The Congressional Club, the organization of congressional spouses, met last Thursday for a 100th anniversary Founders Day celebration in the ballroom of its headquarters on New Hampshire Avenue. Four past presidents of the club were in attendance — former Ambassador Lindy Boggs (accompanied by her daughter, Cokie Roberts), Doris McClory, Lois Breaux and Vicki Tiahrt.
And this Thursday evening, the Washington Ringing Society will commemorate the club’s centennial with a program and the ringingof the Congress Bells. In honor of the nation’s bicentennial in 1976, the Ditchley Foundation of Great Britain presented a set of English change-ringing bells to the U.S. Congress as a symbol of friendship. The bells were permanently placed in the Old Post Office clock tower in 1983 and are rung at the opening and closing of Congress and for national holidays.
