Interviewer(s): A. Gardner. Morgan City, LA

Affiliation: University of Arizona

Aubrey Fields was recommended to me by Santo Rousso. I met him at his house in Morgan City. He was a friendly man, but for some reason this interview never really got off the ground. There are a few tidbits in here that cover new ground, but most of his answers were brief. He talks briefly about the Magnolia company union, about the quality of labor he supervised, and the first Kerr-McGee rigs out on the gulf. He also tells the story of his injury on one of the boats.

Aubrey was born in Morgan City in 1925. After returning from the war in 1946, he got on with Magnolia. He worked on one of the early quarterboats in the galley, worked his way through a pumping and roustabout job, and eventually made his way into production. He retired from Mobil in 1984.