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PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS acre facility will be called

Halter Gulfport Central and will build components for

Military Sealift Command ships currently under con- struction by the company.

Coflexip Stena

Offshore Announces

Management Changes

Subsea oilfield service company Coflexip Stena

Offshore reorganized its U.S. management following the departure of Kevin

Peterson. Allen Leatt was named CEO of Perry Tritech

Inc. in Jupiter, Fla., and U.S.

Investor Relations officer.

Ken Hulls was appointed president and CEO of

Coflexip Stena Offshore in

Houston.

Cegelec Announces

Senior Appointments

Cegelec Automation, Inc. (CAI) has announced that

Frank C. Voelker has been named executive vice presi- dent and CEO, and Richard

W. Gfeller has assumed the position of chief financial officer.

Immediately prior to assuming his latest appoint- ment, Mr. Voelker served as

Projects general manager for

Tippins Inc. Mr. Gfeller was assistant director of

Group Audit Services for

Alcatel Alsthom in Paris before accepting his current position.

Headquartered in

Pittsburgh, Cegelec

Automation is the U.S. sub- sidiary of Cegelec, the elec- trical engineering arm of

Alcatel Alsthom. CAI pro- vides automation and control technology to a wide range of industries.

ASNE Announces New

Leaders And Awards

Recipients

The American Society of

Naval Engineers (ASNE) has named Dona Lee as its new technical director, responsible for maintaining technical liaison with com- ponents of the society responsible for naval engi- neering outreach, symposia, professional development and education. ASNE has also announced the names of the recipients of its annual awards. Dr. Norman

Owsley received the Gold

Medal Award for his work in acoustic detection and pro- cessing systems.

Other award winners were as follows: William

Rogalski, Jr. (Frank G.

Law Award); William

Hockberger ("Jimmie"

Hamilton Award); USN

Commander Kevin McCoy (Claud A. Jones Award);

Alan Forsell (Harold E.

Saunders Award); and Dr.

Bruce Sandman (Solberg

Award). In addition, USN

Capt. Joseph Yurso (Ret.) was named president of

ASNE for a two-year term, and USN Radm. David

Putnam Sargent, Jr. was named vice president for a three-year term.

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