JULY 2003

House Long Service Award

• Pete Gray
• Jeff Greenawalt

Peter G. Gray
House Long Service Award

Pete was born in Houston and moved to West Texas as a teenager. After graduation from Abilene High School in 1950, he served in the United States Navy for two years, including a year as a Midshipman at the University of Idaho. Following his military service, he entered Texas Western College in El Paso where he received a B.S. degree in geology in 1956.

Pete began his professional career that same year with the Pure Oil Company in Houston. He continued working for Pure in New Orleans, Lafayette and Midland, and returned to New Orleans in October 1964 to join Leslie Bowling, a prominent geological consultant. After four years with Bowling, he went back to work for companies in New Orleans, first with An-Son Corporation and then Consolidated Gas Supply Corporation. In July 1973, he joined the newly formed Stone Oil Corporation. He was transferred to Lafayette in March 1977 when Stone relocated its main office. With Stone, he served as both division exploration manager and chief geologist, becoming involved in all phases of the company’s activities. In July 1981, he resigned from Stone and opened an office for the Dallas-based Cornell Oil Company. Later that year, because of changes at Cornell, he joined Lyco Energy Company. The following April, Pete opened his own office and became an independent/consulting geologist, which is his current professional status. In his career, Pete has touched on numerous phases of the geological spectrum, including prospect generation and evaluation, field work, unitization and expert witness testimony, and the various administrative duties surrounding oil and gas activities.

Pete has been an active member and dedicated supporter of a number of professional organizations. He became a member of AAPG in 1956, and a Certified Petroleum Geologist (#811) in 1966. Down through the years he has served AAPG on various committees, including the Committee on Committees, of which he became chairman in July 2001. During 1995-98 Pete represented the Gulf Coast Section (GCAGS) on the Advisory Council. He became a member of the House of Delegates in 1981 and is currently in his fifth term. He was vice-chairman in 1982-83 and has recently been a member of several HoD committees, including Nominating, Honors and Awards, and the ad hoc committee that is presently working on possible changes to the Advisory Council. Pete became a trustee associate in 1996, and during 1997-98 he was a candidate for president-elect. His many activities for the Division of Professional Affairs (DPA) included serving on the Advisory Board (1990-92), as presidentelect (1992-93), and as president (1993-94). In addition, he worked on the Continuing Education Committee and contributed an article to the DPA publication "Guiding Your Career as a Professional Geologist." As past president, he served on the Honors and Awards and Nominating Committees, and later as a member of the Governmental Affairs (Instant Response), Headquarters, Honors and Awards, and Long Range Planning Committees. While chairing the latter committee during 1994-97, the first DPA Procedures Manual was created. In 1996, Pete was given the DPA Distinguished Service Award.

He has also been active in the GCAGS, serving as treasurer (1970-71), vice president twice (1976-77 and 1988-89), and president (1989-90). For two years (1998-2000) he chaired the Long Range Planning Committee. Pete has received both the GCAGS Distinguished Service and Honorary Membership awards, and at the 1999 annual meeting in Lafayette, Volume 49 of Transactions was dedicated to him. Pete is a member of the Houston, Lafayette (LGS) and New Orleans (NOGS) Geological Societies. He has had the unique honor of serving as president of both NOGS (1975- 76) and LGS (1985-86), and has been awarded Honorary Life Membership by each group. He has been a member of SIPES since 1982 and represented the Lafayette Chapter on the national Board of Directors as well as on the SIPES Foundation Board from 1996-2002. At the local level, Pete spent three years on the Board of the Lafayette Petroleum Club (1991-94), and was president during his second year. Outside of these professional activities, Pete spends much time assisting his church, the Episcopal Church of Ascension, where he became treasurer again in 1998.

Pete solidified his ties to Louisiana early on when he met, courted, and married Julaine Roy, a native of Parks, Louisiana. The couple has two grown sons.

Jeffery C. Greenawalt
House Long Service Award

A native of western Pennsylvania, Jeff’s career began and continues to grow in the Appalachian Basin. He is a 22 year member of AAPG and proud to serve and represent the Eastern Section AAPG and his home society; the Pittsburgh Geological Society. His first term in the House of Delegates began in 1985 to 1988 where he served as Chairman of the Resolutions Committee from 1985 to 1987. He has served two additional House terms from 1993 to 1996 and 1999 to 2002.

In 1995-96, he was elected secretary-editor of the House of Delegates, a position that also chairs the Newsletter Committee responsible for publishing four issues of the Delegates Newsletter (now known as The Delegates’Voice). Jeff gratefully acknowledges the decisive leadership, guidance, and mentoring from fellow House Officers: Daniel L. Smith, then House chairman and current AAPG president, and then House chairman-elect Tom Mairs. Working with these fellow House officers was a rewarding experience.

In 1999, Jeff served as a member of the House of Delegates IRC Amendment Resolutions Committee, and for this service received an AAPG Certificate of Merit. During his third House term he also served on the House of Delegates Constitution and By-Laws Committee from 1999-2001, helping to update and improve the foundation documents of the Association. Jeff’s service to the House also includes two years service on the Nominations Committee.

Jeff strongly believes that his service to the House and AAPG constantly sources and revitalizes the creative spirit needed to be a successful petroleum geologist. He is grateful for the opportunities to serve and improve the Association. What achievements he has made and will make he knows are directly related to his involvement in AAPG and the House of Delegates.

At the Sectional level Jeff is especially proud of serving all officerships of the Eastern Section and involvement on several Section committees. He is equally proud of serving the officerships of the Pittsburgh Geological Society and various committee assignments and his association with the Pittsburgh Association of Petroleum Geologists.

He also thankfully acknowledges the management teams of Delta Drilling Company, Delta US Corporation, Kerr-McGee Corporation, Shawmut Development Corporation, Power Gas Marketing & Transmission, Inc., and presently Wilmoth- Clark Exploration & Production, LLC who have and are supporting his service to the House of Delegates and AAPG.

Jeff is married to Dee Dee and recently celebrated an anniversary with an eight-day raft trip down the Grand Canyon, a life changing trip every geologist needs to experience. Seeing and feeling the Grand Canyon from the bottom up is the only way to go.