Lillian Hoshall Trost, Director, Executive Division
Margaret Dambly Frank, Director^ Examination Division
Robin J. Zee, Director, Classification and Compensation

Division

Sidney Singer, Director, Administrative Division
William H. Schoenhaar, Director of Training
Nathan E. Needle, M.D., Medical Director

301 W. Preston Street, Baltimore I Telephone: Vernon 7-9000

The State Commissioner of Personnel is the head of the State Merit
System, which was established in 1920. The title of State Commis-
sioner of Personnel was established by an Act of 1953. The position
had previously been known as Commissioner of State Employment
and Registration. The Commissioner, who is appointed by the Governor
for a six-year term, administers the Merit System Law, and with the
approval of the Governor, makes such rules as he deems necessary.

The purpose of the Merit System Law is to test the fitness of candi-
dates for positions in the classified service according to a standard of
business efficiency, without regard to political or religious opinions or
affiliations; to provide means for promptly removing from positions in
the classified service all persons therein who may be indolent, incom-
petent, inefficient, or otherwise unfit; and to keep in a workable state
the provisions for the promotion of employees as provided in this Law
to ensure that the best class of candidates will be attracted to the
classified service (Code 1957, Art. 64A, sec. 44). The State Commis-
sioner of Personnel is, therefore, the Chief Personnel Officer for the
State of Maryland, which at present employs approximately 18,000
Classified and 3,350 Unclassified workers. His Department is the
service agency through which all agencies of the State procure their
classified employees (Code 1967, Art. 64A).

Appropriations 1959 1960

General Funds $364,028 $388,442
Staff: 67.

STATE EMPLOYEES STANDARD SALARY BOARD

Chairman: Russell S. Davis, Commissioner of Personnel
Ex officio member: George F. Dollinger, Chairman, Baltimore City

Service Commission

Appointed members: Charles D. Harris, 1962; Willard G. Rouse,
1962; B. Howard Stansbury, 1962
Lillian Hoshall Trost, Secretary

301 W. Preston Street, Baltimore I Telephone: Vernon 7-9000

The State Employees Standard Salary Board was established in
1941 and re-organized in 1953. By Act of the General Assembly of
1956, the Board was abolished and a new Board was created, effective
June 1, 1956. The present Board is composed of the State Commis-
sioner of Personnel, ex officio as Chairman; the Chairman of the City
Service Commission of Baltimore City, ex officio; and a person ap-
pointed by the Governor from a list of three names submitted by the
Maryland Classified Employees Association, and two persons appointed
by the Governor to represent the general public, all three for a period
of six years or until such members become officers or employees of the
State, The Board and Secretary serve without compensation.

The Board prepares and recommends to the Governor a pay plan for
all classes of positions in both the Classified and Unclassified Service,
to the end that all positions in such services involving comparable