Background
Torline, Martin Eugene was born on July 20, 1926 in Wichita, Kansas, United States. Son of John Albert and Beatrice Imogene (Root) Torline.
Torline, Martin Eugene was born on July 20, 1926 in Wichita, Kansas, United States. Son of John Albert and Beatrice Imogene (Root) Torline.
Bachelor, Wichita State University, 1950.
Consultant, geologist, partner Morgan & Torline, Wichita, 1951—1968. Vice president Acme Oil Corporation, 1953—1968, president, since 1968, Casey Jones Junction Restaurants, Wichita, since 1968. President, chairman board Variant Corporation, since 1969.
Vice president, director Norman Lee Public Company, since 1980. Board associate directors Kansas Newman College, since 1974. With United States Marine Corps Reserve, 1944-1946.
Member Interstate Oil Compact Commission, geothermal resources committee, since 1979. Member Kansas Geological Society (editor bulletin 1952-1968), Breakfast Optimist Club (president Wichita 1958), Toastmasters International Club (governor district 22, 1965), American Association Petroleum Geologists, Midway Cosmopolitan Club, Knights of Columbus.
Married Cecilia Ann Sturn, July 6, 1963. Children: John Eugene, Elizabeth Marie, Joan Catherine, James Martin.