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The 91st SNAME

A Special Post-Meeting

The 91st Annual Meeting of The

Society of Naval Architects and

Marine Engineers, held on No- vember 9-12 at the New York Hil- ton Hotel, again drew a large at- tendance at the banquet, technical sessions, and at the expanded Sec- ond International Maritime Expo- sition, which this year saw 139 companies occupying more than 22,000 square feet of exhibit space in the hotel.

Presiding over the President's

Luncheon and the Annual Ban- quet was SNAME president C.

Larry French, president of Na- tional Steel and Shipbuilding

Company, San Diego. Mr. French was elected to head SNAME at the 1982 Annual Meeting, and will serve as president until the end of 1984.

Officers Elected

The SNAME Council met at the beginning of the Annual Meeting and elected a number of new offi- cers and honorary members.

Elected honorary vice presidents (for life) were Capt. Perry W. Nel- son, USN (Ret.), executive vice president of M. Rosenblatt and

Son, Inc., New York naval archi- tects and marine engineers; and

George A. Uberti, program man- ager with National Steel and

Shipbuilding Company, San Diego.

Five new vice presidents were elected. Of these, the following four will serve for a term of three years: Robert Herbert, president,

Herbert Engineering Corporation,

San Francisco; Dr. James A. Lis- nyk, deputy director, Naval Sea

Systems Command, Washington,

D.C.; Capt. Thomas A. Marnane,

USN, commander, Pearl Harbor

Naval Shipyard, Honolulu; and

Donald E. Ridley, vice president,

Bird-Johnson Company, Walpole,

Mass. Serving a one-year term is

Malcolm I. Comyn, naval archi- tect, Esso Resources Canada, Ltd.

Re-elected as SNAME officers for one-year terms were: Robert

G. Mende, secretary and execu- tive director; Robert Axelrod, treasurer, and Donald M. Bir- ney, assistant treasurer. Mr.

Axelrod is vice president of J.J.

Henry Co., Inc., and Mr. Birney is assistant vice president of the 20 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News