Renegotiation Board Designation of Goodwin Chase as Chairman.

The President today announced the designation of Goodwin Chase to be Chairman of the Renegotiation Board. Chase is currently a member of the Board.

Chase retired as president of the Washington National Bank, Ellensburg, Wash., in 1957, when it merged into the National Bank of Washington. He became president and chairman of the board of the latter bank in 1959, and upon consolidation of the Pacific National Bank of Seattle with the National Bank of Washington in 1970, Chase became president of the resulting bank, the Pacific National Bank of Washington.

He was born on June 30, 1911, in Los Angeles, Calif. Chase attended the University of Southern California and the Institute of Economics of the Brookings Institution. From 1939 to 1956, he was vice president of the Washington National Bank, Ellensburg, Wash.

Chase has served as a regent of Pacific Lutheran University, chairman of the Washington Council of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, a member of the Comptroller of the Currency's advisory committee, and as chairman of the Washington State Council on Higher Education. In 1971 he received the Lamplighter Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

He is married to the former Gudrun M. Mack. They have two sons and one daughter and reside in Tacoma, Wash.