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In 1963 while I was working in the district office of Internal
Revenue in Springfield a friend, Berniece lJallner and myself
decided to take the Dale Carnegie Course in order.to gain more
self-confidence in ourselves, make ourselves more promotablel
to speak more effectively to groups of people and mainly to
overcome worry and stress. At the time I thought it might be
a usel ess expendi ture but I took the course.
However, when Catherine Hacker and myself were transferred to
the Internal Revenue Service Center r'n Kansas City, Hissouri
I soon found out how very beneficial this course was to me.
First of all, there were several weeks of orientation and then
we had to give talks on several di fferent occasions to twenty
or thirty efiployees in the department where I would be working
and for me to explain how we processed the Federal returns in
the district office. This included all returns and not only
Form 1040 returns which I had always processed and was very
familiar with. Catherine also had to give these talks also
in the accounting department where she was asst'gned. In both
the department where I r.rorked and in the accounting department
where Catherine'worked all of the work was very diiferent since
the entire Service Center was working with conputers.
After six months or so you had to become very versatile and you
had to make a lot of adjustments to keep up with the great
volume of vrork. However, after you became wel I versed wi th the
work and what you thought at the beginning to be big problems
seened to gradually disappear.
Catherine and myself have always worked to the maximun of our
potential wherever we were enployed.
October l, 1969 I reti red and Catheri ne deci ded to qui t and we
both came back to Springfield, Illinois to live. It was a
great experience as well as advantageous to both of us to have
rorked and lived in Kansas City. Catherine has had several
positions in Springfield since we returned here.