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Members of the Society at the head table after the dinner dance at the Annual Spring Meeting of the Gulf Section, left to right: Robert G. Mende, national secretary; Monroe Levy, vice chairman, Gulf Section, Western Area; John

Miner, vice chairman. Gulf Section, Eastern Area; Wilfrid G. Constable, chairman, Arrangements Committee; Julian

C. McLean Jr., vice chairman. Gulf Section, Central Area; William Hamilton, papers chairman; Rear Adm. Ellis L.

Perry; John T. Gilbride, principal speaker; Phillip Eisenberg, SNAME president, and Julian O. Crooke, chairman Gulf

Section.

Gulf Section Annual

Spring Meeting Held

In New Orleans

The Gulf Section of The Society of Naval

Architects and Marine Engineers recently held its Annual Spring Meeting at the Fairmont

Hotel in New Orleans, La., and drew a large attendance from the entire Gulf Coast and many other areas.

The evening before this 26th Annual Meet- ing of the Gulf Section a warm-up cocktail party was held for members and guests at the

Plimsoll Club, International Trade Mart Build- ing, New Orleans.

The morning technical session was directed to a panel discussion on pollution. The partici- pants in the discussion were Comdr. Richard

L. Brown and Lt. James A. Sanial, both of the merchant marine technical staff of the

Eighth U.S. Coast Guard District, and George

W. Healy III, counsellor at law of the firm of Phelps, Dunibar, Marks, Claverie, and Sims.

The main topics of discussion presented re- lated to the latest developments in pollution regulations which affect the marine industry.

Some items covered included: "The 1973 In- ternational Convention on Pollution"; "The 1959 Convention and the 1969 and 1971 Amend- ments Therein"; "The Trans-Alaskan Pipeline

Authorization Act"; "Pollution 'Prevention

Regulations to be Effective July 1, 1974"; "Standards of Marine Sanitation Devices Re- cently Reissued"; "Financial Responsibility and Penalties Facing the Industry Under the

Above and Previous Regulations," and "Vapor

Collecting Regulations for Barges Discharg- ing Volative Carbon Compounds."

William Hamilton of Friede & Goldman,

Inc., papers chairman, presided at both morn- ing and afternoon technical sessions.

After the morning technical session, a lunch- eon was held in the Explorer Room of the Fair- mont Hotel, with an attendance of approxi- mately 135 members and guests. Phillip Ei- senberg, president of the Society, addressed the luncheon meeting, and some announce- ments were made by the national secretary,

Robert G. Mende. Mr. Eisenberg presented certificates of appreciation to Julian O. Crooke, chairman, Gulf Section; Julian C. McLean Jr.,

Participants of the morning panel, left to right: Lt.

James A. Sanial, USCG, 8th District (MMT); Comdr.

Richard L. Brown, USCG, 8th District (MMT); Wil- liam Hamilton, papers chairman. Gulf Section, and

George W. Healy III, attorney with the firm of

Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie, and Sims. vice chairman, Gulf Section-Central Area;

Monroe Levy, vice chairman, Gulf Section,

Western Area, and John Miner, vice chair- man, Gulf Section, Eastern Area.

Three excellent papers were presented dur- ing the afternoon session. James O. Gund- lach, vice president of Canal Barge Company,

Inc., presented his paper "Heating Cargoes in

River Barges," which made available Canal

Barge Company's long experience with trans- porting heated liquid cargoes by barge. "A Loading Manual for Offshore Supply

Vessels" was the technical paper presented by

Lt. Comdr. David H. Whitten and Lt. Gary B.

Johnson, both with the U.S. Coast Guard (MMT). The loading manual was shown to be a model of a supply vessel loading manual presented for designers and builders to consid- er as a means to provide adequate -stability in- formation to the master. The manual would assist the master in quickly assessing the safe cargo capacity and distribution of his vessel under a variety of loading conditions and of- fers many advantages to the owner.

Rounding out the afternoon, Jack Seastrom, service manager for Jacuzzi Brothers, Inc., pre- sented his paper "Practical Application of Wa- ter Jet Propulsion in Pleasure and Commercial

Boats." The material indicated that a work- ing knowledge of such factors as power-to- weight ratios, the effect of longitudinal center of gravity, .differences in basic boat design and the limitations of water jet propulsion is man- datory for successful applications of water jet propulsion in the pleasure and commercial boat market. Field-tested formulae, rules and ta- bles were presented to reinforce these perform- ance factors and to help both naval architects and less formally trained designers and boat- builders to make wise installation decisions.

The meeting was concluded by a'cocktail party in the Grand Ballroom and a dinner- dance in the International Room of the Fair- mont Hotel, with approximately 600 in attend- ance. Julian C. McLean Jr., vice chairman,

Gulf Section, Central Area, M.C.'ed the pro- gram for the dinner-dance. John T. Gilbride, president of Todd Shipyards Corporation, was the principal speaker. The president of the

Society, Phillip Eisenberg, and the national secretary, Robert G. Mende, were also at the head table. During the program, Lieutenant

Governor for the State of Louisiana James E.

Fitzmorris presented commissions to Mr. Gil- bride and Mr. Eisenberg, on the Staff of the

Governor, State of Louisiana. Remarks were also offered by Mr. Eisenberg and J.O. Crooke, chairman of the Gulf Section, who announced the incoming Gulf Section officers, as follows:

Julian C. McLean Jr., principal surveyor-

Gulf Coast, American Bureau of Shipping, New

Orleans, as incoming chairman, Gulf Section;

Jack Campbell, vice president, Southern Ma- rine Service, Mobile, Ala., as incoming vice chairman, Gulf Section, Eastern Area; Paul

Mathews, chief engineer, Todd Shipyards Cor- poration, Houston, Texas, as incoming vice chairman, Gulf Section, Western Area; Wil- liam Hamilton, Friede & Goldman, Inc., New

Orleans, as incoming vice chairman, Gulf

Section, Central Area; Wilfrid G. Constable, marine surveyor and consultant, New Orleans, as member of the executive committee, and

Henry Fray, vice president, Bailey Corp., New

Orle&ns, as secretary-treasurer.

Members heading the committees for the meeting were: Julian C. McLean Jr., vice chairman, Gulf Section, Central Area; Wilfrid

G. Constable, chairman, Arrangements Com- mittee; William Koren, assistant chairman,

Arrangements Committee; William Hamilton, papers chairman, and Henry Fray, secretary- treasurer. •Dancing at the dinner-dance was to the mu- sic of Val Valentino and his orchestra.

Afternoon technical papers participants, left to right: Lt.

Gary B. Johnson, USCG, 8th District (MMT); Lt. Comdr.

David H. Whitten, USCG, 8th District (MMT); James O.

Gundlach, vice president, Canal Barge Company, lnc;

Jack Seastrom, service manager, Jacuzzi Brothers, Inc., and William Hamilton, papers chairman. Gulf Section. 18 Maritime Reporter/Engineerirtg News