Appointment of Karen Hanson Munro as a Member of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities

The President today announced his intention to appoint Karen Hanson Munro to be a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. She would succeed Ignacio Lozano.

She is a member of the board of trustees of the Washington Commission for the Humanities. She served as president of the board in 1980 and 1981. In 1982 she was elected to be a member of the board of directors of the National Federation of State Humanities Councils, on which she still serves. She was administrative assistant for the Washington Council for the Humanities in 1973-1976.

Mrs. Munro graduated from the University of Washington (B.A., 1965). She is married, has one child, and resides in Olympia, WA. She was born July 9, 1943, in Seattle, WA.