USE OF(Sanitized) AS GUEST LECTURER AT THE ANNUAL AGENCY RETIREMENT INFORMATION SEMINAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00156R001000100026-8
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 2, 2003
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: April 22, 1979
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration
VIA Director of Training
FROM Harry E. Fitzwater
Director of Personnel
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SUBJECT Use of Dr. Ralph G. Hirschowitz as Guest
Lecturer at the Annual Agency Retirement
Information Seminar
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1. Action Requested: Paragraph 4 contains a request
for an exception which is subject to your approval,
2. Background: The Office of Personnel has sponsored
an annual Agency Retirement Information Seminar each fall
for more than a decade. Employees attending that Seminar
are preparing for retirement in the next few years. Each
year, the planners of the Seminar attempt to bring the most
effective speakers on practical and timely subjects to the
Seminar. The last two seminars have been the best attended
and from the written and oral critiques received, the most
appreciated. A significant reason for this favorable response
has been the presentation made by Dr. Ralph G. Hirschowitz,
an Associate of the Levinson Institute and an Assistant
Clinical Professor of Harvard Medical School, who has lectured
on "Dealing With Stress in Changing Situations." His lecture
has, in effect, been the major contribution of the Office of
Medical Services to the Seminar as now constituted. The Office
of Personnel desires to retain the present format of the
Seminar for another year and to schedule Dr. Hirschowitz for
a lecture on 1 November 1979, provided his schedule will permit.
For all but a very few persons attending the Seminar it is
their only opportunity to hear such an outstanding speaker as
Dr. Hirschowitz on a topic so vital to prospective retirees.
We will endeavor to identify some other speaker on this subject
prior to the 1980 Seminar.
3. Staff Position: The transition to retirement status
can often be somewhat traumatic even with the best of prepara-
tion beforehand. We believe that Dr. Hirschowitz can materially
assist our employees in recognizing and knowing how to cope with
the various stages of this transition, In March 1978, the Deputy
Director for Administration approved a recommendation I made as
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the Director of Training that future
Dr. Hirschowitz be restricted to the
formal training courses. Exceptions to this restriction
require your approval and we believe that an exception is
warranted in this instance. We do not believe that his
appearance in this forum will dilute the effectiveness of
his other Agency presentations.
4. Recommendation: It is requested that an exception
be grante to permit Dr. Hirschowitz to'speak to the Agency
Retirement Information Seminar on 1 November 1979.
W'*F, E Fitaterr
Harry E. Fitzwater
STAT CONCU
Director of Training
DATE : 2 5 APR 1979
STAT APPROVED :
Deputy Director for Administration
DATE:
Distribution:
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1 - DTR
1 - D/Pers
2 - OP/RAD
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