Names in the news

John Kauk was named elevator superintendent in August at Duluth's Cargill, Inc., grain facilities. He had previously served as sector superintendent for a group of 22 Cargill elevators in Wilson, North Carolina. He succeeds Jerry Endreson, now sector superintendent for a number of Cargill facilities in Kansas City, Mo.

Mary Ansell, an eight-year employee of the Duluth Seaway Port Authority, has been promoted to the position of accountant. She succeeds Diana Amundson, who resigned after 13 years. Ms. Ansell had served as the Authority's accounting technician since 1991. Replacing her in that position is Adrienne M. Sobczak.

Maritime historian C. Patrick Labadie, director of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Lake Superior Maritime Visitors Center, has been named Lake Superior Magazine's 1999 Achievement Award winner. Mr. Labadie has been director of the Duluth center since it's opening in 1973. The annual Achievement Award is given by the local magazine to communities, organizations or people who have made a lasting contribution to Lake Superior.

Robert T. Bennett has been appointed director of marketing for the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Co. The DM&IR is a wholly owned operating subsidiary of Transtar, Inc., Monroeville, Pa. Mr. Bennett has served in various positions for the DM&IR since beginning his railroad career in 1968.

Former 3M executive Allan Petersen was assigned deputy commissioner of the newly restructured Minnesota Trade Office in August by Trade and Economic Development Commissioner Jerry Carlson. Mr. Petersen had retired in 1997 as vice president of 3M operations in Latin America, Africa and Canada. The MTO's recent merger with the Minnesota World Trade Center has enabled the organization to expand Minnesota's global activities. Mr. Petersen will direct two newly expanded units within the division - export education and export promotion.

Albert S. Jacquez was confirmed in July by the U.S. Senate as the eighth administrator of the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation. His term is seven years. Mr. Jacquez had been serving in the position under a recess appointment made by President Clinton on January 4. The following day Secretary of Transportation Rodney E. Slater swore him into office.

J. Robert Bray, executive director of the Virginia Port Authority, was installed as the American Association of Port Authorities Chairman of the Board during the AAPA's 88th Annual Convention in September in New York. He succeeds H. Thomas Kornegay, executive director of the Port of Houston Authority. The AAPA was founded in 1912 and represents 160 public port authorities in the United States, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean.

David G. Sanders resigned Sept. 10 as Deputy Administrator of the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation after an eight-year association with the agency. Sanders joined the corporation as chief of staff of then-Administrator Stanford E. Parris. He twice served as acting administrator. His new position is president and CEO of Performance and Results International, a management-consulting firm in Tysons Corner, Va.