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Appointment of Two Members of the Board of Visitors of the United States Military Academy

December 04, 1981

The President today announced his intention to appoint the following individuals to be members of the Board of Visitors, United States Military Academy:

Bernard J. Lasker has been a senior partner with the firm Lasker, Stone & Stern of New York, N.Y., since 1968. He joined his present firm's predecessor, E. H. Stern & Co., as a partner in 1947. He became a partner in the firm of Kaufmann, Alsberg & Co. and a member of the New York Stock Exchange in 1939. Mr. Lasker was elected chairman of the board of governors of the New York Stock Exchange in 1969 and 1970, after having served 2 years as vice chairman and 2 years as Governor. He was elected a director of the Stock Exchange in 1972. In 1969 Mr. Lasker was appointed by Governor Nelson Rockefeller to serve as a commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He is married, has two children, and resides in New York City. He was born August 10, 1910, in New York.

Clyde H. Slease is an attorney with the firm of Watt, Tieder, Killian, Toole & Hoffar of Washington, D.C. He was labor counsel, assistant to the president, and vice president and general counsel of the Dravo Corp., Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1948-78. He was an attorney with Paul, Lawrence & Wills, in 1946-48. He graduated from Haverford College (B.S., 1938) and the University of Pennsylvania (LL.B., J.D., 1941). He is married, has two children, and resides in Edgewater, Md. He was born July 25, 1916, in Hackensack, N.J.

Ronald Reagan, Appointment of Two Members of the Board of Visitors of the United States Military Academy Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/247533

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