Appointment of Anita Boffa Cafritz as a Member of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The President today announced his intention to appoint Anita Boffa Cafritz to be a member of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Smithsonian Institution, for a term expiring September 1, 1998. She will succeed Charlton Heston.

Mrs. Cafritz has served as a philanthropist in numerous capacities, including: the Board of United Cerebral Palsy, the Washington Theater Club, Center for Applied Research for the Apostolate, the Friends of the Corcoran Gallery, the Barney Neighborhood House, Ford's Theatre, the Children's Hearing and Speech Center, the American-Italian Board, the Advisory Board to the White House Preservation Fund, the Advisory Committee for the President Ronald Reagan Library, and the Honors Gala Committee of the Kennedy Center.

Mrs. Cafritz attended Colby Junior College in 1949. She was born in South Norwalk, CT. She is married, has two children, and resides in Bethesda, MD.