LETTER TO MR. JOHN J. COUTURIER FROM(Sanitized)

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 18, 1972
• Content Type: LETTER

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F" 1971
Mr. Jean J. Couturier
National Civil Service League
1825 if Street, N.W.
Washington, D. C. 20006
Dear Mr. Couturier:
This is in response to your letter of 12 January 1972
addressed to Mr. Robert S. Wattles. Mr. Harry B. Fisher
has replaced Mr. Wattles as Director of Perso neL
Attached is an application for membership in the
League in Mr. Fisher's name. While we cannot, because
of the nature of our Agency, fully Participate in all of the
League's activities saH.ined in your letter. we are happy to
become members. All correapondeace relating to membership
in the League should be addressed to Mr. Fisher.
Sincerely.
STATI NTLSIQUID
Executive Assistant
Office of Personnel
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Officers
President
MORTIMER M. CAPLIN
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Chairman, Executive Committee
BERNARD L. GLADIEUX
Treasurer
WESTON RANKIN
Honorary Vice Presidents
MURRAY SEASONGOOD
Paxton & Seasongood
CHARLES P. TAFT
Taft. Luken & Boyd
Executive Director
JEAN J. COUTURIER
Deputy Director
MILTON B. MILLON
Associate Directors
ADA P. KIMSEY
BRUCE A. PETTY
PERRY A. SMITH, III
RICHARD A. STAUFENBERGER
Literary Contributors to
"Good Government"
ROGER W. JONES
Former Assistant Director
Bureau of the Budget
WILLIAM SCHEUER
Assistant Director of Examinations
New Jersey Dept. of Civil Service
S. M. MILLER
Professor of Education & Sociology,
Senior Fellow: Center for Internatiena!
Studies, New York University
HAROLD L. SHEPPARD
Staff Social Scientist. The W. E. Upjohn
Institute for Employment Research.
Washington. 0. C.
FELIX A. NIGRO
Professor. Poiticai Science
University of Georgia
ROBERT H. HASTINGS
Director. Labor Reationo Irainio
Bureau of TraininI;
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National Civil Service League
January 12, 1972
Mr. Robert S. Wattles
Director of Personnel
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Mr. Wattles:
agency._to join the National Civil
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Service League. The special benefits you you will receive are highly wor
while. They include direct technical assistance, reference and research
services, conference workshops, and a broad range of valuable publications.
The League's special service capabilities for agency members are extremely
far-reaching. At specially reduced costs, our experienced staff will
apply our technical and policy advisory services to help solve the unique
your agency in such areas as affirmative action
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strategies, collective bargaining and labor relations, Emergency Employment
Act requirements and manpower management systems design.
Through our new National Program Center for Public Personnel Management,
we offer an information and resource library designed to help our members
stay current on fast-breaking issues in the field.
In addition, you receive discounts on conferences, workshops and many
special publications dealing with your most vital management needs. These
might cover Upward Mobility Conferences, Test Validation and Personnel
Selection Workshops, and Institutes on Organization, Planning and Develop-
ment.
It is now 91 years since Theodore Roosevelt, Richard Henry Dana, Carl
Schurz, and other civic-minded citizens joined together to form the
Ntional_ Civil Service_League . _ _Toda_y_,,_ as _e.xplaa ned bv_ _the enclosed
folder, the factual and practical information offered by the League is
truly unique. I am sure your agency will want to take an active role in
our awards program... discover our clearing house of information...make
use of newly developed systems designed to solve problems which confront
you daily.
I look forward to welcoming you and your agency to full membership in the
National Civil Service League. Mail the enclosed membership application
form today. I will be watching my mail for your reply.
C. GLENN STAHL
Retired, Former Director of the
of Policies ono Standards
A.RVID ANDERSON
Chairman. Ottice of Collective
Bargaining, Now York City
NICHOLAS J- OG.ANOV'IC
Former Executive Director
Jean,-J. Couturier
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P.S. By joining the League at this time, your agency will receive a
special bonus. It is a complimentary copy of our important
Special Reference File Series, "The Development of the Civil
Service System-11
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NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE
Stands Ready
. To Help
You and Your Agency
Founded in 1881, the League is the
oldest nongovernmental group in the
nation working exclusively, and with
in-depth expertise, on public man-
power management problems such as
those which confront you regularly.
As an agency member, you can call
on us for assistance in such areas as:
Job Structuring and Task Analysis
The Potential and Limits of
hl Job Redesign
Development and Maintenance of
Computerized Personnel Information
Retrieval Systems
Research on Minority Manpower
Utilization on Federal, State, and
Local Levels
* Interpretation and Implementation of
Legislation such as the Emergency
Employment Act of 1971
NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE
Offers Important Publications
and Member Benefits
GOOD GOVERNMENT-A. quarterly magazine
for all members that deals with critical current
manpower issues. Recent articles have covered
such topics as: "How Can Women Improve
Their Government Job Status?" "New York
City's Manpower Organization: A Case Study
in Planning and Coordination," and "Survey of
Current Personnel Systems: in State and Local
Governments." -
THE NCSL EXCHANGE-The League's
thl letter keeps members current on
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NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE'
Is Constantly Involved
in Far-Reaching Projects
Through more than a dozen current projects,
the League deals directly with 125 public juris-
dictions. Highlights of major programs which
may concern you include:
National Program Center for Public
Personnel Management
A Ford Foundation grant assisted the League in
founding a Washington clearinghouse to im-
prove local public personnel management. The
center also offers technical assistance and re-
search at moderate cost. It provides a forum
for policy issues and publishes a monthly
"exchange of news? on how jurisdictions are
modernizing their personnel systems.
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everything that affects the modernization of Public Employment and lie
public personnel management systems. It dis- Disadvantaged Project
cusses legislation, recruitment, the federal Through grants and contracts with three fed-
scene, state activities, jobs across the nation, eral agencies, Labor, HUD, and OEO, League
court cases affecting public employees, and experts help local governments review their
offers a calendar of coming meetings. In addi- personnel practices, including the validity of
tion, it discusses the impact of programs and their recruiting, testing, and training procedures
with special attention to procedures which help
institutes. foster employment of minorities and the handi-
REFERENCE FILE SERIES--A growing set of
valuable booklets on such topics as:
? SCOPE OF CIVIL SERVICE LAWS
capped.
Model Manpower Use Plan and
Selection Research
Every mayor in the country probably has a list
? PUBLIC SERVICE JOBS FOR URBAN of the numbers and kinds of personnel his city
GHETTO RESIDENTS needs. In cooperation with the Department of
I- L is researchina the extent of
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? PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT AND THE.
DISADVANTAGED
? TASK ANALYSIS FOR TRAINING THE
DISADVANTAGED
? PERFORMANCE TESTING
? CASE STUDIES IN PUBLIC JOBS FOR
THE DISADVANTAGED
REPORTS, SPEECHES, MONOGRAPHS AND
ANALYSES-As published
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unmet manpower needs as we develop model
hiring plans.
National and Local Awards Program
The League presents the famed Career Service
Awards Program-now in its 17th year-for
federal employees and co-sponsors regional
awards around the country.
The Law of Civil Service
Revision of this important legal reference work
is underway and will present an authoritative
review of personnel systems and actions in
government and explain the administration of
merit system laws.
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NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE
Invites YOU To Become A Member
Agency membership is open to all organiza-
[ions and agencies concerned with public
personnel management and manpower re-
form. Dues are $50 annually-and make
available such extra services as direct tech-
nical assistance, reference and research serv-
I ces, conferences, workshops, institutes, and
special publications at reduced costs.
Also, you, as an interested person, can join
at a special rate for individual members.
Individual membership is open to all who
are interested in improving the management
of government. Dues of $15 annually are
tax-deductible.
As a member you support our clearinghouse
on developments in public manpower man-
agement, help us combat artificial barriers
that discourage the able or discriminate
that
any group in our society.
Benefit by the Values
that Membership in the
NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE
Offers to You ... Complete and Return
the Membership Application Now
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