WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT NO. 2 4 - 15 JANUARY 1965

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• Publication Date: January 18, 1965
• Content Type: MEMO

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? UNITED STATES VERNMENT
Memorandum CONFIDENTIAL
To : Director of Training
Registrar, TR
DATE: 18 January 1965
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report No. 2
4 - 15 January 1965
I. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None
II. OTHERS
A. The Administrative Management Society has released
some data on the policy toward educational assistance of 4+48
member firms. Among the participant firms, 410, or 92 percent,
provide educational assistance to office employees. To qualify
for assistance, 214 firms require that the course of study
chosen must be "directly and closely related" to the employee's
job, 168 firms settle for "indirectly or moderately related,"
while the remainder considers that a course "need not have any
job relationship" to warrant sponsorship.
Practically all firms pay at least half of tuition costs
for "voluntary" courses and 14i%o pay all tuition costs. About
half pay for the books, too. When the student is required to
take a specific course almost all firms pay total costs.
Other responses to queries on controls about "satisfac-
tory completion," "company approval of school and quality of the
course," and "grade required" clearly indicate that we monitor
extra-hour courses more closely in the Registrar Staff than do
the firms reporting.
B. The special stenotype training program, which was set
up about four months ago for the Office of Computer Services and
the Office of Central Reference, is progressing quite satisfactorily.
The Offices concerned still have high hopes that adequately-trained
stenotypists will be available when,,the IBM equipment basic to the
Automatic Language Processing System is installed some eight to ten
months in the future.
With regard to the stenotype training effort, the students
have virtually completed the theory phase and from now on the ob-
jective will be primarily a matter of building speed through practice.
The instructor, Mr. William Rineer, is considered extremely competent.
He is dropping his connection with the Stenotype Institute of
Washington and the officials directly in charge of developing the
Automatic Language Processing System are strongly of the opinion
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that Mr. Rineer should be retained as instructor for this project.
On the basis of relevant facts thus far obtained, it would appear
that the instruc rangement proposed would be quite economical
for the Agency. will look further into the situation and
recommend whatever seems to be the most suitable solution.
C. We were pleased to receive evidence that OTR's proposed
revision "Entrance-on-Duty Training" is proceeding to-
ward acceptance an issuance. have been 25X1
handling the negotiations and coordination on this regulation.
Straight concurrences were given by most coordinating elements and
points raised by certain components which delayed issuance have been
successfully resolved.
D. All personnel of the Registrar Staff have certified that
as required by existing Headquarters regulations, they have read
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ated 7 October 193, Subject: "Employee Conduct." Also, I 25X1
wish to report that all persons with supervisory responsibilities
in the Registrar Staff have read "Supervisory Responsibili25X1
in Maintaining Personal Security, dated October 1964 and
"Responsibilities of Supervisors," 1 December 196)+ and Attachment I
thereto which is a summary of regulatory issuances of particular
concern to supervisors.
E. In compliance with the intent of "Weather 25X1
n.ergencies," dated 30 November 1964, the Registrar Staff has desig-
nated eight persons to report to their normal posts whenever Federal
Employees in general are excused from duty because of hazardous
weather conditions.
F. At the request of Walter J. Garrow, of Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, I have set up a meeting for Thursday, 21
January, and representatives of the Procurement
Division to cons-. er an program given locally on General Pro-
curement Management. In cooperation with Harbridge House, RPI now
presents offerings for DOD (including the Defense Supply Agency)
and for National Aeronautics and Space Administration personnel in
the D. C. area. The RPI proposal seems sufficiently flexible for
our needs since they can give a program on a daytime, evening or
distributed training basis. We may be able to develop a tailored
course for contracting and technical personnel within the Agency
at less cost-per-man than heretofore.
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G. Copies of the Hopkins memo on Nominations for Senior
Officer Schools in 1966 were made available to all School and
Staff Chiefs, I have also asked the Per-
sonnel Officer U- __---__ __ =ur_oyees detailed elsewhere. Be-
sides RS, negative replies have been received from SS and OS to
date.
I. I've never seen any estimates of per-man costs on our
internal training, but it may be to OTR's interest to compare the
amount invested by us in training a JOT with that reported by the
Sales Manager of the Port Huron Paper Company to train each new
salesman. The paper company spent $11,000 per trainee in 1964;
back in 1959, it was $7,500 for each paper salesman hired.
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
TO Registrar/TR
FROM : Chief, External Training Branch, RS/ TR
SUBJECT: Bi-Weekly Activities Report No. 2
4 January - 15 January 1965
On 13 January
e orces a o ege
ve an a mmistrative briefing.
OS, commented that he was looking forward to a s mia wing
although busy assignment, and said, "It will be wonderful to get
away from the complexities of the office. " At this point
OSI, looked surprised and said, "Gee! Things
aren't ever complex in our office, but then I guess it is different
with us - - I just do my job --- I know more about Soviet compu-
ters than anyone in the West. "
2. Attached is a copy of the new FSI enrollment form.
FSI begins an automated registration/ statistic a/financial
accounting system today. Last Thursday CCS,
and I met with the admissions officer, computer officer and
budget officer of FSI to determine the manner in which Agency
employees will be registered on the new form. The gentlemen
had not thought of us while programming the system. Therefore,
they did not have the answers and were at a disadvantage during
the conversation.
DATE: 18 January 1965
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One of the r nests is for
GS-8, born an IO in the Analysis Division,
ORR. She has requested approval to take Econ 208 at
George Washington University. The course, "The National
Income" will cover the theory of economic aggregates,
measurement and policy aspects of national income. The
objective for taking this training is, "As I am responsible
for aggregate analysis of the economy of North Vietnam,
graduate level study of measurement and policy aspects
of national income will provide me with a theoretical back-
ground, which should be valuable for determining means
of estimating economic aggregates in North Vietnam and
assessing the adequacy of official statistics. "
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