This Week In National Press Club History

April 29, 1964: Carl T. Rowan, journalist, author and distinguished public servant during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and 1999 NPC Fourth Estate Award winner, is the luncheon speaker. William Raspberry, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post, and Simeon S. Booker, join Rowan as Fourth Estate Award winners in 1994 and 1982, respectively.

April 29, 1985: The Washington Press Club, originally the Women’s National Press Club formed in 1919, merges with the National Press Club after a long struggle. In 2013, Angela Greiling Keane of Bloomberg News is elected the 106th woman president of the Club.

This Week In National Press Club History is brought to you by the History & Heritage Committee, which preserves and revitalizes the Club’s dramatic history as the world’s largest, most prestigious club run by journalists, through regular lobby displays, events, panel discussions, and its long-standing oral history project.

For more information about the Committee’s activities, or to join the Committee, contact Chair Gilbert Klein at [email protected].

And be a regular visitor to the Club’s website for more history at www.press.org/about/history.