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David Taylor Medal—Mr. French (left) congratulates Professor Oosterveldt (right) of the Netherlands Ship Model Basin who accepted the Medal for winner, Dr. Jan D. Van Man- Vice Admiral "Jerry" Land Medal—(left to right) Daniel D. Stroheim (presenter), Lester Rosenblatt (recipient) and Mr. French. Davidson Medal—(left to right) Professor John V. Wehausen (recipient) John Breslin (pre- senter) and Mr. French. 92nd SNAME Annual Meeting Special Report (continued from page 19) from the University of Michigan, and has had a distinguished career in mathematics, naval architecture, and fluid mechanics at Columbia University, the David W. Taylor Model Basin, and the University of California. At the President's Luncheon the following awards were presented by Mr. French: The Captain Joseph H. Linnard Prize for 1984 was awarded to Richard J. Baumler, Toshio Watanabe, and Hiroshi Huzi- mura for their paper, "Sea-Land's D-9 Containerships: Design, Con- struction, and Performance," for the best paper presented at the pre- vious Annual Meeting and printed in Transactions. The Vice Admiral E.L. Cochrane Award for the best Section paper of the year went to Archibald C. Churcher, Alexander Kolomoj- cev, and Geoff Hubbard for their paper, "Design of the Icebreaking Supply Ship Robert Lemeur," deliv- ered at the Pacific Northwest Sec- tion. The Graduate Paper Honor Prize for 1984 was awarded to Thomas J. Ternes for his paper, "Flow Under Prismatic Structures in Extremely Shallow Water," presented at the Northern California Section. The 1984 Undergraduate Paper Honor Prize went to Charles N. Corrado Jr. for his paper, "Eco- nomic Power Generation at Sea: The Waste Heat Recovery Plant/ Constant Speed, Shaft-Driven Gen- erator Combination," delivered at the New York Metropolitan Sec- tion. Michael S. Pantazopoulos re- ceived the Graduate Paper Award for his paper, "An Automated Op- timization Approach to Conceptual Design of Naval Combatants Aided by Computer Graphics," presented at the Pacific Northwest Section. A Certificate of Appreciation was presented to William C. Freeman "for outstanding leadership and ser- vices to the Society" as chairman of the Budget and Endowments Com- mittee from 1977 to 1983, and to Carlton E. Tripp as chairman of Panel HS-1-2 (Wave Loads—Great Lakes Vessels) from 1964 to 1983. The President's Address In his last speech as SNAME president, Mr. French said that some form of legislation such as the Boggs Bill that would reserve a per- centage of U.S. imports and exports of carriage by American-flag ships, U.S.-built and manned, is crucial to the survival of the American com- mercial shipbuilding industry. He also criticized the Reagan Adminis- tration for "channeling merchant ship construction to shipbuilders abroad and in manipulating the pro- gressive destruction of domestic shipbuilding resources." The following paragraphs are ex- (continued on page 22) 20 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News
