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The President's Message
Chapters are holding elections this
month for District Directors and next
month for Chapter delegates and offi
cers. Every member should see that the
officers elected are determined and will
ing to work and imbued with a sense of
the responsibility of representing the
interests of the Chapter members.
There is much work to be done in the
way of study and investigation and
towards the education of employees,
officials and the public. This work has
been heretofore the responsibility of
everyone in general and no one in par
ticular. It now becomes the responsibil
ity of the leaders of the Chapter, both
the officials and committee members.
An active leadership in the interest of
general education and information and
an enlightened public opinion concern
ing state employment is the best way
state employees can participate in or ex
ercise influence in the moulding of the
future of State Employment in Oregon.
Chapter officers should lead their
Chapter members in study and investi
gation. Every member should become
well informed on the various phases of
state employment and particularly the
merit system and the retirement plan.
Each member may find himself called
upon to correct misinformation at any
time and may by being informed be
the means of changing critical oppo
sition to understanding support. The
State as a whole and state employees in
dividually have a vital interest in the
future of state employment in Oregon.
There are influential groups and indi
viduals who for various reasons misin
terpret and wrongly appraise the cir
cumstances of state employment. These
groups and individuals are often sincere
and persistent in their efforts to modify
those circumstances to conform to their
liking. Who other than the state em
ployees themselves, when well informed,
are better able to evaluate the effect of
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proposed changes in their circumstances
of employment.
Chapter officers should guard against
inactivity, both on the part of officers
and committees. Someone „has to start
things. Few committees are self-start
ing and it is one of the obligations of
the president-to see to it that commit
tees meet and work and make reports.
Get your committee chairman into the
habit of expecting to be called upon
for oral reports or for written reports,
A large library of personnel administra
tion literature is accumulating at As
sociation Headquarters. Do not hesitate
to borrow material for study and re
view. One member can study, analyze
and summarize a book or article and
present to a Chapter meeting in a few
minutes what would take a month for
all of the members present to study out
for themselves. W ritten reviews should
be presented to the editor for possible
publication or mimeographing.
Prepare an agenda for each Chapter
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