President's Council on Spinal Cord Injury Appointment of the Membership of the Council.

The President today announced the appointment of 12 persons as members of the President's Council on Spinal Cord Injury. They are:

ELMER BARTELS, commissioner of the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission and director emeritus of the National Spinal Cord Injury Foundation. He has also been designated Chairman of this Council.

MARIANNE J. CASHETT, director of special services at the Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center in Fisherville, Va.

WILLIAM H. EDWARD, director of the military and veterans affairs program of the National Urban League.

ARTHUR I. KOBRINE, professor of neurosurgery at the George Washington University.

JUSTUS F. LEHMAN, a doctor with the department of rehabilitation medicine at the University of Washington and consultant to the Seattle Veterans Hospital.

LOUISE BOUSCAREN McKNEW, acting staff director for the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.

PAUL R. MEYER, JR., president of the American Spinal Injury Association and director of the acute spinal cord injury unit at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.

GILBERT S. OMENN, visiting senior fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, on leave as a professor of medicine at the University of Washington.

JAMES J. PETERS, executive director of the Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association and director of the American Paraplegic Society.

SILVIO S. VARON, professor of biology at the University of California at San Diego.

RICHARD P. VERAA, director of research for the National Spinal Cord Injury Foundation.

PATRICIA F. WALLER, incoming president of the American Association of Automotive Medicine and associate director for driver studies at the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center.