6 CAREER MEN GET AWARDS FOR SERVICE TO U.S.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200180069-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: July 20, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

GToN
Approved For Release 2001/O?CIA-RDP75-00001R
JUL 2, 0 1967
6 Career Men
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Arthur E. Mess ! Carl F. Romney
William J. Porter
ServicelOU.S. CPYRGHT
Six federal career officials, d rector Jof the Peace Corps for
described by President Johnson t e Africa region, honored, San
as "modern pioneers," are ?~aspired and ins irin leader of
winners of the 1967 President's ace Corps volunteers."
Award for Distinguished Feder7i William J. Porter, 52, a veter-
al Civilian Service. a a career diplomat now serving
The six men, named by the - ambassador to Korea, for his
;President late yesterday for the work formerly as deputy ambas
'highest honor that can be con- ador to South Vietnam in'
#errcl on a career employe of y, ioneering and unifying U.S.
the;. , federal government, will ivilian aid programs end;
receive gold medals and cita- reatly increasing their effec-
tions at ceremonies to be held veness "in improving the lot of
11 e Vietnamese eople."
earl, nest month.
r...,, V rz-nnpv 43. Air Force
Jthe offender's capacity to rewinners, the President said
enter community life as are there is such rapid change in the
sponsible " citizen." world today that inherited
'Arthur E. Hess, 51, director o knowledge is no longer sufficient
the Bureau of Health Insuranc to solve urgent problems.
in the Social Security Adminis -We must seek new answers,/)'
tration, for which he has worke he said "from people .
since 1939, for organizing an unafraid to voice constructive
launching "in record time an discontent with tried but no
with remarkable success, th longer true methods, : from
complicated and far-:eachin people with the energy and the
1lvfedicare program. initiative to break through the
1V 1 Sherman Kent, 63, director long accepted boundaries of
national estimates at the Centr action. Such are the six selected
'Intelligence Agency si;,:cc 195 , for this hgih civilian honor ...
,described as a "creative piune
in the .,theory and practice
Approved For R Ie49~g ('1` 9166 CIA-RI P75-00001 R000200180069-2
Nlyia' E. ? Alexander, 57, direc-
1 for of the Federal Bureau of
Prisons and veteran of 33 years
of federal service, for pioneering
"more effective methods o
treatment in correctional insti
tutions which have increase
eismologist tor ms UubaLauu-
ng contributions to the develop-
ent of a control system for
mderground nuclear tests" in a
vay to enhance "international
ooperation in the interest of.
vorld peace," - _ _.......1