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Press Club Meets Here
The Washington (D.C.) Press Club selected Sperryville as its meeting place last Sunday. Katherine Christie of Peola Mills organized and hosted the event, which was held at the Old Lee Highway Hotel (Olde Hotel Apartments) in Sperryville.
Christie, a former D.C.-based reporter for two Oklahoma dailies, now works at the Press Office for the National Endowment of the Arts, located in Alexandria. She has been a member of the Washington Press Club since 1967.
It was tiie third consecutive year the Washington Press Club made Rappahannock its meeting place. Thirty people attended, down from previous years due to election activity around the nation-in particular the second round of presidential debates scheduled for Sunday evening.
Now with about 600 members, the Washington Press Club is separate from the National Press Club, also of Washington, D.C., with some 4,300 members. Formed by women journalists in 1919, the Washington Press Club began because women were barred from joining the National Press Club.
Both organizations today have men and women members, a move initiated in 1970 by the Washington Press Club, according to current club President Susan Garland of Newhouse News Service. Since ’71, the Washington Press Club has had three male presidents, and today boasts a 50/60 male-female membership.
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