The appointment of Theodore L. McPherson of Claremont, Calif., as comptroller of the Electric Boat division of General Dynamics, Groton, Conn., was announced by Joseph D. Pierce, general manager.
Mr. McPherson has been comptroller of the Pomona division of General Dynamics since 1952.
Prior to joining General Dynamics, Mr. McPherson served for five years with the Air Materiel Command at Dayton, Ohio, as chief of organization and procedures and assistant chief of budgets. He was chief of budgets and accounts for the Air Materiel area at San Bernardino, Calif., in 1946-47.
During World War II he was with the Army Air Force headquarters in Washington in budget development and was chief of budgets at San Bernardino from 1942 to 1944.
Mr. McPherson is a native of Canadian, Texas, and is a graduate of George Washington University and Independence Junior College.