[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 20 (Monday, May 24, 1993)]
[Pages 919-920]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Appointment of 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 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.

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    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
    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