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Eisenbiegler And Rippy

Named Presidents Of

Two Sun Subsidiaries

Sun Trading & Marine Trans- port, Inc. (S.T.M.T.), 200 West

Lancaster Avenue, Wayne, Pa. 19087, an operating unit of Sun

Company, has named presidents of two of its subsidiaries.

Frederick P. Eisenbiegler, bulk ship product group vice president for Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock

Company — another Sun subsidi- ary—has been made president of

Sun Transport, Inc. He also will hold the title of vice president and general manager of marine transport for S.T.M.T.

David C. Hippy, director of fa- cilities and distribution for Sun- mark Industries, also a Sun sub- sidiary, has been named president of a new S.T.M.T. subsidiary,

Sunoco Terminals, Inc., and will also serve as S.T.M.T.'s vice pres- ident and general manager of ter- minals.

Mr. Eisenbiegler succeeds Rich- ard W. Fetzner, whose appoint- ment as S.T.M.T. president was announced earlier.

S.T.M.T. is involved in the transport, trading, brokering, marketing and terminalling of crude oil, petroleum products and other commodities on a worldwide basis. It operates Sun Company's fleet of tankers.

Mr. Eisenbiegler is a 1946 grad- uate of Webb Institute with a

Bachelor of Science degree in na- val architecture and marine en- gineering.

Frederick P. Eisenbiegler

In 1974, he was elected vice president, Bulk Ship Product

Group, for Sun Shipbuilding &

Dry Dock Co., a Sun Company subsidiary. In this capacity, he was responsible for all aspects of Sun Ship's tanker program ex- cept for manufacturing. He held that post until being named to his present position.

Prior to joining Sun Ship, Mr.

Eisenbiegler served in various sales and field engineering posts with General Electric from 1946 to 1974. His last post there was as Far East manager for gas tur- bine sales and applications, head- quartered in Tokyo.

Mr. Eisenbiegler is a member of The Society of Naval Archi- tects and Marine Engineers and is a registered professional engi- neer in the state of New York.

He served in the U.S. Navy in 1946.

Mr. Rippy received a bache- lor's degree in management in 1962 from the University of Tulsa and attended graduate school both there and at Indiana State Uni- versity.

He joined Sunray DX Oil Com- pany, Tulsa, Okla., in 1966, two years before its merger with Sun

Oil Company. In 1969, he went to

Waterloo, Iowa, and became the division manager of marketing administration. A year later, he went to St. Louis, Mo., and served as vice president of Monark Pe- troleum Company, a former Sun subsidiary.

He was named sales manager of the Pittsburgh, Pa., marketing region in 1972. Following a cor- porate reorganization, he was named director of facilities and distribution for the new Sunmark

Industries, Sun's retail marketing company, in 1975. He held that post until being named to his present assignment.

Tacoma Boat Awarded $2.9-Million Contract

Tacoma Boatbuilding Company,

Inc., Tacoma, Wash., is receiving a $2,960,776 formally advertised firm fixed-price contract for 36- foot mini - armored - troop-carriers (Mini-ATC) with repair parts, data, and additional propulsion engines. The Naval Sea Systems

Command is the contracting ac- tivity. (N00024-78-C-2350) feS> c,pF* 6 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News