Federal Emergency Management Agency Nomination of John W. Macy, ]r., To Be Director.

The President today announced that he will nominate .John W. Macy, Jr., of McLean, Va., to be Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). He would be the first Director of FEMA, the agency created last year to combine disaster planning and response and civil defense programs previously located in five departments and agencies.

Macy is currently president of the Development and Resources Corp. He is a former Chairman of the Civil Service Commission and was the first President of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Macy was born April 6, 1917, in Chicago. He received a B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1938. He was with the War Department in Washington and Chicago as a personnel specialist from 1940 to 1942, and as assistant director of civilian personnel from 1942 to 1943, and 1946 to 1947. From 1943 to 1946, he served in the U.S. Army Air Force.

From 1947 to 1951, Macy was director of personnel and organization of the Atomic Energy Commission's Los Alamos Project. He was assistant for management improvement to the Secretary of the Army from 1951 to 1953. From 1953 to 1958, he was Executive Director of the Civil Service Commission. From 1958 to 1961, he was executive vice president of Wesleyan University.

In 1961 Macy returned to the Civil Service Commission as Chairman, a post he held until 1969. From 1969 to 1972, he was President of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. From 1973 to 1975, he was president of the Council of Better Business Bureaus. He has been president of the Development and Resources Corp. since 1975.

Macy is a member and former national president of the American Society for Public Administration. He served on the International Civil Service Advisory Board from 1964 to 1970. He was a public member of the American Stock Exchange's board of governors from 1972 to 1977.