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ARC 822
Rev. July 1942

GENERAL GUIDE FOR SELECTING ASSISTANT FIELD DIRECTORS

FOR RECREATION FOR MILITARY AND NAVAL STATIONS

GENERAL Men recreation workers are assigned with various military units outside the Con-
tinental United States. They are known as assistant field directors for recreation.

Candidates for positions must be in good physical health as evidenced by a physical exam-
ination performed by a physician of good standing with the American Medical Association.
They must be citizens of the United States and must be able to furnish a certified copy
of a birth certificate, or other proof of citizenship. Their records as citizens must be
satisfactory to the military authorities as well as to the American Red Cross.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES
The assistant field director for recreation:

-1. Is responsible to and will work under the immediate direction of the American Red
Cross field director.

2. Serves when needed in planning, organizing and promoting recreation activities such
as sports, games, social recreation, entertainments, workshops, arts and crafts, music,
dramatics, libraries, game rooms, etc.

3. Serves when needed in conducting recreation leadership training for soldiers assigned
to recreation duty.

4. Serves when needed in organizing and conducting recreation activities on board ships
while enroute from the United States to an insular or foreign base.

5. Makes suggestions from his field experience to the national headquarters for the im-
provement of policies, standards, and procedures relating to station recreation programs
for the able-bodied service man.

AGE AND SEX

Men only are considered for these positions. Applicants should be between the ages of 30
and 50. Those with outstanding qualifications who are outside these age limits may be
given consideration. Men of selective service age are not considered unless they have
dependents or are eligible for deferment for other valid reasons. Proof of such deferment
is necessary. ?

EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE

Graduation from a standard college or university and having taken work in two or more of
the following fields: education, group work, recreation, physical education, sociology,
and public welfare administration. In exceptional instances, outstanding experience over
a long period of time may be acceptable in lieu of such graduation.

Three years of full-time work in leisure-time activities with a responsible public or
private agency, of which two years shail have been in the actual leadership of individual

and group activities, and of which one year shall have been work of a supervisory and
administrative nature.