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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP10T01930R000500150005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2012
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 7, 1971
• Content Type: REPORT

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GENEI1AL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
Office of Information-Room 6128-18th and F Streets, NW.-Washington, D.C. 20405-[phone]
FOR RELEASE: Thursday,
October 7, 1971
Dan H. Fenn-Jr-..--Named
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JFK Library Director-
GSA 15403
Dan H. Fenn Jr. of Lexington, Massachusetts, a member of the
Harvard University faculty, has been appointed as the first Director
of the John F. Kennedy Library.
General Services Administrator Robert L. Kunzig appointed Fenn
to head the Library which is part of the Presidential Libraries System
operated by GSA's National Archives and Records Service.
Fenn, 48, is a lecturer on business administration at the Harvard
Business School, a.senior associate of the Harvard-Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Joint Center on Urban Studies, and a consultant
on business and government relations. He held Federal positions in
Washington during the administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.
The Kennedy Library is in temporary quarters at the Federal
Records Center in Waltham, Massachusetts. Its permanent building,
which will include archives and museum sections, will be constructed
in Cambridge near Harvard Square.
Fenn joined President. Kennedy's staff in 1961 with responsibilities
for seeking talent for Presidential appointments. In 1963 he was named
to the Tariff Commission and served on that body until 1967 when he went
into the private consulting business.
A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College in 1946 where he
majored in government and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and president
of the Harvard Crimson, Penn was on the Harvard Business School faculty
and an assistant editor of the Harvard Business Review in the later
1950s.
He is co-author of Business Decision Making and Government Policy,
has written numerous articles on government and business, and is editor
of a seven-volume management series.
Son of the Rev. and Mrs. Dan Huntington Fenn of Cambridge, Fenn
was born in Boston on March 27, 1923. He and his wife, Lenore, have
seven children.
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For the past two years the Kennedy Library has been operated by
a staff of 20 people headed by John F. Stewart as acting director.
Stewart, a native of Bedford, Massachusetts who was educated at
Boston University, becomes assistant director for archives with
responsibilities for manuscripts, published materials, oral history,
and audiovisual holdings.
David F. Powers, one of President Kennedy's closest friends and
associates, will continue the work of recording and administering some
10,000 museum items as administrative officer and acting museum curator.
He will play a major, role in planning the exhibits which will become
the central part of the museum. Born and raised in Charlestown,
Massachusetts, Powers has been associated with the Kennedy Library
since he left the White House in 1964.
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