Presidential Commission on World Hunger Appointment of 14 Members

The President today announced the appointment of 14 persons as members of the Presidential Commission on World Hunger. They are:

NORMAN E. BORLAUG, of Minnesota, director of the Wheat, Barley and Triticale Research and Production Programs at the International Center for Maize and Wheat Improvement in Mexico;

DAVID W. BROOKS, of Atlanta, chairman of the policy committee of Gold Kist, Inc.;

HARRY CHAPIN, the recording artist, who is the founder of World Hunger Year, a nonprofit private group;

JOHN DENVER, the recording artist, who has also produced a film, "I Want to Live," directed toward the problem of world hunger;

WALTER P. FALCON, director of the Food Research Institute and professor of economics at Stanford University;

SOL LINOWITZ, Washington attorney and conegotiator of the Panama Canal treaties (also designated Chair of the Commission);

JEAN MAYER, president of Tufts University and an expert on nutrition (Vice Chair);

BESS MYERSON, newspaper columnist and former commissioner of consumer affairs for New York City;

STEVEN MULLER, president of Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital (Vice Chair);

HOWARD A. SCHNEIDER, director of the Institute of Nutrition and professor of biochemistry and nutrition at the University of North Carolina;

ADELE SMITH SIMMONS, president of Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass.;

RAYMOND G. SINGLETARY, JR., of Blakely, Ga., president of the Blakely Peanut Go. and past president of the Georgia Association of Soil Conservation Districts and the Southeastern Peanut Association;

EUGENE L. STOCKWELL, of Ridgewood, N.J., associate general secretary for overseas ministries of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.;

CLIFTON R. WHARTON, JR., chancellor of the State University of New York and a specialist in economic development.