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[[underline]]National Portrait Gallery[[underline]]

The National Portrait Gallery Commission, at its meetings in 1976 approved the attached list of acquisitions for the National Portrait Gallery.

At their last meeting on November 16, the members of the Commission unanimously recommended the appointment of Joe L. Allbritton to the Commission, succeeding Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, who resigned on August 25.  Mr. Allbritton's appointment, if approved by the Regents, would run until 1983.  By adding him to the National Portrait Gallery Commission, it would be brought up to its full strength of ten members.  A brief biography of Mr. Allbritton is attached.

The following motion was approved:

VOTED that the Board of Regents approves the actions recommended by the National Portrait Gallery Commission at its meetings on May 18, 1976, and November 16, 1976.