NOMINATION HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE NINETY-FIRST CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON NANCY HANKS, OF NEW YORK, TO BE CHAIRMAN OF THE OCTOBER 1, 1969 Printed for the use of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare 35-880 O U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1969 * SY TH 71 474 AA A 30 NOMINATION OF MISS NANCY HANKS TO BE CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL ON THE ARTS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1969 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE, Washington, D.C. The committee met, pursuant to call, at 9:30 a.m., in room 4232, Senate Office Building, Senator Ralph W. Yarborough (chairman of the committee) presiding. Present: Senators Yarborough (presiding), Pell, Javits, and Smith. Also present: Robert O. Harris, staff director; and Roy H. Millenson, minority staff director. The CHAIRMAN. The Committee on Labor and Public Welfare will come to order. The first call of business this morning is a hearing on the nomination of Miss Nancy Hanks to be Chairman of the National Council on the Arts for a term of 4 years vice Roger L. Stevens, term expired. I will not read it all now, but I will order that the biographical sketch of Miss Hanks be placed in the record in its entirety. (The document referred to follows:) MISS NANCY HANKS, CHAIRMAN-DESIGNATE, NATIONAL COUNCIL ON THE ARTS PERSONAL Born Miami Beach, Florida, December 31, 1927. Daughter Bryan Cayce and Virginia (Wooding) Hanks, 3513 Westridge, Fort Worth, Texas. EDUCATION Montclair High School, Montclair, New Jersey, 1945. Duke University, A.B. Magna Cum Laude, 1949. University of Colorado, summer 1946. Oxford University, summer 1948. POSITIONS HELD Member staff, Office of Defense Mobilization, 1951-52. Member staff, President's Advisory Committee on Government Organization, 1953. Assistant to undersecretary, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1953–54. Special assistant, Special Projects Office, White House, 1955. Assistant to Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1956-59. Associate, Laurance S. Rockefeller, 1959. Executive secretary, Special Studies Project, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, 1956-. Project coordinator, The Performing Arts: Problems and Prospects; staff coordinator, Prospect for America, the Rockefeller Panel Reports on foreign policy, defense, education, social and economic affairs, and democracy. Advisor, Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission, 1961-62. OTHER ACTIVITIES President, Associated Councils of the Arts. Member, Council, American Association of Museums. Trustee, Museum of Primitive Art. Member, Advisory Board, Mary Duke Biddle Gallery for the Blind at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Trustee, Duke University. Trustee, Robert College, Istanbul, Turkey. Former member, Éxecutive Committee, The Radcliffe Institute. MEMBERSHIPS Phi Beta Kappa. Phi Kappa Delta. Kappa Alpha Theta. CLUBS The Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. The Rockefeller Center Luncheon Club, New York, New York. The Bathing Corporation of Southampton, New York. HOME 930 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York. Carriage House, Meadow Lane, Southampton, New York. OFFICE Room 4100, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York. Nancy Hanks is president of Associated Councils of the Arts (ACA), a national nonprofit membership organization concerned with the support and development of the arts in the United States and Canada. It is dedicated to building a bridge between the artists and arts institutions on the one hand and the sources of influence and support on the other. Miss Hanks is an elected member of the Council of the American Association of Museums, a trustee of the Museum of Primitive Art in New York City and of the Mary Duke Biddle Gallery for the Blind at the North Carolina Museum of Art. She is a trustee, also, of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and of Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey. Since 1956, Miss Hanks has served as executive secretary of the Special Studies Project of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In this capacity, she directed the staff work for the Rockefeller Panel on the Performing Arts, which was chaired by John D. Rockefeller 3rd. The Performing Arts: Problems and Prospects, published in 1965, was the first comprehensive study of the performing arts in the United States and is popularly known as the "bible" in the field. She served in 1967-68 as a member of the Museum Needs Committee that considered the problems confronting the nation's museums at the request of the President. America's Museums: The Belmont Report, published in 1969, analyzes the condition, needs, and possible solutions to the critical problems facing the country's museums. Associated Councils of the Arts (ACA) is headquartered in New York City. Its unique constituency consists of more than 600 state and community arts councils and centers, and it works in cooperation with arts service organizations, arts institutions, professionals in the arts, and citizen leaders. ACA publishes the only national magazine of policy in the arts, Cultural Affairs; produces a monthly newsletter, ACA Report; has a Washington information service for its membership; provides counseling services for the state and community councils, including workshops and seminars. ACA's conferences are the only national public forums on all the arts, and Miss Hanks served as chairman of two. She has been particularly interested in ACA's research and publications program. Published titles include: Arts in the City, The Politics of Art, In Search of an Audience, The Arts: Planning for Change, The Arts: A Central Element of a Good Society, and directories of National Arts Organizations and State Arts Councils. ACA recently released a report on the first national survey of art museums relating finances to attendance figures. Miss Hanks' previous government experience includes staff positions in the Office of Defense Mobilization (1951-52), President's Advisory Committee on Government Organization (1953), Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1953-54), and the Special Projects Office of the White House (1955). Miss Hanks was a magna cum laude graduate of Duke University in 1949 and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. While there she was active in student affairs and served as president of the student government. She also studied at the University of Colorado and Oxford University in England. |