Appointment of Cynthia Grassby Baker as Chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

The President today announced his intention to appoint Cynthia Grassby Baker to be Chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation for the term of 4 years expiring June 10, 1989. She will succeed Alexander Aldrich.

Mrs. Baker was Deputy to the Chairman for Private Partnership at the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1979-1989. she was finance director for the Colorado Republican Committee; sales representative for Johns-Manville in 1977-1979; development director for the American Medical Cancer Hospital in Denver, CO, in 1976-1977; and development officer for John Grenzebach and Associates in 1975-1976.

She is on the advisory council for Ford's Theatre and a member of the Symphony Orchestra League and the Denver Center for Performing Arts. She is married and resides in Denver, CO. She was born June 25, 1946, in Denver, CO.