Nomination of Allie C. Felder, Jr., To Be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation

The President today announced his intention to nominate Allie C. Felder, Jr., to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, United States International Development Cooperation Agency, for a term expiring December 17, 1987. This is a reappointment.

Dr. Felder is senior vice president of the Cooperative League of the U.S.A. in Washington, DC. He has been a member of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation since 1971. He taught at the International

Cooperative Training Center at the University of Wisconsin and was an associate professor of agricultural economics at Hampton Institute. He spent 13 years in India as a consultant to the American International Association and for the Cooperative League of the U.S.A.

He graduated from Hampton Institute (B.S., 1943), the University of Illinois (M.S.C., 1947), and Ohio State University (Ph.D., 1952). He is married, has two children, and resides in Washington, DC. He was born August 12, 1921, in Durham, NC.