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Michael J.L. Stracey

Named VP-Finance

For Sea Containers

Michael J.L. Stracey

Michael J.L. Stracey has been appointed vice president-finance of

Sea Containers Inc., international company in the leasing field for containers, containerships and con- tainer cranes, it was announced by

James B. Sherwood, president.

Mr. Stracey, who is British and a chartered accountant, comes to Sea

Containers from the British-based international Foseco Minsep Group, where he was managing director of its steelworks services contracts di- vision.

Mr. Stracey was with Foseco

Minsep for four years, and before that spent seven with the General

Electric Company Limited — the largest British electrical group—in financial and commercial positions.

Sea Containers owns a fleet of 21 purpose-built containerships and a total of 46,000 specialized and general containers, operating world- wide, as well as eight container gan'try cranes working in European ports.

Goulds Pumps, Inc.

Elevates Three In

Engineering Dept.

William C. Osborne, vice presi- dent-engineering of Goulds Pumps,

Inc., ,Seneca Falls, N.Y., has an- nounced new assignments for three in the firm's industrial pump engi- neering department.

Paul T. Lahr has been named manager, application and contract administration. He has been super- visor of the application department.

This change reflects more accurate- ly the scope and nature of total departmental responsibility, which includes not only pump application but also contract administration functions.

Joining the firm as an application engineer in 1954, he has managed the former application engineering group since 1965. He has written several papers and articles for trade journals and holds a chemical en- gineering degree.

Assisting Mr. Lahr are Walter

A. Connolly and John T. Strapach.

Both have the title assistant mana- ger, application, but with different responsibilities.

Mr. Connolly is responsible for the management of application and contract administration work asso- ciated with general industrial pumps. An engineer with the firm since >1959, he became a senior ap-

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Water Transportation

Accounting Group

Elects Officers

Benjamin Abrambowitz, execu- tive vice president of Colonial

Tankers, Inc., has been elected president of the Association of Wa- ter Transportation Accounting Of- ficers, the association has an- nounced.

Also elected are John F. Moyni- han, group controller, Sea-Land

Service, Inc., executive vice presi- dent ; William J. McCutchan, as- sistant treasurer, Japan Lines, re- gional vice president East Coast;

Lyle F. Hughes, control, Matson

Navigation Co., regional vice presi- dent West Coast; J.H. Rosher, con- troller, Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., regional vice president Gulf Coast, and John P. Mooney, auditor, Far- rell Lines, secretary-treasurer.

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