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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary


For Immediate Release September 19, 1996

PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES JUDY JOLLEY MOHRAZ TO BE A MEMBER OF

THE U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY BOARD OF VISITORS

President Clinton today announced his intent to appoint Judy Jolley Mohraz of Baltimore, Maryland, to be a member of the U. S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors.

Ms. Mohraz is the President of Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. She is an expert in the fields of the history of women in America, American intellectual history, and the history of education in America. Ms. Mohraz is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Maryland Committee for Children and the Commission on Women in Higher Education of the American Council on Education. She has served on the Community Advisory Board for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, was a consultant to the Educational Testing Service, and is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Grant. In addition, she has written a book on black education in the North and is in the process of completing Paths of Professional Women in America: A Documentary History. Ms. Mohraz received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from Baylor University, and her Ph.D from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The Board of Visitors to the U.S. Naval Academy visits the Academy annually to inquire into the state of morale and discipline, the curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, academic methods, and other matters that the Board decides to consider relating to the Academy.

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