Appointment of Dennis Stanfill 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 Dennis Stanfill 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, 1988. He would succeed Frances Breathitt.

Mr. Stanfill is president of Stanfill, Doig & Co., an investment company in Los Angeles, CA. Previously Mr. Stanfill was chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Twentieth Century-Fox in 1971-1981. He joined Twentieth Century-Fox in 1969 as executive vice president for finance and as a member of the company's board of directors and executive committee. Previously he was vice president for finance at the Times Mirror Co., Los Angeles. He is chairman of the board of directors of KCET, public television for southern California; a trustee and member of the executive committee of the California Institute of Technology; and a member of the board of governors of the Performing Arts Council of the Music Center.

Mr. Stanfill graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy (B.S., 1949). He was selected for a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford University (England), where he received a M.A. in 1953. He is married, has three children, and resides in San Marino, CA. He was born April 1, 1927, in Centerville, TN.