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J.M. Wilson Named Vice

President-Engineering

At Philadelphia Resins

John Murray Wilson

John Murray Wilson has been promoted to vice president of en- gineering for Philadelphia Resins

Corporation, Montgomeryville,

Pa. He also will be in charge of product research and develop- ment, and the engineering of field applications for the corporation's industrial, marine and rope di- visions. He also will continue to maintain contact with the corpo- ration's worldwide distributors and factory-trained, certified rep- resentatives.

In his new position, Mr. Wilson will continue to maintain import- ant contacts with key individuals in various departments or disci- plines within the U.S. Navy, the

U.S. Coast Guard, and worldwide classification and manufacturing societies.

Prior to joining Philadelphia

Resins in 1973 as chief engineer,

Mr. Wilson served as service su- pervisor for marine and indus- trial applications for General

Electric Company. His five years of service with GE (USA) was preceded by service with General

Electric of England, and with

Associated Electrical Industries (AEI), also of Great Britain.

Webb Institute Receives $3,500 Grant From

Gulf Oil Foundation

Webb Institute of Naval Ar- chitecture, Glen Cove, N.Y., has announced receiving a $3,500 De- partmental Assistance Grant from the Gulf Oil Foundation. In- stitute officials said that the

Grant will be used for its General

Scholarship Program to further its education in naval architec- ture and marine engineering.

The purpose of Gulf's depart- mental assistance grants is to further special projects proposed by colleges and universities. In addition to departmental assist- ance grants, other phases of

Gulf's Aid to Education Program include: undergraduate scholar- ships, graduate fellowships, em- ployee gift matching, capital grants, and various special grants.

The check was presented to vice

Adm. C.R. Bryan, president of

Webb Institute, by John W. Kim- ble, director machinery design of

Gulf.

Clements Named Group VP

At Tracor Components,

Succeeding J.D. Hughes

Frank W. McBee Jr., chairman and president of Tracor, Inc., has announced the election of Walter

A. Clements as group vice presi- dent of Tracor Components. Mr.

Clements, also president of Littel- fuse, Inc., a Tracor subsidiary in

Des Plaines, 111., succeeds Jack D.

Hughes, who retired from the company effective December 31, 1980.

Mr. Hughes had served as group vice president of Tracor

Components since Tracor's 1968 acquisition of Littelfuse, Inc., a 54-year-old electrical and electro- mechanical components manufac- turing firm which he joined in 1943 and served as president of between 1965 and 1980.

Mr. Clements has been with

Littelfuse since 1950, beginning as a sales engineer and advancing to vice president of distribution sales and advertising in 1958 and vice president of sales and mar- keting in 1961. In 1969, he was elected executive vice president of

Littelfuse and a member of the board of directors. As group vice president of Tracor Components,

Mr. Clements will remain as pres- ident of Littelfuse and become chairman of the Littelfuse board of directors.

ANNOUNCING

TWO MAJOR MARITIME

EVENTS

Baltimore Convention Center Baltimore, Maryland March 9-11, 1982

For many years the maritime industry in North America has not had a major exhibition and conference. The National Maritime Show will provide an exciting new meeting place where ship owners, operators, naval architects, marine engineers and others can participate in a series of top level conferences and meet with manufacturers at the more than 300 exhibits in this major maritime exhibition.

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Ports and harbors worldwide must adjust changing world trade and shipping patterns. This has led to the need for an exhibition and conference devoted to the total port industries — port authorities, civil engineers, terminal operators, shipping lines, stevedoring companies, port services and many others. A comprehensive conference program will examine the latest in: 'World Trade Trends', 'Port Management and Construction', 'Shipping Trends' and 'Transhipment'. Write 418 on Reader Service Card

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