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Pearl Harbor FORACS Project Manager Speaks At Meeting Of The SNAME Hawaii Section At the head table, left to right: J. R. Gauthey, moderator of the discussion period; Walter L. Burns, author-speaker; H. David Swanson, Section vice-chairman; B. A. Wann, 1967 membership chairman, and Clarence P. Wilmington, secretary-treasurer. A regular dinner meeting of the Hawaii Section, The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engi-neers, was held December 5, 1967, in the Lehua Room of the Ala Moana Banquet Hall, Honolulu. Dinner was followed by the pres-entation of the technical paper and a moderated discussion. Walter L. Burns, FORACS II Project Manager, Combat Systems Division, Pearl Harbor Naval Ship-yard, presented his paper, "Fleet Operational Readiness Accuracy Check Site." FORACS test ranges, one of which is established in Hawaii on the Island of Oahu, are operated Three past chairmen of the Hawaii Section chat during Aloha time. From the left: Roy W. Ahrens, assistant head design engineer for Hull, Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard; Loring W. Schutz, head design engineer, PHNS, and Commander Fred C. Munch-meyer, USCG (ret.), professor, University of Hawaii. to provide aid in improving the ac-curacies of technique and instru-mentation used in navigational and fire-control operations on ship. Mr. Burns discussed the development of equipment, determination of ap-propriate test methods, conducting measurements, and the use of auto-matic data processing for quickly obtaining accurate final data. In the early part of this decade, the accuracies of techniques and in-strumentation used in navigational and fire-control operation attained by the ships of our fleet came under serious question, Mr. Burn's paper brought out. To answer this ques-tion, the Fleet Operational Readi-ness Accuracy Check Site (FOR-ACS) ranges were developed. Establishing the FORACS test ranges, development of equipment, and determining appropriate test methods required a united effort from different activities across the country. Conducting measurements and collecting data are only a down-payment on the answer. The pay-off comes with automatic data pro-cessing and standardized analysis techniques. Today, Mr. Burns re-ports, our ships can have this ques-tion answered within 24 hours fol-lowing a FORACS range test. To-morrow, the accuracies of our ships will be a certainty. Lieutenant Commander J. R. Gauthey, USN, introduced the speaker and conducted the discus-sion period. Lieutenant Command-er H. David Swanson, USN, vice-chairman of the Hawaii Section, chaired the meeting. Both men are from Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, where Commander Swanson is the design superintendent and Com-mander Gauthey is production en-gineering officer. Oral discussers of the paper in-cluded Naval officers Captain Ar-thur S. Chapman, Commander H. A. Hoffman and Commander John Drew; Pearl Harbor Shipyard De-sign Division engineers Roy W. Ahrens, Dale T. Trenhaile, and Eilly A. Wann; Fred Munchmeyer, professor, University of Hawaii, and Frank Kearton of the Kapala-ma Shipyard in Honolulu. B&W Names Two In Diesel Sales Division Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen, Denmark, has appointed Jens Ege-lund director of its Diesel and En-gineering Sales Division. Mr. Ege-lund had been chief sales manager. Under this division a new sales promotion department has been formed, directed by N. E. Rasmus-sen, assistant sales director. Mr. Egelund joined Burmeister & Wain in 1946 and was appointed chief sales engineer in 1962. Mr. Rasmussen joined B&W in 1947. From 1951 to 1965 he was re-sponsible for the establishment and management of the firm's subsidi-ary company in Norway. Motorola has appointed three marine communications representa-tives to work with shipbuilders, owners and operators in the East, Midwest and South. The announce-ment was made by Lawrence Pick-holtz, national marine sales man-ager. William L. Alt of Motorola's Glenside, Pa., office now calls on East Coast accounts from Maine to Florida. David C. Gosse of the St. Louis office covers inland rivers, water-ways and lakes. Robert E. Hall of the Metarie, La., office is the representative on the Gulf Coast and Lower Missis-sippi River. Mr. Alt is a former marine sales engineer for Tidewater Oil and Mobil Oil. He is a graduate of Wagner College, Staten Island, N.Y., and holds a master's degree in business administration from Newport News Ship Appoints D.C. Petty D. C. Petty The appointment of D. C. Petty to assistant to the general manager of Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va., has been announced by vice-presi-dent and general manager, F. C. Davis. Mr. Petty has been assistant su-perintendent of the company's''hull outfiitting division since 1939. His new duties will involve outfitting production control. Mr. Petty was first employed by the company in the superinten-dent's office in 1917. He received a degree in mechanical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Insti-tute and rejoined the shipyard in 1928, in the riggers department. He served as a quarterman there from December 1928 to January 1929, and was a staff supervisor from 1930 to 1939 before being ap-pointed assistant superintendent. New York University. He is a mem-ber of The Society of Naval Archi-tects and Marine Engineers, the Rudder Club and the Propeller Club. Mr. Gosse was national marine sales manager for Foster Refriger-ation Corporation before he joined Motorola last summer. A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., he is a graduate of Fordham University, where he re-ceived a B.S. degree in marketing in 1958. He, too, is a member of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, and the Propel-ler Club. His accounts include tow-boat companies, shipyards, oil com-panies, grain companies, and vari-ous government entities. Mr. Hall was with 3M Company and Superior Oil Company before joining Motorola. He is a native of Houston and graduated from La-mar State College of Technology in nearby Beaumont, Texas. Some of the current SNAME-Hawaii officers, from the left: H. David Swanson, vice-chairman; Frederick C. Munchmeyer, director; B.A. Wann, membership chairman; Grant J. O'Donnell, director; Daniel H. Carstensen, meetings chairman; C. P. Wilmington, secretary-treasurer, and Dole T. Trenhaile, public relations chairman. Messrs. Wann and Trenhaile are members of the SNAME National Committee. Motorola Names Marine Communications Reps William L. Alt David C. Gosse Robert E. Hall February 1, 1968 19