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Senior vice president Charles R.
Ball Jr., regional manager in South-
east Asia since 1971, has assumed
the position in London as regional
general manager in. charge of the
company's operations throughout
Europe and Africa.
Sam Carnahan, former area man-
ager in charge of African op-
erations, has been promoted to as-
sistant regional general manager in
London.
Vice president Lawrence M.
Jones, who has been in charge of
Santa Fe's drilling operations in
North and South America, has
been given additional responsibili-
ties as regional general manager,
Western Hemisphere and South-
east Asia. He continues to work
out of company headquarters in
Orange, Calif.
E.E. Leard has been promoted
from zone manager in Nigeria to op-
erations manager, Southeast Asia,
with headquarters in Djakarta.
Thomas J. Giardino
The appointment of Thomas J.
Giardino, traffic manager of the
Marchessini Steamship Lines, as
general chairman for the "Ninth
Annual International Maritime
Night Dinner" of The Rudder Club,
Inc., Brooklyn, N.Y., was announc-
ed by commodore Clifford M.
Palmer, vice president of Lee &
Palmer. Also appointed as dais
chairman for the affair was Daniel
J. Altilio, traffic manager for Cen-
tral Gulf Lines.
The dinner, which is being held
Wednesday evening, March 14,
1973, will be in the Grand Ballroom
of the Hotel St. George, Brooklyn.
The Rudder Club, which is known
for its educational grants for many
years, aggregating over $100,000,
is one of the largest maritime or-
ganizations in the country and has
chosen that evening, as in the past,
to honor the top executives repre-
senting American, as well as for-
eign steamship lines, serving the
ports of New York and New Jer-
sey.
The cost per guest is set at
$17.50 each (includes gratuity), and
checks should be made payable to
Rudder Club, Inc., 518-26 Colum-
bia Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11231.
Entertainment chairman for the
evening will be Berndt M. Palmer,
president of Lee & Palmer.
Santa Fe Opens
Tehran Headquarters—
New Managers Named
Santa Fe Drilling Co., Orange,
Calif., has reorganized its foreign
management with the opening of a
new regional headquarters in Teh-
ran and the naming of new man-
agers for London, Southeast Asia
and the Middle East.
E.L. Shannon Jr., president of
the parent Santa Fe International
Corp., said the establishment of the
Middle East headquarters reflects
the growing importance of the com-
pany's operations in that area. In
recent years, Middle East opera-
tions had been managed out of
Eastern Hemisphere headquarters
in London.
Eight Santa Fe rigs are present-
ly operating in the Middle East
region, according to Gordon M.
Anderson, president of Santa Fe
Drilling Co. The region includes
Iran, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and
Kuwait. In addition, he said, the
company has contracted nine new
units to start drilling there this
year.
Clyde Dawson, Santa Fe Drilling
Co. vice president, has transferred
to Tehran as regional general man-
ager, Middle East. He had previ-
ously been assigned to Nigeria as
managing director of Santa Fe Ni-
geria Development Co., Ltd.
Other key personnel assigned to
Iran include Donald J. Zimmer as
zone manager and C.M. (Buck)
Sheldon as administration man-
ager, Middle East. B.G. Parker,
continues as regional operations
manager.
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