[Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1991, Book I)]
[February 12, 1991]
[Pages 140-141]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]



Nomination of Catherine Yi-yu Cho Woo To Be a Member of the National 
Council on the Arts
February 12, 1991

    The President today announced his intention to nominate Catherine
Yi-yu Cho Woo, of California, to be a member of the National Council on 
the Arts for the remainder of the term expiring September 3, 1994. She 
would succeed Marvin Hamlisch.

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    Since 1969 Dr. Woo has been a professor of Chinese in the department 
of classical and Oriental languages and literatures at San Diego State 
University in California.
    Dr. Woo graduated from San Diego State College (B.A., 1968), 
California State University (M.A., 1972), and the University of San 
Francisco (Ed.D., 1981). She was born May 23, 1935, in Peking, China. 
She is married, has two children, and resides in San Diego.