6fftce of tha Caoara! Couris National rctiiiu^iion o-i the ArU and th Hurr.anstiS^ MINUTES OF THE TWENTY-FIRST MEETING OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL ON THE HUMANITIES Held Thursday and Friday, October 21-22, 1971 10th Floor Conference Room Veterans Administration Building . 810 Vermont Avenue, N.W. Washington, D. C. Members present: Wallace B. Edgerton, Acting Chairman Jacob Avshalomov Paul G. Horgan Edmund F. Ball Leslie Koltai Lewis White Beck Mathilde Krim Robert T. Bower Walter J . Ong Gerald F. Else . Rosemary Park Leslie H. Fishel Arthur L. Peterson Allan A. Glatthom Eugene B. Power Henry Haskell Robert Ward Stephen J . Wright Members absent: Kenneth B. Clark James Wm. Morgan Albert William Levi Robert 0. Anderson Soia Mentschikoff Sherman E. Lee Charles E. Odegaard Herman H. Long 21:2 Guests present Professor Richard D. Lambert, Department of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania Dr. William D. Schaefer, Executive Secretary of the M o d e m Language Association Dr. Edmund Pellegrino, Vice President for Medical Affairs of the State University of New York at Stony Brook Dr. Daniel Callahan, Director of the Institute of Society, Ethics, and the Life Sciences Mr. John Lively, Budget Examiner, Office of Management and Budget Mr. G. Phillips Hanna,Chief,Community Development Program Unit, Office of Management and Budget Staff Members present Dennis Atwood, Personnel Management Specialist, NFAH John Barcroft, Director, State and Community Programs, NEH Betty L. Barnes, Grants Specialist, Office of Grants, NEH, NFAH Janet W. Berls, Program Assistant, Division of Education, NEH Paul P. Berman, Director of Administration, NFAH James H. Blessing, Director, Division of Fellowships & Stipends, NEH Kathleen Brady, Grants Officer, NEH, NFAH Irene Burnham, Personnel Management Specialist, NFAH Edward Cell, Program Officer, Division of Education, NEH Mary S. Cole, Program Assistant, Division of Education, NEH Darrel E. deChaby, Public Information Officer, NEH Signa Dodge, Program Assistant, Division of State and Community Programs,NEH William R. Emerson, Director, Division of Research, NEH Stephen Goodell, Program Officer, Division of State and Community Programs, NEH Guinevere Griest, Program Officer, Division of Fellowships & Stipends,NEH Phillip Handwerger, Grants Specialist, Office of Grants, NEH, NFAH Elisabeth Hansot, Program Development Officer, Office of Planning and Analysis, NEH Elizabeth Hame, Office of General Counsel, NFAH Richard Hedrich, Director, Division of Public Programs, NEH Ellen A. Hennessy, Program Assistant, Division of Education, NEH Carole Huxley, Expert, Division of State and Community Programs, NEH Donna Jacobson, Research Assistant, Office of Planning and Analysis, NEH David Johnstone,Personnel Officer, NFAH Robert Kingston, Director, Office of Planning and Analysis, NEH Julian F. MacDonald, Program Officer, Division of Fellowships & Stipends, NEH Sherrolyn Maxwell,Program Assistant,Division of Fellowships & Stipends,NEH Herbert McArthur, Director, Division of Education, NEH Henrietta B. Moody, Office of Chairman, NEH Louis Norris, Program Officer, Division of Education, NEH Patrick O ’Sheel, Special Assistant to the Chairman, NEH 21:3 Staff Members present (continued) Geraldine M. Otremba, Program Assistant, Division of Research, NEH Simone Reagor, Program Assistant, Division of Research, NEH Delia Reddington, Division of Public Programs, NEH Edythe Robertson, Public Information Specialist, NEH Joseph R. Schurman, General Counsel and Secretary to the Council, NEH Armen Tashdinian, Associate Director, Office of Planning and Analysis, NEH Sara D. Toney, Research Assistant, Office of Planning and Analysis, NEH David Wallace, Program Officer, Division of Research, NEH Jean Wesley, Assistant Grants Officer, NEH, NFAH Barbara Williams, Grant Specialist, NEH, NFAH Deanne Winokur,Program Associate,Division of Public Programs, NEH 21:4 CONTENTS Agenda Item Page — Preliminary Matters 21:6 I. Minutes of Previous Meeting 21:6 II. Chairman*s Report 21:6 A. Jefferson Lecture 21:7 B. Chairman 21:8 III. Discussion of Language Instruction in Schools &Colleges 21:8 IIIA. Relations with Humanists in Other Countries 21:11 IV. Discussion of the Humanities, Ethics and Contemporary Medical Science 21:8,9 V. Committee Meetings 21:8 — Establishment of Dates for Coming Council Meetings 21:9 — Names of Persons Qualified to Fill Vacancies in Council 21:9 VI. Reports on Continuing Matters A. Gifts and Matching Funds - FY *71 21:10 B. Gifts and Matching Funds - FY *72 21:10 C. Fiscal Year 1973 Budget 21:10 D. General Program Funds Available for FY *72 21:11 E. Fellowships in Selected Fields 21:13 — Expirations of Terms of Council Members 21:12 VII. Reports on Chairman*s Grants since Previous Meeting 21:20 — Introduction of Guests 21:21 VIII. Research Program A. Report on committee discussion — B. Action on applications 21:14 21:5 Contents - Continued Agenda Item Page IX. Planning and Analysis A. Report on committee discussion 21:22 B. Action on applications 21:21 X. Public Programs A. Report on committee discussion 21:22 B. Action on applications 21:22 XI. Fellowships Program A. Report on committee discussion 21:22 B. Action on applications 21:23 XII. Education Program A. Report on committee discussion B. Action on applications 21:23 XIII. State and Community Program A. Report on committee discussion 21:26 B. Action on applications 21:25 Appendix A: Black Studies and Sound Scholarship Article by Stephen J. Wright 21:27 Appendix B: Research Program: Applications Recommended for Approval - Funds Not Available 21:31 Appendix C: Research Program: Applications Recommended for Disapproval 21:36 Appendix D: Fellowships and Stipends: Senior Fellowship Awards - Applications Recommended for Approval . 21:^2 Appendix E: Fellowships and Stipends: Senior Fellowship Awards - Applications Recommended for Approval as Alternates 21:50 Appendix F: Fellowships and Stipends: Senior Fellowship Awards - Applications Recommended for Disapproval 21:51 Appendix G: Report of Council Committee on State and Community Programs 21:107 21:6 Thursday, October 21 Morning Session The meeting liras called to order at 9:40 a.m. by Mr. Edgerton, Acting Chairman, presiding. It took place in the 10th Floor Conference Room of the Veterans Administration Building, 810 Vexmont Avenue, N.W., Washington, D. C. PRELIMINARY MATTERS The Acting Chaiiman called the roll and a quorum was present. Six new staff members were introduced: Patrick O'Sheel, Special Assistant to the Chairman; Julian F. MacDonald, Program Officer, Division of Fellowships and Stipends; Carole Huxley, Expert, Division of State and Community Programs; Stephen Goodell, Program Officer, Division of State and Community Programs; Irene Burnhamy Personnel Management Specialist, Office of Personnel; and Sherrolyn Maxwell, Division of Fellowships and Stipends. The Acting Chairman mentioned that Lisa Phillips, the new Public Information Specialist, was not able to be present at this meeting. MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING (Agenda Item I.) The Council approved the minutes of the 20th meeting held on August 19-20, 1971. CHAIRMAN'S REPORT (Agenda Item II.) The Acting Chairman expressed his thanks to Donald E. Johnson, Administrator of Veterans Affairs, for his hospitality in permitting the Council to use the facilities of that agency. Because of the calls upon the administrative funds of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, there has been a halt in the negotiations for a new conference room at 806 15th Street, N. W. In response to the President's request to all government agencies for administrative savings, the Endowment has so far reduced its estimated expenditures for administrative costs during Fiscal Year 1972 by $97,000 and has reduced the number of full-time positions from 59 to 56. A certain amount of elasticity is built into the Endowment's administrative budget by the provision of our legislation that up to three percent of program funds can be spent for program development and evaluation. Without this flexibility, a drastic reduction in Endowment services would have been necessary in the current fiscal emergency. 21:7 A . Jefferson Lecture The Acting Chairman announced that Lionel Trilling had accepted the Endowment's invitation to give the Jefferson Lecture in April 1972. A public announcement of this appointment will he made late this year. The Acting Chairman also notified the Council that he had contacted another of the candidates named at the 20th Meeting who had agreed to serve as Jefferson Lecturer in 1973. The Council approved these arrangements with commendation to the Acting Chairman on the success of the negotiations. (The name of the 1973 Jefferson Lecturer is omitted from these minutes since a public announcement of his appointment is not expected to be made until after Mr. Trilling has delivered his lecture. The announcement may not be made before September 1972.) The Endowment has offered to arrange •'payments for each Lecturer in a manner deemed convenient by him. Both Lecturers have expressed a preference to be paid in equal monthly installments extending from the time of appointment until the time when the lecture is given, and they will be paid in this manner. The 1972 lecture will be given in the last week of April and it is expected that a national magazine of general circulation will be interested in printing the lecture. The suggestion was made that it would be appropriate to have a formal dinner before the Trilling lecture and the Acting Chairman announced that he would appoint a committee to consider the matter. There was discussion of the fact that the Lecturer is to receive the same stipend whether he delivers a single lecture or a series of lectures. It was stated that this was not unusual; a similar arrange­ ment obtains for a number of lecture series such as the Terry lectures at Yale University. The stipend for the Jefferson Lecturer has been set at a comparatively high figure so as to make the Lectureship attractive to persons of the caliber of those nominated at the 20th Meeting. There next was discussion of how the contents of the lecture might be made available to the public at large.