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United States Advisory Commission on International Communication, Cultural and Educational Affairs Nomination of Six Members and Designation of Chairman.

April 27, 1979

The President today announced six persons whom he will nominate to be members of the United States Advisory Commission on International Communication, Cultural and Educational Affairs. They are:

JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN, the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service professor of history at the University of Chicago, author of numerous books, and an expert on the history of black Americans;

LEWIS MANILOW, a Chicago attorney and president of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago;

OLIN C. ROBISON, president of Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt., and a former Regional Director for the Peace Corps (on confirmation, he would be designated Chairman of the Commission);

NEIL C. SHERBURNE, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO Minnesota Federation of Labor until his retirement in 1978, a member of the board of regents of the University of Minnesota, and active in civic affairs;

LEONARD L. SILVERSTEIN, a Washington attorney, vice president and director of the National Symphony, and a trustee of the

Corcoran Gallery of Art;

MAE SUE TALLEY, of Scottsdale, Ariz., former president of the Castle Hot Springs Corp., former publisher and editor of the Arizonian newspaper, and active in civic affairs and support of the arts.

Jimmy Carter, United States Advisory Commission on International Communication, Cultural and Educational Affairs Nomination of Six Members and Designation of Chairman. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/250165

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