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Kings Point Groups Appoint Mitchell To Publicity Post C. Bradford Mitchell John W. Tiernan, president, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Alumni Association, and Charles H. Preusch, president, Kings Point Fund,announced that they have re-tained the services of C. Bradford Mitchell as public relations adviser to their organizations. Mr. Mitchell, a free-lance writer and public relations consultant, has been active in the New York and national shipping community for the past 15 years, having been di-rector of information for the Amer-ican Merchant Marine Institute until his retirement last year. Ear-lier he served as historian to the Maritime Administration, Depart-ment of Commerce. A former edi-tor-in-chief of Steamboat Bill, quar-terly journal of the Steamship His-torical Society of America, he is a frequent contributor to it and other periodicals. His most recent title, "Pride of the Seas," a historical es-say on American shipping, appear-ed in American Heritage magazine for December 1967. The Alumni Association, with a nationwide membership of over 13,000, conducts programs to in-form the public concerning the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and, more broadly, the national need for education of merchant ship officers, a need highlighted by the skilled maritime manpower short-ages disclosed by the Vietnamese war. The Kings Point Fund, incorpor-ated ten years ago this January, is supported by alumni and friends of the Academy, and by an expanding group of corporate donors. It ex-ists to supply and round out the many legitimate and desirable functions of the Academy as a col-legiate community which are not covered by the annual federal ap-propriations for maritime training. These include an extracurricular activities program, a midshipman loan program to aid worthy stu-dents, athletic programs, a sailing program, and improvements to buildings and facilities. While assisting primarily with the work of the Alumni Associa-tion and the Fund, Mr. Mitchell will coordinate closely with the Academy's Alumni Office and with Rear Admiral Gordon McLintock, Academy superintendent. AWO Region 3 Names Vice-Pres., Directors Harry J. Collins was elected vice-president in Region 3 of The American Waterways Operators, Inc. at the annual meeting of mem-bers in New Orleans on January 10. (Region 3 encompasses the Gulf Coast and Lower Mississippi areas.) Mr. Collins, president of Collins Towing Company, Inc, Westwe-go, La., is serving the second year of a two-year term as a director in Region 3. He succeeds L. K. Bur-ton, board chairman, Canal Barge Company, Inc., New Orleans, as Region 3 vice-president. Mr. Bur-ton also has served the last two years as a director in Region 3. Five new directors of the associ-ation were elected in Region 3 and one was re-elected. The new directors elected to two year terms are: Furman T. Ains-worth, manager, Southern Region, Distribution and Traffic, The Dow Chemical Company, Freeport, Tex-as ; Marvin Bacon, president, Ba-con Towing Company, Inc., Hous-ton ; E. L. Hukill Jr., vice-presi-dent, Ingram Barge Company, New Orleans, and Bilbo E. Williamson, secretary-treasurer, Marine Weld-ing & Repair Works, Greenville, Miss. E. W. McCarthy, vice-president, Gulfport Shipbuilding Company, Port Arthur, Texas, was elected to fill a one-year unexpired term. John Buursema, vice-president-operations, G. B. Zigler Company, Jennings, La., was re-elected to a two-year term. Four directors of the association in Region 3 continue in office for another year. In addition to Mr. Collins, they are: D. L. Mechling, vice-president-operations, A. L. Me-chling Barge Lines Inc., New Or-leans ; William B. Patton, William B. Patton Towing Company, Fri-endswood, Texas, and M. I. Sum-merlin, Marine Department, Tex-aco, Inc , Port Arthur, Texas. Following the annual business meeting of members in Region 3, a navigation conference was held in cooperation with the Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Coast Guard. Representatives of the Corps of Engineers included Colonel Thomas J. Bowen, New Orleans District Engineer, and Colonel Felix R. Garrett, Vicks-burg District Engineer, and mem-bers of their staffs; and Ed Wal-lace, chief, Projects Operation Branch, Mobile District Army Corps of Engineers. Representing the Coast Guard was Admiral Ross P. Bullard, Eighth District Com-mander, and members of his staff. In the afternoon, the AWO Safe-ty Committee, under the chairman-ship of Ralph A. Guffey of A. L. Mechling Barge Lines Inc., Joliet, 111., met with members of the as-sociation and several guests to dis-cuss ways to improve the associa-tion's accident-prevention program. Beth-San Francisco Appoints Hamilton Ship Repair Supt. William Hamilton The appointment of William Hamilton as superintendent of ship repairs at Bethlehem Steel Corpor-ation's San Francisco shipyard has been announced by W. C. Brigham, general manager. Mr. Hamilton, formerly administrative assistant to the general manager, will be re-sponsible for all drydocking and ship-repair contracts. A native of Belfast, Ireland, Mr. Hamilton is a graduate of Queens University in Belfast with a bache-lor of science degree in naval archi-tecture. He is also a graduate of Belfast College of Technology. In 1949 he immigrated to Montreal, Canada, and was employed by Canadian Vickers, Ltd. There he held various managerial positions in ship design, new construction and conversion. In 1957 Mr. Hamilton joined Bethlehem's San Francisco ship-yard. He spent six months in the yard's design office, then was as-signed as production planner on conversion of the USS Oklahoma City from a light cruiser to a guid-ed-missile vessel. He was subse-quently made chief draftsman on two 1040 class destroyer escorts which were built by the yard. He was responsible for the final out-fitting and sea trials on the second of these ships. In 1964 Mr. Hamilton was made project superintendent on the con-version and repairs of an ore car-rier to a C-4 type troopship. In 1966 he was appointed administrative assistant to the general manager, the position he held at the time of his new appointment. Bath Iron Works Group Bidding For Navy DX Contract Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine; National Steel and Ship-building Co., San Diego, Calif.; Hughes Aircraft Co., Fullerton, Calif., and Gibbs & Cox, Inc., naval architects, New York, N.Y., have teamed together as a maritime com-bine to bid for the new federal con-tract for the design and construc-tion of a new class of Navy de-stroyers. The announcement of the forma-tion of the team was made by James F. Goodrich, president of Bath Iron Works, the company slated to be the prime contractor for the group. The vessels to be built under the contract are DX destroyers, which are designated by the Navy for anti-submarine and advanced gen-eral purpose. The new ships will replace the Navy's World War II destroyers, about 25 percent of which were built by Bath, and will be part of the fleet in the 1970s. "JUST WHO INSTALLED THIS ENGINE ROOM CONTROL CONSOLE?" February 1, 1968 37