For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
June 28, 2002
Appointments
President Bush to Appoint Eleven Individuals to Serve as Members of the Committee for the Preservation of the White House
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to appoint
eleven individuals to serve as Members of the Committee for the
Preservation of the White House.
The Committee for the Preservation of the White House, created by
Executive Order in 1964, establishes policies relating to the museum
function of the White House, its state rooms and collections. The
Committee makes recommendations on acquisitions for the permanent
collection of the White House and provides advice on changes to
principal rooms on the state and ground floors of the Executive
Residence.
The Executive Order states that the Curator of the White House,
Chief Usher of the White House, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute,
Chairman of the Commission on Fine Arts, and Director of the National
Gallery of Art serve as Ex-Officio members of the Committee. The
Director of the National Park Service serves as Chair of the Committee,
and the First Lady serves as the Honorary Chair of the Committee.
Leonore Annenberg of Pennsylvania, President of the Annenberg
Foundation, has spent most of her life working toward the enhancement
of cultural appreciation. Mrs. Annenberg served as Chief of Protocol
under President Ronald Reagan. She has served on the Committee for the
Preservation of the White House since 1993.
Kenneth Blasingame of Texas is President of Blasingame Design.
Mr. Blasingame is a residential designer and artist. He also serves
as decorator and advisor to the First Lady.
Helen Cooper of Connecticut is the Holcombe Green Curator of
American Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale University Art Gallery,
where she has served since 1975.
Wendy Cooper of Delaware is the McNeil Senior Curator of Furniture
at the Winterthur Museum, Library, and Garden. She previously served
as Curator of Decorative Arts at the Baltimore Museum of Art. She has
served as a Member of the Committee for the Preservation of the White
House since 1989.
Lonnie Bunch of Illinois is President of the Chicago Historical
Society. He served at the Smithsonian Institute for more than 10 years
and in his final year co-curated the exhibit, The American Presidency.
William Kloss of the District of Columbia is a writer, curator,
lecturer and art historian. He previously served as Assistant
Professor of the University of Virginia, Smithsonian Institution
Traveling Exhibition Service. He was Co-founder and Director of Tours
for Washington Art Associates. He has served as a member of the
Committee on the Preservation of the White House since 1990.
S. Roger Horchow of Texas is Chairman of Roger Horchow
Productions. Horchow was founder of the Horchow Collection, which was
sold to Neiman Marcus in 1988. He is Co-Producer of the three-time
Tony Award Winning Musical "Crazy for You" and five-time Tony Award
Winning Musical "Kiss Me Kate." He previously served as Vice President
of the White House Endowment Fund and is a former board member of the
White House Historical Association.
Elizabeth Gerschel of New York specializes in historic home
restoration. She is a member of the East Hampton Historical Society,
the Friends of the Collection at Mount Vernon, the Historic House Trust
of New York City, and the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in
Decorative Arts, Design and Culture Executive Planning Committee.
Leslie Neuhoff of Delaware is Director and CEO of the Winterthur
Museum, Garden, and Library. She previously served as the Executive
Director of the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole,
Wyoming. She has served on the Committee for Preservation of the White
House since 1993.
Richard Nylander of New Hampshire has served as Chief Curator and
Director of Collections at the Society for the Preservation of New
England Antiquities since 1967. He has served on the Committee for the
Preservation of the White House since 1990.
John Wilmerding of New Jersey has served as the Safrofim Professor
of American Art at Princeton University since 1988. He is also
Visiting Curator of the Department of American Art at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. Prior to 1988, he served as Curator of American Art and
Senior Curator at the National Gallery of Art. He has served on the
Committee for the Preservation of the White House since 1989.
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