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Bonner Elected Chairman,

Solley Vice Chairman

Of VMA

Ed Bonner, president and CEO of Leslie Co., is the 1986 chairman of the Valve Manufacturers Associa- tion of America (VMA). Larry

Solley, group vice president and worldwide product director-Final

Control Systems, Fisher Controls

International, Inc., is the new vice chairman. Both were elected at the association's annual meeting held

October 13-16 in Santa Barbara,

Calif. Their one-year terms began

January 1, 1986.

Mr. Bonner joined Leslie Co.,

Parsippany, N.J., in April 1973 as executive vice president and was elected president and chief operat- ing officer in April 1974. Previously, he worked 15 years for Nichols En- gineering and Research Corp., New

York City. Before joining Leslie,

Mr. Bonner served as vice presi- dent-sales at Nichols.

Mr. Bonner has been a member of the board of directors since 1982 and was formerly VMA's chairman of product/industry committees.

Mr. Solley joined Fisher Con- trols, Marshalltown, Iowa, in 1977 as vice president-planning and in 1979 was appointed vice president- marketing. Before being promoted to his present position, he served as vice president-Control Valves and

Regulators Division. Prior to joining

Fisher, he held various engineering

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Circle 237 on Reader Sen/ice Card 46 and marketing positions with Mon- santo Co. Mr. Solley, currently chairman of VMA's finance com- mittee, has served on the board of directors since 1981.

James R. Burke, vice presi- dent-corporate development of

Cameron Iron Works, Inc., Houston, will remain on the board as immedi- ate past chairman having held that position in 1984 and 1985.

Newly elected to three-year terms are: R.R.J. Baker, president and general manager-Valves & Fittings

Division, Crane Co., Elmsford, N.Y., and Gerald E. Hoffmeister, pres- ident-Flow Control Division, Rock- well International Corp., Pitts- burgh. Elected to a two-year term is

Thomas Bruns, president and

CEO, Xomox Corp., Cincinnati.

Directors reelected to three-year terms are: James H. Elder Jr., chairman, president and CEO, An- derson, Greenwood & Co., Bellaire,

Texas, and Bill Henry, chairman of the board of directors, MUESCO,

Inc., Houston. Reelected to two- year terms are: Ralph H. Clemons

Jr., president, Daniel Industries,

Inc., Houston, and Daniel L. De-

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Corp., Worcester, Mass.

Present board members serving continuing terms are: William E.

Bendix, group vice president,

Mark Controls Corp., Evanston, 111.;

Lynn Elliott, president, EIM

Valve Controls, Inc., Missouri City,

Texas; Charles L. Harper, gener- al manager, W-K-M Division, Joy

Manufacturing Co., Houston;

George Raftis, president, Red

Valve Co., Inc., Carnegie, Pa.; and

Kenneth P. Stegemiller, divi- sion president, The Duriron Co.,

Inc., Cookeville, Tenn.

Founded in 1938, the Valve Man- ufacturers Association of America today represents 76 domestic valve manufacturers who together ac- count for approximately 85 percent of the total U.S. industrial valve production. The American valve in- dustry supplies 40 percent of the worldwide valve demand.

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Canada, France, Germany, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S. have signed a memorandum of understanding in- volving a joint effort in the research and development of a surface effect ship (SES) design. Under the pro- gram, each country will conduct a series of tests to determine the mili- tary applications of the SES, which is a hybrid of hovercraft and cata- maran.

The tests will be carried out using the SES-200 experimental vessel supplied by the U.S. This craft, completed by Bell Halter in 1982, has a maximum speed of 28 knots and displacement of 200 tons.

A U.S. Navy team of 18 men will conduct the tests in each country, under the surveillance of each na- tional trials director. In addition to the joint effort, each nation will use the data obtained from the tests in support of its own SES effort.

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