Sailing
A lifelong sailor of the Gulf and the Scottish coast. Restored a 1962 wooden sloop over the better part of a decade and still keeps a logbook of every passage.
03 / Personal Life & Interests
A life beyond the reservoir.
Beyond the reservoir, a life measured in family, water, and a long habit of building things by hand.
Interests
Family
Married to Margaret for sixty-one years; father of four, grandfather of eleven, and great-grandfather of three. The dinner table remains the most important meeting on the calendar.
Woodworking
A workshop full of hand planes and a standing rule that every grandchild leaves with something made on the lathe.
Teaching
Guest lecturer at LSU for over thirty years and an informal mentor to engineers who long ago became chief engineers themselves.
A Life in Brief
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1932
Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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1956
Graduates from LSU; marries Margaret.
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1968
Moves the family to Aberdeen for the North Sea years.
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1979
Returns to the Gulf Coast.
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2014
Receives the SPE Lifetime Achievement Award.