Milton C. Towner

The following is a -personal letter, dated August 26, written to Frank Welsh, Training Department, International Business Machines Corporation, Endicott, New York, who forwarded it to the JOURNAL. If you, ns a training director, think your life is full of pressing problems, read what happened to Milton Towner who went to Korea . . . Milton C. Towner is a graduate of Coe College, Iowa.

A Training Director In Korea

This discussion, prepared with the thought that shared experience may be of some value to others, indicates quite informally how one company organizes and operates its industrial training program. We will discuss the general objectives of the Training Department, the economic justifications for carrying on indus-trial training programs, some ways in which training activity can assist with the current emphasis upon increased productivity, a brief listing of the principal training programs now in operation, and an indication of the facili-ties whch the Corporation has made available to the department for its use.

Operating A Training Department

The past dozen years of experience with industrial training in developing areas in Asia have highlighted approaches to training quite different from those ef-fectively applied at home in the States. A discussion of a few of these may prove interesting to

Milton C. Towner

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