Interviewer(s): A. Gardner. Bayou Vista, LA

Affiliation: University of Arizona

Lou Trosclair worked for Shell his entire career, and he's the chair of the Morgan City Branch of the retirees club. His father worked on the riverboats, and Lou started with Shell in the West Lake Verret field in 1952, after finishing college in Lafayette. He was to become a schoolteacher, but he wanted to go where he could make some money. He started off as a roustabout and worked his way up. He worked as a drilling foreman for much of the latter part of his career. He retired in 1985.