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Thursday, 04 Mar 2010

About 100 OPC members and guests piled into the lower Manhattan apartment of board member Minky Worden and husband Gordon Crovitz on March 3 for the club's first ever Tchotchke Night. See photo slideshow.

Friday, 19 Feb 2010

More than 220 guests attended this year's OPC Foundation Scholarship Luncheon and echoed the cause that foreign correspondents are needed now more than ever. See photo slideshow. With the help of an OPC scholarship, twelve aspiring news leaders have been given a chance to carry...

Thursday, 18 Feb 2010

Journalist and author Kati Marton spoke to OPC members and their guests to a packed room at Club Quarters in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, February 17. See photo slideshow. She called her latest book, Enemies of the People, a "reporters tale,"...

Tuesday, 16 Feb 2010
Seymour Topping

To say that Seymour Topping has been an eyewitness to the major news events of the 20th century would be a vast understatement. Join us on Tuesday, March 23 at 6 p.m. at Club Quarters to hear Topping discuss his latest book On the Front Lines of the Cold War...

Tuesday, 09 Feb 2010
Lionel Barber

Join us for a luncheon on Friday, February 19 at the Yale Club where the Foundation will award $24,000 in scholarships to 12 students who aspire to be foreign correspondents. Scholarship recipients emerged from an incredibly competitive field of 200 applications from more than...

Tuesday, 09 Feb 2010
Kati Marton

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Tuesday, 12 Jan 2010

The OPC Holiday Party had 65 members in attendance to welcome the new year and see one of the final days of the famed Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center. Guests were treated to a table of appetizers, an open bar and a turkey buffet that included all the trimmings.

Friday, 18 Dec 2009
Allan Dodds Frank, left, and Sir Harold Evans

One of the most impressive things about Sir Harold Evans is that while he ran many newspapers, started a magazine and presided over the largest U.S. publishing house, people in the audience at the December 14 Book Night also got the sense that Evans is a real reporter. The kind of reporter who...

Friday, 18 Dec 2009
David Hoffman speaks with guests at the reception.

The Book Night featuring David Hoffman’s new book on the Cold War, The Dead Hand, left people in the audience on December 1 startled to learn that many of vestiges of the Cold War are still in place. “The Cold War is over, Moscow is no longer the evil empire, but both sides have several...

Friday, 04 Dec 2009
OPC Website

We've switched publishing platforms to improve site security and have amped up community features like forums, commenting and blogs. We apologize in advance that some of the article links will not work and images might be askew, but we can help. E-...