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USMMA Alumni Honored

At Kings Point Dinner

Eleven business and military men who are U.S. Merchant Ma- rine Academy graduates were honored for their professional achievements by the Kings Point

Alumni Association at a dinner on October 6, at the Academy's

Officers' Club.

Six other alumni were cited for their service to the Alumni As- sociation.

ExecuSearch Moves To

New Modern Quarters

Michael R. Keough, vice presi- dent and general manager of

ExecuSearch, the professional re- cruitment firm, announces the relocation of the company offices to 140 Bay Street, Staten Island,

N.Y. 10301.

Mr. Keough indicated that the move to the parent company head- quarter's building permits expan- sion of research capacity, better coordination of activities with the parent's other divisions, and much-needed room to expand their skills bank capability. Areas of specialization are being expanded to include pollution control and energy development as natural adjuncts to the company's cur- rent activities in marine, ship- ping, transportation, power engi- neering and chemical fields.

ExecuSearch was founded in 1976 as an expansion of Gerri G.

Inc. The parent is the holding company and is the successor to

Gibney Personnel, which has been well-known in the marine and transportation community for the past 20 years in and around the

Northeast. Gibney still exists as another division of Gerri G. Inc.

ExecuSearch was founded to ex- pand the scope of operation na- tionally, and to impact in areas of high technical and managerial needs.

Capt. Warren G. Leback

Heading the awards list as

Alumnus of the Year was Capt.

Warren G. Leback of Houston,

Texas, class of 1944. Mr. Leback is vice president of El Paso Lique- fied Natural Gas Company, and served as president of the Kings

Point Alumni Association from 1974 to 1977.

The Outstanding Professional

Achievement Award winners were: Commodore J.V. Francisco of Quezon City, Philippines, class of 1953, who serves in his coun- try's Navy; Capt. Herman E.

Fritzke, USN, of Fort Totten,

N.Y., class of 1958, Commander,

Military Sealift Command's At- lantic District; John Hall of Plain- field, Vt., class of 1943, president of Goddard College; Petro Kuly- nych of Wilkesboro, N.C., class of 1943, chairman of the board of

Lowe's Companies, Inc.; Joseph

M. Mahoney of Beverly, Mass., class of 1943, president of Chem- ical Applications Company, Inc.;

Rear Adm. Thomas W. McNa- mara, USN, of Great Lakes, 111., class of 1948, Commandant, Ninth

Naval District and Commander,

Great Lakes Naval Base; James

J. O'Brien of Berkeley Heights,

N.J., class of 1958, director of maritime activities at the Port of

Oakland; Capt. Norman H. Olson,

USN, of Virginia Beach, Va., class of 1953, Commander, Naval Spe- cial Warfare Group Two; Wilson

Stackhouse of San Rafael, Calif., class of 1943, president of Argo

International Company, and Jo- seph K. Tynan of New Orleans,

La., class of 1943, president of

Charles D. Wood & Company.

Mr. Tynan also received a Mer- itorious Alumni Service award.

The other alumni honored in this group were James J. Gallagher of

Barnhardt, Mo., class of 1963;

Michael F. Gallagher of Kirk- wood, Mo., class of 1963; Charles

E. Home of East Greenwich, R.I., class of 1953; Stuart K. Mills of

Newport, R.I., class of 1958, and

Paul W. Smith of Tacoma, Wash., class of 1953.

CALL JAMES HUGHES INC.

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Specialists in Marine Transportation and Towing since 1894. I.C.C. W-463

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