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Statue of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (Washington, D.C.)

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Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk is an outdoor sculpture depicting Tomáš Masaryk, the founding President of Czechoslovakia. It was offered to the United States by the Czech Republic and was inaugurated on Embassy Row on 19 September 2002 in the presence of Czech President Václav Havel, former Slovak President Michal Kováč, and Prague-born former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. The plaster for the statue was sculpted from life by Vincenc Makovský, shortly before Masaryk's death in 1937. Long housed in the National Gallery in Prague, it was only cast into bronze in 1968 during the Prague Spring but was not erected at the time. The small public park in which the statue stands, a triangle surrounded by Q Street NW, 22nd Street NW, and Massachusetts Avenue, was designed by landscape architect Roger G. Courtenay. The memorial includes quotes from the Czechoslovak declaration of independence, drafted under Masaryk's direction in Washington and proclaimed by him on October 18, 1918 on the steps of Independence Hall in Philadelphia; and from a speech delivered by George H. W. Bush at Wenceslas Square in Prague in November 1990. Coincidentally, the monument is geographically close to the equestrian statue of Philip Sheridan, also on Embassy Row, sculpted by Gutzon Borglum who assisted Masaryk in drafting the Declaration of Czechoslovakia in 1918.

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Statue of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (Washington, D.C.)
Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington Dupont Circle

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Massachusetts Avenue Northwest
20526 Washington, Dupont Circle
District of Columbia, United States
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The American News Women's Club (ANWC) is one of the oldest women's press clubs in America. Its Club headquarters are located on Embassy Row in Washington, D.C. Membership includes a diverse group of journalists, independent authors and professional communicators representing newspapers, radio and television stations, new media, publishing companies, public relations firms, corporations, academic institutions and government. Formerly known as the American Newspaper Women's Club, it was founded on April 4, 1932, by Kate Scott Brooks of The Washington Post, and other respected female journalists of the time. The women created a Club exclusively for female newspaper writers and reporters, as the National Press Club did not admit women as members at the time. The Club also admits prominent women (Associate Members) who are deemed as helpful to women reporters gathering news. Historically among these were Amelia Earhart, Alice Marriott, Marjorie Merriweather Post, Evalyn Walsh McLean, Clare Booth Luce and Eleanor Roosevelt among many others. Until recently every first lady since Mrs. Herbert Hoover has been a member including Pat Nixon, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Betty Ford and Laura Bush. The ANWC annually gives its ANWC excellence in journalism (EIJ) award to a highly respected journalist. Recipients have included Eleanor Clift, Walter Cronkite, Gwen Ifill, Norah O'Donnell, Susan Page, Diane Rehm, Wolf Blitzer, Lesley Stahl, Helen Thomas, Barbara Walters, Judy Woodruff, and Bob Woodward, EIJ recipient '22 awarded in the Club's 90th year and the 50th year since Watergate. ANWC EIJ award recipients become lifetime honorary members.The Club is also known for its history of awarding scholarships to aspiring young women journalists from local area universities and for its signature educational, "newsmaker", authors and "Meet the Ambassadors" programs held at the Clubhouse. The American News Women's Club was named a historic site in journalism by the National Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) on October 16, 2002. The Club began admitting men in the late 1970's when Art Buchwald became a member.