Nomination of Bessie Boehm Moore To Be a Member of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science

The President today announced his intention to nominate Bessie Boehm Moore to be a member of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science for a term expiring July 19, 1988. This is a reappointment.

Mrs. Moore has been on the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science since 1971 and has served as Vice Chairman since 1972. She served as executive director of the Arkansas State Council on Economic Education in 1962-1979; State coordinator, environmental education, Arkansas Department of Education, in 1970-1974; State supervisor, economic education, Arkansas Department of Education, in 1962-1974; and as a consultant to the U.S. Office of Education on economic education in 1906-1967.

Mrs. Moore served as a member of the National Board of Governors of the American Association for the United Nations in 1950-1957 and the United States Committee for UNICEF in 1958-1970.

She graduated from the University of Central Arkansas (B.S.E., 1942) and the University of Connecticut (M.A., 1962). She was born August 2, 1902, in Owensboro, KY, and now resides in Little Rock, AR.