LETTER TO MR. NICHOLAS KELLY, FROM C. P. CABELL

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EIGHTH ANNUAL PRESENTATION
HONORING CAREER PUBLIC SERVANTS
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The National Civil Service League, a nonpartisan citizens' organiza-
tion for good government, announces its Eighth Annual Career Service
Awards Program.
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This National Civil Service League program is undertaken to
strengthen the public service by bringing national recognition to significant
careers in the Federal service.
The League will grant awards to ten career employees who exemplify
in an outstanding manner the primary characteristics of the career service:
efficiency, achievement, character, and service. Extensive publicity through
television, radio, magazines, and newspapers will be given to the selections
and the presentation of the awards.
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The Career Service Award recipients will be presented with a scroll
and will be guests of honor at a dinner in Washington, D. C. to be
addressed by a nationally prominent speaker and attended by many leaders
of government, business, education, and the professions.
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1. Efficiency and achievement
A record of exceptional efficiency; evidence of sustained superior
performance and accomplishment.
2. Character
A record of integrity and devotion to the principles of public
service.
3. Service
At least 10 years (including military service), not necessarily all
in one agency. This must give evidence of achievement and career
progression.
Agency and department heads are invited to nominate candidates.
Men and women in all grades and, occupations, in the field and overseas
as well as in the departmental service, are eligible. Nominees must be
employed in one of the career services of the Federal government (e.g.,
competitive civil service, Foreign Service, Tennessee Valley Authority,
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Library of Congress, District of Colum-
bia), or by their records must be clearly -identified as career employees
who are making government service their life work.
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No more than three employees may be nominated by each agency
or depa tment. Nominations must be submitted in triplicate with two photo-
graphs 8 x 10 glossy) and include:
1. cover sheet containing:
a. The following pertinent data about the employee:
Name, title and grade Length of government service
Organizational location Marital status; number, ages,
Residence address and names of children
Date and place of birth Education and degrees
b. A brief description of the service record of the nominee.
A summary paragraph setting forth the substantive achieve-
ments which qualify the candidate for consideration.
2. A written statement no more than three additional pages in length
containing:
a. Justification for the nomination in terms of the primary con-
siderations already noted as the basis of selection.
b. Human interest factors especially related to the career service.
c. Comments on the nominee's participation in professional socie-
ties, social welfare, civic, and church activities.
Supple rr~ental material may be attached in support of the nomination but
the foregoing statement should stand on its own.
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Nominations must be submitted by December 1, 1961, to the Awards
Board, National Civil Service League, 315 Fifth Avenue, New York 16,
N. Y.
Present plans call for granting the Awards on March 13, 1962.
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A special board appointed by the Officers and Board of Directors of -
the National Civil Service League will serve as judges.
President
NICHOLAS KELLEY
Kelley, Drye, Newhall
Chairman, National Advisory Council
ROBERT L. JOHNSON
Chairman, Executive Committee
BERNARD L. GLADIEUX, Partner
Booz, Allen & Hamilton
Treasurer
WESTON RANKIN, Partner
Price, Waterhouse and Company
Executive Director
JAMES R. WATSON
New
& Maginnes
Vice Presidents
DEVEREUX C. JOSEPHS
Director
York Life Insurance Company
MURRAY SEASONGOOD
Paxton & Seasongood
JAMES A. SIMPSON
Lange, Simpson, Robinson
& Somerville
CHARLES P. TAFT
Headley and Taft
Board of Directors
DANIEL W. BELL, Chairman
American Security & Trust Company
BRUCE BROMLEY
Cravath, Swaine & Moore
JOHN J. CORSON, Director
McKinsey & Company, Inc.
WALTER D. FULLER
Walter D. Fuller Company
WILLIAM C. GREENOUGH, President
Teachers Insurance & Annuity
Association
Louis A. JOHNSON
Steptoe & Johnson
ROBERT S. KERR, JR.
Kerr, Conn & Davis
JOSEPH I. LUBIN
Eisner & Lubin
JAMES P. MITCHELL
On Leave
SAMUEL H. ORDWAY, JR., Vice Pres.
Conservation Foundation
WINSTON PAUL
Trustee
HAROLD S. SHEFELMAN
Weter, Roberts & Shefelman
ROCCO C. SICILIANO
Wilkinson, Cragun & Barker
SIDNEY W. SOUERS, Chairman
General American Life Insurance
Company
CHARLES B. STAUFFACHER,
Executive Vice President
Continental Can Company
KATHRYN H. STONE, Delegate
Virginia General Assembly
EDWARD F. THOMAS
Edward Thomas Associates, Inc.
JAMES E. WEBB
On Leave
WATSON W. WISE
Wise Operating Companies
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NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE CAREER SERVICE AWARDS DINNER
AGENCY EMPLOYEES AND MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILIES ARE INVITED TO ATTEND THE NATIONAL
CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE DINNER HONORING THE 1962 WINNERS OF CAREER SERVICE AWARDS.
(This is the same award presented to Mr. Lyman Kirkpatrick in 1960 and to
Dr. Sherman Kent in 1961.)
1. WINNERS OF THE 1962 CAREER SERVICE AWARDS
ANDERVONT, Howard B. : Editor of the Journal of National Cancer Institute
AULD, Davis V. : Director of Sanitary Engineering, D. C. Government
ECKLER, Dr. A. Ross : Deputy Director, Bureau of the Census
GODEL, William H. : Deputy Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency,
Department of Defense
GROVER, Dr. Wayne C. : Archivist of the United States
HARDING, Dertrand M. : Deputy Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service
HUGHES, Philip S. : Assistant Director for Legislative Reference, Bureau of
the Budget
SILVERSTEIN, Dr. Abe : Director, Levis Research Center, NASA
WERTS, Leo R. : Administrative Assistant Secretary of Labor
WILLIS, Hon. Frances Elizabeth : United States Ambassador to Ceylon
2. TIME, PLACE, AND COST
a.
Time: 7:00 p.m., 13 March 1962
b.
Place: Sheraton Hall, Sheraton-Park Hotel, Washington, D. C.
c.
Cost: Tickets for Government employees and members of their families,
$6.50 each; for all others, $7.50.
d.
Dress: Optional
3. PROGRAM
a. Speaker: The Honorable Henry M. Jackson, United States Senator from the
State of Washington, Chairman of the Subcommittee on National
Policy Machinery of the Senate Committee on Government Operations
b. Master of Ceremonies: Mr. Theodore F. Koop, Vice President, CBS
c. Music: United States Air Force Band
4. TICKETS AND RESERVATIONS
a. The Office of Personnel will handle the sale of tickets and make reserva-
TATINTL tions for the League dinner.
b. Checks may be made payable to:
National Civil Service League (Awards) or
c. Tab a 111F!FF
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Tables will be arranged for eight persons. Following the pattern
last year, arrangements can be made for CIA tables and for tables of
Agency employees without indicating CIA affiliation.
INDIVIDUALS WHO WISH TO ATTEND THE DINNER SHOULD CALL OFFICE OF PERSONNEL,
ON OR BEFORE 8 MARCH 1962.
CIA INTERNAL USE ONLY
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NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE
A Nonpartisan Citizens' Organization -Founded in 1881
MUrray Hill 9-3544
315 FIFTH AVENUE
President
NICHOLAS KELLEY
Kelley, Drye, Newhall & Maginnea
Chairman, National Advisory Council
ROBERT L. JOHNSON
Chairman, Executive Committee
BERNARD L. GLADIEUX
Partner
Booz, Allen & Hamilton
Treasurer
WESTON RANKIN
Partner
Price. Waterhouse and Company
Executive Director
JAMES R. WATSON
VICE PRESIDENTS
DEVEREUX C. JOSEPHS
Director
New York Life Insurance Company
MURRAY SEASONCOOD
Paxton & Seasongood
JAMES A. SIMPSON
Lange, Simpson, Robinson 57 Somerville
CHARLES P. TAFT
Headley and Taft
BOARD or DIRECTORS
DANIEL W. BELL
Chairman
American Security & Trust Company
BRUCE BROMLEY
Cravath, Swaine E? Moore
JOHN J. CORSON
Director
McKinsey 6& Company, Inc-
WALTER D. FULLER
Walter D. Fuller Company
WILLIAM C. GREENOUGH
President
Teachers Insurance & Annuity Association
LOUIS A. JOHNSON
Sreptoe & Johnson
ROBERT S. KERR, JR.
Kerr, Conn & Davis
JOSEPH L LUBIN
Eisner & Lubin
JAMES P_ MITCHELL
On Leave
SAMUEL H. ORDWAY, JR.
Vice-Pre ident
Conservation Foundation
WINSTON PAUL
Trustee
DON K. PRICE
Dean
Graduate School of Public Administration
Harvard University
HAROLD S. SHEFELMAN
Weter, Roberts & Shefelman
ROCCO C. SICILIANO
Wilkinson, Cragun & Barker
SIDNEY W. SOUERS
Chairman
General American Life Insurance Co.
CHARLES B. STAUFFACHER
Executive Vice President
Continental Can Company
MRS. KATHRYN H. STONE
Delegate
Virginia General Assembly
EDWARD F. THOMAS
Edward Thomas Associates, Inc.
JAMES E WEBS
The Honorable John A. McCone
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington 25, 1). C,
NEW YORK 16, N. Y.
February 13, 1962
We should like to elicit your personal support of maximum
publicity for and attendance at the League's Eighth Annual
Career Service Awards banquet, to be held at 7:00 p.m. in
the Sheraton-Park Hotel on March 13. A formal invitation ,,
...................3-d be most pleased if youcould sit
is enclosed. We should -_ ,
at the head table during the dinner.ande tteattend ur recep-
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tion preceding it at 6.15 in the Continental
The purpose of the Awards banquet, as you probably know, is
to honor ten-of 1962's most outstanding Federal career civil
servants. The program affords them national recognition for
devoted and distinguished service to the nation. It also
increases significantly the esteem in which all government
employees are held.
This banquet has become an impressive community affair. in
Washington. Many Federal people enjoy attending even though
no one from their agency may be receiving an award in the
current year. Since the Awards program honors the entire
Federal service ,_you may want to issue some kind of personal
employees rgT ij to attend the banquet
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message
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if they can.
We should appreciate it very much if you could appoint some
official of your staff to encourage banquet attendance by your
personnel and to handle the necessary ticket and reservation
arrangements. If he possibly can, the official you designate
should plan to attend a meeting with League representatives in
Room 500 of the District of Columbia Huilding, l th and
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Streets, NW.~ at 3:O_p.m; on February 20. It will be helpful
if your designee could phone the League's Washington office
(638-11.755) by 10:00 a.m., Februa,_192 and let-us know if he
will be present.
Sincerely,
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WINNERS OF THE &62 NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE AWARDS
ANDERVONT Howard B.: Former Chief of the Biology Laboratory, National
Cancer Institute, and now editor of the NCI Journal, who is cited as
"an internationally famous authority in cancer research."
AULD, Davis V.: Director of Sanitary Engineering, D. C. Government, who is
being honored for developing a self-financing program of water and sewage
disposal for the District of Columbia.
ECKLER, Dr. A. Ross: Deputy Director of the Bureau of the Census, who is
being recognized for his accomplishments in improving the development
and presentation of Census statistics.
GODEL William H.: Deputy Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency,
Department of Defense, who is cited as "a generalist of the highest order"
whose. achievements range from Marine Corps intelligence officer to manager
of the launching of the world's first communications satellite.
GROVER, Dr.WayneC,: Archivist of the United States who is credited with
developing the National Archives as a nationwide service.
HARDING,Bertrand Mt: Deputy Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service,
who in less than 20 years has progressed from the bottom to the top of
the Civil Service ladder and whose credited achievements include simpli-
fying methods for taxpayers and applying data processing techniques to
the handling of returns.
HUGHES, Philip S.: Assistant Director for Legislative Reference, Bureau of
the Budget, who reviews all legislative proposals from executive agencies
for the President and asslists in presenting the President's program to
Congress and who is being cited for his ability in handling "one of the
highest and most delicate (jobs) in the Federal service."
SILVERSTEIN, Dr. Abe: Director, Lewis Research Center, National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, who is being recognized for his 32 years of
leadership in aircraft and space technology, particularly in the current
Mercury astronaut program.
NEWS Leo R : Administrative Assistant Secretary of Labor, who received
the Depart ant's Distinguished Service Award for his review of the Depart-
ment's programs and administration and who is also credited with develop-
ing an exchange program of labor leaders between this country and Germany
resulting in a non-communist German labor movement.
WItJIS, The Honorable F`rancess Elizabeth: United States Ambassador to
Ceylon, who is the first woman to rise from Civil Service ranks to become
a career ambassador, Also, she was the first woman to attain the position
of career minister when she served in charge of the U. S. Embassy in
Stockholm in 1932.
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NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE AWARDS BANQUET
1. Action Required
By letter dated 13 February 1962 (Tab A), the Executive Director of the
National Civil Service League (1) extended an invitation to the DCI to attend
the 1962 NSCL Awards Banquet and (2) elicited his personal support of maxim m
publicity for and attendance at the banquet.
2. Time, Place, Speakers
The banquet will be held at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, 13 March 1962, at the
Sheraton-Park Hotel. Tickets are $g.50. Officials seated at the head table
wear "black tie"; dress is optional for other guests. The banquet is pre.
ceded by a reception at 6:15 p.m., attendance by invitation.
Principal speaker will be Senator Henry M. Jackson, Chairman of the
National Policy Subcommittee of the Senate Government Operations Committee.
Master of ceremonies will be Theodore F. Koop, Vice President of CBS.
3. Award Winners
The ten 1962 award winners are listed in the attached Tab B. This informa-
tion is for release 26 February 19629 The Agency's nee, Dr. Herbert Scoville,
was not selected.
!. Guests
Memibers of the Cabinet, members of the Senate and House Committees on Post
Office and Civil Service, members of the Civil Service Commission, Federal
Administrators, and the 1962 award winners have been invited to sit at the head
table and to attend the reception preceding the dinner.
Dr. Sherman Kent, a 1961 award winner, will receive a complimentary ticket
to the reception and banquet. Lyman Kirkpatrick, a 1960 award winner, will be
invited to these functions,
As of 20 November, Secretary of the Treasury Dillon, Secretary of Labor
Goldberg, and Secretary of State Rusk had accepted invitations and are expected
to attend. (1962 award winners were selected from these Departments.) It is
expected that about 1,000 guests will attend, including a number of Congressmen
and officials of the Executive Branch.
5. A ncy Participation in Prior Years
Although there was no formal participation before 1960, General Cabell
attended the 1957 banquet and a group from Personnel attended in 1959. There
was substantial Agency representation in 1960 and 1961.
Mr. Dulles attended the receptions in 1960 and 1961 but due to prior
commitments could not attend the banquets. General Cabell attended both the
receptions and the banquets in these years as sponsor of the Agency's award
winner.
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1 Deputy Director (Support)
There is attached a brief sheet
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concerning the 1962 National Civil
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You may wish to discuss this at
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an e3ssion of interest as to
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the extent to which we should
publicise this affair.
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Mr. McCaw has been invited to the
reception and the banquet ands if
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Sunday, Feb. 25,1962 TBL'WA3TON POST
0 Outstanding
lvii Servants
To Be Honored
leveland, Ohio, for 1+1 ^,. a Rent' 1)istin uished 5erv
banal Aeronautics a(e llrJ'..u.''
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nal Revenue Service, who rose
1rpln the bottom to the top
at the Civil Service ladder. in
lees than 20 years.
Abe Silverstein, director of
be Lewis Research Center,
ertrand M. Harding, depu-
+B
ty ,commissioner of the Inter-
Va iversity, entered the For-
eign Service as vice consul at
Va!fparaiso, Chile, in 1928. She
became U. S. Ambassador to
'Switzerland in 1953, to Norway
in 1957 and to Ceylon in 1961.
The 81-year-old National
;iv'11 Service League, a private
)rganization dedicated to im-
proving Government service,
w111 also present awards to:
elude David V. Auld, head of er chief of the biology labora-
tlte District's Sanitary r ngl- tory of the National Cancer
neering Department, Institute and now editor. of
Miss Willis, who holds a the Journal of the National
P10). degree from Stanford l Cancer Institute, director of
p. m., March 13, at the Shera-
ton-Park. Other winners in-
America's Ambassador to
CaW1on, Frances Elizabeth
Wllis, will be honored as the
fist woman to rise from the
Coil Service ranks to become
a career ambassador, it was
aiaiiounced last night.
She will receive one of the
N*ionai Civil S e r v i c e
League's 10 Career Service
Awards at a banquet at 7
many early and valuable
studies linking cancer to
viruses.
ranged from Marine Corps in-
telligence to manager of the
launching of the first coin-
munications satellite.
Wayne C. Grover, archivist
of the United. States, credited
with expanding the National
Archives from a small Wash-
ington operation to a Nation-
David V. Auld, the District's wide service and with devel-
director of sanitary engineer- oping the Truman and Eisen-
ing, credited with the Dis- hower Libraries and the Sam
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the Department's programs
and administration and devel-
oper of a U. S.-German ex-
change program for labor
leaders, which helped create
a non-Communist German la-
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c
i rary.
Rayburn Memoria
of .water and sewage disposal Phillip S. Hughes, assistant
and acclaimed for having director for legislative refer-'
helped make Washington "one ence, Bureau of the Budget,
of the few cities in the United termed an able handler of ,
States which does not have a "one of the highest and most
water supply problem" at the delicate jobs in the Federal
present time. . service"-reviewing all le,gisla-.
A. Ross Eckler, deputy di- t:ve proposals from executive
rector of the Bureau of the agencies for the President and
Census, who has refined sta- assisting in presenting the
tistics-gathering and simpli- President's program to Con-
fied census data presentation, gress.
William H. Godel, deputy Leo R. Werts, Adrninistra-
director of the Defense De- Live Assistant Secretary of La-
partment's Advanced Research bor, winner of the Labor II De-
jrem, the Tiros weather satel-
lite, the Echo communications
atellite.and powerful rockets
for, futum; mace flights.
" major contributions 't*
to