Neil Clark Godfrey
Neil Clark Godfrey, general attorney of Aramco and a resident of Dhahran, died suddenly Thursday, Aug. 10.
Services were held Sunday, Aug. 13, at 10 a.m. in Dhahran. Final interment will take place in the United States.
Mr. Godfrey was born in Santa Rosa, Calif, in 1913. He attended college at the University of California at Berkeley, and later the Hastings College of Law in San Francisco from which he was graduated in 1938.
Prior to his Aramco employment he engaged in the private practice of law in Santa Rosa, during which period he served as deputy legislative counsel to the California State Legislature in Sacramento, Calif., and as regional attorney for the War Production Board.
Mr. Godfrey joined Aramco Aug. 1, 1948, and served as counsel in Dhahran until March 1951. He was then transferred to the New York Office as counsel, where he remained until November 1953 when he was transferred to AOC, The Hague. In The Hague he served as chief counsel, Europe, until November 1957 when he returned to the New York Office. He served there as counsel-manager (NYO) and later general attorney until his reassignment to Dhahran in March 1966, where he has since served as general attorney.
He participated in the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School as a member of the 19th AMP class in 1965 and served as a member of the faculty at the Academy of American and International Law held during the summer of 1965 in Dallas, Texas, under the auspices of the Southwestern Legal Foundation. He was a member of the California and New York Bars.
Mr. Godfrey's family also resident in Dhahran consist of his wife, Eleanor, his son Jeffrey, and his daughter Meredith Cynthia. [Photograph]