PLANNING
FOR
PRESENTATION CEREMONY

While you are not obliged to hold a presentation ceremony,
it is highly desirable to do so. Experience has shown that if no
ceremony is held, the award becomes less significant to the indivi-
duals concerned, and the employees fail to appreciate in full the
recognition they are receiving.

Particular emphasis should be placed on keeping the Award
ceremony short, simple and dignified. Lavish expenditures are incon-
sistent with the times and with the spirit of the Award, and mst be
avoided.

When the Award is initiated by the Army, the Award Branch,

_ Industrial Services Division, Bureau of Public Relations, War Depart=
ment, Washington, D. C., fixes a date and arranges for speakers for
the ceremony=<assuming that one is to be held.

When the Award is initiated by the Navy, the Incentive
Division, Navy Department, Washington, D. C., fixes the date and
arranges for the speakers.

A Public Relations Officer has been assigned to your
company. He has been instructed by the Under Secretary of War to

supervise arrangements for the presentation.