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David Hirschhorn announced yesterday that he would retire June 30 as chairman of American Trading and Production Corp.Mr. Hirschhorn, 74, will continue as a director of the Baltimore-based oil conglomerate.He had been president and chief executive officer, and became chairman when Morton K. Blaustein died late last year."I've reached the time of life when I should retire," Mr. Hirschhorn said yesterday."Other people will carry on" the business of American Trading, which also has interests in office products, real estate developments and electronics companies, Mr. Hirschhorn said.

Inaugurations are more comfortable the second time around. For President Barack Obama and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., it's not likely there will be a repeat in their encore performance of Chief Justice Roberts' flub of the words in the presidential oath mandated by the Constitution. Four years ago, both the president and the chief justice were doing the presidential oath for the first time. In administering the oath, Chief Justice Roberts misplaced the word "faithfully. " The oath is: "I will faithfully execute the office of the president of the United States," but Chief Justice Roberts put "faithfully" after "United States," momentarily throwing the about-to-be president off track.

Awards Travelers Cos. presented Albert "Skip" Counselman, chairman and chief executive officer of Riggs, Counselman, Michaels & Downes, with its inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award. Rose Wang, president and chief executive officer of Bethesda-based Binary Group, received a leadership award in the entrepreneur category from Women In Technology. Openings Amedisys Home Health Care of Glen Burnie, which provides home health and hospice services, opened an office at 100 West Road in Towson.

Salary: : $175,000 Age: : 49 Years on the job: : three How he got started: : After graduating with a bachelor's degree in business from the University of Massachusetts and a master's degree in business from George Washington University, Michael Dee went to work as a bank examiner for the U.S. Office of Thrift Supervision. He then worked for six years at the former Bank of Baltimore as an assistant vice president in the finance department. He later went to Sandy Spring Bank, first as an analyst and later as a vice president.

New positionsMoffet, Larson & Johnson Inc., a Falls Church, Va.-based engineering firm, named A. Richard Burke executive vice president and chief operating officer.KCI Technologies Inc., an engineering company in Baltimore, appointed Michael Potter and William Delancey senior project managers.Images, an Annapolis-based publisher of note cards, calendars and posters, named Gyle Stocks photographer.The Scotsman Group Inc., a Baltimore-based manufacturer and distributor of mobile offices and modular buildings, appointed Stuart A. Kunicki executive vice president of Williams Scotsman, the mobile office division.

Names in the newsNorth Arundel Health System has named Francis A. Pommett Jr. its new senior vice president. Pommett was president and chief executive of Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital in Baltimore, which merged with North Arundel Health System this year.Pub Date: 12/22/97

An article in Thursday's editions of The Sun said that Kweisi Mfume was forced to resign as president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Sources within the NAACP leadership have described his departure that way. Mfume and an NAACP spokesman have said that Mfume left the organization voluntarily.

Mary E. Junck, publisher and chief executive of The Baltimore Sun Co., was named a corporate vice president of Times Mirror Co. yesterday, along with five other executives of the Los Angeles-based media company.She will continue her duties at The Sun while contributing companywide."We are very pleased to name these outstanding executives Times Mirror vice presidents," said Mark H. Willes, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Times Mirror. "These appointments recognize the contributions and impact these individuals had and will increasingly have on the progress of our company."

New positions:Wolk Press Inc., a printing company in Woodlawn, named Jay K. Goldscher president and chief executive officer and Robert A. Linton executive vice president and Robert A. Linton executive vice president. Wolk Press also elected Daniel Katz chairman of the board and LeRoy E. Wolk chairman of the board emeritus. Mr. Katz is the former president and chief executive officer of the printing company, and Mr. Wolk is the former chairman of the board for Wolk Press Inc.Arnold Packer was named senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies in Baltimore.

The top two officers of the KMS Group, a wholly owned real estate subsidiary of the Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. and one of the largest developers in the Baltimore area, have resigned to devote full time to their interests in minor-league baseball.Wilbur E. "Pete" Simmons, the chairman of KMS, and Peter Kirk, president and chief executive officer, resigned Oct. 31. KMS' new president and chief operating officer is Richard O'Connell, who has been executive vice president of KMS.KMS also is seeking buyers for its three retail projects: Valley Centre in Owings Mills, Cranberry Square Mall in Westminster and First State Plaza in Wilmington, Del.Mr.

Alfred E. Festa, president, chief executive officer and chairman of W.R. Grace & Co., will be staying on the job another four years under a new agreement reached with the Columbia-based company, according to a filing Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Under the pact, Festa's initial base salary will be $936,000. His targeted annual performance bonus will be equal to his salary and his long-term incentive compensation is expected to be $3.2 million over the next three years.

Advertising MGH appointed Sarah Rogull as a senior media buyer and Andrew Krebs-Smith and Jenna Saffron as account coordinators for the local marketing communications agency. Stanton Communications Inc. named Jessica Trzyna as a vice president in the agency's Baltimore office. She specializes in crisis communications, event planning and strategic media relations for technology, commercial real estate and education industry clients. She also assumes increased responsibilities for business development and daily management of client services.

Joseph Moye Eddins Sr., an Army Air Forces pilot who flew cargo missions over the Himalayas after World War II and later became a vice president of the Maryland Casualty Co., died Friday of heart failure at the Riderwood Erickson Retirement Community in Silver Spring. The former Towson resident was 83. Mr. Eddins was born and raised in Troy, Ala., and during his senior year of high school passed the exams for the Army Air Forces cadet-training program. After graduating from high school in 1943, he reported to Dos Palos, Calif.

Awards Travelers Cos. presented Albert "Skip" Counselman, chairman and chief executive officer of Riggs, Counselman, Michaels & Downes, with its inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award. Rose Wang, president and chief executive officer of Bethesda-based Binary Group, received a leadership award in the entrepreneur category from Women In Technology. Openings Amedisys Home Health Care of Glen Burnie, which provides home health and hospice services, opened an office at 100 West Road in Towson.

GE Information Services names president/CEOHarvey F. Seegers, 42, was named president and chief executive officer of Rockville-based GE Information Services yesterday.He replaces Hellene S. Runtagh, 48, who, the company said, left to pursue another business opportunity.GEIS, one of 12 divisions of General Electric, provides business-to-business electronic services -- such as data interchange and electronic funds transfer -- to more than 40,000 firms, which it calls "the world's largest electronic trading community."