Robert Black, a longtime OPC member with a distinguished career in journalism and public relations, died on Feb. 4 from complications related to Covid. He was 94 years old.
People Remembered: Robert Black
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People Remembered
People Remembered: William Rukeyser
William Rukeyser, who founded Money magazine and served as managing editor of Fortune, died Aug. 16 in Knoxville, Tennessee, at the age of 83. The cause was lung cancer, his wife of 58 years, Elisabeth, said.
OPC Colleagues Celebrate the Life and Work of Richard Stolley
Friends, colleagues and family members gathered at the Century Association in midtown Manhattan to honor the memory of OPC Past President Richard Stolley on March 4. His daughter, Martha, hosted the event, and three past OPC Presidents attended: Allan Dodds Frank, Michel Serrill and Alexis Gelber, as well as OPC Executive Director Patricia Kranz. Sonya Fry, past OPC executive director, was one of more than a dozen speakers at the memorial. She talked about about his years as longtime member and as president of the club from 2004 to 2006…
Remembering Past President John Corporon
Longtime journalist and groundbreaking television news executive, John Corporon, has died at the age of 92…
People Remembered: OPC Past President John Corporon
The OPC is saddened to report the passing of OPC Past President John Corporon on Friday, Feb. 4 at the age of 92. “Jack,” as he was called, had been suffering a variety of health ailments for months, in particular arthritis…
People Remembered: John Kelly, NBC, CBS Newsman, CIA Officer and OPC Member
John Kelly, a longtime OPC member who combined an eventful career in broadcast network news with government service and a lifelong passion for journalism, died early this year at age 85 in Connecticut. His career included work as a news editor and correspondent on the national staff of NBC News and CBS News. He was the last surviving reporter to have covered the 1960 Election Night victory party of Democratic Presidential nominee John Kennedy in Hyannis, Massachusetts…
People Remembered: Richard Stolley
The OPC is saddened to learn that OPC Past President Richard Stolley, who worked for Life and TIME magazines in various roles from reporter to bureau chief and managing editor, died on June 16 of heart complications in Evanston, Illinois at the age of 92. Stolley was OPC President from 2004 to 2006, and participated in many of the club’s events…
People Remembered: Seymour Topping
The OPC is saddened to learn that longtime OPC member Seymour Topping, a veteran foreign correspondent and editor who cut his teeth during China’s civil war at the end of the 1940s, died on Nov. 8 at the age of 98…
Call Me Harry – A Remembrance of Sir Harold Evans by Allan Dodds Frank
Sir Harold Evans was a longtime friend of the Overseas Press Club who occasionally took time from his busy schedule to show up at an OPC event…
People Remembered: Sir Harold Evans
Sir Harold Evans, a renowned British-American editor and author whose career spanned 70 years, died in New York on Sept. 23 of congestive heart failure at the age of 92…