The President today announced his intention to appoint Mary Dewey Faison to be a member of the Advisory Committee on the Arts (John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Smithsonian Institution). This is a new appointment.
Mrs. Faison is an antique dealer in Charlotte, NC, and serves as chairman of the Mint Museum Antiques Show. She also serves on the development board of WTVI (public television) and is chairman of the Children's Little Theatre Ball.
She graduated from the University of North Carolina (B.S., 1962). She is married, has two children, and resides in Charlotte, NC. She was born January 17, 1940, in Goldsboro, NC.
Ronald Reagan, Appointment of Mary Dewey Faison as a Member of the Advisory Committee on the Arts Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/260059