Appointment of Marion Newbert Jorgensen as a Member of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The President today announced his intention to appoint Marion Newbert Jorgensen to be a member of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Smithsonian Institution, for the remainder of the term expiring September 1, 1992. She would succeed Donna Tuttle.

Mrs. Jorgensen serves as a trustee of St. Johns Hospital and Health Center and also as a trustee of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. She is a member of the board of Continental Airlines and the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. She was the first woman to serve as chairman of the board of overseers of the Huntington Library Art Gallery and Botanical Gardens. Additionally Mrs. Jorgensen serves on the President's Blue Ribbon 400 Music Center and is director of the Los Angeles Symphony Association.

Mrs. Jorgensen is married, has six children, and resides in Santa Monica, Calif. She was born March 3, 1915, in Chicago, Ill.