Department of Housing and Urban Development Nomination of A. Russell Marane To Be a Member of the Board of Directors of the New Community Development Corporation.

The President today announced that he will nominate A. Russell Marane, of Atlanta, Ga., to be a member of the Board of Directors of the New Community Development Corporation. He would replace William J. White.

Marane is currently a consultant at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and is a former Regional Administrator of HUD for region IV.

He was born September 17, 1939, in Chattanooga, Tenn. He received a B.B.A. from the University of Tennessee in 1964 and took graduate studies in public administration at Memphis State University. From 1969 to 1971, Marane was urban renewal director for the Chattanooga Housing Authority, where he was responsible for the planning and execution of three urban renewal projects. From 1972 to 1974, he was chief planner for Collredo Associates, a planning consultancy firm in Memphis.

From 1974 to 1977, Marane was assistant vice president of Hensley-Schmidt, an Atlanta consulting engineering firm. He was responsible for the firm's business development program and for managing the firm's urban and environmental planning division. He was Regional Administrator of HUD for region IV from 1977 to 1979.