LOS ANGELES COUNTY - News from July 17, 1985

Andrew Dempsey has been named president of Times Mirror Magazines. James Kopper will serve as executive vice president-group publisher. The magazine company is owned by Times Mirror Co., which also publishes the Los Angeles Times. Times Mirror magazines include Popular Science, Outdoor Life, Golf Magazine and Ski Magazine. Dempsey most recently served as executive vice president of McCall’s magazine. He succeeds John A. Scott, who recently resigned. Kopper most recently served as president of the Ziff-Davis magazine network.

Edward R. Sause has been promoted to vice president and controller-motion pictures for Columbia Pictures Industries’ filmed entertainment company in Burbank.

Marshall Coil has been named to the newly created position of vice president-systems and procedures at Frederick’s of Hollywood.

CALIFORNIA

Frank McCulloch, who recently retired as executive editor of McClatchy Newspapers, said Tuesday that he will become managing editor of the San Francisco Examiner on Aug. 1.

McCulloch, 65, will fill the vacancy created last year when Jim Willse left to become managing editor of the New York Daily News. McCulloch worked for the Los Angeles Times from 1960 to 1963 as assistant to the editor and later as day managing editor. He joins Publisher William Randolph Hearst III, grandson of the publishing magnate, who took over the paper last September, and Editor C. David Burgin, who joined the Examiner in April from the Orlando Sentinel.

David A. Deardorf, general manager of Raytheon Co.’s semiconductor division in Mountain View, has been named a corporate vice president.

Pancretec, a San Diego-based maker of pharmaceutical delivery systems, has appointed Douglas P. Rumberger senior vice president-international.

President and Chief Executive James F. McGill has been elected to the additional post of chairman at Santa Barbara-based Digital Sound Corp., which makes equipment for the telecommunications and office-automation markets. He succeeds William L. Slover, who was named chairman of the executive committee.

Also, the company named as directors James Pelkey, general partner of Montgomery Securities, and James M. Burns, general manager of Hewlett-Packard Co.’s data systems division.

NATION

Robert P. Dilworth has been named president of Zenith Data Systems Corp., the computer-making subsidiary of Zenith Electronics of Glenview, Ill. Dilworth previously was president of Morrow Designs, a San Leandro, Calif., computer company.

In a series of executive changes at May Department Stores, the St. Louis-based parent of May Co. California, David C. Farrell was named chairman and chief executive, effective Aug. 1.

Thomas A. Hays, a May vice chairman, was named to succeed Farrell as president. At the same time, the company announced a realignment of duties following the resignation of Henry A. Lay, an executive vice president who will leave the company in October to pursue personal interests.

Lay’s responsibilities, which include real estate, May Centers Inc., May Design & Construction Co., Meier & Frank and other divisions, will be divided among Hays and Vice Chairmen Allan J. Bloostein and Richard L. Battram.

Louis J. Garr Jr., a senior vice president and chief counsel who reported to Lay, was named general counsel under Jerome T. Loeb, executive vice president and chief financial officer.

Hammermill Paper said A. F. Duval, its chairman and chief executive, will retire on his 65th birthday in November. D. S. Leslie, current president of the Erie, Pa.-based company, will succeed Duval as chairman; W. C. McClelland will become president and chief executive.

Alan Fellheimer has been named chairman of Equimark, the Pittsburgh-based holding company for Equibank, following the unexpected resignation of James D. Lowry. Fellheimer formerly was managing director of the company.

William C. Terpstra has been named president and chief operating officer of MidCon, a Lombard, Ill.-based natural gas pipeline and transmission company.

Cypress Minerals, an Englewood, Colo.-based firm that was spun off by Amoco this month, said Frank C. Osment, former executive vice president of Standard Oil of Indiana, and Vernon F. Taylor Jr., president of Westhoma Oil, have been elected directors of the company.

Steven G. Rothmeier, president of Northwest Airlines’ holding company, has been elected to the board of directors of Honeywell Inc., a Minneapolis-based computer company.

Flexwatt Corp. of Canton, Mass., said Robert Fabbricatore, its chairman and president, has resigned to pursue outside business interests. The board is expected to meet this week to consider a successor.

Cartier Inc., the U.S. division of the Paris-based jewelry maker, said it will realign top management next year. Claude Saujet, chairman and chief executive of Cartier Inc., will move to Paris as a group vice president. Cartier Inc. President Ralph Destino will move up to chairman, and Kenneth W. Watson will become president and chief executive.