FIVE CAREER FEDERAL EMPLOYES TO RECEIVE 'UNSUNG HERO ' GRANTS

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June 17, 1999
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October 17, 1966
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AND TIMES III:t:ALDFOIAb3 App >i fTFjF~elease 1999/09/17 Q AIF&) 0.0149R0001004 cPAgfteceive `Jnsung Hero' Grants Five Caieer Fed erat Ernjiloyes Five career Federal workers from the Washington area } have been chosen to receive grants from' the Rockefeller f Public Service, Awards com- mittee. The awards, conceived. and 'financed by John D. Rockefel, ler III, are administered by Princeton University. The tax- free grants have gone to 32 other career employes since 1960, This year' they will be presented at .a Dec. 7 ' lunch- eon at the Washington Hilton Hotel. Silver Spring Resident Among the winners of'this, the largest privately financed public service award, is 49- year old Millard Cass; Depu- ty Under Secretary of .Labor. Cass has served in nearly eve- ry grade in his 25 years of 'Federal service, before reach-ing the top of the career lev- cls. He's a past winner of dis- tinguished service awards from the Labor department and of the Arthur S. ?Flem- Ming Award: for. Public serv- ,,ice, Cass ? has . been ? )active in Montgomery, mCounty.? . P. TA board of managers of the Washington Hebrew Congre- gation. He and his wife, Ruth, and three children live in.Sil- ver Spring. John M. Leddy, 52, another winner, is a 20-year veteran of the State Department who came up the hard way, through the Civil Service. Leddy has' been Assistant Se- cretary of State for European Affairs since 1965. He -pre- viously was Assistant Secreta- ry of the Treasury.-for Inter- national Affairs. He is one of the few high-ranking State Department officers who hat not, been in the - career Foreign Service. Leddy and his wife, Louise, live in McLean. Aviation Buff David D, Thomas, the No. 2 man in the Federal Aviation Agency, is another Rockefel- ler winner. As Deputy Admin-- istrator, Thomas, a 53-year old pilot, has charge of airport control towers and control 'centers the Nation's aerial highway system. ,An- aviation ; buff, Thomas says .he .. is; looking forward to *0A ."and is ,a: memberof.;the'~the day of flying as;a passen- ger - in an 1800 mile-an-.' hour aircraft. He's a ,native of` Texas, and lives with his wife`: in Annandale. Also an award winner is Dr Edward F. Knipling, 57, al pioneer and expert in the rap- idly developing field of birth control for bugs. The director,! of the 'Agricultural Research Service's , Entomology Re-, search bibision, $niplin?g has done. specialized work in the{ field of pest control by sterili- zaton of male insects. . Knipling was instrumental in the almost complete de- struction of the screw worm; in the Southeastern states,' and 'his methods are now being applied to other insect' pests. He's been with the! Agriculture Departmer t since, 1930, and lives with his wife, Phoebein Arlington. Fifth Winner John Russell Bbandford,' a- 20-year-veteran of Capitol Hill,:, is the fifth winner. Blandford. is chief counsel of the House; Armed Services Committee, in a job which Rockefeller says deals with "the most im?, portant subject in the world literally stand between us and extinction. '' A Marine Corps veteran, the '48-year-old ' Bland rd is ialso known as' a student of constitutional law, which he -says helps in daily decisions ara Jane live 1n;ArlIn Approved For Release 1999/09%17 : CIA-RDP75-00149R00010041.0010-8