Snippet # 13: Spelling Bee in Club history

"Spelling Bee: Newly elected President Woodrow Wilson was in the audience at the National Press Club in 1913 for a unique spelling bee showdown. Members of the Senate and the House composed one team while journalists made up the other. To Wilson's apparent delight, the newspaper reporters somehow managed to lose to the politicians! It happened at the National Press Club--where news is made in the nation's capital. And where it usually is spelled correctly".

This snippet was one of many put together by the late Art Wiese, who served as president in 1979. He was responsible for planning much of the reconstruction of the Club during the renovation in the early 1980s. In his later years, he put together a series of snippets on the Club's history. In honor of his recent passing, the Wire will run one of them each week as long as they last.