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National Council on the Humanities Minutes, No. 11-15 Office of th8 General Counsel N ational Foundation on the Aria and the Humanities MINUTES OF THE ELEVENTH MEETING OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL ON THE HUMANITIES Held Monday and Tuesday, February 17-18, 1969 U. S. Department of State Washington, D. C. Members present; Barnaby C. Keeney, Chairman Henry Haskell Jacob Avshalomov Mathilde Krim Edmund F. Ball Henry Allen Moe Robert T. Bower James Wm. Morgan *Germaine Br&e Ieoh Ming Pei Gerald F. Else Emmette W. Redford Emily Genauer Robert Ward Allan A. Glatthorn Alfred Wilhelmi Members absent: Kenneth B. Clark Charles E. Odegaard John M. Ehle Walter J. Ong Paul G. Horgan Eugene B. Power Albert William Levi John P. Roche Soia Mentschikoff Stephen J. Wright James Cuff O'Brien *Present Monday only - 2 - Guests present: *Mr. Harold Arberg, director, Arts and Humanities Program, U. S. Office of Education Dr. William Emerson, assistant to the president, Hollins College, Virginia Staff members present; Dr. James H. Blessing, director, Division of Fellowships and Stipends, and acting director, Division of Research and Publication, National Endowment for the Humanities Dr. S. Sydney Bradford, program officer, Division of Research and Publication, NEH Miss Kathleen Brady, director, Office of Grants, NEH Mr. C. Jack Conyers, director, Office of Planning and Analysis, NEH Mr. Wallace B. Edgerton, deputy chairman, NEH Mr. Gerald George, special assistant to the chairman, NEH Dr. Richard Hedrich, Director of Public Programs, NEH Dr. Herbert McArthur, Director of Education Programs, NEH Miss Nancy McCall, research assistant, Office of Planning and Analysis, NEH Mr. Richard McCarthy, assistant to the director, Office of Planning and Analysis, NEH Miss Laura Olson, Public Information Officer, NEH Dr. J. Saunders Redding, consultant, NEH Mrs. Evelyn B. Richmond, program analyst, Division of Research and Publication, NEH Mr. Jerold Roschwalb, program officer, Division of Fellowships and Stipends, NEH Mr. Charles B. Ruttenberg, general counsel, NFAH Mrs. Sara Toney,' secretary to Mr. Conyers, NEH Miss Anne von der Lieth, secretary to the Council, NEH Mrs. Jean Wesley, grants specialist, NEH * Present Monday only -3- CONTENTS Agenda item Pag' I Preliminary matters 6 II Minutes of previous meeting 6 III Chairman's report A. Appropriations requests for fiscal 1970 and for supplemental matching funds for fiscal 1969 61969 6 B. Current status of fiscal 1969 funds 8 IV Gifts and matching funds: interpretation of prior resolutions 8 V Committee meetings 9 VI Discussion of program allocations with a 1970 appropriation other than $6,500,000 9 VII Planning and development A. National Humanities Faculty, renewal application 10 B. Suggested conference on the humanities in the schools 10 C. Bicentennial planning 10 D. Report on meeting of advisory group on urban problems, November 22, 1968 11 E. Suggested conference on the university and the community 11 VIII Materials of possible commercial value produced with Endowment support 11 IX Education program A. Action on applications other than summer institutes on Negro history and culture 12 B. Action on applications: 1969 summer institutes on Negro history and culture 15 C. Proposed program with the Council on Library Resources 17 X Public program A. Applications recommended for approval 18 B. Applications deferred 19 C. Applications recommended for disapproval 19 D. Report and recommendations on museum intern program 20 E. Continuation of regional program; incorpora­ tion of experimental lecture program 21 -4- Agenda item Page XI Fellowship program A. Action on applications: younger scholar fellowships and summer stipends 21 B. Action on applications: Negro college faculty development 22 C. Calculation of senior fellowship stipends 23 D. Proposed program for junior college teachers 24 XII Research program A. Report on proposed national union catalogue of Negro materials 24 B. Action on applications 1. General matters 24 2. Applications recommended for approval 25 3. Applications conditionally recommended for approval 28 4. Applications deferred 30 5. Applications recommended for disapproval 31 XIII Gifts and matching funds 31 XIV Other business Council report to the President 20 Chairman's grants 32 Organization of the Council 32 Meeting arrangements 32 Appendix A: Materials of possible commercial value produced with Endowment support 33 Appendix B: Education program, applications recommended for disapproval 39 Appendix C: Public program,applications recommended for disapproval 43 Appendix D: Council report to the President 45 Appendix E: Fellowships for younger scholars Applications recommended for approval 49 Applications recommended for approval as alternates 57 Applications recommended for disapproval 58 -5- Agenda item Page Appendix F: Summer stipends Applications recommended for approval 77 Applications recommended for approval as alternates 86 Applications recommended for disapproval 87 Appendix G: Negro college faculty development program, applica­ tions recommended for disapproval 107 Appendix H: Research program, applications recommended for disapproval 109 - 6- Monday, February 17 Morning Session The meeting was called to order at 9:30 a.m., with Mr. Keeney, chairman, presiding. PRELIMINARY MATTERS (Agenda item I) The Chairman called the roll. Dr. Mathilde Krim was sworn in as a member of the Council, vice William Riley Parker. Several new staff members were introduced: Jack Conyers, director of planning and analysis; Gerald George, special assistant to the Chair­ man; Laura Olson, director of public information; Kathleen Brady, grants officer; and William Emerson, who will become director of the Division of Research and Publication in June. In addition, the Chairman announced that James Blessing was serving as acting director of the Division of Research and Publication and that Richard Hedrich, formerly grants officer of the Endowment, had been appointed director of public programs, replacing Russell Fridley. The Chairman announced arrangements for a dinner on Monday evening at which Dr. Frederick Seitz, president of the National Academy of Sciences and Rockefeller University, was to speak. MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING (Agenda item II) The Council approved the minutes of its tenth meeting, held November 18 and 19, 1968. CHAIRMAN'S REPORT (Agenda item III) A. Appropriations requests for fiscal 1970 and for supplemental matching funds for fiscal 1969. The Chairman reported that, since the November meeting, the Johnson Administration had taken its final action on the Foundation's budget requests, with the following results: -7- Request to Budget Administration Bureau, fall 1968* Request, Jan. 1969 (in thousands) (in thousands) FY 1969 FY 1969 supple- supple- FY 1970 mental FY 1970 mental Humanities, definite program funds $ 9,000 $ 6,500 Arts, definite program funds — general programs 6.500 4,500 — state programs 2.500 2,000 Matching funds (indefinite appropriation) — Humanities 4,750** $1,500 1,000 $1,500 — Art s 4,750** 1,500 1,000 1,500 Administration 2,216 1,744 Total $29,716 $3,000 $16,744 $3,000 * With two qualifications, the request was for the full appropriation authorized. The qualifications are that (a) for administrative funds, the authorizing legislation does not establish a dollar ceiling and (b) for matching funds, the authorization is $13,500,000 for fiscal 1969 and 1970 combined and for both Endowments combined. Of this amount, $1,000,000 has already been appropriated for fiscal 1969 ($500,000 per Endowment), leaving $12,500,000 as the remaining authorization. **In the Foundation's 1970 budget document itself, matching funds of $6,250,000 were requested for each Endowment. In effect the document was amended by the concomitant request that $1,500,000 of this amount be allowed each Endowment as a supplemental 1969 appropriation. - 8- Since the inauguration of President Nixon, the Chairman reported, the Budget Bureau had asked all agencies to review their budget requests with a view to making reductions and to giving the new administration leeway to launch its own programs. The Endowment had responded by asking that the 1970 request be increased to the full amount authorized. No further formal action had occurred. The Council’s attention was also called to a letter of December 20, 1968, from the Chairman to the President-elect, explaining the impor­ tance of the humanities and the programs of the Endowment, and to a draft letter prepared by Dr. Else on behalf of the Council supporting the request for increased appropriations. It was noted that reactions to the latter would be requested later in the meeting. B. Current status of fiscal 1969 funds. Attention was called to summaries showing the uncommitted balances of definite appropriations available for each program and the balance of matching funds available for the Endowment as a whole. On the effect of the pending request for supplemental matching funds, the Chairman suggested that the Council make its recommendations on the assumption that the full supplemental appropriation would be approved. It was noted that offers of grants from gifts and matching funds would be conditioned on the availability of matching funds when gifts were received. Even if matching funds were not available, it was pointed out, the gift alone might be granted in accordance with the donor’s purpose, or, under the appropriations language proposed for fiscal 1970, matching might be provided from the 1970 appropriation. GIFTS AND MATCHING FUNDS: INTERPRETATION OF PRIOR RESOLUTIONS (Agenda item IV) Attention was called
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