SOUTHERN REGIONAL EDUCATION BOARD
Members of the Board from Maryland:

J. Millard Tawes, Governor

Wilson H. Elkins, Martin D. Jenkins, Mary L. Nock, May Russell
Robert C. Anderson, Director
G. Watson Algire, Certification Officer

130 Sixth Street, N.W., Atlanta, Ga. Telephone: Trinity 5-9211
College Park (Prince George's County) Telephone: Warfield 7-3800

The Southern Regional Education Board operates under the terms
of the Southern Regional Education Compact of 1949, which the
legislatures of Maryland and fifteen other states have ratified. The
purpose of the Compact is to develop graduate, professional, and
technical education in the South without unnecessary duplication.
The Southern Regional Education Board is active in approximately
twenty-five academic fields. It administers the regional education
contracts through which states lacking schools in certain fields are
able to secure training for their students at institutions operated
either by other states or by private corporations. The Board also
studies needs and resources in various academic fields and joins with
universities in Memoranda of Agreement to plan the development
of specific programs on a regional basis. The University of Maryland
carries on the administrative work of the Board in Maryland (Code
1957, Art. 41, sees. 185-88). The Maryland representatives on the
Board are the Governor and four other persons appointed by him.

Appropriations 1959 1960
General Funds .. ................................ $114,500 $118,500

Miscellaneous Commissions

STATE WAR BALLOT COMMISSION

Chairman: J. Millard Tawes, Governor
Vice-Chairman: D. Lindley Sloan

C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General; George W. Della,
President of the Senate; Perry 0. Wilkinson, Speaker of the
House of Delegates; Harry T. Phoebus, Senate Minority
Leader; Lester B. Reed, House Minority Leader; Richard
Paul Gilbert.

Thomas B. Finan, Secretary of State,
Secretary to the Commission

State House, Annapolis Telephone: Colonial 3-2666

The State War Ballot Commission was created by the special ses-
sion of the General Assembly held July 27, 1950, when State's
wartime Absentee Voting Law was re-enacted. The Commission is
composed of the Governor, the Secretary of State, the Attorney
General, the presiding officer of each House of the General Assembly,
the Minority Leader of each House of the General Assembly, ex officio,
and two persons, who are not members of the same political party,
appointed by the Governor. The Commission administers the Absentee
Voting Law. To carry out its provisions, the Commission may make
necessary regulations and provide assistance to the local election
boards (Code 1957, Art. 33, sec. 260).