248 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1964 



The Center's testimony was given before the House and Senate Ap- 

 propriations Committees, and final action was taken when both houses 

 of Congress agreed to the amended Appropriations Bill on Jime 29. 

 (It was signed by President Johnson on July 7.) Under the terms 

 of tliis legislation (P.L. 88-356) Congress provided "such amounts 

 which in the aggregate will equal gifts, bequests, and devises of 

 money, securities, and other property, received by the Board for the 

 benefit of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts prior 

 to July 1, 1965, and available or used for expenditures directly inci- 

 dent to the planning, contracting, and construction of the Center: 

 Provided, That the total amomit appropriated by tliis paragraph 

 shall not exceed $15,500,000." 



The John F. Kennedy Center Act made no change in the composi- 

 tion of the Board of Trustees, the officers, the Advisory Committee on 

 the Arts, or the concept and charter of the Center. 



Mrs. Lyndon B. Jolmson agreed to serve as honorary cochainnan 

 with Mrs. John F. Kennedy and Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower. 



At the present time the Board of Trustees and elected officers of the 

 Center are as follows : 



Trustees: 



Howard F. Ahmanson 



Floyd D. Akers 



Lucius D. Battle 



K. LeMoyne Billings 



Ralph E. Becker 



Ernest R. Breech 



Edgar M. Bronfman 



Ralph J. Bunche 



Anthony J. Oelebrezze 



Joseph S. Clark 



J. William Fulbright 



Mrs. George A, Garrett 



George B. Hartzog 



Francis Keppel 



Mrs. Albert D. Lasker 



George Meany 

 L. Quincy Mumford 

 Mrs. Charlotte T, Reid 

 Richard S. Reynolds, Jr. 

 Frank H. Ricketson, Jr. 

 S. Dillon Ripley, II 

 Leverett Saltonstall 

 Mrs. Jouett Shouse 

 L. Corrin Strong 

 Frank Thompson 

 Walter N. Tobriner 

 William Walton 

 William H. Waters, Jr. 

 James C. Wright, Jr. 



Chairman, Roger L. Stevens 



Vice Chairman, L. Corrin Strong 



Treasurer, Daniel W. Bell 



General Counsel, Ralph E. Becker 



Secretary, K. LeMoyne Billings 



Senior Assistant Secretary, Philip J. Mullin 



PROGRESS DURING 1963-1964 



All the Center's fund-raising committees contmued, on an increased 

 scale, the activities initiated in the previous year: 



(1) President\^ Business Committee. — Ernest R. Breech, formerly 

 chairman, Ford Motor Co., maintained his effective leadership of this 



