Interviewer(s): R. Higgins. New Orleans, LA

Affiliation: University of Arizona

Several people had mentioned Clyde Dyerson's name during interviewers, including Howard Thibodaux and Garver Watkins. They told me that Clyde had worked as an engineer for McDermott from the late 1950s to the early 1990s. Howard told me that Clyde would be a good person to interview. Clyde and his wife live in a very nice, two-story home in a gated community in Metairie. When I came over, Clyde and his grandson were hanging out in the living room with the boy's hamster. Clyde was friendly and welcoming. He and I talked casually for a few minutes in the living room and then went into the kitchen, where we conducted the interview. At one point, his grandson came in and put his hamster in the cage, which was right next to us. The strange clicking noise that appears occasionally on the miniCD is the sound of the hamster drinking from the metal tube in its cage.

Clyde grew up in Kansas City during the Depression. He earned a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Kansas in the early 1950s. His first job was with Magnolia Oil in Lake Charles in 1954. He left Mobil in 1962 and began working for McDermott. He stayed with McDermott until his retirement in 1992.