FIVE CAREER FEDERAL EMPLOYES TO RECEIVE 'UNSUNG HERO ' GRANTS

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• Document Release Date: June 17, 1999
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• Publication Date: October 17, 1966
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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
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