Appointment of Roswell K. Boutwell as a Member of the National Cancer Advisory Board

The President today announced his intention to appoint Roswell K. Boutwell to be a member of the National Cancer Advisory Board for the remainder of the term expiring March 9, 1984. He will succeed Gerald Wogan.

Mr. Boutwell is currently a professor of oncology for the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research at the University of Wisconsin. He has been with the University of Wisconsin since 1945. He served on the board of directors of the American Association for Cancer Research in 1979-1982, and was the Clowes Award Lecturer for the association in 1979. He was associate editor of Cancer Research in 1973-1980.

He graduated from Beloit College (B.S., 1939) and the University of Wisconsin (M.S., 1941; Ph.D., 1944). He is married, has three children, and resides in Mazomanie, Wis. He was born November 24, 1917, in Madison, Wis.