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Presenting paper No. 7, "Vertical Ship Motions and Deckwetness," were, from left to right: Capt. D. J. Gerry, USN; M. F. van Sluijs, Netherlands Ship Model Basin, author and Comdr. R. A. Rourke, USN (ret.), Harco Engineering. Paper No. 8, "A New Hull Form for High-Speed Volume Limited Displacement-Type Ships," was presented by: (left to right), C. R. Schaeffner, Litton Systems; R. Leo-pold, Litton Systems, author, and J. E. M. Enroth, Amer-ican Bureau of Shipping. Presenting paper No. 9, "Marine Reheat Cycles and Systems Evaluation," were: (left to right), C. M. Lippin-cott, Todd Shipyards; C. W. Stott, marine applications engineer, General Electric Co., author, and S. J. Cino, North American Aviation, Inc. Presenting paper No. 4, "The Design and Certification of Submersibles," were, left to right: Rear Adm. J. M. Far-rin, USN (ret.); Charles G. Kosonen, North American Rockwell Corp., author, and R. Leopold, Litton Systems, Inc. Paper No. 5, "Design of a Dynamically Positioned Sup-port Platform for a Tethered, Unmanned Submersible Vehicle," was presented by: (left to right) P. Finkelstein; D. Hall, Ocean Design Engineering Corp., author, and K. M. Jones. Delivering paper No. 6, "Anomalous Behavior of Mer-chant Ship Steering Systems," were: (left to right), Capt. H. A. Pearce Jr., USCG; Robert Taggart, Robert Taggart, Inc., author, and S. J. Cina, North American Aviation, Inc. Spring Meeting? (Continued from page 8) Rubel, senior vice-president for Long Range Planning and De-velopment for Litton Industries. Admiral Fahy discussed some of the numerous activities of NAV-SHIPS as well as recent advances in the maritime field. He pointed out that the sea offers many riches such as food and minerals, but that there are tremendous difficulties in working with this hostile environ-ment. He described salvage ac-tivities, including those for the Thresher and Scorpion, and reveal-ed that the bathescope Trieste is being sent to the Scorpion site for further exploration. Highlights of NAVSHIPS activities are the deep submergence rescue vessel, an air-transportable salvage vessel; better methods for underwater breathing; foamed in place foam, and deep-diving ships that can do useful work. Recent advances include the LHA which replaces four different ship types?LPH, LPD, AKA, and LSD ; new northwest passage tank-ers to obtain the recently discover-ed oil on the Alaskan north slope; offshore oil drilling and min-ing; ocean habitats; LASH ships, and containerships. Admiral Fahy stated that he likes to think that people, like the members at SNAME, will be leading the way in such developments, and con-cluded with "I wish for all of us the unsinkable future with naval architecture." Awards As the finale to the luncheon. Admiral Fahy, on behalf of the secretary of the Navy, presented the Distinguished Civilian Service Award to John Vasta of Litton Systems Advanced Marine Tech-nology Division. This is the highest award given to a civilian by the Secretary of the Navy and was awarded to Mr. Vasta for his dedi-cated and distinguished service to the Navy as head. Structural Branch, Naval Ship Engineering Center. At the conclusion of the technical sessions, Capt. Henry P. Rumble, USN (ret.) turned over the duties of chairman of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Section to incoming Chairman John Enroth. On behalf of the council of the Society, Rear Adm. L. V. Honsinger then pre-sented a Certificate of Appreciation to Captain Rumble for his activi-ties as chairman for the preceding year, including hosting the Spring Meeting. Special Activities The social activities for the Spring Meeting were initiated by an informal President's Reception early Wednesday evening. May 21. This provided an opportunity to renew acquaintances after the first day of technical sessions. This was the most popular event of the en-tire meeting. The traditional Dinner-Dance was held on Friday evening. May 23, in the Grand Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton. It brought to a festive conclusion the social and technical activities of the Spring Meeting. As a pleasant departure from in-door activities, 119 people took ad-vantage of the pleasant California climate and participated in the tour by boat of the Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors. This was climaxed by a luncheon aboard the Princess Louise. The host, Los Angeles Section, also arranged for a day at Disney-land on Saturday. A full program was arranged for the benefit of the ladies. To start things off, a continental breakfast was held on Wednesday morning and provided an opportunity to form new acquaintances or renew old ones. This was followed by a studio tour and luncheon. Activities concluded on Thursday with a fashion tour and luncheon. Host-esses were provided for these tours by the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce. Steering Committee The Los Angeles Metropolitan Section made all the arrangements for the 1969 Spring Meeting of the Society. The smooth performance of both the technical and social ac-tivities was the result of a year's work on the part of the Steering Committee under the chairmanship of Nathan Friedland. The other members of the Steer-ing Committee were: H. P. Rum-ble in charge of the technical ses-sions, P. Bukunt in charge of the hotel arrangements, L. M. Dingier in charge of the social activities, R. G. Rados handling the publicity, H. D. Ramsden watching the bud-get, D. A. Ball providing liaison with Society headquarters and oth-er sections, J. R. Allan, R. E. Apple, G. Cooper, J. E. Marriner, V. E. Shelton and T. G. Smith. This group, together with all the other members of the Section, pro-vided a Spring Meeting that will long be remembered by those at-tending. Presenting the paper on "Design and Construction of the Dynamically Positioned Glomar Challenger" are: (left to right), John E. Marriner, California Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., who presided over the session; authors, G. Dayton Knorr, John R. Graham, Klemme M. Jones and Thomas F. Dixon, all of Global Marine, Inc., and Capt. Henry P. Rumble, USN (ret.), Rand Corp., assistant chairman. 10 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News