LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE NINETY-SECOND CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON RONALD S. BERMAN, OF CALIFORNIA, TO BE CHAIRMAN OF 71-208 NOVEMBER 30, 1971 Printed for the use of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1972 DEPOSITED BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, JR., New Jersey, Chairman JENNINGS RANDOLPHI, West Virginia ADLAI E. STEVENSON III, Illinois JACOB K. JAVITS, New York J. GLENN BEALL, JR., Maryland STEWART E. MCCLURE, Staff Director NOMINATION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1971 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE, Washington, D.C. The committee met at 10 a.m., pursuant to notice, in room 4232, New Senate Office Building, Senator Harrison A. Williams, Jr. (chairman of the committee), presiding. Present: Senators Williams, Pell, Kennedy, Cranston, Hughes, Javits, Dominick, Schweiker, Taft, and Stafford. The CHAIRMAN. The Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare will come to order. The committee meeting this morning will hear from a nominee who has been named by the President to an office that requires confirmation by the Senate. Our witness is Dr. Ronald S. Berman of California, nominated to a 4-year term as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Senator Cranston, this is a constituent of yours, and I believe you wish to introduce him. Senator CRANSTON. I am delighted, Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee, to introduce Dr. Ronald S. Berman. The President has nominated Dr. Berman to be chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities to fill the post vacated by the former chairman, Mr. Keeney. The nomination would be for a 4-year term. Dr. Berman is professor of English at the University of California at San Diego. He is an alumnus of Harvard and Yale Universities, also, where he obtained both his MA and Ph. D. degrees in English literature. From 1952 through 1956 Dr. Berman served in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He has taught at Columbia University, at Kenyon College, and was visiting professor at the University of Michigan. He is the author of eight books and his essays, reviews, and papers on social thought have appeared in many of America's leading journals. He is known widely and particularly as a Shakespearean scholar. I ask that his complete biography be printed in the hearing record at this point along with some background information on the Endowment. (The information referred to follows:) RONALD STANLEY BERMAN Birth: 15 December 1930, New York City, New York. Education: Harvard University, 1948-1952. A.B., Social Relations; Yale University, 1956–1959, M.A., Ph. D., English Literature. |