Address by United States Commissioner of Education Earl James McGrath, It's a Good Time to Live
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OCR Page 1 of 10IT'S A GOOD TIME TO LIVE*
These exercises signalize the fact that many of the employees of
International Business Machines have completed an additional course of
training. I congratulate the members of this group for their efforts in
enchancing their effectiveness through education. By your own efforts you
have not only increased your general and vocational competence but you have
also enriched your own personal lives, as the future will show. This
educational program conducted under the auspices of the organization of
which you are all a part is something unique in American business and industry
I am told that some fifty-four thousand persons are at present engaged in
one or another type of educational activity. The benefits to the individual
are incalculable, but I think it is also a sound business policy upon which
this program rests, namely, that the strength of the Company stems from the
sum total of the human beings which make it up, and therefore anything that
improves them improves the organization.
The topic which I have chosen - "It's a Good Time to Live" - in a
real sense reflects the spirit, dynamism, and the forward-looking character
of the International Business Machines==8 spirit strong even in the face
of adverse circumstances. Back in April of 1932 when the Nation was. in the
pit of a deep depression, Lafayette College held a meeting on its campus to
which administrative officers and trustees of colleges and universities were
invited. Many of these institutions were then in severe financial difficulties
from decreased enrolments as well as from losses of other types of income.
*Address by Earl J. McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security
Agency, Washington, D.C., at the Endicott IBM School, Endicott, New York,
on the evening of June.25, 1952.
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