Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): D. Austin. Baton Rouge, LAAffiliation: University of ArizonaI was referred to C.E. "Whitey" Grubbs by Jim Doré of Global Industries. Whitey had recently retired, and Jim said he was a wealth of information and was considered the father of underwater welding. I met Whitey's son at the 2002 Underwater Intervention in New Orleans when he was there to receive an award for his father because his father had been ill. I told him about the study and that I...

Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): D. Austin. Bush, LAAffiliation: University of ArizonaRusty Guidry has been a friend of Walt Daspit since they were in school together in Lafayette in the middle 1940s. When I was at Walt's house on July 10, he suggested I should try to get in touch with some of the rig builders and their wives because there are few of them left. Many of them came in from Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas and built the rigs in the swamps, marshes and lakes. When things...

Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): E. Bernier. Larose, LAAffiliation: University of ArizonaDiane Austin passed me John Guidry's name. He was just retiring at the time of the interview (March 2002). He hadn't gotten used to not working and knew it was going to take some time.John Guidry was born in 1947 and raised in Larose. He initially wanted to be a fisherman, but found out that it was difficult to make ends meet. In 1965, he trained as a diesel mechanic and applied at...

Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): D. Austin. Galliano, LAAffiliation: University of ArizonaDick Guidry was referred to us by many people. Tom and I first interviewed Dick in 1996 when we were spent one month in southern Louisiana working on the baseline study of three Gulf Coast communities. Dick did not remember that visit, but he was happy to arrange to meet for this study. I met him at 8am at his house in Galliano. His wife was present for the first part of the interview, but she...

Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): J. Christy. Morgan City, LAAffiliation: University of Houston/History InternationalVince Guzzetta was born in Berwick, Louisiana in 1936, a small town across the Atchafalaya Bay from Morgan City. After three years at Louisiana State University, he and his father, Vincent Sr., started a seafood business in Berwick called Deep South Seafoods. He was hired to pick shrimp. The company also received packaged, processed, and froze imported Mexican shrimp...

Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): Andrew Gardner. Franklin, LAAffiliation: University of ArizonaClyde Hahn was recommended by Roy Parr. Roy warned me (Andrew) that Clyde could talk up a storm and wouldn't mince words, and he was right! Emily and I met Clyde at his house in Franklin. His grandkids were down for the week, so we made ourselves at home in the den, and we had a long, interesting, and lively conversation. As one can tell from listening to the tape, Clyde moves fast in...

Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): J. Sell. Houma, LAAffiliation: University of ArizonaNearly everyone I talked to at the airport said I need to see Charlie, including Earl Hicks, the Houma-Terrebonne Airport manager. Charlie Hammonds has been in aviation in Houma all his life. Born in Jennings, LA, where his father died in an oil field accident when he was three, Charlie grew up in the oil fields. He began washing airplanes at the Houma airport when he was 12 and was a licensed...

Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): T. McGuire. Grand Isle, LAAffiliation: University of ArizonaMickie Harris was on Jean Landry's list of contacts. After several messages left on his answering machine, he called me at the motel and we set up an appointment. As it turned out, he had been up in Jefferson Parish court. Much of the interview dealt with local and state politicians, including the incorporation of Grand Isle so that it could get water and gas service.Mickie...

Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): S. Wiltz and D. DiTucci. Lafayette, LAAffiliation: University of Louisiana at LafayetteMr. Henry Harrison was born in Arkansas in 1928. In 1936, because of the Depression, his father was forced to abandon his work on his family's plantation and in favor of work in the oilfield. His father was a driller and tool pusher, and the family moved around a lot while he was growing up. He graduated from a high school in Florida in 1946 and went to work as a...

Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): T. Priest. Reston, VAAffiliation: University of Houston/History InternationalMs. Carol Hartgen received her bachelor's degree from Georgetown University in foreign service and a master's degree from NYU in economics. After graduate school she went to work for the U.S. Census Bureau for two years and then in 1969 took a position as an economist in the BLM working on the OCS program. She worked variously in economic analysis and environmental...

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Interviewer(s): T. Priest. Sugarland, TX

Affiliation: University of Houston/History International

Mr. Harry Hasenfplug grew up in St. Louis and studied geophysics at St. Louis University, graduating in 1954. He joined Shell Oil out of college and worked in various technical positions in research (seismic processing) and operations (geophysical crews) for the company until he retired in 1989.

Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): D. Austin. Thibodaux, LAAffiliation: University of ArizonaI was referred to Betty Roth Hebert by Kerry St. Pé of the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program. Betty is a lifelong resident of Thibodaux and had expressed interest in sharing her history and observations about the area. I called Betty for an interview, and she was very willing to participate in the study. We met at her house, which is located in the old section of Thibodaux and is...

Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): D. Austin. Morgan City, LAAffiliation: University of ArizonaI was referred to Earl Hebert by Steve Shirley. Earl worked in the offshore oil and gas industry for more than 30 years and also held several civic positions such as Justice of the Peace, Port Commission and Hospital Board. We met at his office at Diamond Services in Amelia where he is still working as an office manager. Although he was uncertain that he would have much to offer, he provided...

Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): A. Gardner. New Iberia, LAAffiliation: University of ArizonaJames Hebert does the taxes for Susan Lissard, one of the teacher-researchers from the last project. He's a retired Shell employee, and vice-president of their local retirees club. Points of interest here, including the history of the term "roustabout", some detailed explanations of the process of drilling for oil, the process by which royalties are distributed, the way that separators work,...

Scope and Contents Interviewer(s): Rylan Higgins; Diane Austin. Morgan City,LAAffiliation: University of ArizonaDuring June and early July, when I interviewed McDermott retirees, I would asked them about Black workers who were at McDermott during the early history of the company. Several of the people I interviewed told me that Caleb Henderson would have been a great person with whom to talk, but that Caleb had passed away. I mentioned Caleb to a friend, and she told me that Dolores...