Richard R. Hopkins, vice president of the J.J. Henry Company, Inc., has announced the appointment of Capt. A.L. Jenks, USN (ret.), to manage the West Coast office the company has opened in San Diego. The new facility will provide engineering services to new construction yards, repair facilities, vessel owners and operators, and industrial firms throughout the West in both the governmental and commercial market segments.
Captain Jenks is a 1949 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and subsequently was awarded the advanced degree of naval engineer after three years of graduate study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As an engineering specialist he served the next 25 years in billets ashore and afloat.
The J.J. Henry Co. is one of the nation's principal naval architectural and marine engineering firms. In addition to its headquarters in the World Trade Center, New York City, offices are maintained in Moorestown, N.J., Crystal City, Va., Portsmouth, Va., Cohasset, Mass., and area representatives are located in Washington, D.C., Cleveland, and Los Angeles.