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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

[[underline]]Proceedings of the Meeting of the Board of Regents[[/underline]]
[[underline]]on September 24, 1974[[/underline]]

[[underline]]Hour of Meeting[[/underline]]

The meeting was called to order by Mr. Webb in the absence of the Chancellor.  Mr. Webb had been requested by the Chancellor to preside at this meeting of the Board.  The meeting was held in the Regents' Room in the Smithsonian Institution Building at 4 p.m.

[[underline]]Attendance[[/underline]]

Mr. John Paul Austin
Mr. John Nicholas Brown
Mr. William A. M. Burden
Senator J. W. Fulbright
Mr. Murray Gell-Mann
Mr. Robert F. Goheen
Mr. Caryl P. Haskins
Representative William E. Minshall
Senator Hugh Scott
Mr. Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
Mr. James E. Webb
Secretary S. Dillon Ripley

The Chief Justice, Senator Jackson, Representative Mahon, Representative Rooney, and Judge Higginbotham were not able to be present.

Also present were Under Secretary Brooks; Consultant Bradley; Assistant Secretaries Blitzer, Challinor, Perrot, Euell; Treasurer Wheeler; General Counsel Powers; Director of Support Activities Ault; and Executive Assistant to the Secretary Dorothy Rosenberg.