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Thomas W. Horton has been appointed executive vice president-finance and planning/chief financial officer of the Fort Worth- based AMR Corp. He was CFO before becoming vice chairman/CFO of AT&T. Craig S. Kreeger has been named senior vice president-international and C. David Cush senior vice president-global sales. Kreeger has been London-based vice president-Europe and Pacific Div. and Cush vice president/general sales manager. They collectively will succeed Peter J. Dolara, who is planning to retire as senior vice president-Miami, the Caribbean and Latin America.

Douglas G. Herring, who has been vice president and controller of American Airlines and chairman of the American Airlines Federal Credit Union, will become president of American Beacon Advisors, succeeding William F. Quinn, who will retire as president but continue as chairman/CEO and remain on the American Beacon Mutual Fund board of directors. Herring, in turn, will be succeeded as vice president/controller by Brian McMenamy, who has been American's managing director for airline profitability and financial analysis. Isabella Goren has become American's senior vice president-customer relationship marketing and reservations.

George K. Muellner (see photo) has been appointed president of Boeing Advanced Systems, Long Beach, Calif. He was vice president/general manager of Boeing Air Force Systems.

Jon Pollack has been named manager of New York-based FlightSafety International's E-Learning program.

Ray Bennett has become vice president-sales for Cleveland-based Flight Options. He has been Southeast U.S. sales director.

Karen Manos has been appointed a partner in the Washington office of the law firm of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher. She was head of the government contracts practice at Howrey LLP.

David Turnbull (see photo) has been named Hong King-based chairman of Alico Group Asia of Australia. He was chairman of Cathay Pacific Airways and of its parent Swire Pacific Ltd.

USAF Maj. Gen. (select) David J. Scott has become director of the Special Operations Center for Networks and Communications at U.S. Special Operations Command, MacDill AFB, Fla. He was deputy commanding general of USSOC's Joint Special Operations Command, Ft. Bragg, N.C. Scott will be succeeded by Brig. Gen. (select) Eric E. Fiel, who has been director of operations at Headquarters Air Force SOC, Hurlburt Field, Fla. Fiel will, in turn, be succeeded by Brig. Gen. (select) Michael W. Callan, who has been assistant deputy director for special operations of the Joint Staff at the Pentagon. Brig. Gen. (select) Richard C. Johnston has been named commander of the 86th Airlift Wing and Kaiserslautern Military Community, U.S. Air Forces in Europe, Ramstein AB, Germany. He has been executive officer to the commander of U.S. Transportation Command, Scott AFB, Ill. Brig. Gen. (select) John D. Posner has been appointed deputy director of operations for the National Military Command Center Operations Team One at the Pentagon. He was commander of the 27th Fighter Wing, Air Combat Command, Cannon AFB, N.M.

Barbara Barrett (see photo) has been named to the board of trustees of The Aerospace Corp., El Segundo, Calif. She also serves on the corporate boards of the Raytheon Co. and Exponent Inc., and on the Pentagon's Defense Business Board. Barrett was founding chair of the Valley Bank of Arizona.

Benjamin Forrest has become vice president-flight operations and Jay Schaefer staff vice president-finance/ treasurer of Alaska Airlines. Forrest is one of the airline's pilots and has been a flight instructor and interim director of corporate safety. Schaefer was director of treasury operations/acting treasurer. Laurie Sands has been promoted to managing director from director of taxes. Yvonne Daverin has been appointed managing director of maintenance planning and material control and Capt. Robert Spero system chief pilot. Daverin held several engineering and maintenance positions at United Airlines. Spero has been a Boeing 737 captain and check airman. He succeeds Paul Majer, who has returned to MD-80 flying.

Jeffrey P. Freimark has been named executive vice president/chief financial officer of Washington-based Intelsat Ltd. He succeeds Robert Medlin, who has resigned. Freimark was executive vice president/chief financial and information officer of Beverly Enterprises Inc.

Mark Larsen (see photo) has been promoted to vice president from director of large fleets and government contracts for Landmark Aviation, Tempe, Ariz.

Cindy Szadokierski has become vice president-O'Hare operations of United Airlines. She was vice president-corporate real estate and has been succceeded by Ajay Singh. He was managing director of United's business transfor- mation office. Roger E. Peterson has been appointed San Francisco-based manager of flight operational engineering.

Sharon L. Pinkerton has been appointed vice president-government affairs of the Washington-based Air Transport Assn. She was assistant FAA administrator for aviation policy, planning and environment.

John J. Cronin has been named president of Minneapolis-based Alliant Techsystems' Mission Systems Group and corporate senior vice president. He was president of U.K.-based Raytheon Systems Ltd.

Bill Ashworth has been appointed president of the Aviation Technical Services Div. of the Goodrich Corp., Everett, Wash. He was vice president-operations. Ashworth succeeds Eric Schulz, who has been named president of the Actuation Systems Div.

Rose Gottemoeller has been named director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. She had been a senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace with a joint appointment in the Russian and Eurasian Program and the Nonproliferation Project.

Steven J. Calabro (see photo) has become a senior aviation project manager in the Orlando, Fla., office of Wilbur Smith Associates.

Gerard Schkolnik has been appointed director of supersonic technology programs at Gulfstream Aerospace, Savannah, Ga. He was a manager of flight test programs at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.

Michael Marks has been named director of the Space and Telecommunications Div. of the Futron Corp., Bethesda, Md. He was managing partner of Synthesis Partners.

Robert Q. Fugate, the technical director at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Starfire Optical Range (SOR) at Kirtland AFB, N.M., has won the Air Force's Outstanding Civilian Career Service Award to mark his retirement after 35 years of federal service. He was credited with "transforming the SOR from a small outpost with five employees working on a single project into a division of 500 government and contractor personnel working on 30 research projects worth $500 million." Fugate conducted research on the physics of propagation of light through atmospheric turbulence and a technique called laser guidestar adaptive optics that corrects distortion caused by the atmosphere. His research has been credited with advances in military, space surveillance and satellite diagnostic capabilities, and has enabled laser propagation over long distances.

Eliot Fang, the Lockheed Martin Corp.'s manager of the Computational Materials Science and Engineering Dept. at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N.M., is among the Asian-American Engineers of the Year as named by the Chinese Institute of Engineers/USA. Fang leads research into materials properties and performance prediction at Sandia. His achievements and those of his team reportedly have advanced understandings of materials behaviors across various length scales, from the arrangement of atoms at the atomic scale to engineering performance at the continuum scale.

Allen Novick (see photo), vice president-marketing intelligence and support for Rolls-Royce in Indianapolis, has won a Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award from Purdue University. Novick was cited for technical and managerial leadership in the production of commercial aircraft engines, and for his commitment to bettering industry in Indiana. He also is cofounder of the Indiana Advanced Aerospace Manufacturing Alliance.

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PHOTO (COLOR): George K. Muellner

PHOTO (COLOR): David Turnbull

PHOTO (COLOR): Barbara Barrett

PHOTO (COLOR): Mark Larsen

PHOTO (COLOR): Steven J. Calabro

PHOTO (COLOR): Allen Novick