The Oregon state employee., September 01, 1950, Page 17, Image 17

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Retirement Board
Secretary Resigns
W. M. Schuppel, chairman of the
public employes retirement board,
has announced the resignation of
Jerry S. Sayleras executive secretary
to the retirement board, arid the ap­
pointment of Ried Stone as Mr. Say-
lei^ ^ uccessor^, the effective I date 'of
the change in execu^tiyje^eoretary to be
as of October 10.
- For the past several years Mr. Stone
has held the position of Clackamas
County auditor. Mr/Stone isya:- gradu­
ate in tpr^ineering from Dartmouth
College and has had many years of
experience - in insurance work, espec­
ially in the life insurance field. As
auditor of Clackamas County, which
has participated in the retirement sys-r..
tern since its inception, Mr. Stohe has
hau|g|^|e contact with the retirement
system and is quite familiar with Ksts,
operation and princi^lqS1^
Comments by Mr. Sayler follow:
‘‘Our hearts' areKsaddened by the
Untimely death ofOam esxM. Burgess
who, during, the entire existence of.
the retirement' system, was a most
loyal and valuable member of'the* re­
tirement board. “Jim,” as -he was
known to all of us, had lqng been in­
terested in a retirement plan, especi­
ally for I the teachers of Oregon. He
w^s^an intimate ~|jgrxobal friend of the
late Governor Earl Snell, both .men
having been born on exactly the same
date, July 11, 1895.
^^^wsjseems as good a place as any
to relate a little story about J#im Bur-
gess and EarP' S^^PH^yhich; was told
to me many
and which hast
always seemed to me to be quite a
rrema^J^^ le ^^liacid erSW
“ In^July of<<1901 the. families of bo.th
of these’six-year-old boys were travelS
ingA^^pss the country in eastern Ore-
gon with teamsI end'' wagons, .as was
the custom in those days. They were..
^B^h^a;inc^^nden.tlv of eahai other
but by chance camped at the same
camp-grounds along a stream in east­
ern Oregon on July 11, 1901, Jiihtyzbs
plhyingtiarou^d ^the^camp established
by his’ parents .when a strange little
.bqw./ffom^^neighboriiîg/càmp came
over and invited Jim to share his bag
of je’lly\h|âns,v stating that it was! his
O^^Mbiithday and the jelly beans
were . in the nature of a birthday re-
membrance. Jim stated to the other
little bo ythat it. ,was also his sixth*
birthday. The other little boy was
E arl Snell. .Out of this early contact-
developed a life-long friendship be­
tween 'the tw IB ^ vrart men, both/oS
whom Jeft an indelible mark, each in
his own way, upon thehiistb'fyfrof our
HjRe. ' Both', were tremendously inter-/
esteOWeducation. and both were en-
thusiastically interacted; in >the estab­
lishment of our. retirement system.
Both are now gone,"but certainly their
memoriesWill remain with us always.
“In passing, may I say that succeed-
ing goverfiors havë 'likewise been tre-
mendously interested in the successful
operation of the retirement system.
Our present Governor McKay not only
takes a keen interest in the system but
la m genuinely surprised at the know­
ledge he has concerning it and his
grasp of the' ’.o^CTall fundamental prin-
cipales involved. I
“As to my> own .change in plans, per-,
haps little need be said. For some time
I È^ ^ p elt that I should return to pri-
vate business in an effort to expand
my income, if^ ^ ^ ible. In my opinion,
many public officials in Oregon are
urf f l p « « . Money, however,¡&g not all-
imppr^Bagnd were this thé/only 'con-
reS^^jsnWl wquld'J> not be making a
change; F.or the past more than five
years I have devoted my best efforts
in the interest of public employes, par-,
ticularly the older ones. Now I would
lilgg| to try^q^do^omething for the
young ^^O^ation- coming up and ex-
pect to deyote the I remaining .years of
my life to this activity^ It seems to me
our young people need to be taught,
mS B I I I the/ fundamental principles
of Amenëanism^^^ ^ j ^ ^Baïid' the
ho^^^ 'o ld ' virtuësj^f honesty, indus-,,
try, anddimegfity. In ¿fact,‘1/believe dll
of us should place mbie^ emphasis on
the spiritual I approach to all of our
present-day problems - which seem so
grievous. In my opinion, there isno-
«^ctqrbfiBSamportant ho siicb|sjMÉd| thé
will^to do.
“As for the retirement system itself,