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DON GREEN B.S., Petroleum Engineering, University of Tulsa, 1955 M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 1959 Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 1963 Service at the University of Kansas First came to KU in 1964 Assistant Professor, 1964-1967 Associate Professor, 1967-1971 Professor, 1971-1982 Conger-Gabel Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, 1982-1995 Deane E. Ackers Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering 1996-2009 University of Kansas Tertiary Oil Recovery Project Co-Director, 1974-2007 2
AN INTERVIEW WITH DON GREEN Interviewer: Jewell Willhite Q: I am speaking with Don Green, who retired in 2009 as the Dean E. Ackers distinguished professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Kansas. We are in Lawrence, Kansas, on June 16, 2009. Don has already prepared extensive amounts of written information, which I will include, but he has some other things to say as well. Let’s start out by talking about your early life. A: I was born July 8, 1932 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and raised in Tulsa, when Tulsa truly was an oil town. My father was Earl Leslie Green. He was born in a small town in Texas, 50 miles northeast of Dallas. His parents were small farmers near Celeste, Texas, a town of about 700 people northeast of Dallas. He had some business education and was a bank teller at Tulsa National Bank. My mother was Erma Pansy Brackins. She was born in a small town in northeast Oklahoma. Her father worked in the oil fields and at odd jobs. He had small businesses from time to time, a grocery store, filling station, and a dairy farm. She was a supervisor of a school cafeteria for the Tulsa Public Schools. My brother is Terry Albert Green, born October 31, 1934 in Tulsa. He has a B.S. degree in business from the University of Tulsa. He worked as a contract manager for a defense company, after serving four years in the Air Force. He was also involved with small businesses, a rental agency and gourmet popcorn production and distribution. He married JoAnn and they have one son, Terry. He currently lives near Hilton Head Island, SC. 3
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