A Note About the Author: Bob Waters
I interviewed with Aramco in San Francisco, June of 1948, prior to graduating from Stanford University as a Mechanical Engineer.
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Bob Waters Weds Joy Quek
Bob Waters and Joy Quek were married September 30, 2005 in Las Vegas, Nevada in a lovely
civil service wedding.
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Bob Waters Places First in Arthur Murray Dance-O-Rama
The Arthur Murray Dance-O-Rama began Thursday afternoon in Costa Mesa, California.
There were nine of us competing from Las Vegas.
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The Story of An "ARAMCO Retread"
After leaving Saudi in 1960, Jo and I spent nearly 3 years in Iran where I was working for a contractor drilling company out of California.
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Iran, 1961 - 1963 (Part VIII)
After I left Aramco in 1960, I spent some time in New York City interviewing various oil companies for employment. One in particular was Standard of New Jersey as I remember.
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Saudi Arabia, 1951-1960 (Part VII)
Jo, along with a few other women, commuted to Dhahran to work at the airbase.
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Saudi Arabia, 1951-1960 (Part VI)
In Abqaiq, we were assigned to a brand new Row House catty-corner from the tennis courts and across the street from one of the Air Conditioning Plants.
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Saudi Arabia, 1951-1960 (Part V)
I really don’t remember too much about moving back to Abqaiq in 1953, but we were awarded a freestanding house on a street in the south end of town and were very happy.
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Saudi Arabia, 1951-1960 (Part IV)
Early in 1952, we loaded up all of our possessions into cardboard boxes and Bill Bartlett found us a large stake bed truck to haul our processions to our new home in Umm Unaiq.
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Saudi Arabia, 1951-1960 (Part III)
We caught the Aramco Company airplane; we spent an over-night in Amsterdam, then on to Rome, next Beirut and finally Dhahran.
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Saudi Arabia: 1949 - 1951 (Part II)
As soon as old Man Wallace returned in the latter part of 1949, I got a new assignment working with the Petroleum Engineers.
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Saudi Arabia: 1949 - 1951 (Part I)
The flight over the desert was beautiful, especially as we approached the gulf and Dhahran. What a tiny place it looked like from the air.
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1948 - 1949: Pre-Saudi Arabia
I went to Stanford University for two years and then quit to enlist in the Army Air Corp. After being discharged from the Air Corp in December 1945, I started working for Standard Oil in California.