BOOK SIGNING CEREMONY—The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers recently held a signing ceremony at the World Trade Center Club in New York for the new edition of the book Ship Design and Construction. Copies of the new book were given to all authors and members of the Control Committee, and each signed the front flyleaf. Shown above signing the books are (from left): Robert Taggart, editor; E. Scott Dillon, chairman of the Control Committee; Robert G. Mende, secretary and executive director of the Society; Lester Rosenblatt, then president of the Society; and Control Committee members Robert T. Young and Edward V. Lewis. Authors present at the ceremony were: Harold Acker, Nicholas Bachko, David Bannerman, Francis Bartlett, David Bloodgood, John Boylston, William Cleary, Robert Cunningham, Raymond Devoluy, Ludwig Hoffmann, J. Hsein, Ronald Kiss, Clyde Leavitt, Daniel Mallett, Robert Price, Angelo Ritola, Victor Schellenberg, I. Stern, Philip Stitt, Robert Taggart, and Robert Tapscott.