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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 

PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEETING OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS

May 10, 1976

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

The meeting of the Board of Regents was called to order by the Chancellor on May 10, 1976, at 4:30 p.m., in the Regents Room of the Smithsonian Institution Building. Present were:

Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, Chancellor
Nelson A. Rockefeller, Vice President of the United States
Senator Frank E. Moss
Senator Hugh Scott
Representative Elford A. Cederberg
Representative George H. Mahon
Representative Sidney R. Yates
Caryl P. Haskins 
Judge A. Leon Higginbotham
James E. Webb, Chairman, Executive Committee
S. Dillon Ripley, Secretary

Messrs. Austin, Brown, Burden, Goheen, Gell-Mann, Watson and Senator Jackson were unable to attend.  The Chancellor announced that he had proxies in hand from Messrs. Austin, Brown, Goheen and Watson, and that he will vote these in accordance with the vote of the Board as recorded in these minutes.

Also present were Assistant Secretaries Charles Blitzer, David Challinor, Paul Perrot, Julian Euell, John F. Jameson; Treasurer T. Ames Wheeler; General Counsel Peter G. Powers; Director of Support Activities Richard L. Ault; and Executive Assistant to the Secretary Dorothy Rosenberg.