1997 Member Remembrances
Bartling, "Ted" C.
July 5, 1997
Davis, Morgan Jefferson, Jr.
November 5, 1997
Farren, Paul L.
September 20, 1997
Harrison, Edward Vernon
November 20, 1997
Hern, John L.
October 6, 1997
McDowell, Alfred N. "Mac"
July 24, 1997
Marmaduke, Richard C.
July 29, 1997
Meyers, Percy A. "Dutch"
December 20, 1997
Morrow, Earnest Harlan
July 18, 1997
Oalline, Judd Hamner
May 23, 1997
Phillips, Nestor Donovan
July 23, 1997
Romberg, Marvin "Duke"
December 20, 1997
Stewart, Robert William
May 22, 1997
Verrall, Peter
October 21, 1997
Wilson, James M.
December 28, 1997
Wood, Owen "B"
August 12, 1997
James M. Wilson died December 28,1997, at the age of 66. Mr. Wilson graduated in 1952, from Texas Christian University, with a B.A. in Petroleum Geology. After serving in the Air Force, he worked for Texaco and Richfield. Mr. Wilson was a consulting geologist in New Orleans and Gulfport for over 32 years. A donation will be made to the Trinity United Methodist Church in Gulfport, MS.
Marvin "Duke" Romberg died December 20, 1997. Mr. Romberg graduated with a geology degree from the University of Texas in 1933 with advanced degrees received from Texas and Stanford. Mr. Romberg was retired from Exxon and was a member of the HGS and GSH. A donation will be made to a geophysics scholarship fund at the University of Texas.
PERCY A. "DUTCH" MEYERS, 99, died December 20, 1997. Mr. Meyers graduated from the University of Kansas in 1923 with a degree in geology. He was an Emeritus member of the HGS and a 72-year member of the AAPG. The HGS has made a donation in his name to the Undergraduate Scholarship Fund of the Houston Geological Society.
EDWARD VERNON HARRISON, 78, died November 20, 1997. Mr. Harrison graduated from Colgate University with a B.S. and the University of Oklahoma with a M.S. in Geology. Mr. Harrison was an Emeritus member of the HGS and the AAPG. A donation has been made by the HGS to the Episcopal Church of the Ascension.
Morgan Jefferson Davis, Jr. died November 5, 1997 at the age of 69. Mr. Davis graduated from Harvard in 1951 and from the University of Texas in 1953 with a Masters in Geology. He started his career with the International Petroleum Company, an affiliate of Exxon. Mr. Davis was an active member of the HGS and AAPG and a long time board trustee of the Houston Museum of Natural Science. A donation will be made to the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
DR. PETER VERRALL died October 21, 1997 at his home in San Francisco. He had an incredible career. He worked for Chevron for 37 years as a structural geologist, having been involved with the initial structural interpretation and understanding of thrust belts. After retirement, Verrall became a consultant for Subsurface Consultants & Associates, LLC, of Lafayette, LA and Houston. We are all sorry that he did not get to see the results of his biggest project with SCA. He and Dr. Richard Bischke generated a compressional duplex play in Venezuela with an estimated reserve of 1.3 billion barrels of oil and 9 TCF of gas. The exploration well will is to spud in February 1998.
SCA is collecting donations to present to the heart association in memory of Peter. If you are interested in making a donation, please call Edith Hebert at 318/234-8557.
Peter is survived by his wife Shahla and his four children, John Adrian, Daniel James, Aicha Nystrom, and Adina Nystrom. He lived in many parts of the world. Born in Loughton, Essex, England, he lived in Guildford, Surry, England. He was well travelled and lived in Nova Scotia, Canada; Port of Spain, Trinidad; Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Tehran, Iran; and Madrid, Spain.
His most recent occupation was as a consulting geologist with various clients. He worked at the China Survey at the Department of Mines, Nova Scotia, Canada; field geologist for the Mindus Corporation (mapping copper and lead deposits), Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, and was party chief, gravity survey, southwest New England.
His favorite vacation was hiking and climbing in Britain, Europe, and western Canada. Despite his incredible ability as a structural geologist, he was a very humble person. He always had a smile and a kind word for everyone he met. He could tell a joke like nobody else and nobody could match wits with him. Only last year, he and his wife Shahla, both of whom loved to travel, took a tour of the Amazon. It was no surprise to me to find him full of stories abo