Workgroup Chairman: RONALD H. BORN, director, San Francisco Public Welfare Department, California Discussion Leader: NORMAN V. LOURIE, deputy secretary, Department of Public Welfare, Pennsylvania Recorder: RUTH B. Flanagan, executive secretary, Duval County Welfare Department, Florida Resource: RALPH ATKINS, director of public assistance, Public Welfare Board of North Dakota CORNELIA M. Dunphy, principal assistance standards specialist, Bureau of Public Assistance, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Workgroup Financing Medical Costs Chairman: REV. JOHN R. ANSCHUTZ, Christ Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C. Discussion Leader: FEDELE F. FAURI, dean, School of Social Work, The University of Michigan Recorder: LUDWIG JAFFE, director of research and education, New York State AFL-CIO Resource: HERMAN M. SOMERS, chairman, Political Science Department, Haverford College, Pennsylvania IDA C. MERRIAM, Director, Division of Program Research, Social Security Administration, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Workgroup Chairman: CHARLES E. ODELL, Director, Older and Retired Workers Department, United Auto Workers, AFL-CIO, Michigan Discussion Leader: WAYNE VASEY, dean, Graduate School of Social Work, Rutgers University, New Jersey Recorder: H. HAROLD LEAVEY, vice president and general counsel, California- Resource: HERBERT NOTKIN, M.D., medical director, Onondaga Department of Workgroup Chairman: WALTER U. KENNEDY, M.D., surgeon and president of Henry County Welfare Board, Indiana Discussion Leader: I. JACK FASTEAU, professor of public administration and social work, Graduate School of Public Administration, New York University Recorder: HYMAN BOOKBINDER, legislative representative, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C. Resource: BARBARA N. ARMSTRONG, professor of law emeritus, University of California ELLEN PERKINS, Assistant Chief, Division of Program Statistics and Analysis, Bureau of Public Assistance, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Workgroup Chairman: J. DOUGLAS COLMAN, president, Associated Hospital Service of New York Discussion Leader: ALTON E. LINFORD, dean, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, Illinois Recorder: IRWIN E. KLASS, director of information and public relations, Chicago Federation of Labor, Illinois Resource: MATHILDA SCHEUER, R.N., president, American Nurses' Association, New York S. DAVID POMRINSE, M.D., M.P.H., Chief, Health Professions Branch, Division of Public Health Methods, Public Health Service, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Workgroup Chairman: RAYMOND W. HOUSTON, commissioner, New York State Department of Social Welfare Discussion Leader: VERNON R. BURT, Chairman, Governor's Commission on Aging, Ohio Recorder: M. S. ROBERTSON, Retired Professor and associate director of research, College of Education, Louisiana State University Resource: KATHERINE ELLICKSON, Assistant Director, Department of Social Security of AFL--CIO, Washington, D.C. JAMES C. CALLISON, program analyst, Social Security Administration, Workgroup Chairman: WALTER F. FOODY, Jr., vice president, Continental Casualty Insurance Co., Illinois Discussion Leader: John W. MCCONNELL, dean, New York State School of Recorder: JOHN F. PLETZ, chief, Bureau of Standards and Procedures, Division Workgroup Chairman: JUDGE GEORGE SCHWOLSKY, member of Connecticut Commission on Services for Elderly Persons Discussion Leader: EVELINE M. BURNS, professor of social work, The New York School of Social Work of Columbia University Recorder: KENNETH E. POHlmann, rehabilitation consultant, UMWA Welfare and Retirement Fund, Washington, D.C. Resource: J. F. FOLLMANN, JR., Director of Information and Research, Health Insurance Association of America, New York AGNES W. BREWSTER, medical economist, Division of Public Health Methods, Public Health Service, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Workgroup: Private Pensions and Individually Provided Retirement Income and Resources Chairman: WILLIAM C. GREENOUGH, president, Teachers Insurance and An- Recorder: TED F. SILVEY, research associate, Research Department, AFL-CIO Workgroup: Measuring Resources and Income Needs of Aged Persons Alaska Discussion Leader: SIDNEY GOLDSTEIN, professor of sociology, Brown University, Rhode Island Recorder: MOSES GOZONSKY, economist, United Steelworkers of America, Wash Resource: STANLEY RUTTENBERG, director, Department of Research, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C. HELEN LAMALE, Consumption Studies Branch Chief, Bureau of Labor APPENDIX C Some General Reactions by Workgroup Leaders IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING the Conference, Workgroup chairmen and discussion leaders were asked by the Section Chairman if they wished to make any observations about their Workgroups that could be used "in providing the insight that we should have for the final Conference report of our Section-an insight that we ourselves were unable to get because of the impossibility of sitting in with all of the Workgroups." Many responded, and their comments are summarized here along with some observations of delegates participating in these Workgroups. Not unexpectedly, the comments frequently balanced each other. Some reported adequate time for careful exploration and discussion of all issues referred to the Workgroups; others and this difference may reflect differences in the complexity of the Workgroup assignment-reported insufficient time. The resource materials that were provided to each delegate-and the considerably more voluminous materials sent to the Workgroup leaders to prepare them for their tasks were in some instances applauded as valuable references that would continue to serve as working documents for years to come. In other instances, they were considered to be of little assistance and, more important, to get in the way of a consideration of the pros and cons around each major issue, as identified in the Background Papers. Much of the need for additional resource materials was perhaps eliminated by the use of resource persons, commended by one Workgroup leader as "a terrific asset. They gave the impression of having facts at their fingertips and were frequently utilized." Some believed that the Workgroups generally ignored the recommendations emanating from State conferences, in which countless thousands of persons had participated that the White House Conference recommendations were thus based primarily on the personal opinions of the individuals in the Workgroups, rather than on the broader base of State recommendations. On the other hand, there were Workgroups that made maximum use of the State recommendations as a springboard for their discussions. A leader of one of these stated that the delegates in his Workgroup-although primarily laymen-were able to come to grips with quite technical questions because they had participated in the development of recommendations on the same question in their State conferences. In most Workgroups, the five leaders worked in close harmony, supporting each other and operating as a team. In others, questions arose as to the division of functions between the Workgroup chairman and the discussion leader, with one comment to the effect that the latter position was quite unnecessary since anyone capable of acting as chairman could also have led and directed the discussion. Many praised the behavior of their groups and the ability of the delegates, despite wide differences in beliefs, to discuss controversial issues freely and objectively and without acrimony. As one leader stated: "Our session ended with a sense of satisfaction that there had been a free open discussion-even beyond the limits of our assignment and that the resolutions had been arrived at on the basis of conviction rather than on prejudice." Another commented that the Workgroup discussions had been the telling factor in shaping the recommendations and that the cause "was not so much a flood of irresistable eloquence as a kind of insight which developed as facts were presented." |