Interviewer(s): T. McGuire. Golden Meadow, LA

Affiliation: University of Arizona

MacNeely ("Mac") Rome was Texaco's production supervisor for the Golden Meadow and Leeville fields, going back to the 1950s. He reported to Bruce Pagliughi, who is Mac's neighbor in Golden Meadow. I interviewed Mac at his Golden Meadow home, but he lives mostly in a house in Galliano, with his wife. Mac is active in the lower Lafourche Texaco retirees' club, and we met him again when we attended their annual dinner in Larose in January, 2002. He agreed to organize a focus group of Texaco retirees on our next field visit.

Mac Rome's father was the iceman in Donaldsonville, and he moved his family to Golden Meadow in 1939. Mac graduated from high school in 1944, went into the Navy, worked for a Gulf distributorship until he was 21, old enough to get hired on at Texaco. Mac rose through the ranks from roustabout to supervisor.