The President today announced his intention to appoint John A. Montgomery to be a member of the President's Cancer Panel for a term expiring February 20, 1989. This is a reappointment.
Dr. Montgomery is senior vice president and director of the Kettering-Meyer Laboratory at Southern Research Institute in Birmingham, AL. He has served on the President's Cancer Panel since 1983.
Dr. Montgomery graduated from Vanderbilt University (A.B., 1946; M.S., 1947) and the University of North Carolina (Ph.D., 1951). He is married, has four children, and resides in Birmingham, AL. He was born March 29, 1924, in Greenville, MS.
Ronald Reagan, Appointment of John A. Montgomery as a Member of the President's Cancer Panel Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/258490