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New Executive Committee Seated

Gratton Assumes Presidency

Patrick J.F. Gratton, a Dallas independent, has assumed leadership of the Association's Executive Committee as AAPG president for 2004-05.

Gratton, president of Patrick J.F. Gratton Inc., is a Denver native who attended the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and holds bachelor's and master's degrees in geology from the University of New Mexico.

He began his career as a geologist with Utah Construction and Mining in Denver, then joined Shell Oil in Roswell, N.M., in 1958. He was a geologist in Tyler, Texas, when he joined Dalhi-Taylor Oil Corp. in Dallas in 1962. He also was geological manager for Capitan Inc. in Dallas, and later a partner and operations manager for Nearburg Oil Properties before becoming an independent in 1970.

Joining Gratton on the Executive Committee is Peter R. Rose, of Rose & Associates in Austin, Texas, who recently was voted president-elect by the AAPG membership.

Rose will serve as president in 2005-06.

Others recently elected to the 2004-05 Executive Committee are:

• Vice president -- Neil F. Hurley, of the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colo. (one-year term).
• Treasurer -- Dwight "Clint" Moore, registered professional geologist, Houston (two-year term).
• Editor -- Ernest A. Mancini, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (three-year term).

Remaining on the committee is Robert L. Countryman, with Occidental Petroleum, Bakersfield, Calif., who is serving the second of a two-year term as secretary.

Also joining the Executive Committee is Valary Schulz, with Matador Resources, Dallas, this year's chair of the House of Delegates.