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MTU Friedrichshafen

Names Hanssen New

President/CEO

Dr. Rolf A. Hanssen

The supervisory board of MTU

Motoren-und-Turbinen-Union

Friedrichshafen GmbH appointed

Dr. Rolf A. Hanssen president and

CEO. Dr. Hanssen, currently di- rector at Daimler-Benz responsible for corporate planning and control- ling, will assume his duties on July 1, 1994. Dr. Hanssen will succeed

Hubert Dunkler, who will retire in the second half of the year. Dr.

Hanssen joined Daimler-Benz in 1976.

Philadelphia Gear Appoints

Cox Sales & Marketing VP

Robert J. Cox

Philadelphia Gear Corporation has appointed Robert J. Cox to the position of vice president, sales and marketing. Mr. Cox will be respon- sible for worldwide marketing and sales of Philadelphia Gear products.

Before joining Philadelphia Gear,

Mr. Cox held the position of vice president, sales and marketing for

A-C Compressor Corporation of Elm

Grove, Wis.

McMahon To Chair

Washington State

Maritime Commission

State of Washington Governor

Mike Lowry has appointedGerald

P. McMahon chairman of the

Washington State Maritime Com- mission. Mr. McMahon is vice president, Pacific Region, for the

American Waterways Operators (AWO), the national association of the domestic inland and coastal barge and towing industry. The

Washington State Maritime Com- mission is a state corporation with responsibility to provide access to an approved contingency plan, com- munications network, and oil spill

May, 1994 response contractor for vessels op- erating in Washington State waters which have not satisfied state oil spill contingency plan requirements.

Witherspoon Becomes

Mississippi River

Commission President

Brigadier General Eugene S.

Witherspoon, U.S. Army Corps of

Engineers, was sworn in recently as president of the Mississippi River

Commission (MRC). The oath of office was administered by Mayor

Joseph L. Loviza of Vicksburg,

Miss. Gen. Witherspoon is the 31st president of the Commission, which was created by an Act of Congress in 1879. The MRC consists of three officers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — one designated as president — a representative from the National Oceanic and Atmo- spheric Administration, and three civilians, two of whom are civil engi- neers. Gen. Witherspoon has been serving as commander and division engineer of the Corps' Lower Missis- sippi Valley Division since Decem- ber 1992. As MRC president he is also responsible for the Mississippi

River and Tributaries Project — the vast, comprehensive flood control and navigation system for the allu- vial valley from Cape Girardeau,

Mo. to the Gulf of Mexico.

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