[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 19 (Wednesday, February 3, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1178-S1179]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Mr. COCHRAN (for himself, Mr. Moynihan, and Mr. Frist):
  S.J. Res. 10. A joint resolution providing for the reappointment of 
Barber B. Conable, Jr., as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of 
the Smithsonian Institution; to the Committee on Rules and 
Administration.


     board of regents of the smithsonian institution reappointments

  Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. President, today I am introducing three Senate Joint 
Resolutions reappointing citizen regents of the Board of Regents of the 
Smithsonian Institution. I am pleased that my fellow Smithsonian 
Institution Regents, Senators Moynihan and Frist are cosponsors.
  At its meeting on January 25, 1999, the Smithsonian Institution Board 
of Regents recommended the following distinguished individuals for 
reappointment to six year terms effective April 12, 1999: Barber B. 
Conable, Jr. of New York; Dr. Hanna H. Gray of Illinois; and Mr. Wesley 
S. Williams, Jr. of the District of Columbia.
  I ask unanimous consent that copies of their biographies be included 
in the Record.
  There being no objection, the materials were ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

                        Wesley S. Williams, Jr.

       Wesley S. Williams, Jr., of Washington, D.C., has been 
     associated with the law firm of Covington & Burling since 
     1970 and a partner since 1975. He was previously legal 
     counsel to the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, 
     a teaching fellow at Columbia University Law School, and 
     Special Counsel to the District of Columbia Council. He is 
     currently active on many corporate and non-profit boards and 
     has participated in the Smithsonian Luncheon Group. He was 
     appointed to the Board of Regents in April 1993, chairs its 
     Investment Policy Committee, and serves on the Regents' 
     Executive Committee, Nominating Committee, Committee on 
     Policy, Programs, and Planning, and ad hoc Committee on 
     Business. He also served on the Regents' Search Committee for 
     a New Secretary, and he is a member of the Commission of the 
     National Museum of American Art.

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                           Hanna Holborn Gray

The Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor of History, The 
                         University of Chicago

       Hanna H. Gray was President of the University of Chicago 
     from July 1, 1978 through June 30, 1993, and is now President 
     Emeritus.
       Mrs. Gray is a historian with special interests in the 
     history of humanism, political and historical thought, and 
     politics in the Renaissance and the Reformation. She taught 
     history at the University of Chicago from 1961 to 1972 and is 
     now the Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor of 
     History in the University of Chicago's Department of History.
       She was born on October 25, 1930, in Heidelberg, Germany. 
     She received her B.A. degree from Bryn Mawr in 1950 and her 
     Ph.D. in history from Harvard University in 1957. From 1950 
     to 1951, she was a Fulbright Scholar at Oxford University.
       She was an instructor at Bryn Mawr College in 1953-54 and 
     taught at Harvard from 1955 to 1960, returning as a Visiting 
     Lecturer in 1963-64. In 1961, she became a member of the 
     University of Chicago's faculty as Assistant Professor of 
     History, becoming Associate Professor in 1964.
       Mrs. Gray was appointed Dean of the College of Arts and 
     Sciences and Professor of History at Northwestern University 
     in 1972. In 1974, she was elected Provost of Yale University 
     with an appointment as Professor of History. From 1977 to 
     1978, she also served as Acting President of Yale.
       She has been a Fellow of the Newberry Library, a Fellow of 
     the Center of Behavioral Sciences, a Visiting Scholar at that 
     center, a Visiting Professor at the University of California 
     at Berkeley, and a Visiting Scholar for Phi Beta Kappa. She 
     is also an Honorary Fellow of St. Anne's College, Oxford.
       Mrs. Gray is a member of the Renaissance Society of 
     America. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and 
     Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society, 
     the National Academy of Education, and the Council on Foreign 
     Relations of New York. She holds honorary degrees from a 
     number of colleges and universities, including Oxford, Yale, 
     Brown, Columbia, Princeton, Duke, Harvard, and the 
     Universities of Michigan and Toronto, and The University of 
     Chicago.
       She is chairman of the boards of the Andrew W. Mellon 
     Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, serves on 
     the boards of Harvard University and the Marlboro School of 
     Music, and is a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution.
       In addition, Mrs. Gray is a member of the boards of 
     directors of J.P. Morgan & Company, the Cummins Engine 
     Company, and Ameritech.
       Mrs. Gray was one of twelve distinguished foreign-born 
     Amrericans to receive a Medal of Liberty award from President 
     Reagan at ceremonies marking the rekindling of the Statue of 
     Liberty's lamp in 1986. In 1991, she received the 
     Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian 
     award, from President Bush. She received the Charles Frankel 
     Prize from the National Endowment of the Humanities and the 
     Jefferson Medal from the American Philosophical Society in 
     1993. In 1996, Mrs. Gray received the University of Chicago's 
     Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. In 
     1997, she received the M. Carey Thomas Award from Bryn Mawr 
     College.
       Her husband, Charles M. Gray, is Professor Emeritus in the 
     Department of History at the University of Chicago.
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                         Barber B. Conable, Jr.

       Barber Conable retired on August 31, 1991, from a five-year 
     term as President of The World Bank Group, headquartered in 
     Washington, D.C. The World Bank promotes economic growth and 
     an equitable distribution of the benefits of that growth to 
     improve the quality of life for people in developing 
     countries.
       Mr. Conable was a Member of the House of Representatives 
     from 1965-1985. In Congress, he served 18 years on the House 
     Ways and Means Committee, the last eight years as its Ranking 
     Minority Member. He served in various capacities for 14 years 
     in the House Republican Leadership, including Chairman of the 
     Republican Policy Committee and the Republican Research 
     Committee. During his congressional service, he also was a 
     member of the Joint Economic Committee and the House Budget 
     and Ethics committees.
       Following Mr. Conable's retirement from Congress, he served 
     on the Boards of four multinational corporations and the 
     Board of the New York Stock Exchange. He also was active in 
     foundation, museum, and nonprofit work, and was a 
     Distinguished Professor at the University of Rochester.
       Currently Mr. Conable serves on the Board of Directors of 
     Corning, Inc., Pfizer, Inc., the American International 
     Group, Inc., and the First Empire State Corporation. In 
     addition, he is a Trustee of Cornell University and of the 
     National Museum of the American Indian of the Smithsonian 
     Institution. He has chaired the Museum's development 
     committee since October, 1990 and is a member of its 
     International Founders Council, the volunteer committee for 
     the National Campaign to raise funds for construction of the 
     Museum on the Mall.
       Mr. Conable is a native of Warsaw, New York and graduated 
     from Cornell University and Cornell Law School. He was a 
     Marine in World War II and the Korean War.
       Mr. and Mrs. Conable are parents of three daughters and a 
     son. They reside in Alexander, New York.

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