The President today announced that he will nominate four persons to be members of the United States Metric Board. They are:
ALFREDO A. CANTU, of Denver, Colo., owner of Cantu Advertising and Graphics;
BRUCE PAUL JOHNSON, of Reno, Nev., chairman of the electrical engineering department at the University of Nevada (reappointment);
JAMES M. ROSSER, Of Bradbury, Calif., president of California State University at Los Angeles and a professor of health care management there;
DENNIS R. SMITH, of Middleboro, Mass., a high school mathematics teacher and metric coordinator for the Middleboro Public Schools (reappointment).
Jimmy Carter, United States Metric Board Nomination of Four Members. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/251337