Counselor to the President on Aging Appointment of Harold L. Sheppard.

The President today announced the appointment of Harold L. Sheppard, of Bethesda, Md., as Counselor on Aging. He replaces Nelson Cruikshank, resigned. Sheppard has been senior research fellow and director of the Center on Work and Aging at the American Institutes for Research in Washington, D.C., since 1975.

He was born April 1, 1922, in Baltimore, Md. He received an M.A. degree from the University of Chicago in 1945 and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1948.

From 1947 to 1959, Sheppard was an associate professor of sociology at Wayne State University. He was staff director of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging from 1959 to 1961. From 1961 to 1963, he was Assistant Administrator for Operations at the Commerce Department's Area Redevelopment Administration. From 1963 to 1975, he was a staff social scientist at the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, where he dealt particularly with older Americans in the work environment.