Appointment of Rita Di Martino as United States Representative on the Executive Board of the United Nations Children's Fund

The President today announced his intention to appoint Rita Di Martino to be the Representative of the United States of America on the Executive Board of the United Nations Children's Fund. She will succeed Marjorie Craig Benton.

She is presently serving as district manager, public relations, American Telephone and Telegraph Co. She was senior business consultant for the New York State Department of Commerce in 1974-1978. She was with Thomas McGrath Associates, Inc., in New York City in 1968-1974.

She graduated from Richmond College (B.A, 1976) and Long Island University (M.P.A., 1977). She has three children and resides in Staten Island, N.Y. She was born March 7, 1937, in Brooklyn, N.Y.