House of Delegates Officer Candidates

Deborah K. Sacrey

It is a great honor to be considered by my peers as a candidate for Chairman-Elect of the House of Delegates. As a previous Secretary/Editor, I know the importance of having candidates that understand House issues and can work with members of the Advisory Council and Executive Committee in a diplomatic method. It is especially meaningful to be a candidate because of the exceptionally high quality of the rest of the candidates being considered this year! I feel proud to be amongst this slate, and feel regardless of the outcome, the House of Delegates is the winner in this election.

I was influenced to become a Petroleum Geologist by one of my professors in school at the University of Oklahoma. I was working on a degree in Physics, and the beginning of my junior year I was finally taking the freshman level Geology 1 course required in the Arts and Sciences College. The course was taught by Dr. Huffman (now deceased), and between the field trips (I love the outdoors), his enthusiasm for the science, AND the offer of a full scholarship – I was convinced! Through the ups and downs this industry has experienced since the middle '70's, I know I made the right choice.

My other interests at this time include playing an occasional round of golf, getting my son through his last year of engineering school at UT, and my work with organizations like SIPES and AAPG.

Valary Schulz

Membership annals reflect the contracting nature of our organization, yet my circle of friends is expanding as a direct consequence of my involvement in the activities of the AAPG. These relationships hold great value to me, both personally and professionally, and I intend to continue to join my peers in committing energies to improving our great organization. Naturally, I feel honored and privileged, as do all candidates, but I also feel committed to rational and considered analyses of the issues that continue to affect AAPG and the HoD. I eagerly anticipate opportunities to contribute.

Happily, a couple of pivotal and lucid moments of insight into geologic processes early on in my formal education satisfied my curiosity and yet stimulated my hunger for knowledge. Summer field seasons in the bush contributed to a yearning to work outside in remote locales. Working underground in mines in Canada and Central America allowed me to learn from and experience three dimensional outcrops. Surface exploration in the rain forest of Honduras was a rare opportunity. I was allowed to spend a couple of years as a well site geologist, and learned the operational facets of the business. But more than any experience was my fortunate exposure to many brilliant geologic minds, beginning with my father, Verne Hogg, and later employers, colleagues, and friends.

Current passions away from the office include spending time with family and friends, tennis, travel, gardening when I have time, volunteer activity with other geologic organizations, and reading.

Steven M. Goolsby

AAPG stands as the premier scientific society for earth sciences. AAPG is an active and vibrant scientific society that provides its membership with many functions necessary for the advancement of earth sciences. Among these are providing a strong foundation of published scientific work, allowing members to express ideas and achievements through peer-reviewed scientific publications, and offering members avenues for networking with fellow scientists through newsletters and conferences.

To fulfill these functions, AAPG must continue to be an active scientific society responsive to the needs of its members. This is only possible when individuals take the time and effort to give something back to the society. By serving as an officer candidate for the HoD, I feel that I am helping AAPG to remain a healthy and active scientific society. I feel I advance the science of geology.

I have always had a fascination with science and nature. This fascination began with rock and fossil collections as a boy, continued with earth science in high school, and a college geology major. After college, I found that the petroleum industry is accomplishing some of the best science being done in geology. I pursued a career in petroleum geology. and continue to enjoy the challenges and opportunities that petroleum geology provides.

I have pursued a PhD in Geology for the last few years. This degree program and my consulting work have left me little outside time to pursue other interests. I enjoy hiking, skiing, fishing, and spending time with family and friends.

Dwight "Clint" Moore

To be nominated for Secretary/Editor, is a fine honor, but more important, it represents a tremendous opportunity to better serve my fellow HoD members, and the membership we all represent. It would be a great chance to help enhance communication, and contribute to a greater understanding of the issues important to the HoD. Toward that end, I'd like to further energize the DV to recruit more discussion on important issues, as well as initiate a series of articles where HoD members discuss how the AAPG might play a further role in the lives of its members, 10-25 years from now. This forward look provides a real chance for some of our more visionary members to "paint on a fresh canvas" outside the confines of a committee. "Let the words flow!" will be my credo.

As the son of a 40-year "hard luck" wildcatter, I grew up as a child seeing my father's excitement at unraveling the secrets of the rocks, and his zest for drilling for oil & gas. Still, it took a prep school senior-year Geology course, and the Arab Oil embargo that same fall of 1973, to cause me to give up my childhood dream of running for Congress, to come to Texas and attend SMU, so I could become a petroleum geologist.

Scuba diving, land & underwater photography, mineral & fossil collecting, national park rafting & hiking, redfish-trout & deep sea fishing, IMAX movies, family genealogy-history research, playing ice hockey, and ……still a little politics, now and then.