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ton of problems In personne
and finance that occur FIRE
Quently in the management o
military posts. They are Arm
officers, lieutenant colonel an,
up. a few officers from the othe
services and a few civilian EN-
ployes Of the grade GS-12 o
better.
Belvoir, in Fairfax County,
the engineer center. but the ney
school has nothing to do witt
the Corps of Engineers. The onl,
reason for its location here i
its proximity to Washington ant
the Pentagon.
That's all the Army needs
another school" might be tn,
initial reaction to the announce
ment Of this new establishment
Schools for Officers
Take the continuing education
Of an infantry officer as an
example. After West Point ant
q tour of duty with troops, h,
should, of course. go to the In.
fantry School at Fort Benning
Ga. Later he would do well t,
60 to a technical school of on,
of the other services, sa,
ordnance.
Training in industry helps;
few weeks with General Motors
Westinghouse or Sears Roebuck
If he can arrange 1t, q year.
postgraduate work at q univer
sity in history. geography or Ian
guages is helpful.
Then If he is a really promis-
ing young officer he may g
to the General Staff College
O 10-month course at Leaven,
worth, Kans. Later he may g,
to the Armed Forces STAFF Col
lege at Fort Monroe. Va. Then
II he is one of the elect who is t,
have great responsibilities, h,
will go to the Army War Collegl
at Carlisle, Pa, or the Nationa
War College, the highest strate
gic schooD. or the Industria
College Industrial mobilization)
The last two are at Fort McNai
In Washington.
And, OF course, he should tax,
In this new Command Manage
mept School. This educationa
background and a second gols
star make him the upto- dat,
version Of the hero of the Pirate
Of Penzance. "the very model o
q modern major general"
Business Administration
The idea for the new schoo
came about when Karl h Ben
detsen, assistant Secretary of th'
Army for General Management
during the second Truman ad
ministration, noted that the con
trollers rather than the com
manders were running the day
to-day business administration
Of military establishments. Thi
was all wrong, he said. It wa
the commanders responsibility
He should stay on top OF it.
But to do so the commando,
would have to know more abou
business administration. It wa
decided to start a seminar which
would do for the Army what tn,
seminars of the Harvard Schoo
of Business Administration ant
those of the American Manage
ment Association and the Uni
versity of Pittsburgh School O
Business Administration havI
been doing for American in
dustry.
Harbridge House, Inc, O
Cambridge, Mass, q consulting
flrm stated in part by Harvard
School Of Business Administers
ton faculty members. was EN-,
ployed to study the non-tactica
problems Of operating a militar!
establishment.
The consulting firm wrote W
q number Of ceases" which ar,
used as the basis Of discussion
A three-week curriculum wa,
mapped out. Col. Frank Kowal
ski, jr.. was brought from CAM
Pickett to open the new school
Col. Kowalski, who had some
thing to do with the publication
of several editions Of the Star
and Stripes during the war ant
more recently helped organic
the new Japanese Army. oh
tanned one Of the large bricl
buildings at Fort Belvoir. H
assembled a faculty Of sever
officers and civilians.
A Really Comfortable Place
Because it was planned h
have the participating officer
spend all their waking hours TO
three weeks in the buildinl
reading. thinking and talkinI
management problems. Co
Kowalski set out to make 1t ,
comfortable place.
The lounges, upstairs AM
wn, have big overstuffe'
chairs and q club atmosphere
The win dows have colore'
drapes and the beds colore'