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Sun Shipbuilding Consolidates All Marketing Activities —Orth, Winstead And Hunt Named Department Heads

Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock

Co., Chester, Pa., has consolidated all its marketing activities into a single Marketing Department under Joseph J. Kleschick, vice president-marketing. This move brings together in one depart- ment all the marketing activities formerly associated with the ship- yard's General Cargo Ship and

Bulk Ship Product Groups, as well as the Ship Repair Sales and In- dustrial Products Sales Programs.

C. Richard Orth, J. Robert

Winstead, and Everett C. Hunt have been named to head depart- ments within the restructured

Marketing Group.

Mr. Orth has been named gen- eral sales manager of the ship- yard's Sales Department, with re- sponsibility for Sun Ship's sales efforts in the New Ship, Ship

Repair and Industrial Products areas.

Mr. Winstead has been named technical director for the Product

Engineering Department and is responsible for the naval archi- tecture and marine engineering for vessel concept and definition, construction specification, propo-

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Mr. Hunt has been named man- ager of the Business Develop- ment Department, with responsi- bility for market research and competitive analysis.

Mr. Orth is a 1960 graduate of the University of Delaware with a B.S. degree in mechanical en- gineering.

He worked for Wiley Manufac- turing of Port Deposit, Md., from

June 1965 to January 1975, with his last post being general sales manager.

He joined Sun Shipbuilding in

February 1975 as marketing man- ager for the General Cargo Ship

Product Group, with responsibil- ity for the Group's transportation research, product service and fi- nancial analysis function.

Mr. Orth is a member of The

Society of Naval Architects and

Marine Engineers.

Mr. Winstead graduated from the University of Virginia in 1950 with a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering and attended the

University of Michigan, Graduate

School of Business Administra- tion, Executive Development Pro- gram.

He joined Newport News Ship- building & Dry Dock Company in 1950 as a nonsupervisory engi- neer in the Engineering Technical

Department. He was appointed supervisor, responsible for fluid system and component design in 1957. In August 1962, he was reassigned to the Engineering

Technical Department and was responsible for all non-nuclear marine engineering work for the company. In July 1973, he was named director of engineering,

Commercial Ship Division, re- sponsible for all marine engineer- ing, electrical, naval architecture and structural design for com- mercial contracts.

He joined Sun Shipbuilding in

June 1975 as engineering man- ager for the Tanker Group, with responsibility for all the Group's engineering activity, including preliminary and contract design.

Mr. Winstead is a member of

The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and The

Propeller Club of the United

States.

Mr. Hunt graduated from the

U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in 1951 with a B.S. degree in en- gineering and received a graduate degree in management engineer- ing from Rensselaer Polytechnic

Institute and a graduate degree in engineering from Northeastern

University.

Mr. Hunt served as an engi- neering officer in the U.S. Navy from December 1952 to Febru- ary 1954.

Following the service, he was employed by General Electric, where he had various assign- ments in design, testing, mar- keting and installation, as well as experience with marine equip- ment, large steam turbines, nu- clear propulsion and heat recovery steam generators. He was also the project manager for the de- velopment of the MST 14 Reheat

Propulsion System. His last post with GE was manager of Quality

Control and Test Facilities for the Marine Turbines and Gear

Department at the General Elec- tric plant in Lynn, Mass.

Mr. Hunt joined Sun in August 1975 as manager of Machinery

Sciences, and was responsible for scientific and technological devel- opments in ship design, shipbuild- ing and vessel operation in the areas of powerplant technology, automation, instrumentation and communications.

In April 1976, Mr. Hunt was named director, Shipbuilding Ad- ministrative Division, and was re- sponsible for the company's Ship

Repair Sales Department, for co- ordinating all sales activities of the Shipbuilding Administrative

Division, and for the company's contracting group.

Mr. Hunt is a member of The So- ciety of Naval Architects and Ma- rine Engineers and the Institute of Marine Engineers (London).

Samson Ocean Systems

Names John Williamson

Regional Manager

John Y. Williamson

John Y. Williamson has been named regional manager for Sam- son Ocean Systems, Inc., accord- ing to a recent announcement by

Jerry Jones, president.

Mr. Williamson will be respon- sible for the sale of Samson rope systems and mooring systems for the heavy marine and industrial and the offshore markets. His territory will include the South- eastern United States, the Carib- bean, Mexico, and South America.

He will be based at the Houston,

Texas, office of Samson Ocean

Systems, Inc. William Lindsey continues as regional manager in the Southeast, specializing in Sam- son braided rope products for the utility, commercial fishing, and heavy marine and industrial mar- kets.

Mr. Williamson attended the

University of Houston, Texas, where he majored in petroleum- geological engineering. A student of naval architecture, he has de- signed several large sailboats. He also won the Texas ocean-racing series in 1968. Prior to his start- ing with Samson, Mr. Williamson was self-employed as a commer- cial photographer.

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