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281 #1233 HOLD FOR RELEASE HOLD FOR REIEASE HOLD FOR RELEASE July 17, 1947 The following is for release at 1:00 P.M. EDT today, Thursday, July seventeenth. CHARIES G. ROSS Secretary to the President The Prosident today announced appointment of a ten-man Board of Foreign Scholarships to select American students for study abroad under the Fulbright act. The Board, which will have general supervision of the educational exchange program authorized by the act, is made up of leaders chosen from the fields of cultural, educational student and wor voteran activities. The appointees are: General Omar N. Bradley, Administrator of Voterans Affairs. John W. Studobaker, Commissioner, U. S. Office of Edvontion. Frencis Spaulding, Commissionor of Education, Stato of Now York, Holen C. Whito, Profossor of English, Univorsity of Wisconsin. Lauronco Duggan, Diroctor, Instituto of Inter- notional Eduontion. Ernest o. Lawrendo, Profossor of Physics, Univorsity of Coliforniae Sarah Blanding, Presidont, Vassar Colloge. Walter Johnson, Profossor of History, Univorsity of Chicago. Charles S. Johnson, Prosident, F isk University. Martin P. McGuire, Dean of the Graduate School, Cntholic University of America.