Background
Wys, Jane B. Negus-de was born on April 24, 1924 in Portland, Oregon, United States. Daughter of Howard Curtiss and Cleo (Brockhausen) Negus.
science and training management administrator
Wys, Jane B. Negus-de was born on April 24, 1924 in Portland, Oregon, United States. Daughter of Howard Curtiss and Cleo (Brockhausen) Negus.
Bachelor in Geology with honors, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1946. Postgraduate in geology, University Wisconsin, 1948. Postgraduate in geology, University Wyoming, 1947.
Postgraduate in geology, Case Western Reserve University, 1949. Postgraduate in geology, University Kansas, 1951. Postgraduate in geology and thermodynamics, Ohio State University, 1953.
Postgraduate in geology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1967. Postgraduate, Space Physics Institute National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1965. Postgraduate in geology and law, Texas Tech University, 1971.
Doctor of Philosophy in Geology, West Virginia University, 1980.
Geology laboratory assistant, Miami University, 1945-1946; curator geology music, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1946-1948; geologist, stratigrapher, Shell Oil Corporation, Midland, Texas, 1948-1949; geology instructor, Case Western Reserve U., Cleveland, 1949; geological research assistant, U. Kansas, Lawrence, 1950-1951; geologist, Mene Grande Petroleum Corporation, Caracas, Venezuela., 1951-1953; research associate, geologist, Ohio State University Research Foundation, Columbus, 1953-1958; geology instructor adult education, Van Nuys (California) High School, 1958-1960; engineering geologist, consultant, Sierra Engineering, Sierra Madre, California, 1960-1963; senior scientist, experimenter National Aeronautics and Space Administration surveyor program, California Institute Technology Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, 1962-1967; manager, First Grand Teton Ltd., Mount Moran Ltd., Jackson, Wyoming, 1971-1973; managing director, Jackson Hole Telecommunications, Jackson, Wyoming, 1973-1976; assistant director environmental studies laboratory, U. Utah Research Institute, Salt Lake City, 1976-1977; research associate department engineering Devonian shale program, West Virginia University, Morgantown, 1977-1981; research specialist, Exxon Production Research Company, Houston, 1981-1986; owner, operator, Geosci., Inc., Conroe, Texas, 1986-1988; manager D.O.E. geopressured-geothermal program, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls, 1988-1992; director industrial consortium, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls, 1989-1992; manager nonnuclear space initiative, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls, 1990-1992; scientific specialist nuclear operations and training technical, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls, 1992-1993. Internationally invited speaker in field, 1991-1994.
Active Young Women’s Christian Association, Denver, 1969, organizer American Church, Estado Monagas, Venezuela, 1951-1953, various minority rights organizations. Member League Women Voters. With United States Cadet Nurse Corps, 1943-1944.
Member American Association Petroleum Geologists (continuing education committee), American Nuclear Society, Geothermal Resources Council, Daughters of the American Revolution, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Gamma Epsilon, Phi Sigma, Sigma Xi, Delta Zeta.
Married Egbert Christiaan de Wys, April 7, 1949 (divorced 1970). Children: Wendy, Tanya, Mark, Matthew.