question: in the "Search Committee"  episode, Deangelo's new replacement is sought out through a search committee process led by a character whose role is played by an American actor who was born when?
answer: October 20, 1979
context: Title: Joe Verret
  Passage: Joe Verret (11 December 1945 – 30 March 2010) was an American Trotskyite who worked in civil rights in the South in the 1960s, and who was the target of state repression.  Born in New Orleans, Verret was involved in founding the Spartacist League (US) in 1966, serving on the central committee.  Prior to the formation of the Spartacist League, Verret was part of the American Socialist Organising Committee, which had split from the Socialist Party.  Joe's Trotskyite work in the 1960s centred on New Orleans, involving the Southern Student Organizing Committee, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and civil rights protests.  Verret's activities were an element of the Louisiana Joint Legislative Committee on Un-American Activities Report 9, on "The Spartacist League and Certain Other Communist Activities in South Louisiana."  Verret achieved full membership of the Spartacist League Central Committee in 1969.  Also in 1969, despite being an anti-war activist, Verret was drafted.  Following the Spartacist line on war, Verret accepted the draft in order to serve alongside fellow workers.  Verret was involved in the "G.I. Voice" newsletter supporting soldiers taking a class war position against the US state.  The US Army reacted to Verret's politics by making him serve unusually long training, through individual intimidation, and through placing him in desk work in Vietnam.  In 1976 Verret moved to London and played a role in the founding of the Spartacist League/Britain in 1978.  In 1979 Verret was elected a member of the International Executive Committee of the now International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist).  He also served as National Chairman of the Trotskyist League of Canada in the 1970s and early 1980s.  In 1981 Verret returned to the US, where he led the Atlanta Local of the Spartacist League from 1983 until 1996.  In 1996 he moved to Los Angeles.
  Title: Alvin Goldfarb
  Passage: Alvin "Al" Goldfarb was the tenth president of Western Illinois University.  Prior to his current position from 1977 to 2002 he was on the faculty of the department of theatre at Illinois State University in Normal, where he was also chairman of the theatre department, dean of fine arts from 1988 to 1998, and provost and vice president for academic affairs from 1998.  He earned a Ph.D. in theater history from the City University of New York.  In 2006 Goldfarb announced that he was being treated for prostate cancer and that a complete recovery was expected.  At the July 2009 meeting of the WIU Board of Trustees, Goldfarb officially announced his intention to retire on June 30, 2011.  It was announced that President Goldfarb would be succeeded as president of the university by Western's current Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dr. Jack Thomas, who succeeded him on July 1, 2011.  A search committee will now search for an Interim Provost, as well as for two other Vice President positions whose present incumbent officeholders will be retiring soon.  President Goldfarb's and incoming President Thomas's principal priority, besides having a seamless transition and a quick search for candidates, is to deal with the fact that the University is owed more than $50 million by the government of the State of Illinois, and must find further non-critical areas to hone and look to alternative sources of funding like non-government grants and loans, private donations and gifts, and to alumni.
  Title: Mick Travis
  Passage: Michael Arnold "Mick" Travis is a character played by Malcolm McDowell in three films directed by British film director Lindsay Anderson and written by David Sherwin.  Travis features not so much as a single character with a character arc, but as an everyman character whose role changes according to the needs of the storyteller.
  Title: Jisc
  Passage: Jisc (formerly the Joint Information Systems Committee) is a United Kingdom not-for-profit company whose role is to support post-16 and higher education, and research, by providing relevant and useful advice, digital resources and network and technology services, while researching and developing new technologies and ways of working.  It is funded by a combination of the UK further and higher education funding bodies, and individual higher education institutions.
  Title: 11th Panchen Lama controversy
  Passage: The 11th Panchen Lama controversy is a dispute about the current legitimate holder of the Panchen Lama title, a political and religious leadership position in Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism.  After the death of the 10th Panchen Lama, a dispute between the Chinese leadership and the exiled 14th Dalai Lama resulted in two competing candidates.  The search committee process involving monks in Tibet under the strict supervision of the Chinese communist regime was disrupted when the Dalai Lama, according to the Tibetan tradition, unilaterally announced his selection of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima.  The leadership in China spirited Nyima away to prevent his being taken to India by the Dalai Lama's supporters and reverted to the Qing Dynasty's Golden Urn process to select Gyaincain Norbu, who currently fulfills the duties of the Panchen Lama in China.
  Title: Search Committee
  Passage: "Search Committee" is the hour-long finale of the seventh season of the American television comedy series "The Office".  It comprises the 151st and 152nd episodes of the series overall and the 25th and 26th episodes of the seventh season.  It originally aired on NBC on May 19, 2011 in the United States.  In the episode, Deangelo's new replacement is sought out through a search committee process led by Jim (John Krasinski).  Meanwhile, Angela (Angela Kinsey) becomes engaged to her state senator boyfriend, Robert (Jack Coleman), while the rest of the office believes he is gay.
  Title: Steve Gaines (pastor)
  Passage: Dr. John Steven Gaines (born December 31, 1957, Corinth, Mississippi) is an American Southern Baptist pastor, and the current President of the Southern Baptist Convention.  He is currently serving at Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova (a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee), one of the largest congregations in the Southern Baptist Convention.  On Sunday, July 10, 2005 the Pastor Search Committee of Bellevue Baptist Church presented Dr. Steve Gaines to the church congregation.  At the conclusion of the services the Bellevue family overwhelmingly voted to call Steve Gaines as the seventh Pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church.  Gaines succeeds the longtime Bellevue pastor Adrian Rogers.
  Title: John Krasinski
  Passage: John Burke Krasinski ( ; born October 20, 1979) is an American actor and filmmaker.  He is widely known for his role as Jim Halpert on the NBC sitcom "The Office" (2005–2013), for which he received critical acclaim and won numerous awards.  He also served as a producer and occasional director of the show.
  Title: Bruce Edward Caldwell
  Passage: Bruce Edward Caldwell (born July 8, 1947) served as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Wyoming from 1997 to 2010.  Since then, Caldwell has also served as Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of New York and as interim spiritual leader of St. Mark's Cathedral in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  In 2016, Caldwell was called upon to serve as bishop provisional in the Diocese of Lexington after its bishop diocesan, Douglass Hahn, took a leave-of-absence and later resigned as a result of misleading the diocesan search committee.
  Title: Johnny C. Taylor, Jr.
  Passage: Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. is an American lawyer, author and public speaker who serves as the President & CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), the national organization representing the country’s 47 publicly-supported Historically Black Colleges and Universities.  Taylor also serves on the board of Gallup, a research-based, global performance-management consulting company, and the Board of Trustees of The Cooper Union, a privately funded college located in New York City.  Since December 2016, he serves as chair of the Cooper Union Governance Committee and as member of the Executive Committee.  Along with Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Partners Chief Information Officer and Cooper Union alumnus Eric Hirschhorn, Johnny co-chaired the school's search committee for a full-time president.  Johnny was elected to the Board of Trustees of the University of Miami on May 5, 2017.
citations: John Krasinski Search Committee