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CONTEST

Mid-Western Division: ST. LOUIS CORDAGE MILLS, St. Louis, Mo. 63104

SALES OFFICES: BOSTON • CHICAGO • CLEVELAND • HOUSTON • JACKSONVILLE • NEW ORLEANS • PHILADELPHIA • SAN FRANCISCO • SAN PEDRO • SEATTLE

Senior vice president Charles R.

Ball Jr., regional manager in South- east Asia since 1971, has assumed the position in London as regional general manager in. charge of the company's operations throughout

Europe and Africa.

Sam Carnahan, former area man- ager in charge of African op- erations, has been promoted to as- sistant regional general manager in

London.

Vice president Lawrence M.

Jones, who has been in charge of

Santa Fe's drilling operations in

North and South America, has been given additional responsibili- ties as regional general manager,

Western Hemisphere and South- east Asia. He continues to work out of company headquarters in

Orange, Calif.

E.E. Leard has been promoted from zone manager in Nigeria to op- erations manager, Southeast Asia, with headquarters in Djakarta.

Thomas J. Giardino

The appointment of Thomas J.

Giardino, traffic manager of the

Marchessini Steamship Lines, as general chairman for the "Ninth

Annual International Maritime

Night Dinner" of The Rudder Club,

Inc., Brooklyn, N.Y., was announc- ed by commodore Clifford M.

Palmer, vice president of Lee &

Palmer. Also appointed as dais chairman for the affair was Daniel

J. Altilio, traffic manager for Cen- tral Gulf Lines.

The dinner, which is being held

Wednesday evening, March 14, 1973, will be in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel St. George, Brooklyn.

The Rudder Club, which is known for its educational grants for many years, aggregating over $100,000, is one of the largest maritime or- ganizations in the country and has chosen that evening, as in the past, to honor the top executives repre- senting American, as well as for- eign steamship lines, serving the ports of New York and New Jer- sey.

The cost per guest is set at $17.50 each (includes gratuity), and checks should be made payable to

Rudder Club, Inc., 518-26 Colum- bia Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11231.

Entertainment chairman for the evening will be Berndt M. Palmer, president of Lee & Palmer.

Santa Fe Opens

Tehran Headquarters—

New Managers Named

Santa Fe Drilling Co., Orange,

Calif., has reorganized its foreign management with the opening of a new regional headquarters in Teh- ran and the naming of new man- agers for London, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

E.L. Shannon Jr., president of the parent Santa Fe International

Corp., said the establishment of the

Middle East headquarters reflects the growing importance of the com- pany's operations in that area. In recent years, Middle East opera- tions had been managed out of

Eastern Hemisphere headquarters in London.

Eight Santa Fe rigs are present- ly operating in the Middle East region, according to Gordon M.

Anderson, president of Santa Fe

Drilling Co. The region includes

Iran, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and

Kuwait. In addition, he said, the company has contracted nine new units to start drilling there this year.

Clyde Dawson, Santa Fe Drilling

Co. vice president, has transferred to Tehran as regional general man- ager, Middle East. He had previ- ously been assigned to Nigeria as managing director of Santa Fe Ni- geria Development Co., Ltd.

Other key personnel assigned to

Iran include Donald J. Zimmer as zone manager and C.M. (Buck)

Sheldon as administration man- ager, Middle East. B.G. Parker, continues as regional operations manager.

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