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Contains 75 Results:

Item 1: 00001_Aalund, Niels_MMS-ShipChannel, 2006

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Dates: 2006
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Interviewer(s): J. P. Theriot. Houston, TX

Affiliation: University of Houston/History International

Niels Aalund is a native Houstonian. He graduated from the University of Houston and worked in D.C. as a martime lobbyist before taking a job with the West Gulf Maritime Association, where he currently serves as Vice President of the Maritime Affairs. He also serves on the Houston Maritime Museum Committee.

Item 2: 00002_Acosta, Robert_MMS-History, 2003

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Dates: 2003
Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): J. Sell. Houma, LAAffiliation: University of ArizonaBobby Acosta was contacted though Diana Edmonson of the Council on Aging. We met at the Council offices in Houma.Bobby worked mostly in the Houma District for his 40 year career with Texaco. He started as a kitchen hand in 1948 (Dog Lake, Bay Ste. Elaine, Lake Barre). At 21, he became a roustabout (1951). In 1955 he became a pumper, working up through meterman to production supervisor...

Item 3: 00003_Adams, B.A. "Red"_MMS-History, 2002, 2004

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Dates: 2002; 2004
Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): Andrew Gardner; Jamie ChristyAffiliation: University of Arizona, University of Houston/History InternationalRed Adams is well known in and around Morgan City. He runs a company called Oil and Gas Rentals, and this company is one of the larger employers in town. He was quite willing to talk with me. Red has an office in his business complex in Amelia, alongside the bayou. We met there and talked for just under an hour. Red reviews some of what he...

Item 4: 00004_Adkins, Gerald_MMS-History, 2002

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Dates: 2002
Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): T. McGuire. Houma, LAAffiliation: University of ArizonaKerry St. Pé had referred us to Gerald Adkins as one who knew a lot of the commercial fishermen in the area. I had called him several times in September 2001, but his "on-call" job forced him to cancel a couple of appointments: he drives vehicles around to car lots all over the region. He retired in 1997, and rather than return to his native Shreveport, he built a house in a new subdivision behind...

Item 5: 00005_Ainger, Ralph_MMS-History, 2002

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Dates: 2002
Scope and Contents Audio Only.Interviewer(s): T. Priest. Herndon, VAAffiliation: University of Houston/History InternationalMr. Ralph Ainger grew up on Long Island, NY. A marine biologist by training, he was hired in 1976, around the time of the first Mid-Atlantic offshore lease sale, by the Bureau of Land Management as an oceanographer. After a few years in the New York office, he moved to Washington to work in the environmental policy group, and in the early 1980s took...

Item 6: 00006_Albert, Vernon_MMS-History, 2002

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Dates: 2002
Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): S. Wiltz. Lafayette, LAAffiliation: University of Louisiana at LafayetteMr. Vernon Albert was born in Pennsylvania and grew up an "Army brat." He studied business at San Antonio College before joining the Army, where he went to flight school and spent two years in Vietnam. Upon leaving the military in 1967, he went to work for Petroleum Helicopters Incorporated (PHI), where he stayed until he retired in 1994. The first six years he worked for PHI, he...

Item 7: 00007_Andrus, Nedra_MMS-History, 2003

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Dates: 2003
Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): S. Wiltz. Lafayette, LAAffiliation: University of Louisiana at LafayetteNedra Andrus is the wife of Lafayette realtor Dwight Andrus. She was born in Merryville, but lived in a number of different towns in southern Louisiana while she was growing up. Her father was a manager for Morgan-Lindsay stores (a five-and-ten cent chain store). She moved to Lafayette when she was in the third grade and studied music at Southwestern Louisiana Institute (SLI) and...

Item 8: 00008_Angel, Tom_MMS-History, 2002

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Dates: 2002
Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): D. Austin. Houma, LAAffiliation: University of ArizonaJoe Sanford referred me to Tom Angel. Tom was one of the first employees hired by Sanford Brothers in Morgan City. I met Tom at his office at Submar in Houma. He had an hour and a half for the first interview. During the interview he told me about scrapbooks his wife had put together from his early days in diving, and we agreed to get together again to look through his books.Tom first...

Item 9: 00009_Applebaum, Bruce S_MMS-History, 2002

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Dates: 2002
Scope and Contents Audio Only.Interviewer(s): T. Priest. HoustonAffiliation: University of Houston/History InternationalBruce Applebaum retired from Texaco following its merger with Chevron. He had been vice president of Texaco and president of the company's Worldwide Exploration and New Ventures. Prior to joining Texaco in 1990, Applebaum had held positions for several independent oil and gas companies, including exploration manager with Sun Oil and Texas Eastern,...

Item 10: 00010_Arcenaux, Cleejus "Click" and Betty_MMS-History, 2002

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Dates: 2002
Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): E. Bernier. Bourg, LAAffiliation: University of ArizonaThe interview with Click was a long time in the making. F.J. Matherne and I had become friends since my interview with him in July of 2001. Since that time, he had been wanting me to contact his good friend, Click Arcenaux. I tried for 3 months and had all but given up when F.J. said he'd call for me. Click and his wife, Betty, were happy to be interviewed, and were apologetic that it had taken...

Item 11: 00011_Armstrong, Earl_MMS-History, 2002

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Dates: 2002
Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): T. McGuire. Boothville, LAAffiliation: University of ArizonaBud Latham and Sam Pizzolato both recommended Earl Armstrong, a cattleman born in 1944 down at Pilot Town, now living in Boothville. I hooked up with Earl at the Fill-A-Sack convenience store in Boothville, as arranged, and we went next door to the house his father keeps when he's not down in Pilot Town. Earl himself owns a house, barn, and pasture across the highway. Dressed in cowboy hat and...

Item 12: 00012_Arnold, Ken E_MMS-History, 2004

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Dates: 2004
Scope and Contents Audio Only.Interviewer(s): T. Priest. Houston, TXAffiliation: University of Houston/History InternationalKen Arnold worked for Shell Oil Company from the 1960's to the 1980's. He is now CEO of Paragon Engineering Services in Houston. Arnold got into the oil field in 1964. He graduated from Cornell with a degree in civil engineering and went to work for Shell in New Orleans. From there, he was transferred to the head office in New York City where he...

Item 13: 00013_Aucoin, Leonard_MMS-History, 2004

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Dates: 2004
Scope and Contents Audio Only.Interviewer(s): J. Christy. Morgan City, LAAffiliation: University of Houston/History InternationalLeonard Aucoin was born in Little Bayou Long, Louisiana in 1927 as the son of a fisherman / shrimper. Mr. Aucoin worked on a dredge boat, as a dishwasher on a houseboat, as a deckhand, and then as an oiler. He went to work for Sun Oil in 1946 at age 19. Mr. Aucoin was most often working with seismic crews and he traveled with them all over Texas...

Item 14: 00014_Ayers, Buddy_MMS-History, 2002, 2003

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Dates: 2002; 2003
Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): D. Austin, New Orleans, LAAffiliation: University of ArizonaI was referred to Buddy Ayers by Leslie Learney of the Historic Diving Society (HDS). I was talking with Leslie at the HDS booth at the Underwater Intervention conference, and he suggested that Buddy would be a good person to talk to about the history of diving offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. Buddy was also at the conference, and when he came over to the booth Leslie introduced us. We went and...

Item 15: 00015_Babin, Eddie and Marie_MMS-History, 2002

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Dates: 2002
Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): E. Bernier. Houma, LAAffiliation: University of ArizonaI first met Eddie at the Halliburton Retirees' Breakfast in Houma. I met Eddie and his wife, Marie, at their house for the interview. Marie had some things to say about being on her own while Eddie was offshore. Our second discussion also covered the activities involved in drilling, and the situation for women onshore. After retiring at age 50, Eddie served as a truck-driving instructor....