LETTER TO MR. DONALD I. WORTMAN FROM GEORGE H. ESSER

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• Publication Date: September 6, 1979
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NATIONAL ACADEMY
OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
1225 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036
202/828-6500
September 6, 1979
Mr. Donald I. Wortman
Deputy Director for Administration
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Mr. Wortman,
Each year the members of the National Academy of Public Admini-
stration elect to active membership in the Academy a small number of
persons who have distinguished themselves in public administration as
practitioners or scholars, who have a demonstrated concern for the
advancement of public administration, and who have a willingness and
ability to contribute to the work of the Academy.
Chet Newland, Chairperson of this year's Nominating Committee, has
asked me to inform you that you have been chosen as one of 23 outstand-
ing persons to appear on the ballot this year, from whom 15 to 18 will
be chosen for active membership. Members of the Committee hope very
much that you will agree to have your name proposed. A member of the
Committee will follow up this letter with a personal telephone call, if
you have not been contacted earlier.
I am enclosing a brochure describing the Academy and its purposes,
a directory of the current membership, and a copy of the most recent
newsletter. The Academy and its affiliate organizations--the National
Academy of Public Administration Foundation and the National Institute
of Public Affairs--carry out diverse and challenging programs, both in
terms of projects undertaken with Academy initiative and those under-
taken with grants or contracts with public agencies.
You will note that election to membership is not only a recognition
of your achievements but carries with it a commitment on your part to
participate in Academy meetings, seminars, education and research pro-
jects as you are able. The Academy's strength lies in the support and
active involvement of its members.
If you have any questions about the Academy's programs, please call
me or Dr. Richard Chapman, Vice-President, at [phone].
With best wishes,
George H./Esse
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THE POSSIBLE SOCIETY-
Jean Houston
Powerful historical forces and ac-
celerating change render much
of traditional problem solving in-
adequate to deal with the complexity
and fluidity of contemporary social
structures and processes. Yet at a
time when many are experiencing a
loss of hope in the social domain, the
vision of what human beings can be
and the nature of reality has never
been more remarkable. Recent re-
search into the potentials of the brain
and body, as well as related projects
in education, health care, and prob-
lem solving, indicate that the human
capacity is a vast and virtually un-
tapped resource and that most of us
use but a fraction of our capacity.
JEAN HOUSTON, Ph.D., is the
current President of the Association for
Humanistic Psychology and one
of the leaders in the exploration,
development, and application of human
capacities and in the development of
innovative programs for education and
rehabilitation. She is also Director of the
Foundation for Mind Research. Her most
recent books are Listening to the Body and
Mind Games (with her husband, Robert
Masters).
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE:
THE WHOLISTIC CHALLENGE --2
Donald Mich e}s-j0Ldb e y,, sa
Orga . , nseflect our societal and
iecemeal approach to reality - to
our personal selves, interpersonal re-
lations, and organizational proce-
dures and missions. Present and fu-
ture circumstances indicate that a
wholistic approach is now manda-
tory. Yet organizational norms, struc-
tures and procedures, and the expec-
tations of most participants still rely
on bits and pieces, turf-protecting
philosophy as the appropriate con-
text for evaluating competence. In-
stead, learning to operate wholisti-
is the challenge and the neces-
This is an age-old injunction that
HUMANISTIC VIEWS OF THE
POLITICAL SCENE -
Walter Anderson
Political science always rests on psy-
chology. Behaviorist political science
emphasizes social control, economic
determinants of behavior, and
interest-group activity. Freudian polit-
ical science stresses the irrational and
unconscious. "Third Force" humanis-
tic political science emphasizes
human needs, searches for new in-
sights into how societies can facilitate
human development, and is espe-
cially interested in studying major
shifts of social values and beliefs:
paradigm changes. Humanistically-
oriented social scientists have pro-
duced strikingly different perspec-
tives on such questions as obedience
to authority, international aggression,
human rights, the psychology of
political beliefs, and the role of per-
sonal values in economic behavior.
WALTER ANDERSON, Ph.D., (political
science and social psychology) is a con-
tributing editor of Human Behavior maga-
zine and author of several political sci-
ence textbooks, including Politics and the
New Humanism and A Place of Power: The
American Episode in Human Evolution.
THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL
IMPLICATIONS OF WHOLISTIC
HEALTH - George Leonard
The current wholistic reform move-
ment in health care is paradigmatic of
a possible social/political reform
movement: Conventional medical
and governance systems are based
on direct linear intervention against
major threats to health along with
"fast temporary relief" of symptoms.
The wholistic approach relies less on
intervention than on basic structural
changes along with increased ac-
ceptance of symptoms. New ap-
proaches to the health of the human
body may well have major implica-
tions for the body politic.
GEORGE LEONARD is President-elect of
the Association of Humanistic Psychol-
ogy. For 17 years he was a Senior Editor
of Look magazine. He is author of Educa-
tion and Ecstasy; The Transformation; The
Ultimate Athlete; and The Silent Pulse.
APPLICATIONS TO EDUCATION:
A CASE STUDY-Jerry Fletcher
Education represents a natural field
for application of many concepts
from Humanistic Psychology. This
presentation reviews a broad range of
experimental applications, identifies
the most promising, indicates lines of
needed research and development,
and suggests ways in which forces in
the larger culture will likely enhance
the importance of these devel-
opments.
JERRY L. FLETCHER, Ph.D., is a Senior
Policy Analyst in education with the
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Edu-
cation, DHEW. He has been a teacher, a
trainer of teachers, vice-principal of an
experimental urban high school, a spe-
cialist in evaluation, and a senior re-
search associate looking at rural educa-
tion. His current interests include in-
novative approaches to instruction and
the long-range future of education.
ALTERNATIVE FUTURES: A
VIEW BEYOND ECONOMICS -
Hazel Henderson
Today's maturing industrial societies,
the U. S., Canada, and those in
Western Europe, are undergoing eco-
nomic transitions. They are changing
from maximum production and con-
sumption based on rapid exploitation
of non-renewable resources to
economies that minimize wasteful
production and consumption, em-
phasize maintenance and full em-
ployment of human talent based on
renewable resources managed for
sustained-yield productivity. Far from
constraining human possibilities,
these new conditions may well pro-
vide a valuable forcing function in
re-directing human growth from our
now socially inefficient, materially-
acquisitive preoccupations with keep-
ing up with the Joneses, to an em-
phasis on human potential, self-de-
velopment and the much more satis-
fying enterprise of creating healthier
social patterns and human com-
munities.
HAZEL HENDERSON, activist and au-
thor of Creating Alternative Futures: The
End of Economics, is a member of the
Advisory Council, U. S. Congress, Office
of Technology Assessment.
ow becomes both imperative and
plausible.
DONALD N. MICHAEL, Ph.D., is a so-
cial psychologist with a background in
the physical sciences. He is Professor of
Planning and Public Policy, Professor of
Psychology, and a Program Director in
the Center for Research on Utilization of
Scientific Knowledge at the University of
Michigan. Among his many publications
are Cybernetics: the Silent Conquest; The
Unprepared Society: Planning for a Precari-
ous Future; and Learning to Plan and Plan-
ning to Learn.
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