Appointment of John N. Lemasters as a Member of the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee

The President today announced his intention to appoint John N. Lemasters to be a member of the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. He would succeed Robert M. Flanagan.

Since February of 1985, Mr. Lemasters has been the president and the chief executive officer of Continental Telecom, Inc. Previously, he was the president and the chief executive officer of the American Satellite Co., 1984-1985; and senior vice president of the Harris Corp., a company he had been with since 1959.

Mr. Lemasters graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology (B.S., 1958). He is married, has two children, and resides in Stone Mountain, GA. Mr. Lemasters was born August 3, 1933, in Akron, OH.