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John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Appointment of Six Members of the Board of Trustees.

January 11, 1979

The President today announced the appointment of six persons as members of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. They are:

K. LEMOYNE BILLINGS, president of the Park Foundation, a trustee of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial, and a member of this Board from 1960 to 1972;

FRANCES H. BREATHITT, of Hopkinsville, Ky., active in civic affairs, wife of former Kentucky Governor Edward T. Breathitt;

MARSHALL B. COYNE, builder and owner of the Madison Hotel in Washington, D.C., and a number of other buildings;

MARJORIE M. LAWSON, a Washington, D.C., attorney and former associate judge of the D.C. Juvenile Court; now chairman of the board and president of WYCB, the first commercial broadcaster in the Washington area under minority ownership;

LOIS M. RIBICOFF, of Hartford, Conn., active in civic and community affairs, the wife of Senator Abraham Ribicoff;

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, JR., former Under Secretary of Commerce and the first Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, now active in civic affairs and chairman of the board of Fiat-Roosevelt Motors.

Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Appointment of Six Members of the Board of Trustees. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/249196

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