Who Are They?
1973 November 29 (Thursday)
Pictured from left to right:
L. (Lawrence) Quincy Mumford, 11th Librarian of Congress (served 1954-1975), appointed by the 34th President of the United States (POTUS), Dwight David Eisenhower (served 1953-1961).
James B Rhoads, 5th Archivist of the United States (served 1968-1979), appointed by the Administrator of the United States General Services Administration (GSA), Lawson Knott, during the administration of POTUS 36, Lyndon Baines Johnson (served 1963-1969).
Stephen John Brademas Jr., Representative of Indiana's Third Congressional District, in the United States House of Representatives (served 1959-1981). Chairman of the Select Subcommittee on Education, of the House Committee on Education and Labor.
JBH, age 15 (two days shy of 16th birthday), high school sophomore, and Founder and President of the American Library Society, later to become an affiliated organization of the American Library Association (ALA).
Frederick Burkhardt, Chairman of the United States National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) (served 1970-1978).
Marcelle Foote, 28th State Librarian of Indiana (served 1967-1978).
Carl D. (Dewey) Perkins, Representative of Kentucky's Seventh Congressional District, in the United States House of Representatives (served 1949-1984). Chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Jean E. (Elizabeth) Lowrie, Dean of the School of Librarianship at Western Michigan University (WMU) (served 1963-1981), and at the time of this photograph, President of the American Library Association (ALA) (served 1973-1974)
The occasion:
I testified during a hearing held on Thursday, November 29, 1973, before the United States House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on Education (chaired by Representative John Brademas of Indiana's Third District), a subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor (chaired by Representative Carl Perkins of Kentucky's Seventh District).
I was among the public witnesses giving testimony in favor of legislation (H.J. Res. 734, 766 and related, in the 93rd Congress, 1st Session) requesting the President to call a White House Conference on Library and Information Services (WHCOLIS) in 1976.
The first WHCOLIS was subsequently held in 1979 during the administration of POTUS 39, James Earl Carter (served 1977-1981). I attended President Carter's keynote address to the WHCOLIS on November 15, 1979, in Washington, DC.
Other members of the Select Subcommittee on Education who were present at the hearing, but not pictured, included Patsy Mink , Representative of Hawaii's Second Congressional District, and Peter Peyser, Representative of New York's 25th Congressional District.
A second WHCOLIS was held in 1991 during the administration of POTUS 41, George H. W. Bush (served 1989-1993).
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