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PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS

Mar Ad's Joan Yim Resigns

Deputy Maritime Adminigfcgjjtor

Joan Yim has announpraner res ignation, effective JM. 20, 1997.

Appointed by Pmftdent Clinton to her currenfc^Josition as deputy administrator in April 1993, she was responsible for administering the programs and activities of

MarAd, and serving as chief oper- ating officer of the 1,000-persj ^agency. In addition, Ms. Yim^xer- tised responsibility fms^subsidy administration, poj»rand inter- moOT^system^*d^velopment, ship operations and maintenance, ship- building, international activities, researcb^afld technology assess- personHel management, budgets, procurements, finance, marketing, legal iafeues relating to agency initiatives, emd liaison with national defense agera^jes. "It is with great regret tnat I accept Joan's letter of resignation,"

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Circle 320 on Reader Service Card said U.S. Secretary of

Transportation Federico Pena. "Joan Yim's energy, focus and insight have been the driving force in res

Administration is Ising one of its strongest maritime

Maritime Admir

J. Herberger, appreciation fori ties, noting: "Jyan Yim has ably served as my principal assistant and has beenlin invaluable asset to me, tf the Maritime [champions."

Istrator Albert 'expressed his

Is. Yim's abili-

Administrati itime indus

President

Transition

Department m ent of a y and an o resolve material and to the mar-

A member of

Clinton's 1992

Team for the

Transportation,

Ms. Yim chair^L the administra- tion's InteragencjrWorking Group on the Dredging Pn^cess, spear heading the develo

National Dredging Po' 18-point action plan dredging and dredge disposal issues.

A professional planner with almost two decades /f experience in community-bas«d planning, policy analysis, p/)ject manage- ment and intergovernmental affairs, she was Mormerly a super- vising planner with the Honolulu office of Parscps Brinckerhoff as well as a plainer with the Hawaii

Office of State Planning, where her respon/bilities included nat- ural resot/ces, coastal zone and agement, and public ;ure financing. She is er Democratic national woman, will assume responsi- am area man- ocean m infrastrui also a fo: committi

Ms. Yii bilities as ager, Marine, with^Parsons

Brinckerhoff, an international planning, engineering aid con- struction management oioniza- tion.

AWO Welcomes N<

Transportation Secretary

On Dec. 20, 19961 Rodney E.

Slater was namedl as the next

U.S. Secretary of Transportation.

Thomas Allegretti, prawdent of

The American Waterways

Operators (AWO), responded to the announcement by issuing a series of supportive comiments. "AWO extends a warn* welcome to Mr. Slater. While/we don't know him well, it is clear that his close ties to President! Clinton will be a key asset as heM