LETTER TO(Sanitized)FROM C. R. WILSON, JR.

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McCORMICK ASSOCIATES
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1300 THE WYATT BUILDING
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'ADVISOF2: WASHINGTON
April 1, 1963
Central Intelligence Agency
Langley, Virginia
I am enclosing a packet of pictures and other material in
connection with the National Civil Service League dinner last
week that may be of interest to you and to 11r. Lundahl. Please
feel free to reproduce this material and use it in any way you
wish.
Again, may we express our ti nks for your gracious and cooper-
ative assistance which contributed so much to the success of the
Leagues 1963 award program.
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OFFICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS 8'&Q ETARY
REM RKS OF THE PRESIDENT
TO THE NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE WINNERS FOR 1963
THE PRPS IDENT' 8 OFFICE
I want to commend the League for its long history of
spotlighting the dedicated public service of our civil servants.
I think it made an unusually appropriate selection this year. I
think it reminds us as citizens how much we owe some people who
work quite anonymously for the people of the United States. So,
I want to congratulate the League and the winners this year.
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Text of a telegram from the President of the United States to the National Civil
Service League Awards Dinner at the Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C., on
March 26, 1963, follows:
"THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D.C., MARCH 26
"BERNARD L. GLADIEUX
CHAIRMAN, NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE
SHERATON PARK HOTEL
"TO THE TEN WINNERS OF THE CAREER SERVICE AWARD OF THE NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE,
I SEND WARN EXPRESSIONS OF GRATITUDE. THE NATION HAS GOOD REASON TO BE PROUD OF THE
EXCEPTIONAL ABILITIES YOU HAVE APPLIED IN YOUR PRODUCTIVE YEARS OF SERVICE AND YOUR
VITAL ROLES IN SHAPING AND MOVING OUR GOVERNIIENT PROGRAMS, ALL CITIZENS SHOULD BE
REASSURED TO KNOW THAT THE DEMANDING PROBLEMS THAT CONFRONT OUR GOVERNMENIT ARE BEING
MET WITH KNOWLEDGE, IMAGINATION, AND LEADERSHIP. THE WIDE RANGE OF YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS
EXEMPLIFIES THE GREAT VARIETY OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR A CHALLENGING CAREER IN THE
FEDERAL SERVICE.
"THE NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE HAS AGAIN, BY ITS SELECTION AND ACCLAIM OF
OUTSTANDING AWARD WINNERS, MADE A VALUABLE CONTRIBUTION TO BETTER PUBLIC UNDERSTAND-
ING OF OUR CAREER SERVICE. MY BEST WISHES FOR CONTINUED SUCCESS IN THEIR ENDEAVORS
GO TO GRAEME C. BANNERMAN, CAPT. HEWLETT, R. BISHOP, AUGUST C. HAHN, DR. G.K.
HARTMANN, ARTHUR C. LUNDAHL, NICHOLAS J. OGANOVIC, DR. HILDPUS A. POINDEXTER, JAMES
J. ROWLEY, FRANK A. TAYLOR, AND WILLIAM H. WEATHERSBY.
JOHN F. KENNEDY"
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Capt. Bishop Hartmann Lundahl Hahn Taylor
. . . Career Civil Service Award winners for 1963, as announced yesterday.
Civil Service League Names Ten
As Outstanding U. S. workers
Ten men, eight of whom
work in the Washington area,,
were named by the National
Civil Service League yesterday
as, the outstanding Federal
Government career workers
for 1963.
The League is a non-partisan
organization of citizens devoted
to improving the . Federal
career Civil Service. It was
founded in 1881 to spearhead
the drive against the spoils
system.
The 1963 winners will be
honored March 26 at a dinner
at the Sheraton-Park Hotel.
They are:
Graeme C. Bannerman, of
3506 T at. nw., Deputy Assist-
ant Secretary of Defense. In
charge of supervising annual
defense procurement amount-
ing to $25 billion, he is recog-
nized for "countless contri-
butions" to the economy and
efficiency of. defense procure-
Capt. Hewlett R. Bishop, of Arthur C. Lundahl, of 4401 of more than 600,000 Vietna-
Freeport, N. Y., Atlantic Coast Chestnut st., Bethesda, assist. mese.
director for the Maritime Ad- ant director for photographic James J. Rowley, of 3501
ministration. He is credited intelligence, Central Intelli- Rittenhouse st. nw., chief of
with "many far-seeing meas- gence Agency. He is consid- the Secret Service. As chief
ures for maritime speed and ered the "most distinguished of the Presidential Detail for
safety." authority" in the 'Nation on
August C. Hahn, of 1368 4th photographic intelligence and 15 years, he was responsible
involved in analysis the safety of the families
st. sw., Deputy Assistant Post- was of the of four Presidents.
master General. A Beaumont, Cuban situation. Frank A. Taylor, of 6606
Tex., native who rose in the Nicholas J. Oganovic, of 32d st. nw., director of the
Post Office from part-time 2521 N. Quebec _.st., Arlington. National Museum, Smithson-
clerk, he is considered an ex deputy executive director of ian Institution. A government
Civil Service Commission. employe for more than 40
pert in labor-management re- years, he helped modernize
lations in the service and is Formerly a school principal Smithsonian exhibits, initi-
credited with a number of de- and administrator, he joined ated a research program for
partment improvements. the Commission -.in- 1943 and the Museum of History and
Gregory K. Hartmann, of has been responsible for col- Technology and helped plan
10701 Keswick st., Garrett lege recruitment.' this new museum.
Park, Md., technical director Dr. Hildrus A. Poindexter, William H. Weathersby, of
of the Naval Ordnance Lab. of 513 23d pl. ne., chief pub- Hattiesburg, Miss., U. S. In-
oratory. He is a Rhodes lie health adviser for the formation Service off i c e r,
Scholar, educated at Cali- Agency for International De- New Delhi. Unlike the other
forma Institute of Technology velopment. He has trained winners, he did not enter gov-
and Oxford and Brown Uni- public health workers in' sev- ornament service in his youth.
versities. He has been respon- eral underdeveloped nations He.is recognized for his rapid
sible for several important and, after the Partition Agree- advancement, beginning in
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The appointment of Graeme C. Bannerman as Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense (Procurement) was announced February 13, 1961, by
Thomas D. Morris, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Installations and
Logistics).
Mr. Bannerman is responsible for the development of policy
procedure and management controls for all procurement contracting done
by the Department of Defense. This amounts to over $27 billion annually.
Born in Washington, D. C. in 1910, Mr. Bannerman attended Hamilton
College, Clinton, New York, where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree
in 1931. A member of the Washington, D. C. bar since 1936, Mr. Bannerman
also holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Master of Laws degree from the George
Washington University.
With the exception of two years, 1946-1948, when he practiced
law in Washington, Mr. Bannerman's entire career has been associated
with Federal procurement activities and primarily in the field of
defense procurement.
Prior to World War II, he was associated with the Procurement
Division of the Treasury Department. On active duty with the Navy during
World War II, Mr. Bannerman served in the Navy's Aviation Supply Office.
From 1948 until 1953 he was with the Bureau of Ships.
From 1957 to 1961, Mr. Bannerman served as the Director of
Procurement Policy for the Department of Defense.
Mr. Bannerman and his wife live at 3506 T Street, N. W. , Washington,
D. C. He has two daughters. Susan is living in San Francisco, California
and Martha is a student at Cornell University.
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NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE
1963 CAREER SERVICE AWARD WINNER
BISHOP, HEWLETT R. - - - - - Atlantic Coast Director, GS-301-16, U.S. Department
of Commerce, Maritime Adm. Atlantic Coast District
45 Broadway, New York
Residence: 188 N. Long Beach Avenue, Freeport, New York
Date and Place of Birth: February 13, 1909, Patchogue, L.I., New York
Length of Government Service: 28-1/2 years
Marital Status : Married, Son 20, daughter 14
Education: Graduate of Patchogue High School
Service Record:
From Port Captain, CAF 11 in January, 1942, to Atlantic Coast Director GS 16.
Summary of Achievements:
Captain Bishop has received many outstanding performance ratings. He was honored
with American Legion's Distinguished Service Medal for exceptional service as Atlan-
tic Coast Director.
He is credited with an extremely important role in the projection of U.S. strength
overseas to combat the communist threat. He developed an extremely effective and
widely adopted method of cargo loading innovations during World War II; made im-
portant contributions to the safety of ships at sea and in port; directed efficient
and rapid reactivation of ships from the reserve fleets during the Korean War; pro-
vided leadership for organizations working for the cooperation and coordination of
government and industrial efforts toward a stronger and more complex of Maritime
Administration's three coast districts in an outstandingly efficient manner.
In rising from ordinary seaman aboard government-owned vessels to the highest level
in the Maritime Administration's field service, he has achieved respect in government,
industry and the community.
He is responsible for the administration and execution of all operations of the
District which extends from Maine to Florida, and is the largest of the three Coast
Districts. He has served with distinction under five Maritime Administrators and
three Presidents. His ingenuity and inventiveness have been responsible for many
outstanding contributions to the efficiency and safety of the entire maritime
operation.
As a result of the ANDREA DORIA-STOCKHOLM collision in 1957, the Maritime Administra-
tion was directed to establish radar training schools for deck officers but no funds
were provided. Under Captain Bishop's direction, and through his ability, inspira-
tion and ingenuity, equipment was obtained, installed, facilities provided, and the
school was established.
Widely in demand as a lecturer, author of many important papers on ship safety and
radar reading, he was selected as the only Federal field official with the U. S.
Shipping Delegation to Russia. There his tenacity in obtaining information concern-
ing the Soviet IJ~~~!"i?~e~z 4s~fr l p"~f d~31~B rS*pgBLP8daQ?Bi3kO G020O 6iDmense
importance to our defense effort.
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KAHN, AUGUST C. - - - - - - - Deputy Assistant Postmaster General for Field
Operations,, Post Office Department, Washington, D.C.
(GS-18)
Residence: 1368 Fourth Street, S.W., Washington 24, D.C.
Date and Place of Birth: August 17, 1907, Beaumont, Texas
Length of Government Service: 39 years
Marital Status: Married, one son (22)
Education and Degrees: Lamar Junior College, Beaumont, Texas (A.A. Degree);
University of Texas and
American University (no degree).
This is a steady career development completely within the Post Office, from part-
time Clerk through City Delivery Carrier, Inspector, Supervisor, Director of the
Bureau of Budget and Accounting in the Department's Bureau of Transportation, and
later Executive Director to his present post as Deputy Assistant Postmaster General
for Field Operations. He served in an acting capacity in New York City during the
installation of new mechanical equipment, and has received recognition for his
efforts in the total mechanization program.
Mr. Hahn is also considered to be an important influence in the growing field of
labor-management relations in the Postal Service,
He entered the Army in 1941 as a Major, and was discharged in 1946 with the rank of
Colonel.
Virtually his entire family has been in the Postal Service. His father is a retired
Postmaster., his brother an Inspector, and his son a Letter Carrier.
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NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE
1963 CAREER SERVICE AWARD WINNER
HARTMANN, DR. GREGORY K. w - - Technical Director, U. S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory,
Department of the Navy, White Oak, Maryland (PL-313)
Residence:
10701 Keswick Street, Garrett Park, Maryland
Date and Place of Birth:
May 25, 1911, Buffalq, New York
Length of Government Service:
21 years
Marital Status:
Married, 4 children (22, 1s, 12, 10)
Education and Degrees:.
1929-33
California Institute of Technologyy$
Bachelor of Science, Major in Physics
1933-36
Oxford University, Oxford, England
BA in Mathematics (Rhodes Scholar)
1936-39
Brown University, Providence, R.I.,
Doctor of Philosophy, Major in Physics
1943
Oxford University, Oxford, England, M,A.
Service Record:
Contract Physicist, Bureau of Ordnance, Washington, D. C., '41/42; Physicist,
successively P-3 to P-8 to march, 1950 working in applied explosives research;
Research Consultant, Chief Explosives Division to Physicist GS--15 in March '50
thru Nov.-'52 in Explosives Research Department, Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White
Oaks, Maryland, and promoted to Supervisory Physicist GS-17, Associate Technical
Director for Research at White Oak, and finally to Technical Director, PL-313 NOL.
Summary:
Dr. Hartmann has an outstanding record of intelligent academic preparation, scientific
leadership, management, and professional community activity. He is a Rhodes Scholar,
receiving a PH.D. at Brown University and a Master of Arts at Oxford.
He has pioneered in nuclear scientific effects, and has been in charge of scientific
groups at several nuclear test operations, starting with the two Bikini tests, where
he was responsible for studying air blast and water shock as well as thermo radiation.
Dr. Hartmann is credited with initiating new concepts in the management of the complex
scientific program of the Naval Ordnance Laboratories, His scientific management
accomplishments are decidedly extraordinary.
Aside from his Navy responsibilities, he is the leader of professional groups, and
is the President-elect of the newly-formed "Federal Professional Association." Under
Dr. Hartmann"'s brilliant leadership, the Naval Ordnance Laboratory has efficiently
accomplished scientific work of the most advanced nature and vital significance for
the Army, Navy, Air Force, Atomic Energy Commission, and other government agencies.
He has published 55 papers in his professional field.
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OGANOVIC, NICHOLAS J. - - -
Residence :
Date and Place of Birth:
Government Service:
Marital Status :
Education E Degrees:
Deputy Executive Director, U. S. Civil Service
Commission, GS-18
2521 N. Quebec St., Arlington, Virginia
December 22, 1912, Chisholm, Minnesota
22 years
Married, one son
B.E., State Teachers College, St. Cloud, Minnesota
M.A. , University of Minnesota
Service Record:
Mr. Oganovic, formerly a school principal and administrator, joined the Civil Service
Commission in 1943 as a position classifier in the St. Paul office. His career since
then has been one of steady advancement and continuing achievement.
Summag of Achievements :
Mr. Oganovic is a highly skilled administrator and leader whose proven ability has
been successfully applied to many of the Commission's most difficult and challenging
assignments. In his present post as Deputy Executive Director, Mr. Oganovic is
primarily responsible for the operation of the Commission's field offices across the
country, representing approximately half of its manpower resources.
Under his leadership major reorganizations to reduce overhead costs and improve
service were planned and executed; personnel management responsibilities were
consolidated into a single Division under unified localized service, more readily
available to the public, to Federal agencies, to colleges, universities, etc.
After President Kennedy directed the establishment of Federal Executive Boards,
working with no additional staff and in addition to his regular assignments, he
spearheaded the organization of the first ten Federal Executive Boards in a brief
period -- bringing the heads of diverse field agencies together in a framework for
cooperative action. He worked constructively with the various Department heads in
a feat of high administrative skill, the success of which has prompted the establish-
ment of additional Boards in other key cities.
He has infused new vitality into the program for employment of the handicapped and
has given impetus to a number of existing government-wide programs. He has given
vigor to effective college recruiting and improvement of the Federal image on the
campuses of the nation's universities and colleges in addition to inspiring coopera-
tive action in the smaller Federal establishments to establish employee health units.
One of his other interests iss'' promoting better educational facilities and programs
for children of ARM* F ~d~ L i~ fZ ~ as Wjp(g $0 06 0 the
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NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE
1963 CAREER SERVICE AWARD WINNER
POINDEXTER, HILDRUS A. - - - Chief Public Health Advisor, Agency for International
Development, AID -1, Step 2
Residence: 513-23rd Place, N. E., Washington, D. C.
Date & Place of Birth: May 10, 1901, Memphis, Tennessee
Length of Government Service: 31 years
Marital Status: Wife, one son
Education and Degrees : Lincoln University, Pa., A.B. (Cum Laude) 1924
Dartmouth, Harvard Univ., M.D., 1929
Columbia Univ., 1930/32/37: A.M., Ph.D., MPH.
Service Record:
Since 1931 progressively: Professor and Administrative Head of Department of
Microbiology, Preventive Medicine and Public Health; from 143 to 146 with U.S. Army
as Tropical Medicine Specialist, Malariologist, Epidemiologist and Medical Intelli-
gence Officer on the Staff of General Douglas MacArthur, to present post as U. S.
Public Health Service Commissioned Officer attached to AID with Special Foreign duty
assignments to Liberia, Indo-China, Surinam, Iraq, Libya, Sierra Leone, in which
foreign ports he served as Chief of Laboratory Medical Research or Epidemiologist.
Summary of Achievements :
Dr. Poindexter has spent his entire professional life in the Federal service on a
variety of special duty assignments within the continental limits of the U.S., as
well as nearly 20 years in the Foreign and Military service. He has contributed
significantly to the improvement of public health and sanitary measures as related
to tropical diseases of an environmental nature in underdeveloped countries. Most
of his assigned posts represent hardship assignments, professionally, physically
and psychologically, to which he has cheerfullly and unstintingly given his vast
skill and knowledge. His reports have contributed much to our knowledge of the
major causes of disability and death from malnutrition, trachoma, arthopod-borne,
venereal and other related diseases in many of the developing countries of the
world. As Professor and Administrator, he has contributed to the training of Doctors
of Medicine and Dental Surgery, Nurses, Pharmacists, as well as Diagnostic Labora-
tory Technicians now holding positions of responsibility in Liberia, Vietnam and
Laos, including those who served with Dr. Dooley. He directed public health
measures associated with the evacuation of over 600,000 Vietnamese after the Parti-
tion Agreement when the Communists had taken over.
Dr. Poindexter is the recipient of many citations, commendations and a decoration
from the U. S. Armed Forces, civilian recognition at home and abroad, and honorary
degrees from three universities. He has been selected to receive the AID Disting-
uished Public Service Award. His name appears in International Who's Who, and he
is a member of an impressive number of medical, professional and scientific societies
as well as the author of several significant technical papers, notably Epidemiologi-
cal. A member of the Tabor Presbyterian Church of Washington, D.C., he is a quali-
fied Sunday School Teacher of the Presbyterian Church of Pennsylvania and a former
Chairman of Hoy Scout Troo 520 in Wash ' A. A.
Shot-Put champion
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ROWLEY, JAMES J. - - - - - - - Chief, United States Secret Service,
Department of the Treasury, Washington, D.C. (GS-18)
Residence: 3501 Rittenhouse Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
Date and Place of Birth: October 14, 1908, Bronx, New York
Length of Government Service: 25 years
Marital Status: Married, three daughters
Education and Degrees: LL.B and LL.M - St. Johns University,
Brooklyn, New York - 1936
James Rowley served on the White House Detail of the Secret Service from January 1,
1939 until being promoted to Chief of the Secret Service, succeeding U.E. Baughman,
September 1, 1961.
He served for 15 years as Chief of the Presidential Detail and has been responsible
for the security of presidents and their families during some of the most famous
world-wide trips of Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Esienhower and Kennedy.
Mr. Rowley is the first Chief of the Secret Service to have served as the head of
the White House Detail prior to his being selected to his present position.
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TAYLOR, FRANK AUGUSTUS - - - - Director, United States National Museum,
.Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (GS-17)
Residence: 6606 - 32nd Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
Length of Government Service: 40 years
Marital Status: Married, one daughter
1928 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S.;
1934 Georgetown University Law School, LLB;
George Washington University.
Mr. Taylor was attracted to the Smithsonian Institution by his boyhood interest in
technology.
In 1922, at the age of 19, he entered employment as Laboratory Apprentice in the U.S.
National Museum. Except for leaves to complete his education and to serve in the
Armed Forces in World War II, his entire career has been devoted to the service of
the Smithsonian. Following his graduation from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in 1928, he was appointed Assistant Curator, Division of Engineering, and to Curator
of that Division in 1932.
After being discharged honorably from the service with the rank of Major, he returned
to the Smithsonian, and in 1948 was promoted to Head Curator, Department of Engineer-
ing and Industries. In addition to managing one of the Museum's major departments he
served the Institution in special assignments with marked success, including the
chairmanship since 1950 of the important Exhibits Modernization Subcommittee. In
1955 he was appointed Assistant Director of the U.S. National Museum, with the
responsibility of planning and development of the new $36,000,000 Museum of History
and Technology.
Appointed Director of this Museum in 1958, he had the administration of operations
and the expansion of the museum's research and publications; its exhibition programs
in the fields of history of science, engineering and industry, and in the cultural
and military history of the U.S., and with overseeing the design, construction and
equipping of the new building.
In 1962 he was appointed Director of the U.S. National Museum, with the responsibility
of administering the programs of the Museum of Natural History in the fields of
anthropology, botany, geology, and sociology, in addition to his activities with the
Museum of History and Technology. As Administrator of both museums, he bears the
heaviest responsibility held by any museum official in the world where he is recog-
nized as an outstanding leader.
Three of his major achievements will stand as milestones in the history of the
Smithsonian; his planning, organization, and administration of the successful program
of exhibits modernization; his initiation of a new program of research and scholarly
publication for the Museum of History and Technology; and his leadership in the
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1963 CAREER SERVICE AWARD WINNER
WEAThERSBY, WILLIAM H. - - - - Country Public Affairs Officer,
U.S. Information Service, American Embassy
New Delhi, India MR-l)
Home Address: 200 - 32nd Avenue, Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Place and Date of Birth: November 30, 1914, Utica, New York
Length of Service: 12 Years
Marital Status: Married, three children (18, 15, 8)
Education and Degrees: 1934 Mississippi Southern College
8.5. in Social Science
1935 University of Missouri
S.J. in Journalism
Mr. Weathersby is an important example of mid-career lateral entry; that is, good
men and women entering the Federal Government at the middle management levels.
Opening up the career service to capable people who did not enter at the foot of the
ladder was recommended in the recent report prepared by a committee chaired by the
Honorable Christian Herter, Secretary of State in the Eisenhower Administration.
After an early career in journalism, Mr. Weathersby joined the overseas information
program in 1951 (Cairo), FSR-4. He has been steadily promoted, and attended the
National War College in 1957-58. In 1959 he was promoted to FSR-1 and in July, 1960
was slated to be Assistant Director for Near-East and South Asia, but instead became
Agency Personnel Director, serving through a,change of administrations.
In January, 1962, he was appointed by USIA Director Murrow to Country Public Affairs
Officer in India, which is the agency's "largest and most important operation
abroad."
Mr.- Weathersby is an outstanding example of rapid advancement into new responsi-
bilities which cover executive.and administrative talents, as well as unusual
technical ability in the information field.
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