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Bethlehem Elects Williams

Vice-President, Shipbuilding —D.D. Strohmeier To Retire

Walter F. Williams, assistant vice-president, shipbuilding, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, has been elected a vice-president, effective Septem- ber 1, of Bethlehem Steel Corporation, and as- signed to shipbuilding, Edmund F. Martin, chairman and chief executive officer has an- nounced. At the same time, Mr. Martin an- nounced that Daniel D. Strohmeier, vice-presi- dent of Bethlehem Steel Corporation in charge of shipbuilding, will retire April 30, 1971, and will be succeeded by Mr. Williams.

A native of Dover, Del., Mr. Williams re- ceived his bachelor's degree in civil engineer- ing from the University of Delaware in 1951.

He joined Bethlehem Steel as a member of that year's Loop Course, management training program for college graduates, and was as- signed to the plant engineering department of the Lackawanna, N.Y., plant.

In 1960 he was transferred to the home office in Bethlehem, Pa., as a project engineer in construction engineering. Mr. Williams was named assistant chief engineer, projects, on the staff of the vice-president, operations, in 1965, and was appointed chief engineer of con- struction at Bethlehem's new Burns Harbor,

Ind. plant in January 1966. He was assigned to the engineering department as chief engi- neer, projects group, in February 1967. Four months later he was promoted to manager of engineering in charge of projects, design and construction. He was elected assistant to vice- president, engineering, February 1, 1968. On

May 1, 1968, he was elected assistant vice- president, shipbuilding, and was transferred to the shipbuilding offices at 25 Broadway,

New York City.

Mr. Williams is a member of the American

Iron and Steel Institute, The Society of Naval

Architects and Marine Engineers, the Saucon

Valley Country Club and the Downtown

Athletic Club.

Mr. Strohmeier was born in Boston, Mass.

He was graduated in 1932 from Amherst Col- lege with a bachelor of arts degree and from

Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1934, with a bachelor of science degree in na- val architecture. While at Amherst he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic society.

Mr. Strohmeier joined Bethlehem Steel in

July 1934 and was assigned to the outside hull department of the firm's former Quincy, Mass., shipyard. He was transferred to the estimating department in 1935 and to the vice-president's office as a technical assistant in June 1936. In

January 1939 he was assigned to the corpora- tion's New York shipbuilding office in the same capacity, becoming assistant to vice- president in May 1942, and vice-president Jan- uary 23, 1948. He served as a director of Beth- lehem Steel Corporation from 1948 to 1965.

Mr. Strohmeier is a member of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers,

American Society of Naval Engineers, Ameri- can Iron and Steel Institute, American Bureau of Shipping, Lloyd's Register of Shipping,

Shipbuilders Council of America, and the Pro- peller Club.

From 1948 to 1949 he served on the Inter- national Transport Committee of the U.S.

Chamber of Commerce and since 1948 has been a member of the Chamber's National

Defense Committee. Mr. Strohmeier is a mem- ber of the National Production Authority's

Industry Advisory Committee for the Ship- building Industry, and the National Academy of Sciences' Maritime Cargo Transportation

Conference. From 1949 to 1952 he was a mem- ber of the Military Petroleum Board Tanker and Barge Committee.

Exstran Offers Experimental

Stress Analysis Services

A new consulting service in the field of experi- mental stress analysis is being offered by Exstran, a consulting firm at 646 Hegenberger Road, Oak- land, Calif.

The new organization will serve clients any- where in the United States. Its services will be of- fered to mechanical engineers and to naval archi- tects in need of independent analysis for hulls and rigging.

The firm will work within the complete range of techniques—photoelastic model, photoelastic coat- ing, brittle coating, moire fringe analysis, and strain gage.

Although some large corporations have these capabilities in-house, Exstran will be, to the best of its knowledge, the only independent firm on the

West Coast offering such services on a contract basis.

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