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Promotions Announced

At Galveston Wharves

Promotions at the Galveston

Wharves (Port of Galveston) were recently announced by Harry H.

Levy Jr., chairman of the board of trustees, and C.S. Devoy, executive director.

Effective immediately, these changes follow the promotion of

Mr. Devoy at the last board meet- ing from general manager and port director to executive director.

Messrs. Levy and Devoy also an- nounced the appointment of Paul

Haney as manager of public rela- tions.

Promotions were made as fol- lows : O.L. Selig to deputy port di- rector, administration and finance;

D.J. Collier to deputy port director, operations and sales; C.E. Poe to director of engineering; G.R. Jones to director of industrial develop- ment and tenant relations; Robert

A.Nesbitt to director of communi- cations; Robert Ross to assistant manager, operations department;

Marion J. Sunseri to cargo control- ler, and Ron Surovik to assistant port engineer:

Mr. Devoy recently started his 11th year as chief executive officer of the Port and was recently named president of the American Associa- tion of Port Authorities.

Mr. Selig is a Wharves career employee with 19 years of service, and Mr. Collier has been with the

Port for 18 years at Elevator B, and in sales and operations.

Mr. Poe has been port engineer for the past two and a half years.

Mr. Jones has 12 years of service and was auditor and assistant to the general manager.

Mr. Nesbitt is a veteran of 20 years of service in sales and public relations.

Mr. Ross has five and a half years of service, and Mr. Sunseri has been with the Galveston Port or- ganization for six years in the op- erations department.

Mr. Surovik has been in the en- gineering department two years.

Mr. Haney is a former news- paperman who was assistant city editor of The Washington Evening

Star and later, for 11 years, public affairs officer for NASA, becoming known as "the voice of the astro- nauts." He is a native of Akron,

Ohio.

J.C. St. Amant To Head

New Mobile Office For

George G. Sharp, Inc.

George G. Sharp, Inc. of New

York and Washington has announ- ced the opening of a new office in

Mobile, Ala., to perform marine de- sign, engineering, inspection and drafting services for ships, conver- sions, off-shore structures, and supporting equipment. Robert P.

Giblon, president of George G.

Sharp, Inc., has appointed Joseph

C. St. Amant the Gulf Coast man- ager and head of the Mobile of- fice. Mr. St. Amant was formerly in charge of Sharp's inspection of- fice at Pascagoula, Miss.

Mr. St. Amant, who is a native of New Orleans, La,, is a veteran in the field of shipbuilding and offshore petroleum activities. He has more than 35 years' experience, including service with Todd Ship- yards Corporation, U.S. Transpor- tation Corps, Texaco, and private naval architectural firms. Mr. St.

Amant has studied steam and die- sel engineering at Tulane Univer- sity, ship design at Delgado Col- lege, safety engineering at the

California Safety Institute, and presently holds a chief engineer's license for both steam and diesel machinery. He is a member of The

Society of Naval Architects and

Marine Engineers, American

Welding Society and The Propeller

Club International.

The new office of George G.

Sharp, Inc. is located at 2603 Halls

Mill Road, Mobile, Ala. 36606.

Nielsen Shipping

Names Alfredo Duarte

Executive Vice Pres.

The appointment of Alfredo C.

Duarte as executive vice president of K. Nielsen Shipping and Trad- ing Co., Inc. was announced by the Miami, Fla.-based firm which acts as general freight agent for

Norwegian Caribbean Lines and

Commodore Mia-Mex Line. Mr.

Duarte was formerly the chief ex- ecutive officer of Seaway Lines,

Inc.

Smokey the Bear he ain't.

But he has been known to stomp seme butts.

Billy Foran is a good old boy.

But he's in the habit of getting the job done and done on time.

He's been doing it for the last quarter of a century as our

General Superintendent. He's helped make us the place in this part of the world for every kind of work from voyage repairs to major conversions.

We're not the biggest on this seaboard, but we manage to make a lot of Yankees come down here for their work.

The fact that we can work 365 days a year without having to thaw out doesn't hurt either.

Good work. Good town.

Good climate. And Billy.

Good reasons to let us show you what we can do.

Savannah Machine and Shipyard Co.

P.O. Box 787, Savannah, Ga. 31402

Tele. (912) 233-6621 5 World Trade Center, Room 6237

New York, N.Y. 10048, Tele. (212) 432-0350 20 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News