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Thank you. Miss America Mr Marah honored guests and we are here to award today ends on it today friends and family of the guests ladies and gentleman I am pleased to open this ceremony for the presentation of Korea service awards to career civil service employees and to agency heads. The career service award program was just a tutored by you Mr Mayor and November of one nine hundred sixty two to provide a means for the city of New York to express its appreciation to its long time employees for their devoted and competent service under this program city employees and officials are eligible to receive this awards following the twentieth thirty fifth and fiftieth anniversary of their entrance into city service we are here today to honor twelve employees and officials ten of whom have completed more than fifty years of service to the people of our city it is my pleasure to introduce his Honor Mayor Robert F. Wagner four of so for remarks. Thanks. To Lang and ladies and gentlemen. I'm naturally very happy to be here today to help present the career services watch to civil servants or past the fiftieth anniversary of the date of their entrance into the service and also to the heads of agencies what pastie that they thirty fifth or the twentieth anniversary of their entrance into city service as said Ted mentioned this is the third annual present Taishan of these Korea's service awards is impressive indeed to think that there are those present here today who started working for the city is far back as one thousand nine hundred fourteen one thousand nine hundred fourteen I was just beginning like so many other youngsters at that time to play cowboys and Indians. The horse and buggy was still the accepted mode of travel and flying an airplane was a brand new circus stunt that was only fifty years ago. And yet only seventy two hours ago man of Oz was walking in space as part of the rocket borne journey which carried him and his companion round the earth these last four days they probing the way to the moon and the idea of man landing on the moon is no longer a fad as a I know we all thank God that the two have returned safely just a few hours ago only for forty years before one thousand nine hundred fourteen a writer of imagine of fiction by the name of Jules Verne wrote a book entitled around the world in eighty days in one nine hundred fourteen Jules Verne was still considered to be describing the incredible since that time the world has changed so radically that there has that which was also considered inconceivable in those days when we think of old fashioned one nine hundred fourteen Today anyone can take a trip around the world in a leisurely manner in the course of a three week vacation in fourteen which was the post gaslight era some of those who are here today joined the Civil Service of the city the administration of city government has had to keep pace with the radical changes which have affected not only technology but the very concepts of government New York City has changed and grown in those fifty years its government has had to change in order to adapt itself not only to the growth of the city but to the revolutionary changes in the world of which New York City is an important part. Would not have been possible for the government of the city to meet the challenge of these radically changing times if it had not been for our civil servants with skills born of experience a permanent civil servants have helped the city to face and solve problems of growth and change I myself have now spent almost a third of a century in government service and I know at first hand of the work being performed by the men and women of our civil service many of our citizens however I'm not fully aware of the scale and dedication to be found among our civil service and certainly servants and certainly career civil service employees are the backbone of government and of good government they can vary from one administration to the next the know how which is so necessary to keep government operating effectively through crisis and calm you civil servants help to provide the continuity which is so essential in our government in Great Britain this tradition receives the highest respect and here in the United States we are only beginning to understand the role which the civil service plays today marks also the second annual present Taishan of career service a watch to city employees who are heads of agencies these are the men with whom I as mayor have worked intimately I couldn't discharge my responsibilities without them I depend on them and I am grateful to them on behalf of the city I congratulate each of those who was to get an award today I thank each of you for your devotion to the public good and for your contribution to the public service you are helping to make the careers service a shining thing. It must be so if i government is to have the respect of the people at this point I want to add my personal appreciation and gratitude to each of you for the loyal and dedicated service which you have provided during these years of my mail whatever progress has been made you have helped to make it you have helped to translate the public will into actuality you are the core and backbone of government as I said before and I salute you and God luck good luck and God bless you thank you. Before proceeding with the ceremonies I'd like to take a minute introduce my fellow commission a commission at the more E.L.O. of the Civil Service Commission. Thank you very much Mr Mayor for the wonderful description of the olden days in modern times and for your warm praise of the service rendered by civil service employees for the city of New York it is now with great pleasure that I introduce the employees who water received fifty year career services wards and in each case I will last the head of agency or the representative of the head of agency to escort the award went to the to the mayor our first award winner is from the Bureau of the budget we are pleased to have Mr William F. Shea the director of the budget here today and the winner is Mr Henry G. boss where you are both please come up. Here and get a picture of him. Anyway. The next two will ward winners off from the pot on the highways we are pleased to have Commissioner John Carroll the highways commission of president today the first award recipient as Mr Peter Jay Pharoah Mr Farallon to save this march of nine hundred fourteen. And the second the Lord winner is Mr Richard J. Haggerty also Department highway. Oh and. Our next award winner is from the office of the county clerk we are pleased to have the first deputy county clay. Present and will he please escort Mr Benjamin go far to the mat. Our next award winner from the police department we are on it so have the first deputy police commissioner Walsh here today will you please us go at Mr John J. Iran. The next winner is from the palm of health we are pleased to have Dr John R. fill the first deputy health commissioner here and will you please us go out Mr Henry leaped to the mayor. Our next award winner from the problem investigation we are pleased to hear and the winner is Mr Frederick C. rolls. Our next award winner from the POV of water supply gas electricity and we're happy to have Deputy Commissioner drafty Macy's here representing commission a Dandolo is busy saving water. The award winner Mr Jacob Barr Scheiber. From the. Next winner us from the popular Marine in aviation we are happy to have Deputy Commissioner Walter Collman hair and want to please us gotten Mr Charles to the mat. Next from the palm of hawks we have the executive office the John McKay representing commission a new ball Morris and the award winner is Vincent vest I went to service and I think fourteen. Thanks. It is now my pleasure to introduce to agency heads who have passed the thirty fifth year of their entrance into city service and have reached having career employees climbing up to the top of the law to the first agency you had to receive a thirty five year career service a ward as Dr Milton helped turn the chief medical examiner Dr how can I. Go to the next and the final award where a thirty five year career service a ward. To fire commissioner Martin's God who has approximately forty years a save us but just became a commission of this past year and they came out of this with I. The mayor says that he has forty one years of service and now you know why the commission is in the city of New York stay on their toes because I'm a has checking up on everything they do. In closing but I express a special word of gratitude and admiration to those of you who have completed the fifty year service award today and to those agency heads who come to the top and the thirty five or forty one years of service we sincerely hope that they will help you to recall these awards these mementos of the day will help you to recall many pleasant memories associated with your career I also wish to express appreciation of those of you who took time out from your busy schedule to join us in honoring your colleagues and your friends and relatives today thank you very much thank you Mr Mann I.