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[[underline]] Director of Membership and Development [[/underline]]

Mr. Lawrence E. Laybourne will join the Smithsonian as [[light underline in pencil]]Coordinator of Membership and Development[[/underline]] February 17, 1975. In this capacity Mr. Laybourne will be the principal officer for advancing efforts in fund-raising and membership activities directed to our public and corporate constituencies. He will be a member of the Secretary's Executive Committee, and will provide advice and guidance on a variety of matters relating to the Institution's development.

Mr. Laybourne, an alumnus of Ohio State University, has had a distinguished career in journalism, publishing, and corporate development with a variety of national and international assignments. Since 1970 he has been Vice President and Director of Corporate Affairs for TIME, Incorporated, in Washington, D.C. He started his career in 1934 with the [[underline]]St. Louis Post-Dispatch[[/underline]], as a member of the reporting staff which won that firm acclaim and a Pulitzer Prize for news reporting in 1936.

During the intervening years, Mr. Laybourne progressed in a number of responsible posts with TIME, Incorporated. These included assignments in Canada, where he helped establish and develop news coverage from that nation, and New York, where he became general manager and chief of correspondents for TIME-LIFE.

Mr. Laybourne was instrumental in creating and developing the highly successful TIME news tours, and in bringing together leaders of U.S. business with heads of foreign governments to discuss useful ways to collaborate on social, industrial and economic matters. In 1967, stationed in Tokyo, he served as managing director of TIME in Asia, and in 1969 returned to New York as international editor of TIME-LIFE books.

[[underline]] Naming of the Education Building at the CBCES [[/underline]]

The concurrence of the Board of Regents is sought in connection with the naming of a building at the Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies.

The Regents were informed that in order to provide needed space for the CBCES education program, construction of an additional building financed with private funds was begun in June 1974 and is nearing completion with dedication ceremonies planned for this March.