Appointment of Mari Maseng as a Member of the National Council on Vocational Education

The President today announced his intention to appoint Mari Maseng to be a member of the National Council on Vocational Education for a term expiring January 17, 1992. She would succeed John H. Mackey.

Ms. Maseng is currently Assistant to the President, and Director of Communications and Planning at the White House. Prior to this she was press secretary for Senator Bob Dole's Presidential campaign. She was Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Public Liaison, 1986-1987, and a member of the President's speechwriting staff, from January 1981 to November 1983. Ms. Maseng has served as Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Public Affairs, from November 1983 to April 1985, and was also vice president of the Beatrice Companies in Chicago, IL.

Ms. Maseng graduated from the University of South Carolina (B.A., 1975). She was born March 15, 1954, in Chicago, IL, and resides in Washington, DC.