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water for just about any purpose.

Because it is spring fresh and soft the water is ideal for drinking, cook- ing, showering, and all other person- al uses. It uses waste heat from engine cooling water or heated water from any source to convert raw salt water or otherwise impure water to pure fresh water.

Arthur J. Sevin Jr., president of Alexander Industries, said the complete line is available with ca- pacities from 8 to 630 gallons per hour.

Alexander Industries is head- quartered in New Orleans, La., with offices in Houston, Texas. For more information and free literature,

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Newport News Announces

Management Restructuring

Edward J. Campbell, presi- dent and chief exceutive officer of

Newport News Shipbuilding, New- port News, Va., recently announced a significant restructuring of the shipyard's top management.

William R. (Pat) Phillips Jr., a 39-year employee of the shipyard and executive vice president, will take on added responsibilities. He will be responsible for all construc- tion and repair operations at the shipyard, as well as all construction and test engineering efforts.

Mr. Phillips began his career at the shipyard in 1949 as an Appren- tice School student and has worked his way up through the ranks of the shipyard. He has been manager of nuclear construction, vice president of yard operations, vice president of marketing, and senior vice president of engineering. In January 1987, he was promoted to executive vice president, with responsibility for engineering, material and quality.

Mr. Phillips is a graduate of Vir- ginia Polytechnic Institute and the

Harvard University Advanced Man- agement Program.

In increasing Mr. Phillips's re- sponsibilities, Mr. Campbell said, "Pat Phillips is one of the most experienced shipbuilders in the na- tion. He knows Newport News Ship- building, its people and its opera- tions like the back of his hand. He will be responsible for ensuring that the 15 ships we now have under con- tract and those we will have in the future are constructed on schedule and with the kind of quality for which our shipyard is famous."

William P. Fricks, vice presi- dent-human resources, who joined

Newport News Shipbuilding in 1966 after graduation from Auburn Uni- versity, will be promoted to senior vice president.

Mr. Fricks will retain responsi- bilities for human resources, but will also be responsible for materials management, quality, facilities en- gineering, and industrial engineer- ing.

Mr. Fricks holds a master of business administration degree from the College of William and

Mary and is a graduate of the Har- vard University Advanced Manage- ment Program.

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The third senior management move announced was the promotion of James A. Palmer Jr., director of engineering to vice president of engineering reporting directly to

Mr. Campbell.

Mr. Palmer will be responsible for engineering relating to research and development, and new ship classes, including the Navy's new

Seawolf Class attack submarines.

He will also oversee all of the ship- yard's engineering branch offices and the integrated logistics support work at the shipyard.

Mr. Palmer is a 1958 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and holds a masters degree in naval architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology. Mr. Palmer joined the shipyard in 1984 as director of engi- neering administration after 29 years of government service, nine years of which were spent as the

Naval Reactors representative at

Newport News Shipbuilding. He was promoted to director of engi- neering at the yard in September 1986. He also is a graduate of the

Harvard University Advanced Man- agement Program.

In announcing the restructuring,

Mr. Campbell emphasized that these moves are designed to address the most important objectives of the shipyard and that further personnel announcements will be made in the near future.

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