Latest People Remembered

Saturday, 09 Aug 2008

Sven-Erik Bergh, 96, who published books in Swedish, German and English and was an OPC member, died...

Monday, 21 Jul 2008

Frederic Wiegold, 61, an OPC Foundation board member and a senior editor of the monthly magazine Bloomberg Markets, died July 19 after being stricken in his New York office with a brain aneurysm and being taken by ambulance to a hospital.

People Remembered: Faith D. Waterman

Monday, 21 Jul 2008

Faith D. Waterman, 102, an OPC secretary in the 1950s, died July 15 in her New York City apartment. She had served as a personal assistant to the noted journalist Dorothy Thompson and to author and presidential daughter...

People Remembered: Bill Bland

Wednesday, 25 Jun 2008

OPC member William F. (Bill) Bland, 91, a chemical engineer and technical journalist, died May 29 at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. When he started publishing PetroChemical News, its first office space was in the old OPC...

People Remembered: Tim Russert

Saturday, 14 Jun 2008

Tim Russert spent his 24 years in television in Washington, but Rome and two Popes marked the beginning and end of his broadcasting career.

People Remembered: Nuala O'Faolain

Thursday, 12 Jun 2008

OPC member Nuala O'Faolain died of lung cancer on Friday in Dublin. Reports of her death were covered in the international press.

Thomas Johnson, Ground Breaking Newsman

Tuesday, 10 Jun 2008

Thomas A. Johnson, 79, one of the first black journalist to work as a foreign correspondent for a major U.S. newspaper, died in New York City June 2.

Sports Broadcast Legend: Jim McKay

Tuesday, 10 Jun 2008

When he was covering the 1972 Munich Olympics, ABC sports broadcaster Jim McKay took one day off, Sept. 5. When he left his hotel sauna and was walking to the swimming pool he was told that Arab terrorists had invaded the Israeli living...

People Remembered: Walter Diamond

Tuesday, 03 Jun 2008

Walter H. Diamond, 95, an expert on international taxation and trade and an OPC member for 52 years, died of kidney failure May 23 in White Plains, New York.

People Remembered: Josef S. Miko

Monday, 26 May 2008

József S. Mikó, a Hungarian newsreel cameraman, was returning from a film location in Budapest on October 23, 1956, when he saw a crowd of marching university students. With his hand-held 35-millimeter camera, he...