Evening star., 1941-03-16
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

Mass designations were requested
from District tuberculosis Associa-
ton employees as step toward
maximum efficiency with minimum
personnel" it was said last night,
a few hours after disclosure that all
but four employees had left the
service of the association.
The designations were submitted
by nine employees at the request of
Harald H. Lund, new executive
secretary of the association Other
employees had resigned earlier.
Mr., Lund declined to comment
further than that the employees had
resigned"
Ross Garrett, chairman of the
Plenary Committee recognizing the
association, said, however. that it
) had been found necessary to revamp
the personnel to carry out the new
program of the association.
Positions Combined.
The goal of the reorganization, he
said, was to allow the maximum
amount of money from the annual
tuberculosis seal sales to go toward
prevention and control of tuber-
culosis.
In order to do that" he went on.
lC was necessary to curtail and
revamp the staff, combining certain
posluons to get maximum efficiency
WAh minimum amount of staff
one OF the employees whose
resignation was effective as of YES
terday was Mrs. Adeline Gooch.
veteran of Is years with the asso-
clatlon and director of the seal sale
department. For the last four wears,
according to several of the former
employees, the amount of money re-
celved from seal sales here ranked
second highest per capita in the
country on the basis of a State.
In carrying out the new program.
Mr.. Garrett said, the people in
volved in it must be united in
their opinions" All employees let
out had served under Mrs. Ernest r
Grant, who resigned as managing
director late in January.
May Seek Volunteers.
The program, which has not vet
been made public, will not require
as large a personnel, Mr.. Garrett
ADDED. Some of the activities will
be merged, he indicated, with one
person carrying out several Jobs.
Commenting on the discharge of
the half dozen women employees
OF the seal sale department. he
said it was customary to put on
temporary help during the seal
sale campaign and that some of
those let out had been employed
on temporary basis.
He also indicated that the new
head of the seal sale department
Will be unassisted and that volunteer
help might be called on to keep
the paid staff at minimum.
Two others whose designations
were requested were Philip Joachim,
director of health education, and
Mrs. Mildred Lemeshewsky, an en-
ploye OF the association for 10 years
ana secretary to Mrs. Grant.
Others Left Earlier.
1t was disclosed that several other
employees had left the organization
before the mass shake-up. They
were Joseph McGroary, who re-
signed as director of rehabilitation:
Edwin Potter, retired on a pension
after 20 years service; Miss Gene
We've Marsh, Mr.. Joachim's secre-
tary; Miss Harriet Thompson, health
education assistant, and Samuel
Ragland, rehabilitation assistant.
Retained by Mr.. Lund were Albert
H. Pike, assistant director of the
rehabilitation department; Mrs.
Alexine Tanner, director of the
Negro health education program;
Mrs. Mary Miller, switchboard op-
orator, and Mr.. Pixies secretary, Mrs.
Rosemary Smith.
Mr.. Garrett said meeting of the
Board of Directors would be held
before the end of the month. At
that time, he indicated, the official
program would be announced and
the plenary committee which has
run the association for more than
month would relinquiSh its powers.
At the time the plenary commit
tee took over, the entire staff of the
association submitted designations to
Mrs. Grant The workers were ad-
vlsed during the last week. how
ever, to submit their designations
again.