per person. Reservations are required. Call 202-662-7501 or reserve online.

The main event will feature Dan Balz, political reporter and columnist for the Washington Post, who plans to discuss the upcoming mid-term elections and the outlook for the 2016 presidential election.

The Hoot also will feature Gridiron pianist John Fluck and a Mystery Celebrity Guest.

Balz has been a reporter for the Post since 1978, and has served as national editor, political editor and Washington correspondent. In 2011, he won the Merriman Smith Award of the White House Correspondents Association for excellence in political coverage under deadline pressure. He is the author of Collision 2012: the Future of Election Politics in a Divided America and was the co-author, with the late Haynes Johnson, of The Battle for America: the Story of an Extraordinary Election, about the 2008 campaigns. He has appeared on television’s “Meet the Press” and “Washington Week.”

Platinum Owls have completed 60 years of NPC membership. The new Platinum Owls are Craig Lewis and Michael J. Marlow.

Golden Owls have been members of the Club for 50 years or more. The new Golden Owls are:


  • John H. Corr

  • James F. Low

  • John B. Metelsky

  • Mary Sherwood

  • Richard B. Stolley

Silver Owls are individuals who have completed 25 years or more as club members. The new Silver Owls are:


  • Harvey Borkin

  • Patrick Coburn

  • J. Thomas Cochran

  • June L. Clark

  • Paula L. Delo

  • Sabrina Eaton

  • Karen Coble Edwards

  • Lawrence W. Feinberg

  • Thomas Gillilland

  • David Hawkings

  • Peter J. Hickman

  • Andrew Jacobson

  • Carl Edgar Law

  • Tammy Lytle

  • Judith C. Marden

  • Jose Roberto Martinez

  • Pender M. McCarter

  • Lane F. Miller

  • Joan Mooney

  • Richard A. Moore

  • Diane Murphy

  • Edward Pesce

  • Joe Phillips

  • Wesley G. Pippert

  • Richard T. Sammon

  • Phillip C. Scibilia

  • Florence Parrish St. John

  • Jennifer C. Urquhart

  • Pamela J. Whitted

  • John C. Williams

  • Jerry Zremski