    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton (1993, Book I)]
    [May 20, 1993]
    [Pages 711-713]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Appointment for Members of the President's Commission on White House
    Fellowships
    May 20, 1993

        The President appointed 37 members of the President's Commission on
    White House Fellowships today, including Olympic gold medalist Edwin
    Moses, chief U.S. district court judge Jose Cabranes, astronaut Sally
    Ride, actress Cecily Tyson, Maj. Gen. Wesley Clark, and Hawaii Governor
    John Waihee. The Commission will be chaired by Nancy Bekavac, the
    president of Scripps College.
        The Commission on White House Fellowships provides an opportunity
    for a select group of men and women to spend a year early in their
    careers serving as paid assistants to Cabinet-level officials, members
    of the President's staff, or in the Office of the Vice President. Alumni
    of the program include the Chairman of the Joint

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    Chiefs, General Colin Powell, and Housing and Urban Development
    Secretary Henry Cisneros.
        ``This Commission is comprised of some of the brightest, most
    talented, and most accomplished people in the country,'' said the
    President. ``I am confident that they will apply the criteria of
    achievement, leadership, and promise to select an outstanding group of
    fellows. I am especially pleased to note the bipartisan nature of this
    group, which retains several members appointed by my predecessor.''
        This weekend the Commission will convene in Baltimore to select the
    1993-94 class of White House fellows. Approximately 1,000 people applied
    for the class, and the Commission will choose about 15 fellows from
    among the 35 who have been chosen as national finalists.
        The Commission members are:

        Nancy Y. Bekavac (Chair), Claremont, CA: president, Scripps College
        Frederick S. Benson III, Washington, DC: vice president,
            Weyerhaeuser Co.
        Marjorie Benton, Evanston, IL: president, Chaplin Hall Center for
            Children at the University of Chicago
        Michael Beschloss, Washington, DC: author and historian
        Dr. James E. Bostic, Jr., Atlanta, GA: group vice president,
            communication papers, Georgia Pacific Corp.
        Hon. Jose E. Cabranes, New Haven, CT: chief U.S. district judge,
            District of Connecticut
        Julius L. Chambers, Durham, NC: chancellor, North Carolina Central
            University; former director-counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and
            Education Fund
        Maj. Gen. Wesley Kanne Clark, Fort Hood, TX: commanding general, 1st
            Cavalry Division
        Clive S. Cummis, West Orange, NJ: chairman, Sills Cummis Zuckerman
            Radin Tischman Epstein & Gross
        Ronald R. Davenport, Pittsburgh, PA: chairman, Sheridan Broadcasting
            Corp.
        Adela de la Torre, Long Beach, CA: economist and chair of the
            department of Chicano and Latino Studies, California State
            University, Long Beach
        Dr. Anne Cohn Donnelly, Chicago, IL: executive director, National
            Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse
        Jeri A. Eckhart, McLean, VA: president, Eckhart & Co.; president of
            White House Fellows Foundation and Alumni Association
        Carolyn Forrest, Detroit, MI: international vice president, United
            Auto Workers
        Pauline Gore, Carthage, TN: member and managing partner, Peabody
            Rivlin & Gore; mother of Vice President Gore
        Antonia Hernandez, Los Angeles, CA: president and general counsel,
            Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund
        Robert L. Kagen, M.D., Fort Lauderdale, FL: medical director, MRI
            Scan Center
        Hon. James B. King, Ludlow, MA: Director, U.S. Office of Personnel
            Management
        Victor A. Kovner, New York, NY: partner, Lankenau Kovner & Kurtz;
            former corporation counsel of the city of New York
        Robert M. McGee, Bethesda, MD: president, Occidental International
            Corp.
        Dana Mead, Houston, TX: president and chief operating officer,
            Tenneco, Inc.
        Arthur Mitchell, New York, NY: artistic director, Dance Theatre of
            Harlem
        Edwin C. Moses, Laguna Hills, CA: Olympic gold medalist
        Faylene Curtis Owen, East Lansing, MI: president and CEO, Mica
            Consulting Corp.
        Jan O. Piercy, Chicago, IL: Deputy Director of Presidential
            Personnel
        Hon. Roger B. Porter, McLean, VA: professor of government and
            business, Harvard University; Domestic Policy Aide to Presidents
            Ford, Reagan, and Bush
        Professor George E. Reedy, Milwaukee, WI: College of Communications,
            Marquette University; Press Secretary to President Johnson
        Sally K. Ride, Ph.D., La Jolla, CA: professor of physics, University
            of California at San Diego; former NASA astronaut
        Charles T. Royer, Cambridge, MA: director, Institute of Politics,
            JFK School of Government; former Mayor of Seattle
        John Saxon, Birmingham, AL: partner, Cooper, Mitch, Crawford,
            Kuykendall & Whatley; former counsel to U.S. Senate Select
            Committee on Ethics, and special counsel to the U.S. Senate
            Armed Services Committee
        Max Starkloff, St. Louis, MO: president, Paraquad, Inc.
        Mary Steenburgen, Ojai, CA: actress
        Elizabeth Guest Stevens, Washington, DC: editor-at-large, Random
            House Publishing

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        Hon. Stansfield Turner, McLean, VA: admiral, U.S. Navy (Ret.);
            former Director of Central Intelligence
        Cicely Tyson, New York, NY: actress
        Hon. John David Waihee, Honolulu, HI: Governor of Hawaii
        Hon. Robert Yazzie, Window Rock, AZ: chief justice, Navajo Nation