Former UPI colleagues, led by Phyllis and Allan Papkin, threw a bash in honor of Helen Thomas in Washington, DC on Friday, October 5, 2007.

There were numerous pictures taken -- and here are some of them.

Click HERE to see Ira Allen's pictures.

Click HERE to see Ron Bennett's pictures

Click HERE to see Tom Foty's pictures.

Click HERE to see Richard Gross' pictures.

Click HERE to see Darryl Heikes' pictures.

And there is also a 14-minute low-resolution VIDEO of the presentation shown above, featuring Ron Cohen and Jim Wieck.

LEFT CLICK here to see it (depending on your connection, that might be choppy) or RIGHT CLICK and follow instructions to SAVE TARGET AS ... and play it from your computer.

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