David W. Garrett
  Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                                                      
  October 15, 1991
  (Phone: 202/453-8400)
  
  
  RELEASE: 91-171
  
  HOLLOWAY NAMED LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER DIRECTOR
  
       NASA Administrator Richard H. Truly today announced the 
  appointment of Paul H. Holloway as Director of the Langley 
  Research Center, Hampton, Va.  Holloway, who has been Deputy 
  Director at Langley since February 1985, succeeds Richard H. 
  Petersen who was recently appointed the Associate 
  Administrator for the Office of Aeronautics and Space 
  Technology, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
  
       Holloway began his career at Langley in 1960 as an 
  aerospace research engineer.  He was appointed Head of the 
  Systems Analysis Section, Aero-Physics Division, in 1969 and 
  Head of the Aerospace Operations Analysis Branch, Space 
  Systems Division 1971.  He was Chief, Space Systems 
  Division, from 1972 until he became Director for Space in 
  May 1975, a position he held until being named Deputy Center 
  Director in 1985.
  
       In making this appointment, Truly said, "We in NASA are 
  very fortunate to have leaders with the professional 
  reputation and experience of Paul Holloway to fill our most 
  senior positions.  The Langley Research Center, as NASA's 
  longest standing field organization, vividly represents the 
  research and exploration heritage of the entire agency, and 
  Paul Holloway is the ideal person to be at it's helm."
  
       Holloway is the recipient of many prestigious awards 
  including the Senior Executive Service's Distinguished 
  Presidential Rank Award in 1987, the Presidential Rank of 
  Meritorious Service in 1981, and the NASA Outstanding 
  Leadership Medal in 1980.
  
       Holloway and his wife Barbara have one son and reside 
  in Poquoson, Va.
  
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