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• Proposed for a One-Year Term:

Franklin Williams, present Vice-Chairman
Lee Bronson, present member, collector
John Duncan, present member, long-time supporter of the Museum
Michael Sonnenreich, new member, collector
Sylvia Boone, new member, African art scholar at Yale University

This slate of fifteen names reflects a desirable balance between old and new members, and takes into full consideration the guidance in P.L. 95-414, which states the following:

...in appointing members of the Commission the Board shall continue to include representatives of African descendants in the United States, collectors of African art, and scholars in the field of African art and culture. 

Accordingly, the following resolution was suggested and approved:

VOTED that in accordance with Public Law 95-414 the Board of Regents appoints to the Commission of the National Museum of African Art, effective January 1, 1983, Frank Moss, Frances Humphrey Howard, Roy Sieber, David Driskell, Robert Nooter for a term of three years; Walter Washington, Richard Long, John Loughran, Susan Samuels, Robert Thompson for a term of two years; and Franklin Williams, Lee Bronson, John Duncan, Michael Sonnenreich, Sylvia Boone for a term of one year.

Additional biographical information follows.