Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Nomination of Billy M. Wise To Be an Assistant Secretary.

The President today announced that he will nominate Billy M. Wise, of Vienna, Va., to be an Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. He would replace Eileen Shanahan, resigned, and his area of responsibility would be public affairs. Wise has been Assistant to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Public Affairs since 1977.

He was born November 1, 1936, in Shawnee, Okla. He received a B.A. in journalism from the University of Oklahoma in 1958. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1958 to 1960.

From 1960 to 1961, Wise was a reporter for the Tulsa Tribune. He was with Life magazine from 1961 to 1969, serving as a reporter in New York, a correspondent in the Washington and Paris bureaus, and Mideast bureau chief in Beirut, Lebanon. From 1969 to 1977, Wise was press secretary to Senator Birch Bayh.