Nomination of Edwin J. Delattre To Be a Member of the National Council on the Humanities

The President today announced his intention to nominate Edwin J. Delattre to be a member of the National Council on the Humanities, National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, for a term expiring January 26, 1994. He would succeed George Carey.

Since 1986 Dr. Delattre has been the Lynde and Harry Bradley Distinguished Fellow in Applied Ethics for the Ethics in Public Policy Center in Washington, DC. Prior to this he was president of St. John's College, 1980-1986. He was also director of the national humanities faculty, 1976-1980, and a faculty member at the University of Toledo, 1968-1976.

Dr. Delattre graduated from the University of Virginia (B.A., 1963) and the University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D., 1970). He was born September 4, 1941, in Detroit, MI. He is married, has one child, and resides in Fairfax, VA.