ANWC Archive Project

Years of ANWC memorabilia, stored in boxes in the ANWC basement, have finally been sorted and temporarily indexed. The archives reflect a range of topics — from the history of women in journalism in Washington, DC to the associate members who brought their socialite guests to the club for events, programs and networking. Currently, we have over 20 boxes of items.

The Archives Committee has set up a separate photo file to catalogue all the photographs in the archival folders, identify each subject, prepare the items for scanning and use for club promotional and publicity purposes. Anyone interested in working on the archives project should contact ANWC member Nancy Nichols Jagelka at njagelka@yahoo.com.

ANWC Library Project

From the sublime (the Harvard Classics) to the ridiculous (the 1961 memoir I Married a Psychiatrist), the ANWC library provides a wealth of knowledge and amusement. The collection includes histories, books written and generously donated by club authors, paper- and hardback fiction spanning the years, and volumes about illustrious contributions of ink-stained scribes, reporting on overseas wars.

I Can Tell It Now: Stories Behind the Great News Events of the Past 25 Years is one such work. Published in 1964, I Can Tell It Now collected then-untold stories by members of the Overseas Press Club, covering the Second World War and its many fronts and battles, to the rise of Khrushchev and Castro. The book was donated by the Club’s own Jessie Stearns, who reported in 1964 on the abrupt transition of power from the Kennedy Administration to Lyndon Johnson’s.

The contributors’ names are the stuff of nostalgia from a golden age of vivid, passionate reporting: Mary Hemingway, Drew Middleton, Margaret Bourke-White, Fleur Cowles, Robert Trumbull, Quentin Reynolds, Frank Gibney and Harrison Salisbury. The reporters in these pages have made, at the very least, footnotes to a history that they witnessed in the making.

Thanks to Andrea Grenadier who cataloged the collection, and Alexandrea Galitzine and Fran Maclean who created a comprehensive library inventory.

Committee Contacts Archive Project: Nancy Nichols Jagelka at njagelka@yahoo.com Library Project: Contact the Club Manager at anwclub@covad.net to donate books to the library.