The President today announced his intention to nominate Peter R. Greer to be Deputy Under Secretary for Intergovernmental and Interagency Affairs, Department of Education. He would succeed A. Wayne Roberts.
Since 1979 Dr. Greer has been superintendent for the Portland public school system in Portland, ME; and from 1974 to 1979, he was assistant superintendent. Previously, he was associate director of the national humanities faculty in Concord, MA, 1972-1974; and a teacher in Ipswich, MA, and Berlin, NH, 1965-1972.
Dr. Greer graduated from the University of New Hampshire (B.A., 1962; M.A., 1964) and Boston University (Ed.D., 1974). He is married, has two children, and resides in Yarmouth, ME. Dr. Greer was born August 14, 1940, in Portsmouth, NH.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Peter R. Greer To Be a Deputy Under Secretary of Education Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/257919