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Chesapeake Section, SNAME, Honors Admiral Jerry Land On 90th Birthday Attending the Chesapeake Section meeting honoring Vice-Adm. Jerry Land were, left to right: L. D. Cathers, immediate past chairman, Chesapeake Section; James J. Henry, president, SNAME; Hollinshead de Luce, manager, ship development and sales, Beth-lehem Steel Corporation; Comdr. V. W. Rinehart, U.S. Coast Guard, author; Comdr. E. L. Parker, U.S. Coast Guard, author, and R. Taggert, chairman, Chesapeake Section. The Chesapeake Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, held its January technical meeting at the Washing-ton Navy Yard Officers' Club. Be-cause the meeting fell on the 90th birthday of Vice-Adm. Jerry Land, the Section designated this session as Jerry Land night, honoring Ad-miral Land with a testimonial and a book of congratulatory letters. Unfortunately, Admiral Land was in the hospital and, therefore, not able to attend, but was nevertheless honored in absentia. Among those paying tribute to Admiral Land were J. J. Henry, president of the Society; past Presidents D. A. Holden and Rear Adm. R. K. James, USN (ret.) ; as well as several recipients of the Vice-Adm. "Jerry" Land Medal and many other outstanding mem-bers of the marine community. Following the ceremony honor-ing Admiral Land, the large audi-ence was privileged to hear a pres-entation and discussion of the pa-per, "Concept Formulation for Na-tional Data Buoy System," by Comdr. V. W. Rinehart and Comdr. E. L. Parker, U.S. Coast Guard. On November 15, 1967, the Coast Guard, with the approval of the De-partment of Transportation, was selected by the President's Marine Science Council to undertake the research, development, testing and evaluation necessary for the imple-mentation of the National Data Buoy Systems. This effort was to be approached from the standpoint of a total system to meet the broad mission requirement of collecting marine environmental data syn-optically?with specific require-ments as to accuracy and geograph-ic and temporal spacing?and to transmit this data to processing centers and users in a rapid and re-liable manner. Four major subsystems were identified as making up the Nation-al Data Buoy System : data gather-ing system, ocean platform system, seaborne support system and shore support system. This paper examines the ap-proaches taken in developing the system concepts and alternative hardware configurations for the initial cost/time/performance and system effectiveness analysis. It al-so discusses the problems that re-main and the intended technical approach for their solution. A spirited discussion followed the presentation of the paper. William H. Meyle Jr. Elected President Of Independent Pier The board of directors of Inde-pendent Pier Company, Philadel-phia, Pa., has announced the elec-tion of William H. Meyle Jr., as president of the company. Other officers elected by the board of directors are: William Meyle Sr., chairman of the board; Kenneth Meyle, vice-president; Ralph Arizini Jr., treasurer and comptroller; and Herman Meyle, secretary. Independent Pier Company and its affiliated companies are engaged in stevedoring, towing, steamship terminals, lighterage and 24-hour high-speed diesel launch service. Its facilities are located at Pier 34 South; Pier 55 South and Pier 2 Girard Point. When it comes to shipboard intercommunications and controls, most profit-minded, quality conscious shipbuilders look to Henschel for engineering competence and skilled craftsmanship. Why don't you? 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Earnings increased 224 percent to $4,361,000, from $1,348,000 in the comparable period a year ago. Net earnings per share of common stock computed on a residual basis, in-creased 157 percent to $.95 a com-mon share, from $.37 a year ago. Sales increased to $46,798,000 from $11,106,000 a year ago. The company attributed the sales and earnings increase to contribu-tion by new acquisitions, substanti-al new capital assets completed and put to work by the company, and to completion of redeployment of a substantial portion of its offshore drilling fleet to foreign areas and commencement of contract work therein. Johannessen Of Mobil Elected President Circumnavigators Club J. E. Johannessen, general sales manager, marine trade department, Mobil Sales and Supply Corpora-tion, has been elected president of the Circumnavigators Club. The club was established in 1902 to extend friendly contacts among men who go to the ends of the earth. There are two requirements for membership. First, a Circumnavi-gator must cross all the meridians of longitude traveling in one direc-tion and returning to the starting place. Second, he must be invited to join and be approved by the membership committee. Many distinguished men have been Circumnavigators, including William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, Douglas MacArthur and Francis Cardinal Spellman. Rear Admiral Peary, who discovered the North Pole, qualified by walking around the Pole. Capt. James Cal-vert circled the North Pole under the ice in the nuclear submarine USS Skate. Captain Beach quali-fied by following the route of Ma-gellan under water in the nuclear submarine Triton. John Glenn made the great circle in his historic cap-sule flight in space. Buenger Appointed Long Beach Manager By States Steamship William Buenger has been ap-pointed manager for States Steam-ship Company at Long Beach, Calif., it was announced by Capt. J. W. Dickover, vice-president for States. Mr. Buenger succeeds Charles A. Jones, who is retiring after 20 years of service to the company. 11