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Show WAYNE H. BURT NAMED SUPT. OF UTAHREFINERY The appointment of Wayne H. Burt as superintendent of the Utah Refinery of Kennecott Copper Corporation was announced today by F. C. Green, general manager of Utah Copper Division. The new superintendent succeeds suc-ceeds H. A. .Shaw who resigned from the company effective November No-vember 24. Mr. Burt was transferred from superintendent of the Utah Arthur Mill and assumed his new duties Monday. A new mill superintendent superintend-ent to succeed Mr. Burt will be named soon. A native of Brigham City, Mr. Burt began his career with Kennecott Kenne-cott at the Nevada Mines Division in 1941 while attending school. In 1944, he was employed by Braden Copper Co., a Kennecott subsidiary, subsid-iary, in Chile as a mine foreman; returned to the United States in 1950 as a shift foreman at the electrolytic copper refinery. He became industrial engineer at the mine in 1954. Later that same year he was promoted to Kenne-cott's Kenne-cott's offices in New York City as office engineer-operations. In June of this year, Mr. Burt returned to Utah and was appointed superintendent superin-tendent of the Utah Arthur Mill. Mr. Burt is a graduate of the University of Utah with a degree in mining engineering. He also attended at-tended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Boston as one of 36 young business executives in the U.S. awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship for participation in an executive development pro. gram. Mr. Shaw has been superintendent superintend-ent of the electrolytic refinery since it began operations in 1950. |