Secretary of the Interior Walter J. Hickel, on behalf of President Richard Nixon, today announced the nomination of the following:
Hollis M. Dole, 54, of Portland, Oregon, to be Assistant Secretary for Mineral Resources;
Dr. Leslie L. Glasgow, 54, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to be Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks and Marine Resources; and
Charles H. Meacham, 43, of Juneau, Alaska, to be Commissioner of Fish and Wildlife.
Also appointed today by Secretary Hickel were:
Charles G. Carothers III, 40, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, to be Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife;
Gene P. Morrell, 36, of Ardmore, Oklahoma, as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Mineral Resources;
Alex Troffey, 48, of New York and California, as Assistant to the Secretary and Director of Information;
Donald D. Dunlop, 46, of Norman, Oklahoma, as Assistant to the Secretary and Science Adviser; and
Delbert L. Klaus, 43, of Alexandria, Virginia, as Assistant to the Secretary for Federal-State Relations.
Dole has been Director of the Department of Geology and Mineral Resources for the State of Oregon for the past 13 .years and in the mining field in the Pacific Northwest since 1933. He began with the Department in Oregon in 1946 as a field geologist and has served under five governors.
Dole was formerly with the U.S. Geological Survey in Arizona, the U.S. Bureau of Mines in Oregon, and with mining companies in Oregon and California. He has been an adjunct professor of geology at Portland State College and formerly a graduate instructor at the University of Utah. Dole earned his master’s degree in geology at Oregon State University and attended graduate schools at U.C.L.A. and the University of Utah. He is a native of Paonia, Colorado.
Dr.Glasgow teaching for the past 20 years in the fields of fisheries, wildlife and forestry. He has been Professor of Wildlife Management at Louisiana State University for 18 years. In 1966 he became Director of the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission.
Dr.Glasgow spent 18 years in research on wildlife wetlands management at the LSU Agricultural experiment Stations and was formerly a waterfowl biologist in the Indiana Conservation Department, He was winner of the Governor I s Award of the Louisiana Wildlife Feder1ition in 1967.
A native of Jay County, Indiana, he was graduated from Purdue University in' wildlife' and forestry, -obtained his master's degree in wildlife at the University of Maine, and his doctorate in wildlife management at Texas A&M University.
Meacham, formerly Director of International Fisheries for the Governor of Alaska, has been in fish and wildlife research and management for 20 years. He spent six years in biological work with the California Department of Fish and Game before joining the Alaska Department of Fisheries in 1956. Following Statehood, he was appointed a Regional Supervisor in the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, with responsibility for commercial fisheries management and research.
Meacham has been an advisor to the Commissioners of the International North Pacific Fisheries Commission, a member of the U.S. Fishing Industry Advisory Committee of the Department of State, an advisor to the Alaska Commissioners of the Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission, and has been Alaska's senior member of the Alaska-Japan Fisheries Panel and Joint Research Venture. He is a native of California and a wildlife management graduate of Utah State University.
Carothers, formerly with the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, has been active in the Northeast in conservation work and is nationally recognized in the field of waterfowl conservation.
He has been an officer of Massachusetts Conservation, Inc. and its predecessor organization since 1953, a former director of the Massachusetts Wildlife Federation, Inc., and a member of the Executive Committee of Ducks Unlimited, Inc. of Chicago. Carothers is a native of Massachusetts and a graduate of Wesleyan University, Connecticut.
Morrell, born in Ardmore, Oklahoma, has been in private law practice there since 1964 and previously was an attorney and geologist for the Gilmer Oil Company of Ardmore.
He is a geology graduate of the University of Oklahoma, where he also received his law degree. Morrell was elected to the Ardmore City Commission in 1966 and as vice-mayor of Ardmore in 1968. A former director of the Lincoln Bank and Trust Company, he served on the 1968 campaign staff of Senator Henry Bellman of Oklahoma.
Troffey, a public relations consultant, was recently with Wolcott, Carlson & Company, Inc. of New York City. He was formerly public relations director for United Press International and public relations coordinator for Kaiser Industries Corporation.
During the 1968 and 1960 presidential campaigns, he was on the communications, staff of President Nixon. A former newspaperman on the West Coast, he is a graduate of the University of Southern California.
Dunlop was recently president of Creative Enterprises International, a management consulting firm, and president of Production Research Corporation, both of Norman. He is a former engineer with Tennessee Eastman Corp, Kingport, Tennessee; Esso Research and Engineering Co,, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Oil Recovery Corp. of Tulsa.
A graduate in chemical engineering of the University of Texas, he obtained his master's degree at Texas A&M University. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Oklahoma Management School and is the holder of many U.S. patents in the chemical engineering field,
Klaus formerly was administrative assistant to Representative James A. McClure of Idaho. A native of Idaho, he served as public information director of the Idaho Department of Highways and as athletic department business manager for the University of Idaho, where he was graduated, He was formerly with Atkinson-Jones Construction Company and Kaiser Engineers.
