Category: People Remembered

 Barbara Chase-Riboud sent the following poem and dedication in remembrance of longtime OPC member and supporter Jacqueline Albert Simon…

Former OPC Executive Director Sonya Fry shared warm memories about Jacqueline Albert Simon, writing: “When I was hired by the OPC in the summer of 1994 Jackie along with Elinor Griest and Anita Diamant took me under their wings and helped me navigate the world of journalists.”

OPC Past President David A. Andelman shares a remembrance of Jacqueline Albert Simon, having first met her “more than thirty-five years ago when, in the early 1980s, as Paris correspondent for CBS News, I first wrote for the remarkable quarterly magazine, Politique Internationale…

OPC Past President Allan Dodds Frank spoke to Jacqueline Albert Simon on behalf of the OPC before she died on Aug 10. He writes: “Shortly before she died, Jacqueline Albert Simon called to say goodbye, to say she loved me, her friends at the Overseas Press Club and the work being done by the many talented winners of the OPC Foundation fellowship she underwrote so generously. ‘This is the last time I am going to talk to you,’ she said….”

OPC Foundation President William J. Holstein writes about the passing of “the great Jacqueline Albert Simon, or Jackie to most of us. She spent nearly 30 years on the boards of both the OPC and the OPC Foundation…”

The OPC is saddened to hear that longtime OPC member, Governor and supporter Jacqueline Albert Simon died on Aug. 10 at the age of 98…

Veteran reporter, editor and columnist Pete Hamill, husband of OPC member Fukiko Hamill, died on Aug. 5 in Brooklyn at age 85…

Arlene Getz, Past OPC Vice President and former editorial director of Newsweek: “There’s another word that needs to be added to these moving memories of Chris. It’s prescient….”

Christopher Dickey was a giant among us. He accomplished five times what the normal driven world-watcher does. He’d produce a solidly researched, poetically composed book in the time it would take most of us to do a Sunday feature. But he was never too busy to spend an hour or two in the Tuileries over a glass of something admirable and some properly aged Conté. He was thrilled when those old Nokias evolved, enabling him to work his magic from a cafe table on the Champs-Elysees when he wasn’t poking into some distant mayhem…