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Officers of the Society, left to right: Robert Axelrod, assistant treasurer; Robert G. Mende, secretary; Phillip Eisenberg, president, and Ralph C. Christensen, treasurer. All but the president were reelected by the Council. At the Banquet reception, left to right: President Phillip Eisenberg; Mrs. Helen Delich Bentley, chairman, Federal Maritime Commission, and Dr. Athelstan F. Spilhaus, the principal speaker at the Annual Banquet. Newly elected by the Society, left to right: Jerome L. Goldman, Council member; James R. Maumenee, elected to the Council to represent Affiliates, and A. Dudley Haff, elected by the Council to be a vice-president. Donald A. Holden (from the left), past Society president, presents The Graduate Paper Award to R. Bruce Wood- ruff; The Graduate Paper Honor Prize to Prof. J. Harvey Evans on behalf of Theodore A. Achtarides, and The Undergraduate Paper Award to Mark C. Oakes. Attending the banquet, left to right: Paul E. Atkinson, president, Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, John T. Gilbride, president, Todd Shipyards Corp.; William A. Sheehan, president, Kirlin, Campbell and Keating, and Prof. Richard B. Couch, University of Michigan. Attending the banquet, left to right: John R. Blackeby, chairman of the Society's committee on public relations; Vernon A. Olson, technical administrator; Walter B. Gal- lagher, administrative assistant, and Richard Garthwaite, technical coordinator for the Society. W.B. Van Berlekom and T.A. Goddard (from left) are awarded The Captain Jo- seph H. Linnard Prize by Matthew G. For- rest, a past president of the Society. SNAME Annual Meeting (Continued from page 10) Awards At the Annual Banquet the fol- lowing awards were made to mem- bers for notable and outstanding accomplishments in 'the marine field: The 34th award of the "David W. Taylor Medal" was made to Jerome L. Goldman for notable achievement in naval architecture by the president of the Society. As president of his own firm, Friede and Goldman, Inc., Mr. Goldman has been responsible for a great number of innovations in the ma- rine industry for which he has been honored with many awards, among them the Distinguished Achievement Award for individuals by the Offshore Technology Con- ference, an 'Honorary Doctor of Sci- ence 'Degree from the University of Michigan, and 'the Louisiana Propeller Club Maritime Man of the Year Award. Among these in- novations are the concepts of the LASH-Barge-carrying ship, the All-Hatch or "Open" ship, the ultra-wide supertanker configura- tion with a length-breadth ratio of 5.0 and the design of the first true offshore mobile drilling unit for working in open sea conditions. Over the years he has served the Society in many ways; as founding chairman of the Gulf Section, a member of the Technical and Re- search Steering Committee and chairman of the 1963 Spring Meet- ing Steering Committee. Addition- ally, he has given of his time and knowledge to various advisory committees of the American Bu- reau of Shipping, The International Cargo Handling Coordination As- sociation and other marine activi- ties. The 22nd award of the "Vice Ad- miral 'Jerry' Land Medal" was made to James F. Goodrich for out- standing accomplishment in the Banquet reception group, left to right: James J. Reynolds, president, American Institute of Merchant Shipping; Rear Adm. William A. Brockett, USN (ret.), president, Webb Insti- tute; Rear Adm. Arthur B. Engel, USCG (ret.), superintendent, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy; Dr. Ira Dyer, head, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Robert T. Young, chairman and president, American Bureau of Shipping, and Dr. T. Francis Ogilvie, chairman, Dept. of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineer- ing, University of Michigan. Banquet Committee, left to right: Capt. Robert F. Desel, USN (ret.), Mobil Oil Company; Lawrence B. Bennett, district marine superintendent, Atlantic-Allegheny District, General Electric Company; Charles A. Narwicz, United States Lines, banquet chairman; Patricia McGovern, Hull Scientific Dept., George G. Sharp, Inc.; Marvin A. Morris, manager, ma- rine sales, l-T-E Imperial Corporation; Nicola F. Pergola, chief marine engineer, De- signers and Planners, Inc., and Norman R. Farmer, manager, Systems Analysis Dept., George G. Sharp, Inc. 12 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News
