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1960
A Special Silver Anniversary issue of Geophysics published in February, L. Y. Faust, editor; 46 classic papers appearing in the first 24 volumes of the journal were selected by a panel of judges. In addition, photos of all officers (1930-1960) are included. During the 30th Annual Meeting in Galveston, a total of 62 papers were presented. SEG Foundation awarded US$17 000 in scholarships to 23 students for 1959-1960 academic year. The Subcommittee on Russian Translations published its first (and only) list of references of Soviet books and papers of interest to geophysicists in February Geophysics. The SEG Business Office moved from the AAPG building to the Shell building in Tulsa. SEG withdrew membership from AGI. Geophysics became a bimonthly and authorization was given for the annual publication of a Yearbook to contain nontechnical information including the membership roster. John Hyden joined the SEG staff as editorial assistant and was appointed publication manager later in the year. August Geophysics was a special issue on logging, with G. E. Archie serving as special editor. The Council declined an invitation from AAPG to meet jointly at the national level. A. A. Brant served as Distinguished Lecturer. New Standing Committee: Cooperation with Governmental Agencies.

Personals: Maurice Ewing awarded the first Vetlesen Prize, consisting of a gold medal and US$25 000 ... Richard L. Fentem, Amerada Petroleum Corp., is now on loan to Oasis Oil Co. of Libya, stationed in Tripoli ... William B. Heroy, Jr. elected executive VP of Geotechnical Corp. ... The Eugene McDermotts presented MIT with a gift of 6000 shares of Texas In
struments stock (US$1 250 000 market value) for scholarships for earth science students from the southwest U.S. ... David W. Strangway completed requirements for the PhD at the University of Toronto and is employed by Bear Creek Mining Co. in Denver ... Enders A. Robinson, University of Wisconsin, is spending the 1960-1961 academic year at the University of Uppsala, Sweden ... J. C. DeBremaecker is now assistant professor of geology and geophysics at Rice Institute. Membership: 5724; Student Members: 215

1961
SEG Medal Award (renamed the Reginald Fessenden Award in 1977) created. Recipients for 1961 were Beno Gutenberg (posthumously) and Raoul Vajk. University of British Columbia Student Geophysical Society chartered. SEG's 31st Annual Meeting in Denver attracted a total of 1543 registrants; technical program under chairman J. Ed White offered 61 papers and 45 companies exhibited in 55 booths. Annual award was approved for presentation by Safety Committee to companies and field crews with the best safety records in geophysical exploration. J. A. Jacobs, University of British Columbia, was 1961 Distinguished Lecturer. SEG's Instrumentation Subcommittee of Cooperation with Governmental Agencies Committee worked with Geotech Corp. to establish requisite instrumentation/procedures for Project Gnome nuclear explosion in New Mexico. Dues remitted for life for Elisabeth Stiles, charter member and former secretary treasurer of the Society. Abstracts of papers from U.S.S.R. Bulletin Izvestiya began publication in February Geophysics. Victor Vacquier awarded the John Price Wetherill Medal by Franklin Institute for his development of the first practical airborne magnetometer.

Personals: W. E. Dickson, supervisor for GSI (Bahamas) Ltd., moved from London to Madrid ... U.S. President John F. Kennedy appointed Frank Press to a four year term on the President's Science Advisory Committee ... Paul E. Madeley elected president of Electrodynamic Instrument Corp. ... Lane Howell now employed by Superior Oil as a geophysicist in Oklahoma City district office ... Edwin B. Neitzel appointed chief research engineer for GSI ... M. B. Dobrin, formerly with Triad Oil Co., now chief geophysicist for United Geophysical ... J. R. Heggblum, former exploration coordinator for Bolivian Gulf Oil Co., joined Caribbean Gulf Oil as general manager in San Jose, Costa Rica ... Albert W. Musgrave awarded the prestigious Van Diest Gold Medal for 1961 by Colorado School of Mines ... S. Norman Domenico named division geophysicist for Pan American's Gulf Coast area and transferred from Calgary to Houston ... L. A. Martin elected president of United Geophysical ... Sudhir Jain received the Assam Oil Co. scholarship for research in geophysics at the University of Liverpool ... Hubert B. Hunt joined Sinclair Oil & Gas in Oklahoma City ... Michael S. Reford named chief geophysicist for Aero Service ... Harry J. McGrew new geophysicist for Gulf R&D. Membership: 5662

1962
SEG career guidance film The Earthquake Makers completed early in the year. April Geophysics was a special issue on Engineering Geophysics with Charles L. Drake, Special Editor. Two new Standing Committees: Public Relations and the AAPG/SEG Joint Cooperative Committee. A new Society periodical, Papers for the Field Geophysicist, published as a supplement to December Geophysics through the efforts of Robert B. Rice, editor. The Canadian SEG used the following slogan to publicize SEG's 32nd Annual Meeting:

Calgary for Annual Meeting SEG 1962
Looks mighty
Good to us
And we really look forward to seeing
You!

The convention, held September 16-20, attracted 1455 registrants. New business manager Howard Breck was appointed to coordinate the administrative affairs of the society. New Section: Bay Area Geophysical Society in San Francisco; two Sections disbanded: the Asociacion Venezolana de Geofisica in Caracas and Cochabamba (Bolivia) Geophysical Society.

Personals: T. A. Halbrook joined GeoData Corp. as seismologist ... Jerome D. Novotny now district exploration superintendent for Pan American Petroleum's Corpus Christi district ... Robert E. Sheriff transferred to West Australia Petroleum in Perth where P. B. McGrath has been appointed managing director ... Wallace L. Matjasic, formerly with Honolulu Oil Corp., now a geophysicist with Tidewater Oil in Bakersfield ... Robert L. Sims joined Sunray DX as a geophysicist in the Tulsa office ... Milo M. Backus named director of research for Texas Instruments' science services division. Membership: 5639

1963
International Gravity Measurements, by G. P. Woollard and J. C. Rose, was published; plus the Cumulative Index 1931-61, Kenneth L. Cook, special editor. In addition, the Index of Wells Shot for Velocity, previously printed as a supplement to Geophysics, was published separately and will be updated annually by SEG's Data Processing Committee, William J. Zwart, chairman. A new plaque for Distinguished Lecturers was designed and the first were presented to the 1963 lecturers, J. M. Bruckshaw of Imperial College, London, and John C. Crawford of Continental Oil. The Mexican Association of Exploration Geophysicists (AMGE) extended an invitation to SEG members to attend AMGE's 2nd convention, November 21-23 in Tampico. The Pacific Coast Section SEG/AAPG/SEPM Annual Meeting held April 25-26 at the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel; registration fee: US$3.50, students $0.50. Second issue of Papers for the Field Geophysicist appeared in October.

Personals: Ralph D. Wyckoff, 1943 44 SEG President, retired as director of Gulf R&D's instrument division ... Tomas Leighton promoted to party chief for Empresa Nacional del Petroleo in Magallanes, Chile ... Lucius C. Geer named division geophysicist for Union Oil of California's Pacific Coast division ... SEG President John C. Hollister awarded a Distinguished Achievement Medal by Colorado School of Mines ... Jack Desmond named manager of Western Geophysical's Rocky Mountain division, with headquarters in Denver ... Robert Sarmiento, Jersey Production Research, elected president of the Society of Professional Well Log Analysts (SPWLA) ... Paul R. LeTourneau, chief geophysicist for Mobil Oil Libya, transferred to Mobil's Geophysical Services in Dallas ... Adrian Becker promoted to division geophysicist of Continental Oil's Jackson division ... John H. Earl appointed manager of public relations for Petty Geophysical in Australia ... Charles C. Perry Jr. joined Colombian Petroleum Co. in Bogota ... Vance Lynch now with Sidney Schafer & Associates ... George W. Sales rejoined Hall Sears/Geo Space Corp. as sales engineer. Membership: 5566

1964
Oregon State University Geophysical Society received a charter as a Student Section. SEG rejoined AGI as a society member. Mutual association with AMGE was established with W. E. Franks serving as our representative. B. W. Beebe, consultant, was distinguished lecturer. An agreement signed with Elliott Sweet to write History of Exploration Geophysics would be underwritten by SEG. John Hyden, SEG publication manager, resigned and was succeeded by assistant David Yowell. Milton B. Dobrin served as general chairman of the 34th Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, November 15-19; it attracted a total of 1412 registrants and 54 companies exhibited in 76 booths. A lot near 51st and Harvard Streets in Tulsa was purchased for SEG headquarters and an architect was selected by Building Committee Chairman Paul L. Lyons. The executive committee stipulated "the building be attractive and beautiful ... a monument to the art of geophysics." The Society accepted a KWIC Index of Geophysics and Geophysical Prospecting, compiled and donated by Standard Oil Co. of California. Special issues in 1964 Geophysics: "Vela Uniform I (April), "Vela Uniform II" (October), and "Magnetic Methods I," James Affleck, editor (August). The 17th Annual Midwest Meeting held April 26 28 in Midland.

Personals: Lou Castelli appointed chief geophysicist of Socony Mobil of Canada, succeeding H. J. Kidder who transferred to Dallas ... Paul Kintzinger joined Sinclair Research in Tulsa ... Jack M. Proffitt now manager of West Coast operations for GSI ... Roy L. Lay, former SEG President (1953-54), was elected chairman of the board of Amoseas ... M. King Hubbert retired from Shell Development Co. and promptly assumed dual employment: with the USGS and as professor of geology/geophysics at Stanford University ... F. Burke Calhoon joined Woodham Consulting Co. in Houston ... Anthony F. Gangi named associate professor of geophysics at M.I.T. ... John M. Crawford promoted to research fellow in Conoco's R&D department ... Robert C. Kendall transferred to Shell Oil's New Orleans area office ... Charles L. Elliot joined Bear Creek Mining Co. ... John C. Behrendt, formerly on the staff of the University of Wisconsin's Geophysical and Polar Research Center, joined the USGS in Denver. Membership: 5728

1965
SEG headquarters building in Tulsa was completed and the nine staff members moved in on June 25. Three executive committees were involved in planning the new offices; the respective presidents were John C. Hollister, 1962-63; Norman J. Christie, 1963-64; and Hugh M. Thralls, 1964-65. SEG became a charter member of the InterSociety Committee for Rock Mechanics. "Magnetic Methods II," James Affleck, editor, appeared as a special issue in October Geophysics; a special issue for the Field Geophysicist was published in December; and a "Style Guide for Geophysics" by Milton B. Dobrin, with "Addendum and Revisions" by R. B. Rice and F. A. Van Melle appeared in February. J.E. White and S.T. Algermissen served as distinguished lecturers. The Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain was formed with Robert Dyk elected first president. Seven Russian geophysicists attended the SEG convention in Dallas; V. V. Fedynskiy of the Ministry of Geology headed the delegation.

Personals: Enders A. Robinson and Keeva Vozoff appointed VPs of Geoscience Inc. ... S. Parker Gay returned from Peru and joined American Smelting & Refining's geophysical division ... Richard C. Anderson new manager of GSI's Europe Africa Middle East land operations, based in London ... Walter Fillippone now senior research associate for Union Oil's research center in Brea ... Judd H. Oualline transferred to Tulsa from Houston as exploration department manager for Skelly Oil ... Robert I. Westmacott named district geophysicist at Lubbock for Pan American Petroleum ... Booth B. Strange elected president of Western Geophysical ... Daniel Silverman named research consultant to Pan American Petroleum's Research Center ... Charles C. Bates named scientific and technical director of the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office ... Norman J. Christie awarded Colorado School of Mines' Distinguished Achievement Medal. Membership: 5837

1966
Student Sections chartered at the University of California, Berkeley and Michigan State University. Mining Geophysics, Volume 1, compiled and edited by the Mining Geophysics Volume Editorial Committee, was published. Editors were S.H. Ward, J. S. Sumner, W. E. Heinrichs, Don A. Hansen, G. R. Rogers, and R. E. MacDougall. SEG's 36th Annual Meeting, held at Houston's Shamrock Hotel with Chester Sappington serving as general chairman, broke all previous records for attendance: Total registration of 3124 was an increase of 34% over the record set in Dallas the previous year. A new award, the Kauffman Gold Medal, founded by Virgil Kauffman, president of Aero Service Corp., was presented to Cecil H. Green at the convention. The KWIC Index, compiled by the Data Processing Committee under William J. Zwart, was published during the year; it covered Geophysics (1936-65) and Geophysical Prospecting (1953-66). Silver certificates awarded to 50 SEG Members who completed 25 years of continuous SEG membership. The first International Science Fair Awards Committee appointed and SEG and the U. S. Naval Oceanographic Office jointly sponsored two awards at the 17th fair in Dallas. SEG s new headquarters building was formally dedicated on January 15 with ceremonies in Tulsa. The South Texas Geophysical Society in San Antonio now inactive.

Personals: Dean Kleinkopf joined the USGS Branch of Regional Geophysics in Denver ... Peter I. Bediz, executive VP of Century Geophysical, transferred from Calgary to the home office in Tulsa ... James D. Kallina appointed VP for Petty Geophysical Engineering in San Antonio ... F. O. Ritzmann, Patents editor since 1939 (!), retired from Gulf Oil Co. and his duties as an Associate Editor of Geophysics ... Julian K. Pawley joined Independent Exploration Co. as senior research geophysicist ... Eugene F. Florian is president of new firm, Mark Products Inc. ... Richard E. Schneider promoted to geophysicist in charge of gravity/magnetic exploration for Continental Oil in Ponca City ... T. R. LaFehr and R. Jerry Brod are new partners of GAI GMX ... James Kurfess now assistant to manager of foreign operations, United Geophysical ... Louis R. Slichter awarded AGU's William Bowie Medal ... James O. Banks promoted to VP of Louisiana Land and Exploration ... G. H. Westby elected chairman of the board of Seismograph Service ... William C. Kellogg named chief geophysicist for Lockwood, Kessler & Bartlett ... Sam L. Evans is supervisor of GSI's new office in Oklahoma City ... Michel T. Halbouty elected president of AAPG for 1966 ... D. G. Howell served as General Chairman of the Permian Basin Geophysical Society's 13th Annual Exploration Meeting in Midland. Membership: 6356; Student Members: 203

1967
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Geophysical Analysis Group (MIT GAG) Report was published as a special issue in June Geophysics; it was edited by E. A. Flinn, E. A. Robinson, and Sven Treitel. Also published in 1967 were Seismic Refraction Prospecting, Albert W. Musgrave, special editor; and Mining Geophysics, Volume II. The Continuing Education Committee was formed and offered 14 short courses. SEG affiliated with the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain. Silver Certificates were presented to 42 members of the Society. Regina Geophysical Society disbanded due to transfers of members from the area. W. B. (Robby) Robinson served as general chairman of the 37th Annual Meeting in Oklahoma City where 100 technical papers were presented. 34 students received a total of US$22 375 in SEG scholarships for the academic year. Plaques awarded to the following companies sponsoring SEG scholarships for 10 years: Dresser SIE, Gardner Denver, Petty Geophysical Engineering, Teledyne Exploration, Texas Gulf Sulfur Co., Texas Instruments, and Westinghouse Air Brakes (G.E. Failing Co.). The Digital Standards Committee, having completed its objectives, published a report in October Geophysics and was dissolved. A Student Section was chartered at the University of California, Berkeley with Brent D. Fuller as first president.

Personals: H.F. Morrison appointed professor of geophysical engineering at UC Berkeley ... Robert C. Kendall of BPM in The Hague has been assigned to Brunei Shell Petroleum Co. Ltd. ... J. Roger Heggblom, formerly with Bolivian Gulf Oil, named manager of Ecuadorian Gulf Oil in Quito ... H. W. Beauchamp new manager of domestic operations for Rogers Exploration ... Hollis A. Scoggin joined Southland Royalty Co. in Fort Worth as geophysicist ... Ronald Green new head of geophysics department at University of New England in Armidale, Australia ... H. L. (Bud) Grant named VP of Western Geophysical ... H. M. Rackets joined United Geophysical as VP of Western Hemisphere operations ... Scott Petty Jr. elected president of Petty Geophysical Engineering ... Don A. Hansen appointed chief geophysicist for Vanguard Exploration ... Terry W. Spencer chairman of new department of geophysics at Texas A&M University ... J. Erik Jonsson retired as chairman of the board of Texas Instruments; he is currently serving as mayor of Dallas ... Andris Viksne accepted a position as scientist with Raytheon ... Hans A. Meinardus joined department of geophysics at University of Chile in Santiago ... Gerald B. Rupert new director of Western Geophysical's digital processing center in Milano, Italy ... T. N. Crook is manager of the basics geophysics division and Frank Levin is research scientist for Esso Production Research, a subsidiary of Humble Oil & Refining Co. in Houston. Membership: 6522

1968
Ten new continuing education short courses sponsored by SEG were presented to sections and/or companies during the year. The society affiliated with SEG Japan. Virgil Kauffman and Admiral O. D. Waters were elected to Active Membership and their dues remitted for life. The student section at Montana Tech was chartered. June Geophysics was a special Memorial Issue to Lawrence Y. Faust. The society accepted an invitation from SPE to become a cosponsor of an annual "oceanographic conference" (OTC). The Mexican Exploration Geophysicists Association (AMGE) invited SEG to hold its 43rd Annual International Meeting in Mexico City in 1973 and the Council approved. SEG's representative to the US. National Committee on Geology, former president Robert Kendall, attended the 1968 meeting of the International Union of Geologic Sciences in Prague, Czechoslovakia in August. (His fascinating report of the Russian invasion during the meeting appears in February Geophysics, p. 133.) "Glossary of Terms Used in Geophysical Exploration," by Robert E. Sheriff, was also published in the February issue, which included the journal's very first four color ad!

Personals: Sigmund Hammer joined the University of Wisconsin as professor of geophysics ... Alexis Stoupnitzky, CGG, has transferred from Paris to Houston ... Robert B. McEuen now a staff geoscientist with Rucker Co. ... G. L. Scott joined North American Exploration Co. as VP of geophysics ... Allan Spector now senior scientist with Huntec Ltd., Toronto ... Charles C. Bates named science advisor to the U.S. Coast Guard ... C. Machnich appointed seismic operations supervisor of Petrobras for all Brazil ... Theodor H. Braun elected president of Applied Computer Technology ... Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel of Lamont Geological Observatory were appointed cochief scientists on the first leg of the Deep Sea Drilling Project ... Charles B. Smith, Jr. named president of Georex, an affiliate of CGG ... A. A. Hunzicker now VP/manager of geophysical operations of Mandrel's Ray Geophysical Division. Membership: 6785

1969
Attendance records broken again at the 39th convention held September 14-18 in Calgary; three more delegates were registered than at Houston in 1966. SEG was a co-sponsor of the first annual OTC in Houston; a total of 3500 delegates attended. A 14-page addendum to R. E. Sheriff's glossary appeared in April Geophysics. A new Public Relations Committee was formed and Corporate Membership in the Society was created. Atlantic Richfield party #23 was presented a 20-year safety award certificate by Safety Committee Chairman Frank Searcy. Two new courses added to the Continuing Education Program, making a total of 19 now available. Dan Silverman is new Patents Editor of Geophysics. Humble Oil & Refining donated US$30 000 to AAPG.

Personals: Sam L. Evans resigned from GSI and joined Seiscom Delta in Houston ... H. A. Winkler, U.N. project manager of an aerial geophysical survey of the Solomon Islands, assigned to U.N. Headquarters in New York ... William B. Heroy, Jr. elected president of AGI ... J. Tuzo Wilson and Frederick J. Vine received gold medals from AGI at their annual meeting in Mexico City ... Afif H. Saad is assistant professor of geophysics at the University of Missouri Rolla ... Hal W. Godwin now president of Seismotech 64 ... H. E. Stommel named president of Chevron Oil's geophysics division ... Teodoro Gadea Acosta now a consulting geologist in Lima, Peru ... Kindel McNeill promoted to VP of Geocom Inc. ... John W. C. Sherwood joined Digicon as a senior scientist ... Roy O. Lindseth and Sigmund Hammer presented their Continuing Education Short Courses to the Instituto Mexicano del Petroleo in Mexico City .... J. Ed White resigned from Marathon Oil to become VP of Globe Universal Sciences in Midland .... Dennis R. Mett is new chief geophysicist of Union Oil of California's oil and gas division ... Richard C. Anderson promoted to manager of Europe/Africa/Middle East operations for GSI ... S. Parker Gay joined Mineral Surveys Inc. as general manager of their new offices in Salt Lake City ... James K. Grigsby joined Olympic Geophysical ... Jean Ferrand elected executive VP of Aquitaine Oil Corp., Paris. Membership: 7110