Nomination of Hillel Fradkin To Be a Member of the National Council on the Humanities

The President today announced his intention to nominate Hillel Fradkin to be a member of the National Council on the Humanities, National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, for a term expiring January 26, 1991. He would succeed A. Lawrence Chickering.

Since 1986 Mr. Fradkin has been senior program officer for the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee, WI. Prior to this he was program officer for the grant program in research and education for the John M. Olin Foundation, 1983-1986. He has also been a visiting lecturer of Jewish thought at the University of Chicago since 1987; adjunct professor of Jewish thought for the department of religion at Barnard College, 1979-1984; and visiting instructor for the department of political science at Yale University, 1977-1979.

Mr. Fradkin graduated from Cornell University (B.A., 1967) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1978). He served in the United States Army, 1969-1972. Mr. Fradkin was born March 30, 1947, in New York, NY. He is married, has one child, and resides in Whitefish Bay, WI.