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Guralnick Associates

Receives DOE Contract

Morris Guralnick Associates, Inc., San

Francisco, Calif., has just been selected by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) to provide naval architectural and marine engineering consulting services throughout the period of design and con- struction of OTEC-1, the first Early Ocean

Test Platform. Under terms of the contract, the Guralnick firm will provide general con- sulting services and engineering and admin- istrative support for DOE in reviewing and analyzing all drawings and specifications for the vessel to be converted to the OTEC-1 test platform by the prime contractor for the project, Global Marine Development, Inc.

Among the many tasks scheduled to be performed by the San Francisco firm are hydrodynamic and structural analyses of the cold water pipe; review of the construction contractor's drawings for converting the ship and fabricating the OTEC test loop; and overview services during dock and sea trials.

The work will be performed under a con- tract with the DOE San Francisco Opera- tions Office, located in Oakland, Calif. The project management will be performed from a DOE project office in southern California.

The concept utilized in the Energy De- partment's ocean thermal energy conversion program involves a system of pumping warm ocean surface water through heat exchang- ers, where the water's heat will evaporate the working medium, ammonia. The ammo- nia vapor would then be utilized to turn a turbine-generator to produce electricity be- fore being condensed by cold water pumped from ocean depths 3,000 feet below.

Morris Guralnick Associates, Inc., now in its 32nd year of operation, is the largest architectural and engineering firm of its type on the West Coast. Presently engaged in several long-term projects for the mari- time industry, the U.S. Navy, commercial and government clients, the vastly expanding organization, in addition to its headquarters office in San Francisco, operates branch of- fices in San Diego, Calif., Bremerton, Wash., and Baltimore, Md.

Webb Alumni Banquet

To Be Held November 16

The Annual Banquet of the Alumni Asso- ciation of Webb Institute of Naval Architec- ture will be held on Thursday, November 16, 1978, in the Belvedere Suite of The Rainbow

Room, atop the RCA Building, Rockefeller

Center, New York City.

A reception at 5:30 p.m. will be followed by dinner at 7 p.m.

Winston B. Sutter, president of the Asso- ciation, will introduce the program for the evening.

The highlight of the evening will be the presentation of the W. Selkirk Owen Award to Frank J. Joyce of '44A. Mr. Joyce, the executive vice president of Universe Tank

Ships, will be the 13th recipient of the W.

Selkirk Owen Award, which was established to be awarded to alumni of outstanding achievement and service to their professions and alma mater, in memory of W. Selkirk

Owen.

The president of Webb Institute, Adm.

Charles Payne, USN (ret.), will deliver the annual "State of the Institute" message.

Arno Dimmling Rejoins

Crowley Maritime Corp.

Arno Dimmling has rejoined Crowley Mar- itime Corporation's Caribbean Division in

Jacksonville, Fla., as special assistant to the

Division senior vice president, Robert G.

Homan, according to a recent announcement by Mr. Homan.

Mr. Dimmling previously served as direc- tor of operations for Euro-Arab Sea Trailer,

Brussels, Belgium, a Crowley-affiliated com- pany which operates triple-deck, roll-on/roll- off barges from Marseilles, France, to Yenbu,

Saudi Arabia.

Prior to his position in Brussels, Mr.

Dimmling had been manager of intermodal services for Trailer Marine Transport Cor- poration during the early stages of TMT's operation as a Crowley subsidiary from 1974 to 1976.

Mr. Dimmling's new assignment will en- compass a wide range of administrative duties. As assistant to Mr. Homan, he will be vitally involved in the management of the Division and its subsidiaries, including

Trailer Marine Transport, which provides ro/ro barge service between the U.S. main- land and Puerto Rico; Gulf Caribbean Ma- rine Lines, which provides pass/pass ware- house barge service between the U.S. Gulf and Caribbean; and CTMT, Inc. and Inter- island Intermodal Line, which operate feeder services to Venezuela, the Dominican Re- public, the Virgin Islands, and the Leeward and Windward Islands.

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