SECRETARY'S REPORT 251 



MEMORIAL COMMITTEE 



In accordance with the provisions of the Jolin F. Kennedy Center 

 Act, a Memorial Committee under the chairmanship of K. LeMoyne 

 Billings has been appointed. This committee will originate, assemble, 

 and review proposals, and make recommendations, for a suitable 

 memorial to President Kennedy to be placed within the Center itself. 

 The trustees will then make their recommendation to the Congress and 

 to the Kegents of the Smithsonian as the law provides. Members of 

 this committee are : 



Senator William Fulbright 



Senator Leverett Saltonstall 



Congressman Torbert H. Macdonald 



Mrs. Stephen Smith, President Kennedy's sister 



Mrs. Albert D. Lasker, a Trustee 



Edward Durell Stone, the Center's architect 



S. Dillon Ripley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 



Theodore C. Sorensen, who served as Special Counsel to President Kennedy 



(Roger L, Stevens will serve as an ex officio member) 



FINE ARTS ACCESSIONS COMMITTEE 



Because of an increasing number of objects of art that are being 

 offered to the Center, it has been found necessary to appoint a Trust- 

 ees' Fine Arts Accessions Committee to determine acceptance or re- 

 fusal of such gifts. The Committee will, in turn, appoint a subcom- 

 mittee containing representatives of the architect, the General Services 

 Administration, the National Collection of Fine Arts, the National 

 Gallery of xlrt, and of two leading non-Federal galleries in Washing- 

 ton. Members of the Accessions Committee are : 



S. Dillon Ripley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Chairman 

 Mrs. Albert D. Lasker, Mrs. Jouett F. Shouse, and Senator J. William 

 Fulbright 



ARCHITECTURAL PLANNING 



Following some controversy in the press on the size and site of the 

 Center, all questions relating to these matters were finally and satis- 

 factorily resolved on June 4 when the National Capital Planning Com- 

 mission, the central planning agency for the Federal and District 

 of Columbia Governments, voted approval of the site, access points, 

 height, bulk, and profile of the building, as well as of the dimensions 

 of the three halls. This action left the way clear for final plamiing 

 of the construction of the Center. 



