Evening star., 1952-10-31
Performance Awards
Given 10 191 Emp|oye,
OF State Department


Secretary of State Acheson to-
day announced special awards for
outstanding performance to 1911
State Department employees. 81 of
them from the Washington area.
Jacques j. Reinstein. 4105 Forty
sixth street NV, who is special
assistant to the director of the
departments Bureau of German
Affairs, received the top distin-
guished service award.
Mr.. Reinstein was honored for
his work as alternate head of the
American delegation on an inter-
governmental study group which
worked out measures for ending
the state of war with West Ger
many and bringing the West
Germans into the European de-
fense Setup.
Awards for Superior service went
to II employees; for meritorious
service to %, and for commend
able service to Ill. Another "a
employees were given within grade
salary increases for exceptional
work.
Bruce Presents Awards.
Undersecretary David K. E.
Bruce presented the awards to
those here to receive them in a
ceremony today in the Depart
mental Auditorium, on Constitu-
tion avenue between Twelfth and
Fourteenth streets NV.
A special length of service
award went to Isaac Edwards, 10.
of 609 Forty-ninth street NE, who
has worked for more than SO years
as a messenger in the State De-
partment. He has served under
every President since Theodore
Roosevelt and every Secretary of
State since John Hay.
In all, Md. Edwards has a record
OF over So continuous years with
the Government. having worked
for the War Department for three
years before going to State in
1902.
Benjamin H. Hardy, who helped
to create the Point Four program
and was killed in a plane crash in
Iran last December while serving
es public affairs officer of the
Technical Cooperation Admins
tration. was given a Superior
Service Award posthumously. He
lived at 416 North Oakland street.
Arlington, Va.
Others in d. C. Area.
Others living in the Washing
ton area who received Superior
Service Awards were:
STREET Ms NM Rph oE HfveE = kons G5lS
second street. NV; Dan M. Lacy, 1888
Admission road. Bethesda. Nd; Mrs Mar
saes ss Ew Roy N0ffsh Rasotsom s5z7 h sio
william A. Wood. s917 Dunbarton Street.
These receiving Meritorious
Service Awards included:
Rollin s. Atwood, Glen road. Rockville,
Nd; Edward J, Beigel 1860 Lanier place
Hoe Zoo saesSth serset ReekeS N FSps4t
z, Dowland;- 3429 Martha -custis drive,
AleXainT1dria HiT1d1da: Va: william 3 Dqnham Id3
AiexaPdria: Va, Edmund (. dstsin. 1910
iEsss dv: Fa MinreS ehurd Sa
Charles F. Hawkins, 311 Penwood road,
Silver Spring. Md: Edward A. Jamtson.
HarSoy 'I ottsrnan. s osYs ss1s crsSf Tsirtyfs n
street NV; E: Lewis Reyey, 435, Kim
Z, Visher. Route l. Falls Gnu Church, O va. A
For COmmendable Service.
Among those receiving COM
mendable service certificates were:
william F Bennett, 9o6I River View
son road. Arlington: William q. BoWdier,
3: Buchanan. 500 Nineteenth street NV;
Harvey Cash. f7sS street o NV; ps;' paniei SMi
J. Clinton: 1914 Mount Eagle place. Alex
ssndria. va.; DOUGLAS ". coster, $500
William E c1ibeft. 1s9i 1917 North fSS1 FoTt Myei a
drive. Arlington Va: Helen c. Davis. Sol
Also, Jack II. Dawiey. 21ol New Hamp-
Psiiteepth sgde street NV, Donna Ericsson, SaD
FaEener. S9S1 a7i4 oTdRsy osyon strees sa' sSFa
Mary s; French. 2929 Connecticut avenue
wv. NV; Robert +; Frey, 1910 Rhodes street,
eighth street NV; Charles Gilbert, 1858
North Edison street, Margaret p Class
ford, 1891 Thirty fifth street NV; John
K, Hagemann. 2617 Piyefs Hin road.
also also Eileen T. Hauer, 1928 South
Henderson, 1924 South Ralph street Az.
Lngton; Ruth Hughes, 1855 Connecticut
avenue NV: Irene B. Jaffe, 1924 Fifty
NTH place. East Riverdale, Nd; Charles
NV; Mary. B. Jones. 3S37 Hiatt ises pisce
NV: walter + kamprsd n SpAl 1sfs 4 sweet NeN
Hampshire avenue NV; Joseph B. Kyie
2929 South Buchanan, Arlington; AUDREY
Lea and Joseph ]. Lea. Ardwick road,
Also charles P. Lewis, 1924 Tenth
street NV; Mildred Matthias, $500 -Four
teenth street NV: Margaret 5. Miller,
d424 Sheppard street NV; Sylvia Miller,
200 Nineteenth street NV; Robert j.
ds6fn oi:b 81 sl41 ,tTsst street NV; Kszgmas
Spring, John ": Perkins. 1862 MintWood ssd
North os street IEa xrneton sOs@ aorss slSP %
spT,9ssteen Sna9 g; 1902 street NV; Ray:
street Arlington; Michael II. Styles, 1915
South George Mason drive, Arlington;
Katherine w. Welch. 1870 Colony road.
Silver Spring and Frances M wilson 5O4