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United States Lines Elects Nine Vice-Presidents In Management Reorganization A sweeping reorganization of the top man-agement structure of the United States Lines, designed to consolidate and streamline all es-sential functions and give maximum effect to marketing, sales and operations, has been an-nounced by John J. McMullen, president of the steamship company. At its March monthly meeting, the board of directors of the company elected five senior vice-presidents, each charged with the direction of a vital department of the line's shipping op-eration, and responsible only to the executive vice-president, Edward J. Heine, and the com-pany president. They are Donald T. Cameron, in charge of operations; Kenneth F. Gautier, in charge of passenger operations; Nicholas Bachko, in charge of corporate planning; James J. Con-nolly, in charge of finance, and Donald F. Wierda, in charge of marketing. In addition, the board elected James P. Rafter as vice-president, sales, under Mr. Wierda; and Robert B. Murphy, as vice-presi-dent container operations, and Raymond J. Weigele as vice-president, marine operations, both under Mr. Cameron. A. J. Montgomery was elected vice-president and assigned as the Washington representative. Earlier this year, John H. Griffith was elect-ed vice-president, Far East, with headquarters in Tokyo, and William J. Klauberg was elected vice-president, Europe, with headquarters in London. The major realignment and elevation of the United States Lines' high echelon executives has been made with a view to assuring an or-ganization capable of marketing and operating a modern container-oriented transportation system as well as a general cargo, break-bulk operation and also be able to expand to the 100 percent container operation envisaged for the near future. The company is looking toward full contain-erization of its entire fleet, Atlantic and Paci-fic. Currently, United States Lines operates containerships exclusively on the North At-lantic. Recently, the company opened bids for the conversion of eight Mariner-class ships, now in Far-East service, to full containerliners. Application has also been made to the Mari-time Administration for aid in the construction of six additional full containerliners. Mr. Cameron, former assistant to the presi-dent, came to the United States Lines in July, from the Forwarders Intermodal Container Corporation, of which he was president. Prior to that, and after four years in the U.S. Army in World War II, he spent 23 years in the in-ternational freight forwarding field?the last 12 as president of his own forwarding firm, Arncam Shipping Company. He is a graduate of St. Francis College, Brooklyn, and attended the Academy of Advanced Traffic. Mr. Gautier is a veteran of 48 years with the United States Lines, all of them in the passen-ger department of the company. During that time, he has held every important post through manager of the first, cabin and tourist depart-ments, and also as assistant vice-president and member of the board of directors. During World War II, he served in the Navy as a commander and was in charge of the Overseas Transportation Section of the Third Naval Dis-trict. Mr. Bachko, who was graduated from the United States Merchant Marine Academy and took graduate work at Columbia University, joined United States Lines in January, 1942 as an engineering officer on the troopship John Ericsson. He spent much of his subsequent career with the company in engineering and ship planning and construction. He is the hold-er of a patent relative to containership con-struction. From 1948 to 1952, he supervised construction of the superliner United States. His recent promotions included that of chair-man of the planning group in 1967 and election to vice-president, corporate planning and de-velopment in December, 1968. Mr. Connolly comes to the United States Lines from the accounting firm of Price Water-house & Co., where he serviced the steamship company's accounts, among others, for the last ten years. He is a graduate of the University of Miami, where he received a degree in ac-counting, cum laude, in 1959. He became a certified public accountant in 1963 and is cur-rently a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of Certified Public Ac-countants. Mr. Connolly has a practical knowl-edge of shipping and the sea, having served for five years in the merchant marine and two years in the Navy. Mr. Wierda joined United States Lines in Europe in 1946. He held increasingly important posts overseas for eight years, before coming to New York as assistant freight traffic man-ager. He was named freight traffic manager in 1957, vice-president freight traffic in 1960, and a director in January, 1962. He is a graduate of the University of California and of the United States Merchant Marine Academy. Mr. Rafter, former general sales manager, freight, came to United States Lines in July, 1967 from Grace Line where he held a similar post and was assistant vice-president as well. He began his shipping career with Grace in 1945 but resigned after eight years to become freight traffic manager of the Panama Line. When this company dissolved in 1961, he re-turned to Grace. Mr. Rafter attended George-town University School of Foreign Service and New York University Graduate School. Mr. Murphy joined the United States Lines in 1946 and over the next 12 years served in various managerial freight and ship operating posts in Manila, Hong Kong and Tokyo. He was recalled to New York in 1959 as assistant treasurer and subsequently was named man-ager of vessel replacement and director of the company's newly formed container division. He was appointed assistant general manager ?Europe in February, 1968, but returned here the same year. Mr. Weigele, a graduate of Fordham Uni-versity, joined United States Lines in 1947 and except for two years in the freight department at One Broadway, has had supervisory posts on the North River piers. In January, 1962, he was named assistant general operating man-ager and in July, 1964 he was appointed gen-eral operating manager. He is a veteran of World War II, having seen action as a lieu-tenant on a minesweeper in the Pacific. Brig. Gen. Austin J. Montgomery, who re-tired in July, 1967 as commander of the East-ern Area, Military Traffic Management and Terminal Command, joined the United States Lines as executive assistant to the president for special projects in August, 1967. 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