January 25, 1983
The President today announced his intention to appoint Jean J. Smoot to be a member of the
Board of Foreign Scholarships for a term expiring September 22, 1985. She would succeed
Samuel R. Spencer, Jr.
Since 1974 she has been associate professor of English at North Carolina State University in
Raleigh, N.C. She was an assistant professor of English at North Carolina State in 1968 -
1974.
She graduated from Eckerd College (B.A., 1964) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill (Ph. D., 1968). She is married, has four children, and resides in Wake Forest, N.C. She was
born June 10, 1943.