Background
Cowdery, Robert Douglas was born on August 20, 1926 in Lyons, Kansas, United States. Son of Herman Rayburn and Blanche (Charles) Cowdery.
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Robert Douglas Cowdery
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Bachelor of Science in Geology, Kansas State University, l949; postgraduate, U. Denver, l953-54; postgraduate, Colorado School Mines, 1963-1964; postgraduate, U. Colorado, 1963-1971; postgraduate, Wichita State University, 1979-1988.
Career
Geologist, Cities Svc. Oil Corporation, Oklahoma City-Great Bend, Kansas, l949-5l; staff geologist, Petroleum Inc., Wichita, Kansas, l95l-53; district geologist, Petroleum Inc., Denver, l953-56; division geologist, Petroleum Inc., Denver, l956-57; Rocky Mountain exploration manager, vice president, Petroleum Inc., Denver, l967-75; exploration manager, vice president, Petroleum Inc., Wichita, l975-85; president, director exploration, Petroleum Inc., Wichita, l985-88; retired, l988; consultant geologist, Wichita, l988-.
Achievements
Membership
President board directors Episcopal Social Superior vena cava syndrome S.W. Convocation, Wichita, 1989-1990. Board directors Breakthrough Club (serving mentally ill). Sergeant Army of the United States, 1944-1946.
Member American Association Petroleum Geologists (certified, honorary, vice president 1983-1984, vice president division professional affairs 1987-1988, president-elect 1990-1991, president division professional affairs 1991-1992, president, Distinguished Svc. award division professional affairs 1994, president-elect 1995-1996, president 1996-1997), American Institute Professional Geologists (certified), Rocky Mountain Association Geologists (honorary, president 1973), Kansas Geological Society (honorary, president 1986, Presidential citation 1977, Special award 1998), Kansas Geological Foundation (president since 1990, board directors since 1999, Distinguished Svc. award 1991, President's award 1993, Education award 1997), Society Indiana Professional EarthScientists (Kansas chapter chairman, board directors 1995- national secretary 1996-1997, vice president natural resources 1997-1998), American Geological Institute (representative of AAPC on the member county), Archaeol. Association South Control Kansas (vice president 1988-1989, president 1990-1993, program chair 1998-1999), Southern American Archaeologists, Wyoming Geological Society, Oklahoma City Geological Society, West Texas Geological Society, Panhandle Geological Society, Petroleum Club (board directors 1988-1991, secretary 1991), Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Gamma Epsilon, Beta Theta Pi.
Interests
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Avocations: archaeology, karate (5th degree black belt Tae Kwon Do). E-mail: [email protected].
Connections
Married Mary Sue Barlow, October 9, l954. Children:; Craig Douglas, Patricia Lynn.
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American