Cecil H. Green was born in Manchester, England, in 1900 and came over to Canada at an early age. He attended grammar school and high school in Vancouver, British Columbia, and took a portion of his undergraduate work at the University of British Columbia. He then transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he obtained a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering in 1924.
     His first position was with the General Electric Company at Schenectady where he served as a development engineer for the A. C. Engineering Division. During this time he also instructed in the G. E. Advanced Engineering Course.
     It was on the banks of the Mohawk River that Green met and married Ida Maybelle Flansburgh in 1926. Miss Flansburgh little realized at that time what a nomad Green would turn out to be. The awakening came shortly though, and Green left GE to join the Raytheon Manufacturing Company, which an MIT classmate had helped to organize.
     With Raytheon, he took part in the development of gaseous tube devices which had important applications in the first batteryless radio receivers.
     A love of the West then took the Greens to Palo Alto, California, where Cecil joined the Federal Telegraph Company, a subsidiary of the International Telephone and Telegraph Company. This was a connection which Green enjoyed until the company moved its facilities back to Newark, New Jersey. Although he was in charge of the department devoted to making power transmitting tubes, Green decided against the move.
     Another former associate, Roland F. Beers, who had also been an engineer with Raytheon, began telling Green about a new, rather fantastic business of applying physics to geology in the search for oil. Here was an entirely fresh challenge in a new technical field and besides, it involved work in the wide open spaces. With this in mind the Greens settled down in earnest to this business of moving around and Cecil joined the newly formed Geophysical Service, Inc., as Chief of Seismic Party 310 at Maud, Oklahoma, in 1930.
     W. E. McDermott and Chester J. Donnally were key members of this party, and Ronald J. Cullen client representative of Twin States Oil Company, was the fellow who initiated Green's geological education.
     After several years as party chief and then supervisor on various domestic operations, Green was given special assignments which fit in well with his love for travel. Prior to World War II he fulfilled supervisory assignments in Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Sumatra.
     In 1941 he was promoted to Vice President and in 1950 he assumed his present duties as President of GSI. Green has been proud of his Society of Exploration Geophysicists affiliation since the time that he, Fred Romberg, Hewitt Dix, Curt Johnson, Frank Morgan, Gene Vallat, and others formed the first geophysical study group in Los Angeles in 1939. He has the distinction of having served on the SEG Executive Committee for four years, starting as Secretary-Treasurer and ending as President of the Society in 1947-1948. As Vice-President, he and Henry Cortes were instrumental in establishing the first permanent office of SEG and employing Colin Campbell as SEG's Business Manager.
      Also during his term in office Green greatly encouraged the development of local and student sections in the Society. Green has shown a strong personal interest in education in the field of exploration geophysics.
     Together with Dr. Robert R. Shrock of MIT, Green was instrumental in inaugurating, in 1951, a summer cooperative program designed to give selected college students the advantage of an extensive orientation session in applied geophysics and the opportunity of studying geophysics first-hand by performing summer work with a geophysical field party.
     To date more than 100 students from colleges and universities across the nation have taken part in the plan. Success of the program in the United States prompted the establishment, in 1952, of a similar plan in Canada. The Canadian plan was set up with the help of Dr. J. Tuzo Wilson of the University of Toronto.
     Green has long maintained that geophysics is an art as well as a science, and, being an art, it is very dependent upon people. In inaugurating the student plan Green went on the theory that a person can watch an expert for years without becoming expert on anything but watching.
     In recognition of his strong personal interest in education in the field of exploration geophysics and for service to the industry in general, he was presented with an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree from the Colorado School of Mines in 1953.
     Cecil, it gives me great pleasure to present to you, on behalf of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, this certificate which signifies the highest award that the Society can bestow upon an individual a Life Honorary Membership.

     George E. Wagoner