United States Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea Nomination of Mabel Murphy Smythe.

The President today announced that he will nominate Mabel Murphy Smythe, of Newtown, Conn., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea. Smythe is currently Ambassador to the United Republic of Cameroon and would serve concurrently as Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea. Smythe has been Ambassador to Cameroon since 1977.

She was born April 3, 1918, in Montgomery, Ala. She received a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in 1937, an M.A. from Northwestern University in 1940. and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1942.

Smythe was an assistant professor at Lincoln University from 1942 to 1945, a professor at Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State University in 1945-46, and a professor at Brooklyn College in 1946-47. From 1951 to 1953, she was an instructor at Shiga University in .Japan.

In 1953 she was deputy director of research for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. She was an instructor at New Lincoln (High) School from 1954 to 1959 and principal of that school from 1959 to 1969. From 1970 to 1977, she was director of research and publications from the Phelps-Stokes Fund, and from 1972 to 1977, she also served as vice president of the fund.

Smythe has served as a member of the Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs and the Advisory Council on African Affairs at the State Department. She is a consultant and the author of numerous articles and several books.