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SIMEON BOOKER
Washington and the civil rights
struggle have been Simeon Book-
er's beat for the last 20 years. He
is the Washington Bureau Chief
for the Johnson Publishing Co.,
Inc. (Ebony, Jet, Tan, Black
World). In addition he broadcasts
three times a week on urban
problems and race relations for

the Group W (Westinghouse Broadcasting Company) radio
stations.
Among the many journalism honors he has won are the
Newspaper Guild's Front Page Award for a series on housing
and the Wendell Wilkie Award for a series on education-
both while a reporter on the Cleveland Call-Post-and the
Capital Press Club's Newsman Award while a reporter for
the Washington Post.
Mr. Booker has made tours of Vietnam as a war corres-
pondent and has traveled to Africa on fact-finding missions
with two United States Vice Presidents (Richard Nixon and
Hubert H. Humphrey) and with the late Senator Robert F.
Kennedy. On the domestic front he has covered the Emmett
Till murder trial, the Freedom Rides, the Virginia school-
integration effort and the 1967 Detroit riots.
A native of Youngstown, Ohio, Mr. Booker is a graduate
of Virginia Union University and was a Nieman Fellow at
Harvard University. He is the author of two books Black
Man's America and Susie King Taylor, Black Nurse. He is
a member of the National Press Club, serving on its Speakers
Committee.
EILEEN SHANAHAN
Eileen Shanahan began her career
in journalism in 1942 as a copy
girl for The Washington Post. For
the past ten years she has been a
reporter for The New York Times
Washington    Bureau,   covering
taxes, other areas of national
economic and financial policy, an-
ti-trust, securities regulation and
the women's rights movement.
As Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury in 1961-62, Ms. Shanahan was official spokeswoman
for the Treasury on tax matters and liaison with the White
House Press Office. She has served as a reporter for the
Journal of Commerce Washington Bureau and the Research
Institute of America where she was editor of a newsletter and
covered Korean War price and wage control and industrial
mobilization programs through the end of the war.
A native of Washington, D.C., Ms. Shanahan is a graduate
of George Washington University. She is on the Board of
Governors of the Washington Press Club, on the Executive
Committee of Reporters' Committee for Freedom of the Press,
on the Advisory Council of the Woodrow Wilson School of
Government at Princeton    University  and  is a founding
member of Journalists for Professional Equality.

NICK KOTZ
A recipient of the 1968 Pulitzer
Prize for national reporting, Nick
Kotz has been a National Staff
Writer for The Washington Post
since 1970. Before joining The
Post, Mr. Kotz was Washington
correspondent for the Des Moines
Register and other Cowles pub-
lications.
He received the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Washington
correspondence in 1966, and the Raymond Clapper Memorial
Award the same year and again in 1968. He was also the
first recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award
for his "continuing coverage of hunger and rural poverty in
America." His widely-acclaimed book, Let Them Eat Prom-
ises: The Politics of Hunger in America (1969) was a direct
outgrowth of this reporting.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Dartmouth College, Mr.
Kotz also attended the London School of Economics and
spent two years as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps before
joining the staff of the Des Moines Register as a reporter
in 1958.
He recently  co-authored, with  Haynes Johnson, The
Unions, a series that ran in The Washington Post. As a result
of this in-depth reporting the series was published by Pocket-
books, Inc., a subsidiary of Simon and Shuster.

77ALICE D. TRAVIS
The name, face and voice of Alice
Travis  register  instantly  with
thousands of television viewers.
She is co-hostess on Metromedia
Television's two-hour talk/variety
program   "Panorama," broadcast
live, Monday through Friday, on
WTTG 5 in Washington, D.C.
:: , ....    .     :.During the two years that Ms.
Travis has hosted Panorama, the program has received several
Emmy Awards, and her talents have been recognized by many
local and national publications, including the Washington-
Evening-Star News, The Washington Post Sunday TV Chan-
nels, Ebony magazine and Hollywood Mirror.
In addition, she serves as Studio Staff Announcer and
reports, writes and anchors news for the "Panorama News at
Noon" and "Black News." She was recently named to moderate
a special series for the U.S. Department of Health, Education
and Welfare for nationwide television syndication.
A graduate of Immaculata College near Philadelphia, Pa.,
Ms. Travis has been cited by a number of civic and business
groups in and around the Washington, D.C. area including
the Department of State and the Institute of Foreign Service.

ERSA H. POSTON
As President of the New York State Civil
Service Commission, Ersa H. Poston determines
the agency's policy and has supervision over
the state's 500,000 civil servants. Appointed for
a six-year term by Governor Nelson Rockefeller,
Mrs. Poston holds the highest appointive
office ever awarded to a black woman in the state.
She is secretary of the National Urban League
and serves on its Board of Trustees.

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