We gathered for the burial mass under a gray, damp sky on the morning of December 28 at the Eglise Saint Thomas d’Aquin in the 7th to remember and reflect on the life of longstanding AAPA member Pat Thompson, amid prayers, music and a sense of great loss among some one hundred fifty attending relatives, friends and colleagues.
 
Conducted in English by the American priest Francis Finnigan, the mass went well beyond Bible readings and prayers, accompanied by songs, cello and organ playing, and ended with moving tributes to Pat as …

Dear Association Member,
Our Annual General Meeting at John Morris’ home on Nov. 24 was a convivial and productive evening. We discussed a number of topics including: our healthy finances, a recap of the many varied guests we received and events which were organized during the past year, our membership tally, and our ever-evolving website. And, of course, we voted for our officers who will serve in the coming year.
I was asked to serve as president for another year, was nominated and elected.
Below is the list of other officers who were …

Gerry Dryansky and his wife Joanne, who began writing together doing screenplays, have had two of their three novels out now, nearly at the same time, SATAN LAKE and FORTUNE’S SECOND WINK/LA DEUXIEME VIE DE FATIMA.
The first is with the prestigious literary houses of Actes Sud in France and McArthur &Co. in Canada and the second with the French Les Editions Héloïse d’Ormesson.  Each is in a very different genre.  SATAN LAKE is a modern Hansel and Gretel tale about two pre-adolescents whose lives are twisted by the misdeeds of …

“On achève bien les écoliers” (Grasset)
 
Back in 2002, we moved to Paris from Los Angeles, in part because we wanted our children to have a great European education. French schools, with their high academic standards, seemed to offer just that, at least from a distance.
 
It didn’t take long to discover that the reality of school here is far removed from the magnificent ideal of a great meritocratic institution that the French themselves long boasted about. In practice, it’s a system stricken with high dropout rates, declining scores in international comparative …

AAPA member and Newsweek Paris bureau chief Christopher Dickey’s critically acclaimed book “Securing the City: Inside America’s Best Counterterror Force — the NYPD,” is now out in paperback and as an e-book from Simon and Schuster. Picked by the New York Times as a notable book of 2009, this widely acclaimed and highly readable narrative shows how the New York City Police Department met the the threat after 9/11. It offers convincing proof that the job of stopping the bad guys from mounting new attacks is better left in the hands of …

AAPA member John G. Morris received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the May 10 “Infinity Awards” dinner of New York’s International Center of Photography, attended by 600. The awards honor nine members of the photographic community each year. The award for photojournalism went to the Paris-based freelance Reza. The top award to a photographer, named for ICP founder Cornell Capa, went to the black South African photographer Peter Magubane who, after enduring more than 500 days of solitary confinement in the apartheid regime, has published a dozen books and worked …

After more than ten years in hardcover, Member and former Officer Harriet Welty Rochefort’s first book, “French Toast,” (St. Martin’s Press) is being published in a paperback edition with new introduction in June 2010. Meantime, she reports her son, David Rochefort, has written his first novel, “La Paresse et l’Oubli,” which was published in January 2010 by Gallimard in the nrf collection.

Dear Friends and Members of the Anglo-American Press Association,
It is a both an honor and a challenge to have been chosen to serve as president of this association, with its long and rich history, its dynamic present and promising future.
The life of a foreign correspondent is never easy…and never boring. It is challenging for many reasons, but every journalist I have met in my 20 years abroad pursues his or her work with passion. In recent years, we have seen huge changes in the journalism industry. Newspapers and magazines are …

Our Annual General Meeting, held Nov. 12 and once again hosted by Member John Morris Nov. 12, elected a new slate of officers and committee for 2009-2010.
Virginia Power was unanimously elected president, pledging to lead actively and creatively, following a successful tenure of the co-presidency of Georgina Oliver and Gregory Viscusi, who will remain as ex-officio members for the new term…

Some thirty members had a first-hand chance to probe Bulgaria’s Irina Bokova’s background…