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Bay, and eventually founding his own company in 1953, after work- ing as a boat captain and dredging for the Army Corps of Engineers during World War II. Over the years, he designed and built a number of dredges and barges, including Alameda, reportedly the first, all-steel, welded sidedraft clamshell dredge.

Unicon Appoints Godwin VP

Morris Godwin has been named vice president, Intermodal

Services, for Unicon International, a San Francisco-based company providing information-driven solu- tions and services for the trans- portation industry.

Prior to accepting this latest appointment, Mr. Godwin served as director of Operations for APL's

Intermodal Marketing division.

Jeff Carter has been named manager of the Americas region for the company's new interactive equipment exchange service.

The service is called The

Intermodal Exchange, and is an advanced internet system that pro- vides equipment owners, brokers and end users with an efficient method for purchasing and selling equipment.

For the past five years, Mr.

Carter has served as director of

Sales and Projects for a container brokerage firm.

SNAME Elects O'Neil As

President

The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) has elected David A. O'Neil as president of the society for a term beginning January 1, 1997. He is a former naval and merchant marine engineering officer, and current president of Seaworthy

Systems, Inc., a naval architec- ture and marine engineering firm, which he founded in 1973. Mr.

O'Neil will succeed Pat Philips in his SNAME office.

Stealth Propulsion Names

CEO

Wendell Minnick was recently named chairman and CEO of

Stealth Propulsion International,

Ltd. of La Jolla, Calif., manufac- turers of a ringed propeller line called RingProp. Mr. Minnick's company-building experience includes several years of marine hardware and sailboat manufac- turing in Asia.

Stealth is currently introducing some of its technological break- throughs in ringed propellers in a

Florida test market. The compa- ny is focusing on producing mod- els for higher horsepower out- boards.

Slickbar President

Announces Retirement

Russell M. Blair, president and 27-year veteran of Slickbar

Products Corp., has announced his retirement. He will continue (Continued on page 100)

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