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E. Scott Dillon, John J. Nachtsheim To New MarAd Posts E. Scott Dillon, former Chief of the Maritime Administration's Of- fice of Ship Construction, has been named Assistant Administrator for Operations. According to Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs Robert J. Blackwell, who heads the agency, the Silver Spring, Md., resident replaces Ludwig C. Hoff- mann, who is retiring after 40 years of Federal service- A veteran of 34 years with the Maritime Administration and its predecessor agencies, Mr. Dillon headed up the agency's ship con- struction office for the last two years. That position will now be filled by John J. Nachtsheim, who has been involved in the agency's research and development program for the last three years. Mr. Dillon, who joined Maritime as an Associate Naval Architect in 1938, was graduated from the Uni- versity of Illinois in 1932, with a degree in civil engineering. In the intervening years, he worked for the Pusey and Jones Shipbuilding Corp., Wilmington, Del., and the Philadelphia Navy Yard. He was awarded a law degree by George Washington University in 1948. In his new position, Mr. Dillon will be responsible for overseeing the agency's programs concerning ship construction, the development of U.S. ports and intermodal trans- port capabilities, the promotion of the American domestic shipping in- dustry, and emergency shipping operations. Mr. Nachtsheim joined the Mari- time Administration in 1970 as Deputy Assistant Administrator for Research and Development, following a 22-year civilian career as a naval architect with the U.S. Navy- During his Navy career, Mr. Nachtsheim, who also lives in Sil- ver Spring, rose to become Chief Naval Architect of the Naval Ship Engineering Center. He went to work for the Navy in 1947, following graduation from the Webb Institute of Naval Ar- chitecture. Like Mr. Dillon, he holds a law degree from George Washington University. His new duties as Chief of the Office of Ship Construction focus on supervising merchant ship con- struction in U.S. shipyards under the agency's construction-differen- tial subsidy and ship mortgage in- surance programs. The personnel changes, Mr. Blackwell pointed out, were neces- sitated by the retirement of Assis- tant Administrator for Operations Hoffmann. A McLean, Va., resident, Mr. Hoffmann is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Techno- logy. He joined the Maritime Ad- ministration in 1938, after having worked for the Navy as a marine engineer for four years, and was appointed Chief of the Office of Ship Construction in 1957. He was named Assistant Administrator in 1969, when that position was created in an agency reorganiza- tion. In announcing Mr- Hoffmann's retirement, Mr. Blackwell noted that he was instrumental in achiev- ing the shipbuilding gains that have been made in the last two years un- der President Nixon's maritime program. "As head of the agency's ship construction program, Lud Hoff- mann played a pivotal role in ar- ranging the $1.7 billion in ship- building contracts that have been awarded so far under the program, and these contracts are largely re- sponsible for the fact that U.S. shipyards today have the greatest backlog of merchant ship orders in their peacetime history," Mr. Blackwell said. Marconi International Appoints K. Pope— R.A.H. Penny Retires Marconi International Marine Co., Ltd. has announced the retire- ment of R.A.H. Penny as London sales manager, effective December 31, 1972. Mr. Penny has been succeeded by K. Pope, who was appointed depu- ty London sales manager in Octo- ber of 1972. HOW TO LOWER PIPE WELDING COSTS... 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