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Jones to DeL.oach memorandum FP The program is oper. to Federal career employees whose performance ' has been distinguished by intellectual maturity, leadership, character and competence and who evidence a sincere interest in public service as gtareer, There are no limitations as to sex, creed, color or national origin, The candidates need not be graduates of a college or university. They must have at least five years Federal Service and normally must be between the ages of 35 and 50, The essential criterion is evidence of demonstrated value of the employee to the Government service and evidence of future value in terms of general prominence or usefulness or in terms of a specific future assignment. The candidates can either be nominated by Govern~ ment agencies or by direct application, acre The program is administered by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public oe, and International Affairs, Princeton University, The Bureau has never participated in this program due to certain derogatory information pertaining to members of the Committee on Selection which recommen andidates to the University trustees, € coramiitee in 1958 included Anna Lord Strauss and Edward S. west te pi /[ Edward 5. Mason is the Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of P ublic Administration GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES TRAINING ACT, P.L, 85-507: On 7-7-58 the Government Employees Training Act was enacted which stated the following to be the expressed policy of Congress, “It is necessary and desirable in the public interest that self-education, self-improvement, and self- training by such employees be supplemented and extended by Government-sponsored ( programs, provided for by this Act, for the training of such employees in the per- formance of official duties and for the development of skills, knowledge, and abilities which will best qualify them for performance of official duties,"' The training we Sa programs are to be administered by Government agencies under regulations estab- : lished by the Civil Service Commission, An important phase of the Act isthe authorization of programs of training through both Government and non-Government facilities,