Memorial remembrance for Gene Kramer, 6 p.m. Friday

The life and times of Gene Kramer, a correspondent for The Associated Press for 47 years and a member of the National Press Club since 1994, will be remembered at a get-together in the McClendon Room at 6pm Friday, April 1.

The news of his passing on March 9 has generated many fond memories of his professionalism and friendship among Club members, his former AP colleagues and a large "family" of correspondents with whom he was based in New Delhi during his last foreign assignment for the AP from 1977 to 1984.

The National Press Club was Gene's "home away from home" since his retirement from The AP in 1997. He checked his e-mails, read newspapers and other publications and, above all, befriended members who enjoyed talking with him about his long and distinguished career.

He was a "regular" at the Club's Taco Night on Fridays, and it therefore was felt that an appropriate remembrance get-together at which his many friends could recall their times with Gene would be at a Taco Night.

And, so, this is an invitation to come to Taco Night at 6pm Friday, April 1, and meet in the McClendon Room for an evening of recollections about our times with Gene.

The evening will open with remembrances from a group of "Delhi-Wallahs," who covered the Subcontinent when Gene was based in New Delhi in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and then there will be an "open session" when everyone who knew him from other aspects of his life can give their remembrances.