THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1975. RELATED AGENCIES ACTION WITNESSES DR. MICHAEL P. BALZANO, JR., DIRECTOR OF ACTION RONALD E. GEREVAS, ACTING ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR DOMESTIC DR. HARRY HOGAN, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR POLICY AND PLANNING, AND ACTING ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS EMERSON MARKHAM, DIRECTOR OF BUDGET DIVISION DR. FRANK REY, OPERATIONS CHIEF, ACTION EDUCATION PROGRAMS DR. FRANK WILLIAMS, DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR VISTA ELMER LANGE, DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, SCORE/ACE Mr. FLOOD. The committee will come to order. We now have ACTION. The presentation will be made by Dr. Michael P. Balzano, Jr., the Director of ACTION. Your biographical sketches will be placed in the record at this point. [The biographical sketches follow:] MICHAEL P. BALZANO, JR. Michael P. Balzano, Jr., 39, was born in New Haven, Conn. The son of Italianspeaking immigrants, he dropped out of high school at the age of 16 and worked in odd jobs in New Haven. He was a refuse and garbage collector for 21⁄2 years until a serious back injury made heavy physical labor impossible. He then became an apprentice lens grinder for the American Optical Co. Feeling handicapped by his inability to read or write English, he enrolled in night classes at his former high school at the age of 21. After graduating 4 years later he passed the Connecticut State optical examination and became manager of a Darien, Conn. optical company. Later, Balzano left his business career to study history at the University of Bridgeport. He graduated magna cum laude at the top of his class, was named the outstanding senior and received the university's Top Scholar Award. Interested in astronomy, he received a lectureship at the Bridgeport Planetarium where he taught astronomy to school, community, and university groups. Awarded a fellowship for graduate study at Georgetown University, Balzano majored in political theory and became president of the Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society. He received the Outstanding Young Man of America Award in 1969. He went on to earn his Ph. D. degree in political philosophy at Georgetown. His dissertation was based on an analysis of the VISTA program entitled "The Social and Political Ramifications of the VISTA Program." After President Nixon created ACTION in 1971, bringing together VISTA, the Peace Corps, and other volunteer programs, Balzano served as a consultant and made his VISTA study available to officials planning the new agency. He later became special assistance to the director of the Office of Economic Opportunity. In February 1972, Balzano became a staff assistant to the President. In March 1973, President Nixon nominated Balzano as Director of ACTION. The Senate confirmed the appointment and Balzano was sworn in by the President at the White House on May 10, 1973. At that occasion, the President described Balzano as "a self-made and selfeducated man in the very best sense of the word." He said the story of Balzano's life "should renew a message of hope that anybody can start any place in this country and go to the top." ACTION became represented on the Domestic Council for the first time when the President appointed Balzano to the Council in October 1973. The Domestic Council, composed of top cabinet officials, formulates and coordinates domestic policy recommendations for the President. Also in October, Congress enacted Public Law 93-113, the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973. The act enables ACTION to operate existing programs, establish new programs and explore new approaches to voluntarism. Balzano is married to the former Denise Wiens, daughter of Mrs. Henry Wiens of Rockville, Md. The couple lives in Arlington, Va. They have one son, Christopher Michael, who was born on February 6, 1974. Besides the Peace Corps and VISTA, ACTION includes the Foster Grandparent program, Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE), Active Corps of Executives (ACE), Retired Senior Volunteer program (RSVP), Senior Companion program, ACTION Cooperative Volunteers, and University Year for ACTION. JOHN L. GANLEY John L. Ganley, 51, former Auditor General of the Agency for International Development (AID), was appointed Deputy Director of ACTION in June 1974, following nomination by President Nixon and confirmation by the U.S. Senate. As Deputy Director, Ganley is responsible for the management of the day-to-day operations of the 3-year-old Agency. He oversees the planning and organization of volunteer efforts here and abroad. Before coming to ACTION, Ganley served 1 year as Auditor General of AID. There he headed a professional staff of 40 people working in 40 countries. He was responsible for the Agency's worldwide audit, appraisal, inspection, and investigative and security functions. Ganley first served with AID from 1969 to 1970 as Director of the office of appraisal. From 1970 to 1973, Ganley held various high positions with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He first served as Assistant Deputy Under Secretary concerned with program evaluation, and later served simultaneously as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Housing Production and Deputy Commissioner for the Federal Housing Authority. Prior to joining President Nixon's administration, Ganley held executive posts with three private corporations. They were Superior Manufacturing and Instrument Corp., in Long Island City, N.Y., Weston Instruments., in Newark, N.J., and AVCO Corp. in Cincinnati, Ohio. Before entering private industry, Ganley spent 12 years in Federal Government service in Washington. From 1954 to 1959, he was a senior staff member in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense-Comptroller. Between 1951 and 1954, Ganley was Comptroller of the Federal Renegotiation Board and deputy administrative assistant in the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force. Educated at Boston and George Washington Universities, Ganley served as an Army enlisted man during World War II. He saw action in both the European and Pacific theaters. On January 25, 1974, President Nixon nominated Ganley as ACTION Deputy Director. The U.S. Senate confirmed his appointment on May 30. He was administered the oath of office by ACTION Director Mike Balzano in Washington on July 16. ACTION programs are the Peace Corps, Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), University Year for ACTION, ACTION Cooperative Volunteers, Foster Grandparent program, Retired Senior Volunteer program (RSVP), Senior Companion program, Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE), and Active Corps of Executives (ACE). Ganley and his wife, the former Maxine McKenzie, of Alexandria, Neb., live in Arlington, Va., and maintain a residence in Loch Arbour, N.J. They have two daughters, Corynn of Summit, N.J., and Sharon. RONALD E. GEREVAS Ronald E. Gerevas, 35, was nominated by President Ford as ACTION's Associate Director for Domestic and Antipoverty Operations on March 29, 1975, after nearly 3 years of service as an executive at the Federal volunteer agency. Gerevas came to ACTION in August 1972 as Assistant Director for Public Affairs. In September 1973, he was named Director of ACTION'S Office of Recruitment and Communications, then a new division which combined the Agency's former Offices of Citizens Placement and Public Affairs. He has directed the work of 500 Washington and regional staff members in informing the public of ACTION programs and recruiting volunteers for the Peace Corps and VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America). As Associate Director for Domestic and Antipoverty Operations, he would be responsible for all ACTION domestic volunteer activities and a budget of $100 mil'ion. More than 150,000 ACTION volunteers are serving in domestic programs in all 50 States and the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and Puerto Rico. Gerevas is a native of Fairfield, Calif., and a graduate of California State University in San Jose. After leaving college, he worked for 8 years with the J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency in New York and Los Angeles. Gerevas joined the advertising agency's New York office in August 1964 as a management trainee. Within 1 month, he became director of its training programs and, 6 months later, personnel manager of its creative department, with responsibility for 500 professional employees. Later, Gerevas became an account executive, working on such major accounts as R. T. French, Standard Brands, and Miles Laboratories. He moved in 1970 to J. Walter Thompson's Los Angeles office, where he was an account supervisor for 7-UP, Blue Cross, Carte Blanche, and other accounts. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Raper of 109 Olympic Circle, Vacaville, Calif., Gerevas was born and raised in Fairfield, where his grandfather, Joseph Gerevas. 86, once served as mayor. His grandparents still reside in Fairfield at 47 Balboa Court. He studied public administration as an undergraduate at California State University at San Jose, where he was named outstanding senior at his graduation in 1962. He remained at the university to earn his master's degree in business administration in 1964. Gerevas is married to the former Rosalie Morrongiello, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Morrongiello of 1347 Bay Ridge Ave., Booklyn, N.Y. Mr. and Mrs. Gerevas reside in Alexandria, Va., with their two children Michelle, 7, and Stephen, 4. Besides the Peace Corps and VISTA, ACTION includes the Foster Grandparent prorom. Petired Senior Volunteer program (RSVP), Senior Companion program, ACTION Cooperative Volunteers, Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE), Active Corps of Executives (ACE) and University Year for ACTION. HARRY J. HOGAN Harry J. Hogan, 59, former Catholic University government relations director and district attorney for the Dalles, Oreg., was nominated by the President to serve as ACTION Assistant Director for policy and program development in August, 1973. Hogan, whose appointment was confirmed by the Senate in October, is responsible for developing and evaluating new approaches to voluntarism for ACTION programs. Prior to his appointment, Hogan spent one year at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. as head of the department of government relations. A member of the American Bar Association and the Oregon Bar Association, he was a professor of law at Delaware Law School in Wilmington from 1971 to 1972, and counsel to the House Special Subcommittee on Education from 1969 to 1971. From 1961 to 1968 he held several posts with the U.S. Department of the Interior. He was general counsel for the Bonneville Power Administration in Port land, Oreg., and associate solicitor for water and power matters and legislative counsel in Washington, D.C. Hogan was twice elected district attorney in The Dalles, Oreg., in 1956 and 1960. Between 1947 and 1952 he was a member of the legal staff of the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management and Bureau of Indian Affairs. He is the author of many articles, including "Student Aid and Institutional Autonomy: Congressional Decisions," Journal of Student Financial Aid, March 19.3; "Basic Educational Opportunity Grant program: Its impact upon the Middle Class," Journal of Student Financial Aid, June 1973; "The B.E.O.G. Revolution," Change Magazine, Summer, 1973; "The Supreme Court and the Crisis in Liberalism," Journal of Politics, May 1971; "Some Congressional Viewpoints on Student Unrest," The College Counsel, 1969; and "Supreme Court and Natural Law," American Bar Association Journal, June 1968. A 193 magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University, Hogan holds an LL.B. degree from Columbia Law School and a Ph. D. in American history from George Washington University. During World War II, he served more than 4 years of active duty in the Navy. He is a commander in the Naval Reserve. He and his wife, the former Virginia Esau of Jamaica, L.I., N.Y., reside in Bethesda, Md. They are the parents of three daughters. FRANK E. WILLIAMS Frank E. Williams, 50, former director of ACTION's southern region, serves as deputy associate director of ACTION for VISTA and antipoverty programs. A native of Titusville, Fla. and an educator in his home State for more than 20 years, Williams is responsible for the operation of VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America). Before he was named head of VISTA and antipoverty programs for the Federal Voluntary Service Agency, Williams directed ACTION's domestic volunteer programs in region IV, the 8-State southern area with headquarters in Atlanta, Ga., for 16 months. ACTION's domestic programs include VISTA, Foster Grandparent program, retired Senior Volunteer program (RSVP), Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE), Active Corps of Executives (ACE) and University Year for ACTION. The Peace Corps is ACTION's international volunteer program. Williams became director of ACTION's southern region after serving for 18 months as assistant director of the Cabinet Committee on Education. While in Atlanta, he served on the YMCA board of directors and was the chairman of the Consumer Protection Committee of the Federal Executive Board. A veteran of Army service during World War II, Williams received a bachelor's degree in economics and business from Morehouse College in 1949 and a master's degree in educational guidance from Atlanta University in 1957. He earned a doctor of education degree in educational administration from the University of Florida in 1968. Williams began his educational career in 1949 as a teacher, and later as a principal, at the Titusville Center of Adult Evening Education. He taught social studies from 1952 to 1960 at the Gibson School in Titusville and was the school's principal for the following 6 years. Later, he was supervisor of special projects and a special assistant on school desegregation problems for the Brevard County (Titusville) School Board. Williams also was an assistant professor of education at Florida Technological University in Orlando for 1 year, before taking leave to assume the Cabinet Committee position. A life member of the National Education Association, he is a former president of the Brevard County and Orange Belt District teachers associations and a past board member of the Florida State Teachers Association. He currently is a member of the American Association of Voluntary Services Coordinators. He has been a consultant on integration of school activities and services for four Florida counties and a consultant on problems of black teachers in rural southern communities at Tuskegee Institute. Williams also has been active in community action, day care, mental health, human relations and minority affairs programs. He is the recipient of several awards for outstanding service as an educator. Williams, a resident of Washintgon, D.C., is married to the former Artie P. Griffin of Titusville. |