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Captain Robert E. Hart

Named New President

Marine Index Bureau search Council's Maritime Trans- portation Board of the National

Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the executive council of the 'New York World Trade Com- mittee and has served as chairman of Maritime Day for the Port of

New York World Trade Commit- tee. He is also a member of the executive committee, National

Safety Council, The Propeller Club

Port of New York, Whitehall

Lunch Club, Downtown Athletic

Club, Bayway Beach and Cabana

Club, and the National Social Fra- ternity of Phi Gamma Delta. Cap- tain Hart is also a director of the

National Defense Transportation

Association, vice chairman, Nation- al Propeller Club Convention for 1974, and past president of the Bay

Shore Quarterback Club.

Dravo Corp. To Build 10 Dry-Cargo Barges

For Marine Leasing Co.

Marine Leasing Co., One Rocke- feller Plaza, New York, N.Y., has had a Title XI application approved by the Maritime Administration for 10 dry cargo river barges. Dravo

Corp., Pittsburgh, Pa., will build the barges at a total cost of $1.3 million.

Capt. Robert E. Hart

The election of Capt. Robert E.

Hart as president of the Marine

Index Bureau, Inc., effective Janu- ary 1, 1974, has been announced by the bureau's board of directors.

Bruno J. Augenti, who founded the bureau in 1937 and has served as its president for the past 35 years, will become chairman of the board and chief executive officer.

The bureau is the only commercial depository for data concerning per- sonnel injuries and illnesses for the American merchant marine and affiliated industries. Its member- ship comprises employers of ma- rine personnel on the deep seas, in- land waterways, Great Lakes, har- bors and rivers, as well as long- shoremen, shipbuilding and ship repair workers and offshore drill- ing personnel.

Captain Hart has served as the bureau's executive vice president for the past five years. Prior to that, he served eight years as ex- ecutive assistant to the president and chairman of the board of

American Export Lines, Inc. In 1967, he was the line's management representative at conferences with

American ambassadors and foreign ministers at Moscow, Bucharest and Sofia, prior to the visit of the first American-flag passenger liner

S/S Independence to the Black

Sea ports of Odessa and Yalta,

USSR; Constanza, Roumania, and

Varna, Bulgaria.

The bureau's new president serv- ed 20 years on active duty with the United States Navy and re- tired in 1961 with the rank of cap- tain to accept employment with the

American-flag steamship company.

While in the Navy, he served at sea aboard tugboats, cargo and transports, amphibious and battle- ships, and his shore assignments included the Military Sea Trans- portation Service during the estab- lishment of the Arctic Operations, including the Dewline and Missile

Lines of defense, as well as other assignments with Congressional and U.S. Government staff.

Captain Hart attended Culver

Military Academy, Western Re- serve and Kent State Universities, and is a graduate of Northwestern

University.

For the past two years, Captain

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