Nomination of John Shelton Reed, Jr., To Be a Member of the National Council on the Humanities

The President today announced his intention to nominate John Shelton Reed, Jr., to be a member of the National Council on the Humanities, National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, for a term expiring January 29, 1992. He would succeed Louise Ano Nuevo Kerr.

Mr. Reed is a professor in the department of sociology, University of North Carolina. During the summer of 1985 he was on the staff of the National Humanities Center, Institute for High School History Teachers, and from 1983 to 1984, he was a fellow with the National Humanities Center in Washington, DC. He has published extensive works on the subject of human sociology and group behaviors.

Mr. Reed graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S., 1964) and Columbia University (Ph.D., 1971). He is married and has two children. He was born January 8, 1942, in New York, NY.