CALIFORNIA - News from July 29, 1988

Thomas W. Field Jr., 54, president and chief executive of McKesson Corp., San Francisco, has been named chairman. He succeeds Neil E. Harlan, 67, who will continue as a director. Two executive vice presidents, Alan Seelenfreund, 51, and Rex R. Malson, 56, were elected directors. Seelenfreund is chief financial officer and Malson is executive vice president-operations. Malcolm Toon, former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, and Roy B. Miner, retired president of McKesson Drug & Health Care Group, both retired as directors. McKesson distributes pharmaceuticals and non-durable consumer goods.