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PROFILE: Robert Euwer
Bob attended elementary school in Houston,
Texas and Sulphur, Louisiana. He graduated from
Sulphur High School in 1945 at the age of 16. Bob
then attended Southwestern Louisiana at Lafayette,
Louisiana for one and one-half years. From 1946-
51, he attended Louisiana State University where he
graduated with a degree in Petroleum Geology. Dur-
ing this period he also acquired 76 hours towards a
masters in geology and a minor in geography.. At
LSU, the professor who exerted the greatest influ-
ence on Bob was Dr. Grover Murray, Past-President
of the AAPG and recently deceased.
While at LSU, Bob met Barbara Daniel and they
were married in July of `51 at her hometown of Ar-
cadia, Louisiana. Barbara and Bob have three chil-
dren: Dr. Rebecca Stevens, who is a Dr. of Derma-
tology in Dallas, Beverly Pye, who has spent 22
years with MCI in Denver and who resides in Bailey
Colorado; Brenda Adams, an artist and health spa
manager in Taos, New Mexico. Barbara and Bob
have three grandchildren.
After his marriage, Bob, accompanied by his new
wife, joined a Shell Oil Company training program
in Emporia, Kansas involved in surface mapping of
the Nemaha Ridge and the Forest City Basin. His
mapping partner was Herb Mayberry and since most
of their work was in the Flint Hills region they both
attended the Flint Hills Geological Society which
consisted primarily of Shell and Carter surface ge-
ologists, geologists with the Kansas Highway De-
partment, and some professors from Kansas State.
Bob then worked for Shell as a staff geologist in
Oklahoma City and as a subsurface geologist in
Houston. While at LSU, he obtained an R.O.T.C.
commission in the U.S. Army. From 1952 to 1954
he was on active duty which included one year of
service in Korea during the Korean War. Bob was a
forward observer on the front line with the 7th Infan-
try Division. In 1995 he authored a book related to
the Korean War and the monument to that war in
Washington,, D.C. The title is "No Longer Forgot-
ten."
After his army duty he returned to Shell, serving
as division geologist in Wichita. Co-workers during
this period included: Jim Rogers, Harry Larsh, Jim
Drexler, Jim Porter, Ed Lorenz, and Charles Slagle.
I n 1961 he joined Rupp Oil as exploration man-
ager. Bob remembers Kenny Rupp as one of the
most interesting people he met in the "oil business."
He was a self-made oil finder and formed the origi-
It is easy to write a profile when you are relating
some of the activities and incidents in the life of a
"true professional" and one of the "real gentlemen"
of our profession.
Bob's career in the "oil patch" commenced with
his birth in McCamey, Texas in 1928. His father,
Maxwell Lee Euwer, was a Petroleum Engineering
graduate of Colorado School of Mines and was with
Shell. He met Bob's mother, when they were stu-
dents at South High School in Denver. At the time
of Bob's birth, his father was picking locations for
Shell at the recently discovered Yates Field. Bob's
siblings were all active in the industry: His brother
Jerry was a graduate in geology at LSU and died as
the result of a car accident at the age of 31. A sur-
viving brother, Jack retired from Schlumberger and
lives in Commerce, Texas and his sister, Sally Le-
vine, graduated in geology at the University of Hous-
ton. After a career with Union Texas Petroleum she
retired to Marble Falls, Texas.
Robert Euwer