Appointment of Helen M. Scheirbeck as a Member of the National Advisory Council on Indian Education

The President today announced his intention to appoint Helen M. Scheirbeck to be a member of the National Advisory Council on Indian Education for a term expiring September 29, 1990. She would succeed Thomas E. Sawyer.

Since 1987 Ms. Scheirbeck has been development director of the Indian Cultural Center in Pembroke, NC. Prior to this, she was director of the American Indian Nations Region, Save the Children Federation, in Westport, CT, 1982-1987, and director of Indian information programs, Lumbee Regional Development Association, 1981-1982. Ms. Scheirbeck also served with the White House Conference on Children and Youth, 1980-1981.

Ms. Scheirbeck graduated from Berea College (B.S., 1958) and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Ed.D., 1980). She was born August 21, 1935, in Lumberton, NC. She has one child and resides in Fairfax, VA.