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White House Records Manager: An ARMA Northern NJ Educational Eve nt



Northern New Jersey Chapter of ARMA presents:

"What is it like to be the Records Manager in the White House"
Speaker: Terry Good, Director of the Office of Records Management, White
House, Washington, DC


        Where:          Woodbridge Hilton, Iselin, NJ
                                Exit 131A, Garden State Parkway

        When:           Tuesday, April 18, 2000

                                        3:45 - 4:45 pm  Open Board Meeting
                                5:00 - 5:30 pm  Social
                                5:30 - 6:00 pm  Dinner
                                6:00 - 7:00 pm  Presentation

        Cost:                   $30.00 Chapter members / $35.00 all others
and walk-ins.  Cancellations not                                received by
noon on Friday, April 14, 2000 will be
                                automatically billed.

        Reserve:                Mary Bogart  (973) 597-6104
                                On-line:  http://www.armannj.org


Abstract:  The White House Office, as a Federal Government Agency, is quite
ordinary in some respects, quite small by other standards, and yet extremely
unique, partisan, powerful, and historical when viewed from the more popular
perspective.

These characteristics give the non-partisan career employee in the Office of
Records Management some responsibilities that include being records
managers, archivists, historians, teachers, and trash collectors.  Equally
important, the staff must maintain a "minute-man" mindset and retrieval
system that prepares them for those rapid-response requests which may come
at any time for documents from what will amount to upwards of 10,000 cubic
feet of records by the end of an Administration's first term, and over
20,000 by the end of the second term.

What are the requirements for a position within the Office of Records
Management?  What are the rewards?  Do they compensate for the requirements,
uncertainties, and work load?

Our Speaker:  Terry Good is currently the Records Manager of the White
House.  Originally intending to make a career out of teaching at the high
school level, he taught at a small rural high school in Kansas, instructing
in a variety of social science courses and French.  He continued graduate
work, first in Kansas and then at the University of Maryland with a major in
American History.  Joining the National Archives in 1967 he was detailed to
the White House that same year to begin making plans for a Presidential
library for President Nixon.  Had Nixon not resigned, he would have been
transferred to San Clemente at the conclusion of his Administration as part
of the National Archives staff to run the library.  For approximately two
years after Nixon resigned, as part of the NARA team of archivists, he
participated in the review of the White House files for evidence of
"Watergate" documents.

In 1975 he resigned from the Archives and joined the White House Office of
Records Management and, in 1988 become the Director of ORM.  He has worked
with the files of five presidencies: Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and
currently, Clinton.

                   Regards,

                  Barry

                   Barry J. Terenna
                   President, Northern New Jersey Chapter
                   ARMA International

                   Phone 732-524-6344
                   Fax  732-524-5082

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