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Lykes Elects Four

New Vice Presidents

The board of directors of Lykes

Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., and

Lykes Lines Agency, Inc., have elected four new vice presidents, effective January 1, it was an- nounced by Joseph T. Lykes Jr., chairman of the board of each of the companies.

Newly elected were: Barton

W.B. Jahncke, vice president, Sales and Marketing Division; Capt. Ern- est B. Hendrix, vice president, Ma- rine Division, and Joseph Bern- stein Jr., vice president, Mainte- nance and Repair Division, all of

New Orleans, La., and all with

Lykes Bros. Steamship Company.

J.G. Tompkins III of Antwerp,

Belgium, was elected vice presi- dent, Continent/United Kingdom, of Lykes Lines Agency.

Mr. Jahncke has been with the

Lykes organization since 1961. Ex- cept for duty in Lykes's Dallas,

Texas, office, he has been assigned to various duties in New Orleans and has been assistant vice presi- dent, sales, since 1969.

Captain Hendrix has been with

Lykes since 1941, first as a mem- ber of its seagoing organization and then shore assignments in Galves- ton and Houston. He was named assistant vice president of the Ma- rine Division in 1972.

Mr. Bernstein joined the Lykes seagoing staff as an engineer in 1947. He came ashore as a port engineer in 1957, and has been man- ager of the Maintenance and Re- pair Division since 1972.

Mr. Tompkins has been with

Lykes since 1945. In addition to various traffic assignments in New

Orleans, he has also had assign- ments in Durban, South Africa, and Brownsville, Texas, and was transferred to Europe in 1961. He became manager of the London of- fice in 1962, and a year later was named Continental director with headquarters in Antwerp.

Kent E. Hoffmeister

Named Engineering VP

At Nashville Bridge

Kent E. Hoffmeister

William H. Barton Jr., president of the Nashville Bridge Company, has announced the election of Kent

E. Hoffmeister to vice president of engineering. Nabrico is a divi- sion of The American Ship Build- ing Company.

Mr. Hoffmeister received his bachelor of science degree from

Southeast Missouri State Univer- sity in 1961, where he was a mem- ber of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fra- ternity. His marine experience started at the Missouri Dry Dock and Repair Co., where he served from 1959 to 1961 as a marine draftsman. Upon graduation, he came to Nashville Bridge Company as marine engineer and in 1963 went to Gibibs Shipyards, Inc., as a design engineer.

Mr. Hoffmeister then spent five years with Rudolph F. Matzer &

Associates, where lie was naval ar- chitect and an associate member of the firm. Returning to the Nabrico operation in 1969, he has been hull designer and chief naval architect until his recent election as vice president, engineering. In his new position, he heads a substantial en- gineering department that has cre- ated many innovations in marine equipment.

Mr. Hoffmeister's professional affiliations include memberships in

The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, The Royal

Institute of Naval Architects, The

Society of Naval Engineers, The

American Welding Society, The

Propeller Club of the United

States-Port of Nashville, HS-2

Slamming Panel-The Society of

Naval Architects and Marine Engi- neers, Western Rivers Technical

Committee, and The American Bu- reau of Shipping. shaft bearings

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