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July 30, 1996
Gore Salutes
Kids Enjoy
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
NHLBI Focuses on Employee Response to Reinvention By Carla Garnett (This is the fourth article in a summer-long series on reinventing government at NIH.)
On the wall behind her conference table, NHLBI Executive Officer
Sheila Merritt has framed a telling quotation: "In a time of drastic
change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find
themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists." As
Merritt — a 22-year veteran in NHLBI administration, who also
spent 9 years in its intramural science program — explains her
institute's reinvention initiatives, it becomes apparent that the words
of sociologist Eric Hoffer have true meaning in practice as well as
theory.
The true stories of life shared between a mother who was born in
1899 and her daughter, Yvonne "Bonnie" Georg, an NIH employee,
have been published in a 400-page hardback book to be shared by
generations of family members and friends of the Middletown
Valley in Frederick County. Georg works in the Office of Research
Services as secretary to Executive Officer Joan Topalian. Often
prompted by ORS Deputy Executive Officer Anne Marie Gillen to
record her family stories, Georg in 1993 could no longer resist the
prodding and began to write.
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Yvonne "Bonnie" Georg