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NWC ANNUAL

Who's Who at NWC

Now rounding out his second year at NWC's helm, Berdon

Lawrence is widely known in the waterways industry. He is presi- dent of Hollywood Marine, Inc., a firm operating some 100 towboats and 230 tank barges engaged pri- marily in moving petroleum prod- ucts and petrochemicals along the

Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.

A former chairman of American

Waterways Operators, he is a newly appointed member of the Inland

Waterways Users Board, an 11- member body which advises the

Congress and the President on in- land waterway investment priori- ties. He has been NWC's chairman since September 1989.

In line to succeed him in the top post is J.D. (Johnnie) Laman, manager of marine and interna- tional operations for DOW USA, a major waterway shipper, who is

NWC's vice chairman. With Dow since 1957, he has been in his present position for the last 11 years.

Harry N. Cook, now in his 27th year as NWC's chief executive, has been the organization's president since 1978. Initially, he was manag- ing director and then executive vice president. He is a former newspa- per reporter and governor's press secretary.

NWC members and guests will board the 152-foot, Caterpillar-powered paddlewheeler Colonel on

Thursday evening, September 19, for a dinner cruise on the Houston Ship Channel.

W. Richard Christensen, vice president, marine/surface transpor- tation and facilities of Ashland Pe- troleum Co., Ashland, Ky., is NWC's first vice president. Ashland oper- ates both towboats and tank barges.

NWC has four vice presidents:

Wallace A. Gieringer, executive director of the Port of Pine Bluff,

Ark.; Dennis L. Kirwin, vice presi- dent and general manager of Mid- land Marine Corp., Houston;

Charles F. Lehman, vice presi- dent of American Commercial Barge

Line Co., Jeffersonville, Ind.; and

Donald G. Waldon, administrator of Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway

Development Authority. William J.

Hull is vice president and counsel.

H. Nelson Spencer III, pub- lisher of The Waterways Journal, is

NWC's secretary and Donald C.

McCrory, director of the Memphis and Shelby County (Tenn.) Port

Commission, is treasurer.

The organization's executive com- mittee includes 15 members, and there are 75 on the board of direc- tors. Directors serve staggered, three-year terms and represent five membership categories: water car- riers, waterway shippers, shipyards and other waterway services, port authorities and other public mem- bers, and associations.

Members of the executive com- mittee include: Nicholas J.

Barchie Jr., president, Warrior &

Gulf Navigation Co.; J.Ron

Brinson, president and chief ex- ecutive officer, Port of New Orleans;

W.R. (Ron) Coles, president W.R.

Coles & Associates; Brian L.

Garrity, supervisor-water distribu- tion system, IMC Fertilizer, Inc.;

Keith R. Gosney, vice president- marketing, Merchants Transporta- tion, Inc.; Carl B. Hakenjos, senior marine consultant, Waldemar S.

Nelson & Co.; Gary P. LaGrange, executive director, Port of West St.

Mary; Gary L. Mills, assistant vice president, Cargill, Inc.; Offa S.

Nichols, president, Warrior-

Tombigbee Development Associa- tion; R. Barry Palmer, executive director, DINAMO; Robert W.

Portiss, port director, Tulsa Port of

Catoosa; Gale R. Rhodes, man- ager-river transportation, AEP Fuel

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