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NOTE FOR: DD/PersPPF1M
1. The attached correspondence re the Excalibur
Award was referred to us for action. Penultimate
paragraph suggests, "You may want to post the enclosed
announcement so your workers will see it." What is
enclosed is more like a poster than an announcement
and would do little more than confuse those who took
the time to read it. Furthermore, we have already sent
in a nomination for this award and have been advised
that it still stands (has not been ruled out for con-
sideration).
2. Suggest we file this information and in our
next memorandum to all Directorates asking for Public
Service Award nominees, include information about
Excalibur. Our next memo re Public Service Awards
should go out in about a month.
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 Mt,CHAEL D. BARNES
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COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS
SUBCOMMITTEES:
EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC
POLICY AND TRADE
WASHINGTON OFFICE:
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COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY congre of the Irtiteb 'tateo
SUBCOMMITTEES:
IMMIGRATION, REFUGEES AND
INTERNATIONAL LAW
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND
GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
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Moijington, O.C. 20515
March 27, 1980
The Honorable Stansfield Turner
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
DISTRICT OFFICE:
8534 SECOND AVENUE
SECOND FLOOR
SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND 20910
[phone]
Executlve Regi]P
DDJA Registry
I am pleased to tell you that Senior Master Sergeant Udo
C. J. Fischer of the Alaskan Air Command was the recipient of
the second Excalibur Award in the U.S. Capitol on March 24,
1980.
My selection committee of eight leaders in various fields
(government, education, business, law, science, psychology)
chose Sgt. Fischer of Elmendorf Air Force Base for risking his
own life to save lives and to teach all members of the Air
Force in Alaska, their families, and the general public how to
survive the harsh Arctic climate, avalanches, and the
precipitous, icy terrain.
Sgt. Fischer is the team leader of the Alaskan Rescue
Group, a civilian volunteer mountain rescue organization that
has saved countless persons from serious injury, disaster, and
death. He is known throughout our northern-most state for
establishing this significant life-saving service to the
community, reflecting his great concern for the health and
well-being of his fellow man.
I am also happy to tell you that -- to date -- almost
every federal department and agency has submitted some
nominations for the Excalibur Award, which recognizes
excellence and outstanding achievement in public service.
I am grateful for this all-too-rare opportunity to focus
on the positive aspects of good government. Therefore, I
intend to award the Excalibur citation several more times
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The Honorable Stansfield Turner
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March 27, 1980
throughout 1980. We will reconsider all of our past worthy
nominations. But I look forward to your future nominations of
persons who are making timely, noteworthy, meaningful
contributions that ultimately benefit society at large.
You may want to post the enclosed announcement so that
your workers will see it. This office is also now preparing
an information brochure and poster on the Excalibur Award for
your future use.
The enclosed speech -- delivered at the American Society
for Public Administration -- describes some of the recent,
exceptional Excalibur nominations. I think you will agree
that our nation has many "unsung heroes." I hope you will
continue to join me in recognizing the efforts of our superior
public servants.
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SUBCOMMITTEES:
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March 27, 1980
Mr. Harry E. Fitzwater
Acting Director of Personnel
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
ASHINGTON,
.C. 20515
[phone]
DISTRICT OFFICE:
8534 SECOND AVENUE
SECOND FLOOR
SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND 20910
[phone]
I am pleased to tell you that Senior Master Sergeant Udo
C. J. Fischer of the Alaskan Air Command was the recipient of
the second Excalibur Award in the U.S. Capitol on March 24,
1980.
My selection committee of eight leaders in various fields
(government, education, business, law, science, psychology)
chose Sgt. Fischer of Elmendorf Air Force Base for risking his
own life to save lives and to teach all members of the Air
Force in Alaska, their families, and the general public how to
survive the harsh Arctic climate, avalanches, and the
precipitous, icy terrain.
Sgt. Fischer is the team leader of the Alaskan Rescue
Group, a civilian volunteer mountain rescue organization that
has saved countless persons from serious injury, disaster, and
death. He is known throughout our northern-most state for
establishing this significant life-saving service to the
community, reflecting his great concern for the health and
well-being of his fellow man.
I am also happy to tell you that -- to date -- almost
every federal department and agency has submitted some
nominations for the Excalibur Award, which recognizes
excellence and outstanding achievement in public service.
I am grateful for this all-too-rare opportunity to focus
on the positive aspects of good government. Therefore, I
intend to award the Excalibur citation several more times
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Mr. Harry E. Fitzwater
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March 27, 1980
throughout 1980. We will reconsider all of our past worthy
nominations. But I look forward to your future nominations of
persons who are making timely, noteworthy, meaningful
contributions that ultimately benefit society at large.
You may want to post the enclosed announcement so that
your workers will see it. This office is also now preparing
an information brochure and poster on the Excalibur Award for
your future use.
The enclosed speech -- delivered at the American Society
for Public Administration -- describes some of the recent,
exceptional Excalibur nominations. i think you will agree
that our nation has many "unsung heroes." I hope you will
continue to join me in recognizing the efforts of our superior
public servants.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515
[phone]
MONTGOMERY COUNTY OFFICE,
8534 SECOND AVENUE
SECOND FLOOR
SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND 20910
[phone]
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SUBCOMMITTEES:
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INTERNATIONAL LAW
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND
GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT
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JUDICIARY, MANPOWER
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EXCALIBUR AWARD
SPEECH DELIVERED BY CONG. MICHAEL BARNES
MARCH 24, 1980
I am pleased to be with you--the Young Professionals Forum
of the American Society for Public Administration--National
Capital Area Chapter.
I know that mutual interests have brought us together. We
share the same desire to focus on the positive aspects of good
government, to draw attention to the outstanding accomplishments
of men and women who serve their nation honorably--whether in
federal civilian or military service, to counter the negative
image of the government bureaucracy, and to attract talented
and imaginative people like yourselves into meaningful public
service.
Through ASPA, you among the 16,000 members nationally
are able to build professionalism, fellowship, and pride in
being public servants. Your theme this year--excellence in
public service--as well as your overall dedication to improving
the quality of life in America--coincide exactly with my reason
for establishing the Excalibur Award.
I believe it is important to recognize significant ac-
complishments of federal employees and just as necessary for our
greater body of citizens to know about them. As a Member of
Congress representing a district in the capital area in which
many federal employees live,I feel a special obligation to
make this effort. I am firmly convinced that the overwhelming
majority of government employees are dedicated, hard-working,
honest, and often even inspired.
But the perception that many Americans have is radically
different. And I want to work with you to change that per-
ception.
Earlier today, in the U. S. Capitol, I was privileged to
honor Air Force Senior Master Sergeant Udo C. J. Fischer whose
contribution to the mission of the Alaskan Air Command has
taught countless persons how to survive in the harsh, icy,
mountainous regions of the Arctic. House Speaker Tip O'Neill
and other distinguished guests joined me in citing this
individual for risking his own life to rescue others and
for his perserverance--not just for withstanding and indeed
overcoming the hostile climate and terrain of the Arctic--but
also for his continued, genuine concern for the health and
well-being of his fellow man.
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Before I detail some of Sgt. Fischer's noteworthy achievements
and introduce him to you, I want to assure you that the task of
the Selection Committee--an independent body of eight leaders in
various fields (science, technology, education, business, law,
psychology, government) and appointed by me to designate the
recipients of Excalibur has not been an easy one. And I am
frankly delighted.
In the past several months since initiating this award, I
have come to feel almost as if I have been chosen to uncover
the wealth of this nation as measured in unsung heroes. My
staff and the committee reviewed some 150 nominations from
U. S. Departments and Agencies throughout the world. And I
want to take just a minute to tell you about some of the other
worthy people and their achievements I have learned about
through this awards program.
Last November, the first Excalibur Award was presented to
Frank Nola of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama
for developing a simple and inexpensive device that attaches
to electric motors used for home appliances and in industry
in order to cut power consumption.
NASA holds the patent for this timely invention that
promises to save our nation substantial amounts of both oil
and money in the years ahead.
To date, my Selection Committee has designated only
Messrs. Nola and Fischer to receive the Excalibur Award.
But by no means any less deserving of recognition and
acclaim by their fellow workers and their country is this
sampling of candidates proudly nominated by a host of federal
agencies.
The Air Force--I might begin--delivered 20 nominations,
causing much deliberation, reflection and comment among both
staff and the Selection Committee.
In addtion to Sgt. Fischer and his achievements, we came
to know:
Lt. Col. Paul J. Sheffield, a medical doctor in Texas
whose research efforts have earned world-wide recognition for
the Air Force Hyperbaric Medicine Program. I've since learned
that hyperbaric medicine provides the patient with 100 per
cent oxygen under greater than normal pressure in a compressed
air chamber to aid in the treatment of diver's and aviator's
bend, carbon monoxide poisoning, air embolism, gas gangrene,
radiation burns on cancer victims, and other chronic, non-
healing wounds. There is discussion now that the work of Dr.
Sheffield--who is recognized as the Air Force authority on
tissue oxygen measurement--is one of the major medical break-
throughs of our time.
Maj. Thomas J. Cross of Colorado Springs, chief of the
Skylab Decay Team, was nominated for his role in the disinte-
gration of Skylab in one of the least populated areas of the
earth with no reported damage to property or casualty.
Consider Maj. Gen. Ralph S. Saunders of the Military
Airlift Command who until his retirement last September was
commander of the Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service that
saved more than 6,000 lives in the past five years under his
leadership. His ARRS Forces were deployed to Cambodia, South
Vietnam, Lebanon, and most recently to Nicaragua to support
evacuation and rescue operations. These same forces--under
Gen. Saunders' command--completed the difficult and unpleasant
assignment of recovering the remains of more than 900 victims
in Jonestown, Guyana.
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Lt. Col. Robert A. Reinman, Commander of the 1836 Electronics
Installation Squadron, Wiesbaden, Germany, used his talents to
resolve tariff disputes between the U. S. Military and the Deutsche
Bundespost to a savings for us of millions of dollars each year.
This doctor of philosophy and electrical engineer also combats
drug abuse in units throughout Europe as an additional activity.
Gladys Neal, an Air Force personnel clerk in Denver, Colorado,
has devoted her off-duty hours to helping solve the problems of the
elderly. She designed therapy to involve the institutionalized
aged in the business of everyday life that is now being used as a
model program and that could have impact throughout the nation as
our population grows older. Her fellow workers praise her "personal
integrity, honesty, high moral chracter, and courage" and point
to her 30 years of study, which is now gaining a doctorate in
geriatric psychology and sociology. Ms. Neal is a GS-5.
Not to be outdone, the N nominated six outstanding persons
including Master Chief Radioman Joe Glenn Knott of Hawaii for
"devising a classified system that makes ship-to-shore voice
circuits less susceptible to jamming by enemy forces." He is
considered the technical expert in communications in the Eastern
Pacific area.
I am, for obvious reasons, pleased to be able to tell you
about Mrs. Leda Sweet, a supply technician at the White Oak Naval
Laboratory in my Congressional District. Deaf since the age of
six, Ms. Sweet teaches sign language to her fellow workers as
well as in the community. She has helped attain summer jobs
for many hearing-impaired students.
At the U. S. Naval Observatory in Washington, James Christy,
also of Maryland, discovered two years ago the only known moon
of the planet Pluto, thereby rocking the scientific world and
causing speculation that a tenth planet may exist even farther
from the sun.
In Japan, a team of five military and civilian personnel known
as the Joint Labor Affairs Committee recently reached an agreement
with the Government of Japan, which will now bear some $65 million
of U. S. Forces' annual labor costs. This amount is expected to
climb in future years to relieve our government of the costs of
maintaining U. S. Forces in Japan. This was truly a precedent-
setting achievement of international significance.
Also in this second Excalibur round, NASA nominated engineer,
violin maker and astronomer Robert T. Jones of the Ames Research
Center, California, for his aeronautic iscovery--th.e "oblique-wing
aircraft"--promises greater fuel economy, noise abatement, and
exhaust emission control.
In addition, the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Iowa
City told us about a social worker who developed a "dialysis on
vacation" program for persons with kidney disease.
The National Science Foundation was especially enthusiastic
about Dr. Shirley McBay and her work to involve minorities in the
science fields.
The Treasury Department let us know about John Ronilo who
provided emergency dispersing of funds and supplies for victims
of last spring's flooding in Mississippi. The Small Business
Administration in Portland, Oregon, made sure that we knew how
J. Don Chapman saved firms from drought and inspired an entire
city to turn itself around and revitalize.
The Federal Trade Commission alerted us to anti-trust inquiries
and investigations by its economist Douglas Dobson. HEW lauds
Barbara Henderson's leadership of th Child"SU p rt Enforcement
Program in four western states at a savings of $7.5 million.
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And the Defense Intelligence Agency said the present efforts
of James Wink should allow for the frank exchange of "substantive
intelligence between Peking and Washington." DIA Director Eugene
Tighe states that Mr. Wink "single-handedly conceived, designed,
and implemented a program to allow the United States and the
People's Republic of China to exchange information through both
their military attaches posted abroad for the mutual benefit of
both nations."
One member of our Selection Committee is a research associate
of the Washington-based Project on Technology, Work, and Character.
He recently wrote that the best workers are imaginative, open to
new ideas,believers in teamwork, and willing to take risks. They
look for challenges. Qualities of the heart, such as compassion,
generosity and the capacity to love deeply, are strengthened.
I believe that Sgt. Udo Fischer has all of those qualities.
Since his assignment to Alaska in 1975, Sgt. Fischer drew upon
his own background as a survival expert and pararescueman to create
a new Arctic survival training branch affecting the lives of all
Air Force personnel and their dependents when they arrive at
Elmendorf AFB. His commander, Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott, Jr., says
that Fischer prevents untold misery and financial loss by supplying
the critical knowledge of proper day-to-day Arctic living...to
protect our military forces and their families and to ensure the
survival of aircrews under any condition."
In the civilian community, Fischer is a team leader and
chairman of the Alaska Rescue Group, a volunteer mountain rescue
operation. Risking his life, he has personally led mountain
rescue teams many times through the worst winter weather--saving
26 lives and recovering the bodies of 22 fatalities,
As part of accident prevention, he instructs avalanche and
other survival methods to groups in Alaska as the National
Transportation and Safety Board, Department of Fish and Game, Civil
Air Patrol, Boy Scouts, state troopers, bush pilots, and
industrial groups. He is praised by those who know him for his
"exceptional resourcefulness, leadership, and courage" and he
has evidently established an important life-saving service to
the community.
Local ASPA President Brad Patterson has said that "we should
speak up--telling whoever will listen that there are tens of
thousands--who deserve the public's support and gratitude because
they serve a good society greatly..."
I join Mr. Patterson and ASPA in doing whatever I can to
add my voice to yours in fulfilling this joint goal.
I am grateful to all of those who are participating in the
ongoing Excalibur Awards program, and I am hopeful that in the future
we will find a way to recognize all the deserving, hard-working
people in the federal government who contribute to an abundant,
sounder, and saner way of life for all.
In these days when public servants are under attack on all
sides, this effort is particularly important. And, I must say,
the efforts of the American Society for Public Administration in
promoting the concept of excellence in public service could not be
more timely. I salute you, and i look forward to..continuing to
work with you.
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