Viewing page 11 of 267

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEETING OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS

September 22, 1980

[[underlined]]Attendance[[/underlined]]

The meeting of the Board of Regents was held in the Regents Room of the Smithsonian Institution Building and was called to order by the Chancellor at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, September 22, 1980.  Present were:

Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, Chancellor
Senator Henry M. Jackson
Senator Robert B. Morgan
Representative Silvio O. Conte
John Paul Austin
Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
Carlisle H. Humelsine
James E. Webb
S. Dillon Ripley, Secretary

The following Regents were unable to attend because of prior commitments:  Vice President Mondale, Senator Barry Goldwater, Representative Frank Thompson, Jr., Representative Norman Y. Mineta, Anne L. Armstrong, William G. Bowen, William A. M. Burden, and Murray Gell-Mann.

Also present were:  Under Secretary Phillip S. Hughes; Assistant Secretaries Jameson, Blitzer, and Challinor; Treasurer Christian C. Hohenlohe; Executive Assistant to the Secretary James M. Hobbins; Assistant to the Chief Justice Mark Cannon; Assistant to Senator Morgan, Carrol W. Leggett; Assistant to Mr. Thompson, Charles T. Howell; Assistant to Mr. Mineta, Paul Schoellhamer; Assistant to Dr. Bowen, Marcia Snowden; and Consultant to the Board of Regents Hermann P. Bretsch.

[[underlined]]Minutes of the Meeting of May 5, 1980[[/underlined]]

The Chancellor referred to the Minutes of the meeting of May 5, 1980, which had previously been distributed, and the Regents approved the following