I am pleased to have been asked to represent the society in presenting Honorary Membership to Mr. Frank Goldstone. The older ones of us know him well and what his accomplishments have been. The profession has grown so much the last few years that I am sure some of you do not know Frank, or as his good friends know him, "Colonel" Goldstone.
     Frank Goldstone was born on September 15, 1899, in the border country of England and Scotland. He attended high school in London, but was a drop-out in 1915 to spend three years divided between a munitions factor and service in the Gordon Highlanders. At the end of World War I he entered Cambridge University and was awarded a B.A. degree in 1922; the M. A. was awarded in 1926. He joined the Royal Dutch-Shell group in 1922 and was assigned to Borneo. When geophysical exploration was initiated in the Orient in 1924 with the arrival of the first Askania torsion balance in Brunei, he was a member of the field party and later party chief. After a brief period of study with Professor Schweydar in Germany he came to the U.S.A. as torsion balance party chief in 1976. Returning to London in 1928, he undertook graduate study in geology at the Royal School of Mines. In 1929 he returned to Texas with Shell as chief geophysicist and from then until his retirement in 1959 held that and other positions with the same company, both in operations and research. He played a leading role in the development of geophysical prospecting in Shell. From 1959 until the present time he has held consulting assignments in various parts of the world.
     Goldstone was always active in recruiting staff. In fact, back in the middle thirties he was clearly ahead of the times. In some quarters his tactics were considered rather sharp. I had been invited to come down from Cambridge for a job interview with the Colonel in New York. I had a pleasant hour's interview with him; then he took me out for cocktails and an elegant lunch. It just so happened that he had two box seats for the Metropolitan Opera that afternoon, and it just so happened that I was pleased to go with him as his guest. During the intermission between the first and second act of Das Rheingold he signed me up. When I got back to Cambridge that night it was rather difficult to explain to my wife that I had made a firm commitment without having first discussed the details with her. However neither of us has ever regretted it.
     He was interested in the training of his staff and was instrumental in starting in-house training programs. At the World Petroleum Congress in 1933 he presented a paper on reflection seismic prospecting. He was pleased to learn years later from Ken Crandall of Standard of California that the paper was used as a text in teaching reflection seismology to geologists it was the only paper the geologists could understand. The way in which seismic technology has developed in the past few years has brought the need for somebody to write a paper that we older seismologists can understand.
     Of course there was another aspect of the Colonel's educational activities. He taught many individuals, in addition to his recruits, how to play poker. Some of them thought they knew how before they met the Colonel but they found out.
     During World War II he worked as a civilian consultant to the National Defense Research Committee. He was largely responsible for the setting up of the Defense Research Laboratory at the University of Texas which for many years pioneered research in interplane fire control.
     He has been active in the affairs of this Society since its organization. He served as Vice-President in 1934 and in 1941. He was President of the Society in 1942. He was Chairman of Trustees of the SEG Foundation in 1959.
     Colonel, it gives me a great deal of pleasure to present to you this Honorary Membership in the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
     Noyes Smith