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Black, Shirley Temple [Biography]
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Digitized from Box 1 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 20, 1974 Office of the White House Press Secretary THE WHITE HOUSE The President today announced his intention to nominate Mrs. Shirley Temple Black, of Woodside, California, to be Ambassador to Ghana. She will succeed Fred L. Madsel, who has held the position since September 1971. She was born on April 23, 1928, in Santa Monica, California. Mrs. Black was graduated from Westlake School in 1945, and was a Fellow, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, California. She was an actress, playing leading roles in more than forty motion pictures and fifty one-hour television shows. She served as a Member, Board of Directors, Bay Area Educational Television Association, San Francisco. Mrs. Black has served as a Member, United States Citizens' Space Task Force, Office of the Vice President, Washington, D. C. She was a candidate, Republican Nomination, United States Congress and she served as U.S. Representative, Twenty-Fourth Session of the United Nations General Assembly, 1969. She was Deputy Chairman, U.S. Delegation, Preparatory Committee on the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, Stockholm, Sweden, 1970-72, and served as a Delegate, USSR-USA Joint Commission, Moscow, Cooperative Treaty on the Environment, 1972. Mrs. Black was Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality, Executive Office of the President, 1972-74. Her memberships include: Co-founder and Member of the Executive Committee, International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies; Member, Board of Directors: Del Monte Corporation, Walt Disney Productions, World Affairs Council of Northern California, and National Wildlife Federation; Member: United States Commission for UNESCO; Sierra Club; Audubon Society; Wilderness Society; Planning and Conservation League (California); California Tomorrow, Inc. ; Commonwealth Club of California; and League of Women Voters; Member, Board of Trustees, Institute for Study of Economic Systems, Washington, D. C. She is married to Charles A. Black and they have three children. # # #