SENATE NOMINATIONS IN COMMITTEE SHOWS FOUR NEW BUSH APPOINTMENTS
TO THE NATIONAL COUNCIL ON THE HUMANITIES
WASHINGTON, DC -- According to the NOMINATIONS IN COMMITTEE
(CIVILIAN) which identifies civilian nominations submitted by the
President to the Senate -- "for confirmation during the current
congress and that are currently undergoing committee
consideration" -- and, according to the Senate DAILY DIGEST, on
February 15, 2002, the White House sent through four nominations
to the National Council on the Humanities.
They are James R. Stoner, Jr. of Louisiana; Wright L. Lassiter,
Jr., of Texas; Andrew Ladis, of Georgia; and Amy Apfel Kass, of
IL.
Although the White House Press office told Arts Wire that they had
no record of these names being submitted, and a National Endowment
for the Humanities (NEH) spokesperson was also unable to verify
that these names had been submitted, Senator Ted Kennedy's office,
told Arts Wire that it was their understanding that the
nominations had been received in the Senate Committee on Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions. Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) is the
committee chairman, and Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) is the ranking
Republican member. Once confirmed, the new Council Members will
serve six-year terms.
Official biographies are not yet available. Thus, the information
below may not be complete. It will be amended if more pertinent
details are received.
AMY APFEL KASS
According to The John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the
Theory and Practice of Democracy at the University of Chicago,
Senior Fellow Amy Apfel Kass received an A.B. from The College of
the University of Chicago; A.B.; an M. A. from Brandeis
University, Department of History of Ideas; M.A.; and a PHD from
The Johns Hopkins University, Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences, Department of Education. (Dissertation: RADICAL
CONSERVATIVES FOR LIBERAL EDUCATION)
At the University of Chicago, she and her husband, Leon Kass (a
bioethicist who chairs the President's Council on Bioethics) teach
a course which focuses on traditional love, courtship and
marriage. According to the JEWISH WORLD REVIEW, course readings
include classics such as the SONG OF SOLOMON, Shakespeare's
SONNETS, and Jane Austin's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.
ANDREW LADIS
According to the LaMar Dodd School of Art at the University of
Georgia, Andrew Ladis is a Professor of Art History whose
publications include TADDEO GADDI: CRITICAL REAPPRAISAL AND
CATALOGUE RAISONN) (Columbia and London: University of Missouri
Press, 1982; ITALIAN RENAISSANCE MAIOLICA FROM SOUTHERN
COLLECTIONS; (Athens: Georgia Museum of Art, 1989) THE BRANCACCI
CHAPEL; (Florence, New York: George Braziller, 1993) THE CRAFT OF
ART: ORIGINALITY AND INDUSTRY IN THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE AND
BAROQUE WORKSHOP; (ed. by A. Ladis and C. Wood, Athens: The
University of Georgia Press, 1995) GIOTTO AND THE WORLD OF EARLY
ITALIAN ART: AN ANTHOLOGY OF LITERATURE (4 vols., ed. by A. Ladis,
New York: Garland, 1998) and VISIONS OF HOLINESS: ESSAYS ON ART
AND DEVOTION IN EARLY MODERN ITALY. ( ed. by A. Ladis and S.
Zuraw, Athens: Georgia Museum of Art, in press)
WRIGHT L. LASSITER
According to the Texas Council for the Humanities, Wright L.
Lassiter, is President of El Centro College. He has also been
president of Schenectady County Community College in New York and
Bishop College in Dallas. Lassiter attended Alcorn State
University (BS in Business), Indiana University (MBA), and Auburn
University (Ph.D.). He is an ordained Baptist minister and
currently serves as the Interim Pastor of the St. John Missionary
Baptist Church in Dallas. Governor Bush appointed Dr. Lassiter to
the TCH board in 1996. In 1999 he served as Vice Chair of the
Council, and he was elected Chair for the year 2000.
He is on the Board of Directors of the Dallas Urban League, the
African American Museum, and is Chairman of the Advisory Board of
the Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce.
JAMES R. STONER, JR.
According to Louisiana State University, Associate Professor James
R. Stoner, Jr. (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1987)
is an associate professor of political science with teaching and
research interests in political theory, English common law, and
American constitutionalism. His book include COMMON LAW AND
LIBERAL THEORY: COKE, HOBBES, AND THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN
CONSTITUTIONALISM. (University Press of Kansas, 1992) Essays
include "Christianity, the Common Law, and the Constitution." IN
VITAL REMNANTS: AMERICA'S FOUNDING AND THE WESTERN TRADITION. (ed.
Gary L. Gregg. Wilmington: I.S.I. Books)
In an essay on "Faithful Professions" in the conservative POLICY
REVIEW, he describes two of his dreams. One is "achieving peace in
our current culture wars" which he notes "depends on transcending
the hostility toward religion that now seems entrenched in the
secular professions: law, medicine, journalism, teaching". The
other is reestablishing the vocation of motherhood "that society
reestablish respect for the vocation of mothers and dissolve the
pernicious, ubiquitous social pressure upon mothers to leave their
children with someone else and go make money."
The National Council on the Humanities which advises the National
Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is composed of the Chairperson
of the National Endowment for the Humanities and twenty-six other
members appointed by the President, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate. "Such members shall be individuals who (1)
are selected from among private citizens of the United States who
are recognized for their broad knowledge of, expertise in, or
commitment to the humanities, and (2) have established records of
distinguished service and scholarship or creativity and in a
manner which will provide a comprehensive representation of the
views of scholars and professional practitioners in the humanities
and of the public throughout the United States," according to its
charter.
Sources/resources:
U.S. Senate
NOMINATIONS IN COMMITTEE (CIVILIAN) --
http://
www.senate.gov/legislative/legis_act_nominations_civilian.html
U.S. Government Printing Office
SENATE DAILY DIGEST
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/digest001.shtml
February 15, 2002
AMY A. KASS --
http://olincenter.uchicago.edu/apfelkass_cv.html
Amy A. Kass and Leon R. Kass
"Proposing Courtship"
FIRST THINGS --
http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9910/articles/kass.html
October, 1999
Suzanne Fields
"French lessons in amour ---
and marriage"
JEWISH WORLD REVIEW
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/fields011300.asp
January 13, 2000
ANDREW LADIS --
http://www.visart.uga.edu/faculty/ladis/vitae/ladis.html
DR. WRIGHT LASSITER, JR.
-- http://hsb.baylor.edu/advisory/default.asp?lev3=200
JAMES R. STONER -
http://www.artsci.lsu.edu/poli/people/poston.html
James R. Stoner Jr.
In "I Have A Dream"
Ideas for Rebuilding American Culture"
POLICY REVIEW
http://www.policyreview.org/mar96/symp.html
March-April 1996
"'A Harmonious and Consistent Whole': The Framing of the
Constitution and the Common Law"
LECTURE BY DR. JAMES R. STONER, JR. WITH THE PI SIGMA
ALPHA CHAPTER AT THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY IN COLORADO
SPRINGS, COLORADO -- http://www.isi.org/lectures/read/stoner.html
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES -- http://www.neh.gov
NATIONAL COUNCIL ON THE HUMANITIES
Further information about the National Council on the Arts and
its charter is available at
http://arts.endow.gov/learn/Legislation.pdf
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