Double Honors

In recognition of his outstanding achievements in the field of personnel administration and as a historian, two new honors were recently received within the space of a few months by Leonard D. White '14. He was presented with the seventh annual Warner W. Stockberger Achievement Award by the Society for Personnel Administration in February, and on April 28 he was announced as the winner of one of. the two 1954 Bancroft Prizes, offered annually by Columbia University "for distinguished writing in American history." The latter award was for TheJacksonians, the third volume of his trilogy tracing the evolution of this country's form of government from 1789 to 1861. The first volume, TheFederalists, was published in 1948; TheJeffersonians in 1951.

Dr. White, who is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Chicago, received the medal and certificate for outstanding contributions to the objectives of personnel at a dinner given by the Society for Personnel Administration on February 15 in Washington. An editorial in The Washington Post of that date commended the choice of Dr. White as the recipient of the Stockberger Award in these words:

"... This award is made annually by the Society for Personnel Administration to the individual considered to have made the outstanding contribution during the preceding year in the field of personnel administration. The award committee may have chosen Dr. White for the specific services he rendered last year as an adviser to the Hoover Commission. Or, it may equally well have chosen him in belated recognition of the tremendous contributions he has made over a long period of years. He is the author of what is generally considered the standard text for the introductory course in public administration. As long ago as 1936, when he was a Civil Service Commissioner, he was the originator of the examination for junior civil service examiner which led in time to development of the junior professional assistant and junior management assistant programs. These have greatly stimulated the recruitment of college graduates for the Federal career service.

"The country, no less than the army of Federal employes, is indebted to Dr. White. We hope that the recognition accorded him this evening will help to promote a general recognition in the American public of the magnitude, complexity and significance of the personnel administration problem in the United States Government."

Dr. White was awarded the honorary Litt.D. degree from Dartmouth in 1946 and the LL.D. degree from Princeton in 1953. In addition to other distinctions, he was the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Award of the American Political Science Association for his volume, The Federalists. Recently he was honored with the title of Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.

Leonard D. White '14