Chairperson: Gordon Livingston, M.D.

Senate Members: Jerome F. Connell, Sr., Victor
L. Crawford, Clarence M. Mitchell III.

House Members: Anne E. Baker, Jerry H. Hyatt,
Lena K. Lee.

Public Members: Michael P. Bentzen, Joseph T.
Crymes, Anne S. Davis, Jean V. Goldenberg,
Valerie Watts James, Richard F. Pecora, Nan-
cy Scull, James H. Taylor.

Staff: Claudine W. Allen

State Department of Legislative Reference
90 State Circle
Annapolis 21401 Telephone: 841-3857

The Governor appointed this special Commis-
sion at the request of the General Assembly (Sen-
ate Joint Res. No. 7, Acts of 1979) to study the
need for revision in existing adoption laws, espe-
cially with regard to opening adoption records for
inspection by adopted children.

The Commission is composed of three members
of the Senate appointed by the president of the
Senate, three members of the House of Delegates
appointed by the speaker of the House, and nine
members, including an adoptee, an adoptive par-
ent, and a birth mother, appointed by the Gover-
nor. The Commission was to make its recommen-
dations prior to the convening of the 1980 session
of the General Assembly.

COMMISSION TO STUDY THE
FEASIBILITY OF AN ALL-PURPOSE
PERFORMING ARTS FACILITY IN
THE CITY OF ANNAPOLIS

Chairperson: Roy N. Staten
Vice-Chairperson: Martha E. Weight

John C. Apostol, Russell E. Christensen, Jane
Young Davis, Warren B. Duckett, Jr., William
B. Dunham, Maryan Elder, Harry Ewald,
Eloise Glenn, Julian L. Lapides, George R.
Lewis, J. Max Millstone, Ellen Moyer, Jeanette
Rosen, Manuel Rosen, Joseph Sachs, Joanne
Scott, Elizabeth S. Smith, Thomas Smith, Beth
M. Whaley, Robert White, Alice Winter.

Executive Commissions/291

3012 Dunglow Road
Dundalk 21222 Telephone: 284-1509

The Governor appointed this Commission in
1976. The Commission is to report at a later
date.

APPRENTICESHIP INFORMATION
CENTER ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Chairperson: Joseph D. Jones

Annilda Beard, Maude Conaway, Joseph Dad-
dura, Walter 0. Doeller, Jr., Georgia Duffy,
Lawrence Emge, Sr., Charles Evans, R. B.
Fracalossi, Calvin Gault, Charles Gearhart,
Kenneth Gladden, James Goodwin, William H.
Gross, Jr., Robert Guye, Howard R. Hunt,
George D. Johnson, Philip Johnson, Rebecca
Johnson, James A. Kelly, Sherrie Kober, Jack
Lawlor, Edward Lloyd, James Maddox, Ber-
nard Mooney, Henry C. Nelson, Louis
Nemerofsky, Virginia Roeder, James Ross,
James Royer, E. Lorraine Ryan, Richard Scott,
Ellen Smith, Prances P. Stephens, Frank Sut-
ton, Michelle Taylor, Wilmer Webster, W. Al-
bert Wilson, C. E. Bo Zerhusen.

L. Thelma Cook, Coordinator

Apprenticeship Information Center
Room 204, 1100 N. Eutaw Street
Baltimore 21201 Telephone: 383-5532

The former Department of Employment Securi-
ty established an Apprenticeship Information
Center in the spring of 1964 under the direction
of the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Ap-
prenticeship and Training. In conjunction with
the opening, the Governor and the Mayor of
Baltimore City jointly appointed a Citizens Advi-
sory Committee. The Governor reactivated this
Committee in 1970 and reappointed its members.
The Committee consists of representatives from
employer groups, labor minorities, the general
public, and State and local government. The pri-
mary duty of the Committee is to review all man-
ner of legislation or official decisions that are
made effecting the execution of the apprenticeship
system. The Committee is also to promote
opportunities for employment of youths as ap-
prentices, act as consultants and advisers to all
groups concerning apprenticeship, advise and as-
sist in problem areas where resistance to equal