Grafton Lee Brown, John H. Fischer, W. L. Limburg, Frank
J. Powers, Phillip Robrecht, Nina Russell, Carl Scholtz, Wal-
ter Sondheim, Jr., Merrell L. Stout, Chester A. Troy, Anna
D. Ward.

6 N. Liberty Street, Baltimore 1 Telephone: Mulberry 5-5400

The Governor's Committee to Promote Employment of the Phys-
ically Handicapped was established by the Governor in 1947 in
response to a request by the President of the United States. It is
the purpose of the Committee to coordinate and promote the programs
of counselling, training and placement existing among State agencies
for the physically handicapped. It is a function of the Committee
to create an awareness on the part of the public, particularly em-
ployers, of the problems faced by the handicapped in finding employ-
ment, and to develop a feeling of responsibility on the part of
employers in giving work to these people. The Committee has publi-
cized the experience of employers with handicapped workers and
endeavors to stimulate public interest in providing suitable facilities
for handicapped individuals in the State.

Appropriations 1955 1956
General Fund .................................... $3,000 $3,000

STATE COMMISSIONER OF PERSONNEL

Russell S. Davis, State Commissioner of Personnel, 1961
Wayne W. Ransom, Assistant to the Commissioner
Paul E. Carliner, M.D., Medical Examiner

Margaret Dambly Frank, Director, Examination Division
Evelyn Robinson Funk, Director, Classification and Com-
pensation Division

Ruth Engel Hubbard, Supervisor, Merit System
Lillian Hoshall Trost, Supervisor, Merit System

31 Light Street, Baltimore 2 Telephone: Saratoga 7-7000

The State Commissioner of Personnel is the head of the State
Merit System which was established in 1920 by act of legislature
which is now codified as Article 64A of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1961 Edition). The Office of State Commissioner of Personnel
was established by the Acts of 1963. The position was previously
known as Commissioner of State Employment and Registration. The
Commissioner, who is appointed by the Governor for a term of six
years, is responsible for the administration of the Merit System Law
and is empowered to make, with the approval of the Governor, such
rules as he deems necessary or proper to that end. The purpose
of the Merit System Law is to provide candidates for appointment
to positions in the classified service after determining by practical
tests the fitness of such candidates for the positions which they seek,
without regard to the political or religious opinions or affiliations of
such candidates, or of any other standard except the business effi-
ciency of the classified service, and to provide adequate means for
the prompt removal from positions in the classified service of all
persons therein who may be indolent, incompetent, inefficient or
otherwise unfit to remain therein, and to keep in a workable state
the provisions for the promotion of employees as provided in this
Article to the end that the same shall be so administered as to
attract the best class of candidates to the classified service (Code
1951, Art. 64A, sec. 39). The State Commissioner of Personnel is,
therefore, the Chief Personnel Officer for the Classified Service of
the State of Maryland, which is presently composed of approximately