[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 203 (Monday, December 18, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Pages S18822-S18823]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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          SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION BOARD OF REGENTS CANDIDATES

 Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, yesterday the Senate Committee on 
Rules and Administration unanimously reported out four resolutions 
regarding appointments to the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian 
Institution.
  House Joint Resolution 69 provided for the reappointment of Homer 
Alfred Neal as a citizen Regent of the Board of Regents of the 
Smithsonian Institution. House Joint Resolution 110, House Joint 
Resolution 111, and House Joint Resolution 112 provide for the 
appointment of Howard H. Baker, Jr., Anne d'Harnoncourt, and Louis 
Gerstner, respectively, as citizen Regents of the Board of Regents of 
the Smithsonian.
  Mr. Neal has made many contributions throughout the course of his 
fist 6-year term on the Board of Regents and I know that Messrs. Baker 
and Gerstner and Ms. d'Harnoncourt will make similar contributions. For 
the benefit of all Senators, at the conclusion of my remarks I will 
insert in the Record the curriculum vitae of each Regent candidate. I 
will also include a letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian, I. 
Michael Heyman.
  We are very fortunate to have such distinguished individuals who are 
willing to commit their time and energy to serving on the Board of 
Regents and I strongly recommend that the Senate act favorably on the 
resolutions.
  The material follows:


                             homer a. neal

       Homer A. Neal is Vice President for Research and Professor 
     of Physics at the University of Michigan. From 1987 to 1993 
     he was Chair of the University of Michigan Physics 
     Department. He has served as Vice President for Academic 
     Affairs and Provost at the State University of New York at 
     Stony Brook and Dean for Research and Graduate Development at 
     Indiana University. His research area is experimental high 
     energy physics and he has conducted particle interaction 
     studies in hadron-hadron and electron-positron collision at 
     laboratories in the U.S. and abroad. His research group is a 
     part of the DZERO collaboration that recently announced the 
     discovery of the top quark.
       He is a recipient of the Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the 
     John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Stony Brook Medal and 
     the Indiana Distinguished Alumni Service Award.
       Neal is a Regent and Executive Committee member of the 
     Smithsonian Institution, and is a member of the Oak Ridge 
     National Laboratory Advisory Board. He is also a member of 
     the MIT Visiting Committee on Sponsored Research, a Fellow of 
     the American Physical Society and a member of the Board of 
     Trustees of the Center for Strategic and International 
     Studies. He has served on the Board of Trustees of the 
     Argonne National Laboratory and the Fermi National 
     Accelerator Laboratory. He has been a member of the Board of 
     Overseers of the Superconducting Supercollider and the 
     National Science Board, the oversight body for the National 
     Science Foundation. He has also served as Chairman of the 
     Physics Advisory Committee of the National Science 
     Foundation. He has delivered testimony on numerous occasions 
     to Congress on matters ranging from the funding of National 
     Laboratories to the state of undergraduate science education.
       He has technical expertise in the design of particle 
     detectors, high speed electronics, image pattern recognition 
     algorithms, event reconstruction and data analysis, and large 
     scale database management.
       His current administrative position as vice president for 
     research involves oversight of the research programs, 
     policies and infrastructure at the University of Michigan, 
     which is presently ranked, in terms of total competitively 
     awarded research funds, as the nation's top research 
     university.
       He has had extended scientist-in-residence appointments at 
     the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen and at the European 
     Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva. He has been a 
     visiting scientist at Stanford University, Argonne National 
     Laboratory, and Brookhaven National Laboratory. His 
     professional travels have also taken him to the Institute for 
     High Energy Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 
     Beijing and to laboratories in the former Soviet Union, 
     Israel, Japan and several other countries.
       He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Ogden 
     Corporation and the Environmental Research Institute of 
     Michigan (ERIM).
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                          howard h. baker, jr.

       Howard H. Baker, Jr., has returned to private life and the 
     practice of law after serving in the United States Senate 
     from 1967 until January of 1985, and as President Reagan's 
     Chief of Staff from February 1987 until July of 1988. He 
     resides in Huntsville, Tennessee, the place of his birth 
     November 15, 1925.
       Following undergraduate studies at the University of the 
     South and Tulane University, Senator Baker received his law 
     degree from the University of Tennessee. He served three 
     years in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
       In 1949 Senator Baker joined his father, the late 
     Congressman Howard H. Baker, in the law practice founded 
     first by his grandfather in 1888. Senator Baker returned to 
     that practice, then known as Baker, Worthington, Crossley & 
     Stansberry, after leaving the Senate in 1985 and then again 
     after leaving the White House in 1988.
       He served as United States Senator from Tennessee from 1967 
     to 1985. In addition to his regular Senate committee 
     assignments, he served as Vice Chairman of the Senate 
     Watergate Investigation Committee in 1973. He served as the 
     Senate Minority Leader from 1977 to 1981 and as the Senate 
     Majority Leader from 1981 to 1985.
       At the Republican National Convention in 1976, he was the 
     keynote speaker. He was a candidate for the Republican 
     presidential nomination in 1980. Senator Baker was the Chief 
     of Staff to President Reagan in 1987 and 1988.
       Senator Baker is the senior partner in the law firm of 
     Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell. The firm has offices in 
     Tennessee and Washington, D.C.
       Senator Baker was a delegate to the United Nations in 1976, 
     and served on the President's Foreign Intelligence Board from 
     1985 to 1987 and from 1988 to 1990. He is a member of the 
     Council on Foreign Relations and the Washington Institute of 
     Foreign Affairs and is an International Councillor for The 
     Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is a 
     member of the boards of directors of the Forum of 
     International Policy and the American-Russian Cultural 
     Cooperation Foundation.
       In the business community, Senator Baker currently serves 
     on the boards of Federal Express, WMX Technologies, United 
     Technologies and Pennzoil. He is Chairman of the Board of 
     Newstar, Inc. and of Cherokee Aviation. Senator Baker is a 
     member of the Board of Trustees of the Mayo Clinic.
       Senator Baker has published three books, ``No Margin for 
     Error'' in 1980, ``Howard Baker's Washington'' in 1982, and 
     ``Big South Fork Country'' in 1993. He received The American 
     Society of Photographer's International Award in 1993 and was 
     elected to 

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     The Photo Marketing Association's Hall of Fame in 1994.
       Senator Baker is the recipient of the Nation's highest 
     civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He also 
     received the Jefferson Award for Greatest Public Service 
     Performed by an Elected or Appointed Official.
       Senator Baker was married to the late Joy Dirksen and has 
     two children, Darek Dirksen Baker and Cynthia Baker. He has 
     four grandchildren.
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                Anne d'Harnoncourt (Mrs. Joseph Rishel)

       Born September 7, 1943, Washington, D.C.
       Present Position: The George D. Widener Director, 
     Philadelphia Museum of Art.
       Education: The Brearley School, New York City, 1949-1961.
       Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA, 1961-1965.
       Majored in History and Literature of Europe and England 
     since 1740, with additional course work in the history of 
     architecture. B.A. thesis on comparative aspects of the 
     poetry of Shelley and Holderlin.
       Graduated B.A. magna cum laude, June 1965.
       Courtauld Institute of Art, London University, 1965-1967.
       First year course: seminar in European art since 1830. 
     Second year: specialized research on the period 1900-1915 in 
     Italy, France, and Germany. M.A. thesis on moral subject 
     matter in mid-19th century British painting, with emphasis on 
     the Pre-Raphaelites.
       Graduated M.A. with distinction, June 1967.
       Honors: Elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1964.
       Museum Experience:
       1966-1967--Tate Gallery, London. Six months of work as part 
     of Courtauld M.A. thesis, preparing full catalogue entries on 
     30 Pre-Raphaelite paintings and drawings in the Tate 
     collection.
       1967-1969--Philadelphia Museum of Art Curatorial Assistant, 
     Department of Painting and Sculpture.
       1969-1971--The Art Institute of Chicago Assistant Curator 
     of Twentieth-Century Art.
       1971-1972--Philadelphia Museum of Art Associate Curator of 
     Twentieth-Century Painting.
       1972-1982--Philadelphia Museum of Art Curator of Twentieth-
     Century Art.
       Exhibitions Organized:
       Marcel Duchamp. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Museum 
     of Modern Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1973-74. 
     (Collaboration with Kynaston McShine, The Museum of Modern 
     Art)
       Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art. Philadelphia 
     Museum of Art, 1976. (One of several collaborators under the 
     direction of Derrel Sewell, Curator of American Art, 
     Philadelphia Museum of Art)
       Eight Artists. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1978.
       Violet Oakley. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1979. 
     (Collaboration with Ann Percy, Philadelphia Museum of Art)
       Futurism and the International Avant-Garde. Philadelphia 
     Museum of Art, 1980.
       John Cage: Scores and Prints. Whitney Museum of American 
     Art, Albright Knox Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1982. 
     (Collaboration with Patterson Sims, Whitney Museum)
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                         LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR.

       Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., was named Chairman and Chief 
     Executive Officer of International Business Machines Corp. on 
     April 1, 1993.
       Prior to joining IBM, Mr. Gerstner served for four years as 
     Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of RJR Nabisco, Inc. 
     This was preceded by an 11-year career at American Express 
     Company, where he was President of the parent company and 
     Chairman and CEO of its largest subsidiary, American Express 
     Travel Related Services Company. Prior to that Mr. Gerstner 
     was a director of the management consulting firm of McKinsey 
     & Co., Inc., which he joined in 1965.
       Born in Mineola, New York, on March 1, 1942, Mr. Gerstner 
     received a B.A. in engineering from Dartmouth College in 1963 
     and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1965. In 1994 
     he was awarded an honorary doctorate of business 
     administration from Boston College.
       Mr. Gerstner is a director of The New York Times, Co., 
     Bristol-Meyers Squibb Co., the Japan Society and Lincoln 
     Center for the Performing Arts. He is a Vice Chairman of the 
     New American Schools Development Corp. and a member of the 
     Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations.
       A life-time advocate of the importance of quality 
     education, Mr. Gerstner is a co-author of ``Reinventing 
     Education: Entrepreneurship in America's Public Schools'' 
     (Dutton, 1994), which documents public school reforms now 
     underway designed to enable our children to handle the 
     demands of today's complex global economy. At IBM, Mr. 
     Gerstner has redirected a majority of the company's 
     substantial philanthropic resources in the U.S. to the 
     support of public school reform.
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                                      Smithsonian Institution,

                                Washington, DC, December 13, 1995.
     Hon. John W. Warner,
     Chairman, Committee on Rules and Administration, U.S. Senate, 
         Washington, DC.
       Dear Mr. Chairman: I would like to take this opportunity to 
     comment on the joint resolution providing for the 
     reappointment of Dr. Homer Alfred Neal of Michigan to the 
     Board of Regents, as well as on the resolutions providing for 
     the appointment of Howard H. Baker, Jr., Louis Gerstner and 
     Anne d'Harnoncourt as citizen Regents, filling current 
     vacancies on the Board.
       Regents and the manner of appointment and terms of office 
     of those other than Members of Congress are set forth in 20 
     U.S.C. 42 and 43. At its meeting in January, the Board of 
     Regents voted unanimously to request the Congressional 
     members of the Board to introduce legislation to provide for 
     the reappointment of Dr. Neal. Likewise, in May, following a 
     unanimous vote, the Congressional Regents were asked to 
     sponsor legislation providing for the appointment of Messers. 
     Baker and Gerstner and Ms. d'Harnoncourt. Each resolution 
     provides for a statutory term of six years, becoming 
     effective upon enactment.
       As their respective biographies attest, the candidates have 
     distinguished themselves in careers of science and education, 
     public service, corporate management, and museum 
     administration and scholarship. The appointment of each of 
     these accomplished individuals presents the opportunity for 
     the Institution to enrich the experience and perspective of 
     its governing board.
       Enactment of the joint resolution would have no regulatory 
     impact and entails no cost to the Government. I shall, of 
     course, be happy to furnish any additional information you 
     may require for your consideration.
           Sincerely,
                                                I. Michael Heyman,
     Secretary.

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