SCOMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES SENATE NINETY-SECOND CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON RONALD S. BERMAN, OF CALIFORNIA, TO BE CHAIRMAN NOVEMBER 30, 1971 Printed for the use of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare 71-208 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1972 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE, The committee met at 10 a.m., pursuant to notice, in room ew Senate Office Building, Senator Harrison A. Willian chairman of the committee), presiding. Present: Senators Williams, Pell, Kennedy, Cranston, H avits, Dominick, Schweiker, Taft, and Stafford. The CHAIRMAN. The Senate Committee on Labor and Publi are will come to order. The committee meeting this morning will hear from a ne ho has been named by the President to an office that requir irmation by the Senate. Our witness is Dr. Ronald S. Berman of California, nomina 4-year term as chairman of the National Endowment f Humanities. Senator Cranston, this is a constituent of yours, and I belie wish to introduce him. Senator CRANSTON. I am delighted, Mr. Chairman, and m of the committee, to introduce Dr. Ronald S. Berman. The Pre has nominated Dr. Berman to be chairman of the National E ment for the Humanities to fill the post vacated by the former man, Mr. Keeney. The nomination would be for a 4-year ter Dr. Berman is professor of English at the University of Cali at San Diego. He is an alumnus of Harvard and Yale Unive also, where he obtained both his MA and Ph. D. degrees in E literature. From 1952 through 1956 Dr. Berman served in the U.S. Reserve. He has taught at Columbia University, at Kenyon C and was visiting professor at the University of Michigan. He author of eight books and his essays, reviews, and papers on thought have appeared in many of America's leading journa He is known widely and particularly as a Shakespearean s I ask that his complete biography be printed in the hearing at this point along with some background information on th dowment. (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: Y versity, 1956-1959, M.A., Ph. D., English Literature. (1) |