Overseas Private Investment Corporation Nomination of Allie C. Feider, It., To Be a Member of the Board of Directors.

The President today announced that he will nominate Allie C. Felder, Jr., of Washington, D.C., for reappointment as a member of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).

Felder is director of the Outreach Division of the Cooperative League of the U.S.A. and executive vice president of the Cooperative League Fund. He has been a member of the OPIC Board of Directors since 1971.

He was born August 12, 1921, in Durham, N.C. He received a B.A. in agriculture from Hampton Institute, an M.S.C. in agricultural economics and rural sociology from the University of Illinois, and a Ph. D. in the same area from Ohio State University.

Felder taught at the International Cooperative Training Center at the University of Wisconsin and was an associate professor of agricultural economics at Hampton Institute. He spent 13 years in India as a consultant to the American International Association and for the Cooperative League of the U.S.A. For 8 years, he was director of the Cooperative League's office there.