Alan Bernstein, president of the National Association of Passenger Vessel Owners (NAPVO), has announced the appointment of recently retired USCG Capt. Peter Lauridsen as the association's new technical consultant.
Mr. Lauridsen, most recently Deputy Chief of the Office of Marine Safety, Security and Environmental Protection at the Coast Guard, will assist NAPVO on a parttime basis by monitoring federal marine technical developments and working with the association to present its positions to the appropriate federal agencies.
Mr. Lauridsen is a graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, with a degree in engineering. He had a 29-year career with the service, primarily in the marine safety area, serving both in Washington, D.C., and the field.
NAPVO is the national trade association for the operators of dinner cruises, paddlewheelers, car and passenger ferries, sightseeing/excursion boats and windjammers. Representing over 400 companies who are part of the passenger vessel industry, NAPVO conducts an active government relations program, publishes a monthly newsletter, sponsors an annual convention and trade show and provides other special services to its membership.
Holland America Cruises has appointed Daved F. Lauth vice president of Technical/Nautical Operations. In this new senior management position, Mr. Lauth will be responsible for the strategic planning and analysis of Holland America's technical and nautical needs as well as the coordination of
member of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. He is past chairman and currently vice chairman of the Webb Institute board of trustees, and a former member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy
Charles W. Gower has been named vice president of engineering for Nashville Bridge Company (NABRICO), Nashville, Tenn., according to an announcement by A1 Zang, president of the shipyard. Mr. Gower joined NABRICO in 1978 as manager of design. He was named director of engineering in 1980, and held
Capt. Alfred J. Tatman, USCG (ret.), has been named East Gulf representative for Bergeron Industries, Inc., William T. Bergeron, executive vice president, announced. Captain Tatman was graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in 1946 with a Bachelor of Science degree in marine engineering. He
at Boston University. He is a graduate of Raytheon's Advanced Management Program. Mr. Garden is a corporator of the West Newton Savings Bank and a trustee of Newton-Wellesley Hospital. He is a member of the Public Relations Society of America, the Publicity Club of Boston, The American Society of
Association of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y., has expressed his organization's opposition to the proposed dismemberment of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. A House Select Committee on Committees has recently considered a recommendation for combining the functions
of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers was held at the M.I.T. Faculty Club, in Cambridge, Mass. at which the speaker was Comdr. Edward A. Chazal Jr., USCG. He presented a paper "Maritime Opportunities for the New England Utility Coal Trade." Commander Chazal, a graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy
Capt. James E. Grabb, USCG (ret.) has assumed the position of technical director on the staff of the American Society of Naval Engineers, in Alexandria, Va. This new position was created to provide the leadership necessary to implement the technical portion of the goals and objectives recently establ
The New England Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers recently met at Valles Steak House in Newton, Mass., to hear the presentation of two excellent student papers. Forty-five members gathered for the occasion. Following cocktails and dinner, the technical meeting was opened
dinner, the technical meeting was opened by the chairman of the Section, Lyssimachos Vassilopoulos, who introduced the first author, W.H. Hanot, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology student in the Department of Ocean Engineering. His paper was entitled "Development of an Electro-Acoustic Transducer
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