President's Commission on Personnel Interchange Appointment of Lee Cassidy as Executive Director.

The President announced today he will appoint Lee Cassidy, of Wilmington, Del., as Executive Director of the President's Commission on Personnel Interchange, effective October 1, 1978.

Cassidy was born February 16, 1933, in New York, N.Y. He received a B.A. in retail business management from Adelphi University in 1955.

He is currently advertising supervisor for the plastic films division of Du Pont Company of Wilmington. He has worked for Du Pont since 1966 in a variety of advertising positions. From 1955 to 1956, he worked with Allied Stores Corp. in New York City.

Cassidy has been active in Democratic politics in Delaware, working in a number of campaigns there, serving as a member of the State platform committee in 1970, 1972, and 1974, and as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1974.

From 1972 to 1974, he was a member of the Licenses and Inspections Review Board of Wilmington. Since 1975 he has been chairman of the State Public Service Commission.