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ing's Eugene Schorsch and Richard Bicicci.

The authors from overseas included A.M.

Kracht from the VWS Berlin Model Basin,

Berlin, Germany and four from the well- known Finnish shipyard Valmet.

The papers were presented simultaneously in morning and afternoon sessions in the hotel's Trianon and Mercury Ballrooms. Writ- ten and spontaneous discussions were pre- sented after each paper.

The Society will publish all the papers, to- gether with the discussions and author's closures in the next issue of the Transactions.

Awards

An array of prizes and awards were pre- sented to a number of prominent members of the Society at ceremonies held during the

Annual Meeting.

At the Annual Banquet, held in the hotel's

Grand Ballroom, medals were presented to

John J. Nachtsheim, assistant administrator for operations, U.S. Maritime Administra- tion; Rear Adm. William "Mike" Benkert,

USCG (ret.), president of the American In- stitute of Merchant Shipping, and Dr. Louis

Landweber, professor and research engineer,

Institute of Hydraulic Research, University of Iowa.

The David W. Taylor Medal, which is given every year for "notable achievement in naval architecture and marine engineering," was awarded to Mr. Nachtsheim. He is a 1947 graduate of Webb Institute of Naval Archi- tecture and spent nearly 15 years with the

Navy Department. He joined the Maritime

Administration in 1962 and has risen to as- sistant administrator for operations, report- ing to the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs.

Admiral Benkert, who received the Vice

Admiral "Jerry" Land Medal for "outstand- ing accomplishment in the marine field," has just this year completed an illustrious career with the U.S. Coast Guard, spending the past eight years as chief, Office of Merchant Ma- rine Safety. During his tenure many signifi- cant international agreements concerning the safety of ships were made to the benefit of all.

The Davidson Medal, awarded every two years, went to Dr. Landweber, one of the country's foremost hydrodynamicists and ex- perts on fluid flow. His first technical paper was written in 1932 and since that time he has written more than one hundred papers— some of which are of prime technical im- portance. The Davidson Medal is awarded for "outstanding scientific accomplishment in ship research." (continued cn page 11)

John J. Nachtsheim (left), Assistant Administrator for

Operations at the U.S. Maritime Administration, was this year's recipient of the David W. Taylor Medal from Robert T. Young, president of the Society.

Donald A. Holden (left), past president of the Society, presents the Vice Adm. E.L. Cochrane Award to John

R. Kane for his paper "The Speed of the S.S. United

States." Both were instrumental in the building of that great ship.

Rear Adm. W.M. Benkert (left), USCG (ret.) and new president of AIMS, is awarded the VAdm. "Jerry" Land

Medal by James J. Henry, past president of Society.

SNAME Annual Meeting— (continued from page 9) tion on ship structural performance, and on the development and application of a com- puter-controlled frame bender. The structural papers also included a description of some of the most interesting developments of the past two years in using prestressed concrete in the ocean.

Marine engineers showed a great deal of interest in the paper analyzing a high-power, water-cooled electric propulsion system, and the more adventurous among the members were pleased with a report and paper on the 1977 Arctic probe of the Canadian Coast

Guard icebreaker CCGS Louis S. St. Laurent.

The authors brought a wealth of experi- ence in naval architecture and marine engi- neering to the meetings and represented pri- vate industry, the government and academia.

The speakers included the well-known hy- drodynamicist Michael K. Ochi of the David

W. Taylor Naval Ship Research and Devel- opment Center. The papers dealing with structures were partly authored by Profes- sors Masubuchi and J. Harvey Evans of Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology and Ben

C. Gerwick Jr., professor of civil engineering,

University of California at Berkeley. Com- panies represented among the authors in- cluded Westinghouse Electric Corporation's

D. Greene and C.J. Mole and Sun Shipbuild-

Dr. Louis Landweber (right), famed hydrodynamicist, receives the Davidson Medal from Phillip Eisenberg (left), past president of the Society.

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