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stroit Diesel Promotes fiarp

Calvin Sharp was named senior ice president of Administration jr Detroit Diesel Corp. Prior to his appointment he served as lirector of Industrial Relations and

Administration for the company.

Mr. Sharp replaces Paul Walters who has been named executive vice president of Penske Corp.

Port Of Oakland Names

Engineering Director

Joseph K. Wong has been named director of Engineering at the Port of Oakland, succeeding

Rick Ferrin who went to work for

Jacksonville Port Authority. Mr.

Wong is responsible for a $14.8 million budget in the coming fiscal year. "As a Chinese American, he will be a tremendous asset for Oakland in our growing business relation- ships with our customers in the

Asia Pacific region," said Port

Board President Celso Ortiz.

Mr. Vfong worked for the Port from July 1979 to April 1984 and rejoined the staff in 1990, following six years at the Oakland's Office of

Public Works. "The biggest challenge will be to provide the engineering needed for our billion dollars worth of capital improvements for our Airport

Development Plan (ADP), the development of Oakland's Middle

Harbor Marine Terminals and our joint intermodal rail terminal (JIT) within our urgently needed time- line," said Mr. Wong.

NOAA Appoints Atlantic

Recreational Fisheries

Coordinator

Ginny Fay was named Atlantic

Recreational Fisheries coordinator for the National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration's

National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). She fills a newly created position, and will coordinate and implement agency recreational fisheries programs for East Coast states and the Caribbean from agency headquarters in Silver

Spring, Md., in the Office of

Intergovernmental and

Recreational Fisheries.

Ms. Fay joined the fisheries ser- vice in 1990, after serving as a fish- eries biologist with the state of

Massachusetts and as a employee of Maryland's Department of

Natural Resources.

Commerce Dept. Appoints

Fishery Management

Council Members

U.S. Commerce Secretary

William A. Daley recently announced the appointment of 30 members to eight regional fishery management councils that work with the federal government to manage U.S. marine fishery resources.

The councils, established by the

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery

Conservation and Management

Act, prepare management plans for fish stocks which are reviewed by the National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) National Marine

Fisheries Service and approved by the Commerce Secretary.

A recent amendment to

Magnuson-Stevens also called for an Indian tribe member to serve as a voting member of the Pacific

Fishery Management Council — a position now filled by James E.

Harp, policy representative of

Natural Resources for the

Quinault Indian Nation.

Mobil Employee Honored

For Offshore Work

The Republic of Kazakstan has awarded a state medal to Mobil

Corp. Environmental Manager

Phil Manella for his contributions to the development of its offshore oil and gas industry.

Mr. Manella assisted the

Caspian Sea Consortium (CSC), an alliance of Kazak and energy com- panies who worked to determine the hydrocarbon potential of the sea's Kazak sector. Consortium members included AGIP, the

BP/Statoil alliance, British Gas

Exploration and Production, Mobil,

Shell, TOTAL and

Kazakstancaspishelf (KCS).

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