Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-07-17
2e EOD WORKERS ATTEND
ROCK ISLAND MANAGER SCHOOL

After Is months in operation,
the Army Ordnance Management
Engineering School, centered at
Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island,
Ill, will enroll its 150Oth student
in the new class which began Mon
day, July 6.
Paul Cook, Fremont, attending
from Erie Ordnance Depot, may
have had this enrolment distinc-
ton.
The school was established on
April 81, 1852, as part of the Ord
nance Management Training Pro-
gram begun the year previously
by Maj. Gen. E. L. Ford, the Chief
of Ordnance.
The program was considered an
essential step for the Ordnance
Corps in proper discharge of its
primary responsibility for the de-
velopment and manufacture, or
procurement, of most of the
weapons and vehicles used by the
Army.
In having to triple its personnel
strength to handle the heavy work
load imposed on it by the outbreak
of hostilities in Korea, Ordnance
was faced with a shortage of key
personnel versed in the techniques
of modern industrial management.
To solve this personnel shortage
problem, General Ford established
the school, putting the same prior
ity on trained management men as
had already been placed on trained
scientists and engineers.
Officers, enlisted men, and civil
ian employees holding key posi-
tions in AZ of Ordinances 81 install
lations have taken courses at Rock
Island thus far.
A total of 26 persons from Erie
Ordnance Depot have attended one
or more courses SO far, and a
dozen more are scheduled to attend
during the next six months.
Enrolled from Erie were:
Col. E. M. Webb, 1t. Col. Leland
S. Devore, 1t. Col. John G.. Sanford,
and Maj John R. Blackwell of the
post;
Leroy Ansalvish, George Svehla,
Dante Bell, Harry Coe, Mary Keef-
er, Monroe Barron, Reynaldo Rod
riquez, John Silvia, Charles Geo.
field, Bard Witter, Wayne Fee,
Atwood Mannisto, John Baran and
William Hawk, of Port Clinton;
Fred Peters, Paul Lockwood and
Durwood Hanline, of Oak Harbor:
Elmer Knight and Frank Men
sing of Toledo; and
Robert LaTourrette of Fremont.
Courses vary in length from a
few days to as long as four weeks.
Though students take only one
course at time, a single course
running eight hours a day, they
may return for additional courses.
Basic subjects such as work
measurement, methods improve
ment, organization analysis, plan
ming and production control, and
other equally important divisions
of management are stressed under
the direction of we'll qualified con-
ference leaders.
Top management seminars are
held periodically for high execu-
tives within the Ordnance Corps
for the purpose of discussing the
entire field of management as en-
braced by the Rock Island training
program. Key officials from private
industries are called in to take
part in these seminars by discus
sing current issues in management
The underlying teaching con-
cept which the school follows is
participational education or
group discussion. The instructors.
through imparting the latest in
formation on management tech
niqueS lead their classes toward
their own solutions of either actual
shop problem studies provided by
the arsenal, or case problems pre-
sented by the instructor or mem
bers of the class.
On returning to their home in
stallations, graduates of the school