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Diesel And Williams

Head Shipbuilders

New Committees

The board of directors of the

Shipbuilding Council of America has authorized the establishment of two new committees—the Execu- tive Committee and the Finance

Committee—to divide the functions of the single Executive-Finance

Committee.

John P. Diesel, president, New- port News Shipbuilding and Dry

Dock Company, has been elected chairman of the Executive Com- mittee, which will continually assess trends and conditions affect- ing the shipbuilding/slhip repairing industry and recommend policy guidelines to the board of directors.

Other members of the Executive

Committee elected by the board are: Thomas J. Defoe, president,

Defoe Shipbuilding Co.; John T.

Gilbride, president, Todd Shipyards

Corp.; Edwin Hartzman, president,

Avondale Shipyards, Inc., and

Walter F. Williams, vice president- shipbuilding, Bethlehem Steel Cor- poration.

For the purposes of coordination,

Mr. Williams has been named chairman of the Finance Commit- tee, which will oversee the council's financial affairs.

Other members of the Finance

Committee are James F. Goodrich, president, Bath Iron Works Cor- poration, and Ned J. Marandino, president, Ingalls Shipbuilding.

Also, in recent weeks, the follow- ing additional committee chair- manships were announced: Allied

Industries—J.W. Chandler, Borg-

Warner Corp., York Division; In- dustrial Health and Safety—John

A. Chantrey, Avondale Shipyards,

Inc.; and Industrial Relations—

Devon Smith, National Steel and

Shipbuilding Company.

Marchessini Promotes

Thomas J. Giardino

Thomas J. Giardino

Alexander P. Marchessini, presi- dent of the Marchessini Lines, has named Thomas J. Giardino general traffic manager. Mr. Giardino is well-known in the shipping indus- try, having been in the transporta- tion field for many years.

It was also announced that Rob- ert J. Hannon, who has been with the Marchessini Lines for the past 14 years, will succeed Mr. Giardino as outward traffic manager.

G. Gerry Gedenk, inward freight manager, in addition, will assume the responsibilities of claim man- ager.

Marchessini Lines, one of the foremost independent operators, maintains a monthly service from

East Coast ports to" the Far East, as well as a service from United

Kingdom and Continental ports to the East Coast and Far East.

Webb Institute

Alumni Homecoming

Scheduled For June 29

The Webb Institute of Naval

Architecture Alumni Association will hold its Annual Homecoming on Saturday, June 29, at Webb,

Glen Cove, Long Island, N.Y.

The annual meeting of the Alum- ni Association will start at 3:30 p.m. in the auditorium. All alumni, their guests, and their ladies are welcome. Rear Adm. William A.

Brockett, USN (ret.), will deliver his farewell message as president of Webb Institute. Rear Adm.

Charles Payne will be welcomed as the incoming Webb president. Don

Caldera, president of the Alumni

Association, will chair the meeting.

A cocktail party will be held on the main veranda, overlooking

Long Island Sound, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., followed by a buffet dinner to be served from the veranda and enjoyed at tables on the upper ter- race lawn—weather permitting.

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