Politics Institute Names Congressmen as Fellows

The Institute of Politics announced Friday the appointments of two freshman Congressmen-elect to one-month fellowships at the Institute, beginning November 15.

William S. Cohen (R-Me.) and Alan W. Steelman (R-Tex.) will join Congresswomen-elect Barbara Jordan (D-Tex.) and Yvonne Bruichewaite Burke (D-Cal.), both named earlier, in a special program for Representatives-elect.

"The Fellows will be able to use the University to talk with people about special subjects. There will be things like seminars on how to set up a congressional office," said Elizabeth S. Fainsod, executive assistant at the Institute.

"The Institute is trying to help us not to re-invest the wheel once we get to Washington. I hope I'll get a head start over my colleagues," Steelman said yesterday.

Steelman, 30, is a former director of the President's Advisory Council on Minority Business Enterprise.

"I am looking forward to gaining a general approach to the interstices of Congressional action," said Cohen last night. The 30-year-old Maine representative is hoping to join House committees on Merchant Marine and Flaheries, Agriculture, and the Judiciary.

Cohen is an ex-Mayor of Bangor, Maine, Burke was a co-chairperson at the 1972 Democratic Convention: and Jordan was the first black woman elected to the Texas State Senate.

Professor Ernest R. May, director of the Institute of Politics, said yesterday. "We chose people with high prospects for long-term national leadership." He added that the Institute had tried to balance the group according to political party.

Three of the Fellows will arrive tomorrow for a reception Wednesday, from 5-7 p.m., at the Institute. Burke, delayed by California legislative business, will appear in the beginning of December.