• Ray Govett

    Earth has always fascinated me. I grew up in Bartlesville, Oklahoma about five blocks from the river. What we called the, “Woods,” was about two blocks from the house on our side of the river, and my brothers and I often went there to play. Most of the bottom of the river seemed to be […]

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  • Tommy Dubois

    I still remember sitting on the floor of my apartment in Austin flipping through the course book. I had just finished my sophomore year at U.T. with a “D” in the second semester of Organic Chemistry. That meant Dental School was out of the question. What would I do now? I came across “Geology” and […]

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  • Lawrence E. Hoover

    After being born in Hoovertown, Texas, on April 7, 1926, my family moved to South Dallas, where I lived for my school years. I attended Forest Avenue High School and graduated in 1942 at the age of sixteen. I was always grateful for the fine profes- sional teaching staff in the Dallas schools. One of […]

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  • Paul Strunk

    I was born on a small farm five miles south of Abilene, Kansas. After graduating from high school, I enrolled in geology at Kansas State University which is only fifty miles from Abilene. This made it easier to check on my mother who lived on the farm by herself. My father passed away when I […]

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  • Tony Moherek

    I was raised in northern New Jersey and was the fifth-borne son of a very successful machine shop owner . Both my Mom and Dad instilled in me and all four of my brothers at an early age that there’s no such word as “can’t “ in the Moherek vocabulary and that the world was […]

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  • Win Sexton

    I was born the last of five siblings, in Houston, Texas in 1932, in the depth of the Great Depression. My father had become a successful building contractor whose early credits had included working on the Panama Canal. Like many others, he lost everything he had gained and accumulated in the Crash of ‘29. On […]

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  • Frank Cornish

    I grew up in East New Orleans on landfill over a swamp. Our street was scheduled for paving when I was in the third grade, and my father and the rest of the cheap skates on the street decided not to pay what the city fathers allocated as their legitimate street paving costs. Our street […]

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  • J.V. McCullough

    I was born in 1928, the youngest of four. Dad was a mechanical engineer with the Hartford Company and mother was a nurse. We burned coal in San Antonio in the 1930’s and as soon as I was old enough, I became acquainted with a coal scuttle. At a tender young age, I became aware […]

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  • John Clanton

    I grew up in Corpus Christi and attended Menger Elementary, Wynn Seale Junior High School and Corpus Christi High School (now Miller High School). We lived about five blocks from where Ray High School was being built. It was not completed, so I had to hitch a ride across town and back every day. In […]

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  • Jerry Clark

    My introduction to the oil and gas industry came at a very early age, I was born in Hebbronville, Texas where my father was store manager for the National Supply Company. We were your typical “oil field trash” family in that we were always subject to moving at a moments notice, always looking for the […]

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