THURSDAY, June 24, 2004

Welcome and Announcements

CHAIRMAN KASS:  Can we get started?

Greetings, Council members, guests and members of the public to this, the 17th meeting of the President's Council on Bioethics.

I'd like to recognize the presence of Dean Clancy, the designated Federal officer, in whose presence this is a legitimate and official meeting.

I would also like to indicate at this time that our esteemed colleague Dean Clancy has recently been offered and has accepted the position as the Associate Director for Human Resource Programs at the Office of Management and Budget. He will be one of the four Associate Directors at OMB. He begins over there on Monday.

And I would like to take this moment to officially thank Dean for his extraordinary service as the Executive Director of this Council. His integrity, his competence and above all, his devotion to the common good of this group is very much appreciated by staff, and I'm sure I speak for all of you. And if you would join me in offering a round of applause and best wishes.

(Applause)

I would also like to announce that Yuval Levin has agreed to serve as the Acting Executive Director in Dean's departure.  Yuval, please, would you stand? And thank you very much for doing this.

(Applause).

And welcome back to Bill May, who is who our senior consultant on this project on aging.