Twenty-one years later, in 1986, the club struck a deal with Trammell Crow to move to the 39th and 40th floors of his newly constructed Texas Commerce Tower at 2200 Ross Avenue (now called Chase Tower). Later, he worked on the successful 1954 operation to overthrow the democratically elected president of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz. Olivia Medlin joined Arcadia Operating, LLC as a Senior Accountant in July of 2021 and now serves as the Accounting Manager. All rights reserved. Clyde has held the office of Secretary of the TIPRO Board of Directors, while Pat has been vice-president of the then Region IV (Dallas/Fort Worth). In 1995, the average age of DPC members was 67. The once-strict formal dress code has been relaxed to business casual. Poppy Bush was working there in his role as a trainee for Neil Mallons Dresser Industries. Outer Continental Shelf Advisory Board (Past GOM Committee Chairman) - www.ocsadvisoryboard.org Ark-La-Tex Association of Professional Landmen - www.altapl.org Dallas Association of Petroleum Landmen (Past Director, Landman of the Year 2001) - www.dapl.org East Texas Association of Petroleum Landmen - www.etapl.org For Part 1, please go here; Part 2, here; Part 3, here; Part 4, here; Part 5, here;Part 6, here; Part 7, here; Part 8, here; Part 9, here; Part 10, here. The stocks price dropped. Mr. Finks currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Petroleum Club of Fort Worth. He has created over $2 Billion in stakeholder value through initiatives resulting in $100 Million incremental cash flow, identified over $75 Million in operating cost / capex savings, and added 125 MMBOE proved reserves. He explained that Air Force General Charles Cabell, a Texan (and brother of Dallass mayor), would be in charge of air cover for an invasion, and that Vice President Richard Nixon, whose brief included some national security areas, was the administrations Cuba case officer.. As the oil and gas industry has evolved, so has the 80-year-old institution that caters to it. Anne Raymond is the former President of Crow Holdings Capital Partners, an investment management business serving global clients in the private equity real estate business and investment advisory business. 1990-92 Forte Energy Corp. (Houston, Texas) Co-Founder He was a nice guy.. Ron alsoserves on the governing boards of A.H. Belo Corporation, Cornell University, the Harvard Law School, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Jazz Artists of Charleston, the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, and a presidential appointee confirmed by the Senate. But the role of the Dallas Petroleum Club hasnt changed, he says: It is the same as when it was incorporated in 1934providing the Dallas oil and gas community a stimulating atmosphere where members conduct business, gather socially, and expand culturally., 750 North St.Paul St. With help from House speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority leader Lyndon Johnson, Dallas had attracted a number of defense contractors, which made it a growing hub of the nations military-industrial complex. This was a forebear of later CIA money-laundering operations, including Iran-contra, in which Poppy Bush played a hidden but significant role. For some people, apparently, making such connections was as dangerous as letting one live wire touch another. During her tenure, she reactivated the monthly TIPRO Tuesday Luncheons. He started and ran a baffling array of companies, which tended to change names frequently. Gold was an intriguing figure. Sabotage, one of many OSS skills passed on to the CIA. .hidden_cal{display:none;}, Dallas Petroleum Club 2200 Ross Ave. Dallas, TX 75201. Ron has three daughters who graduated from The Hockaday School and Greenhill School and were student/athletes in college at Rice, Penn and Wesleyan. You can count on it. Mr. Michael E. Montgomery is Senior Geologist at Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines Pty Ltd., Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer at Trek Resources, Inc., President at Montgomery Petroleum, Inc. and a Member at Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy. The government also imposed a 60 percent royalty on oil production, believed to be the highest anywhere. Directors and Officers of Penson Worldwide, Flowserve, Key Energy, Affiliated Computer Systems, and other major corporations. George de Mohrenschildt, who always seemed to move at the behest of people of higher rank than himself, turned to Cuba. They each have served on the Board of Petroleum Club of Fort Worth and are active members of the Dallas Petroleum Club, as well as IPAA and the Texas Alliance. Meanwhile, George de Mohrenschildt, thrice-married bon vivant, finally met his match, literally and figuratively in 1957 when he became involved with Jeanne LeGon, who would become his fourth wife. National Board of Directors - 2002-07 National President - 2005-06 SIPES Foundation Board of Directors - 2003-07. . On the same ticket was the Republican nominee for the United States Senate, Poppy Bush. To register for this event, please click here. He later told the Warren Commission that he left the Buckleys Pantepec Oil back in 1946 after a falling-out with a company vice president. Mr. Porter is the founder, President and principal shareholder of Four P Investments, Inc., an oil & gas company established in 1996 that currently has interests in approximately 400 producing properties in five states. Bouhe and Raigorodsky both would befriend de Mohrenschildt and remain in close contact with him during 1962 and 1963. All rights reserved.info@mitchellenergypartners.com. He earned his BA degree in Economics from the University of Oklahoma, where he began developing his large network of energy professionals. Bank One Corp. ultimately acquired MBank Dallas in 1989 and subsequently merged with JP Morgan Chase. Prior to EnCap Advisors, Mr. Mitchell was Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Bank One Corp.s North American Independents Group, which focused on the E&P sector of the oil and gas industry. Oversaw company processes related to accounting, treasury, tax, insurance, and human resources. 11:30AM Tue 19 Nov 2019, Central timezone Please click here to donate; its tax deductible. The club, which occupies the 39th and 40th floors of Chase Tower in downtown Dallas, was established in 1934, in the era of the wildcatter, when oilmen such as H.L. He then attended the Harvard Law School, where he served as the editor and business manager of the Harvard Civil Rights/Civil Liberties Law Review. The first annual dinner and dance, marking the formal opening of the DPC, was held Feb. 9, 1935. Senator Herbert Lehman of New York, son of a founder of Lehman Brothers, together with a group of associates established the National Committee for a Free Europe Inc. At the direction of Washington, these entities laundered U.S. government funds (including monies from the CIA) for use by Eastern European insurgents. Born in Toledo, Ohio Dallas, Texas 75201. With 150+ years of combined experience in the domestic oil & gas industry. TIPRO award. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Standard Oil of New Jersey had, according to the article, invested thirty-five million dollars in a Cuban refinery, and other companies had invested comparable sums. Members are affectionately referred to as Doctors out of respect for their expertise in the industry and those who are called upon to make a presentation at a regular meeting have the title of Doctor of Rhetorology conveyed upon them by the Board of Directors as a token of appreciation. LinkedIn Rather he was at the center of a major corporate effort, involving many of Americas largest institutions. Raigorodsky was a director of the Tolstoy Foundation, a U.S. government-funded organization that assisted Russian exiles. The rules now allow for jeans and collared shirts, provided they are clean, neat, and in keeping with the traditions of good taste and style exhibited at the Dallas Petroleum Club, Parchment says. In 1958, he went to Yugoslavia on what was said to be business for Mecom whose foundation, the San Jacinto Fund, was later identified as a CIA funding conduit. and production. This was apparently a big deal for companies like Stanolind, which had no foreign production at all until it went into Cuba. The foundation supports between 10 and 12 deserving organizations per year. These claims were now limited to twenty thousand acres, a major setback for companies such as CVOVT, with its fifteen million acres. Pat and her husband Clyde S. McCall, Jr. are both Explorer Members of TIPRO. Copyright 2023, D Magazine Partners, Inc. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. When that bearded dictator took over the government in Cuba, he started kicking American investors smack in thepocketbook. All rights reserved. Eventually they made their way to New York, where brother Sergei was working on the top-secret Manhattan Project with J. Robert Oppenheimer. Barnes spoke at length on the objectives. Board Members. Fomenko had needed scouts and informants to keep him up-to-date about his competitors and about regional intrigues. The club set up shop in the Baker Hotel on Commerce Street, after signing a $6,000-a-year lease agreement. After becoming proficient on the supply end, he began to expand into other areas of the industry such as plugging and abandonment and oil & gas production. And it packs a punch. In 1950, together with Poppy Bushs old friend and former roommate Eddie Hooker, he launched a modest oil investment firm, Hooker and de Mohrenschildt, with offices in New York, Denver, and Abilene. At this time West Texas was the center of a new boom. Shortly after the assassination, Crichton would become the GOP nominee for governor of Texas in a race against the incumbent John Connally, who had recovered from his wounds of November 22. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees and Investment Committee of Woodberry Forest School in Virginia. By the fall of 1962, when de Mohrenschildt was devoting much of his time to squiring Lee Harvey Oswald, he had gained entre to the crme de la crme of the petroleum world. BSA, a private Dallas, Texas based E&P company founded in 1989, owns and operates more than 5,000 wells in more than 50 fields across Texas. Secretary. While Jeanne designed clothing, her coworker Abraham Zapruder cut the patterns and material. Other Commission testimony revealed that in the couple of years prior to the Kennedy assassination, de Mohrenschildt had traveled frequently from Dallas to Houston, where he visited with figures such as George Brown of Brown and Root, the construction and military contracting giant that helped launch LBJs career, and Jean de Menil of Schlumberger, the huge oil services firm. MacNaughton was the employer of George Bouhe, the Russian migr who would later introduce George de Mohrenschildt to Lee Harvey Oswald. Yet by 1950 he was working with his former boss, Pantepec president Warren Smith, on the latters new firm called the Cuban-Venezuelan Oil Voting Trust Company (CVOVT). Besides Rice, another Empire Trust director was Lewis MacNaughton, a Dresser Industries board member from 1959 to 1967. Still it became a Wall Street darling. We always wore coats and ties.. Since forming MEA, Mr. Mitchell has led the origination in, structuring and completion of M&A, recapitalization and financial advisory engagements with an aggregate value of approximately $6 billion. One of Dulless top three aides, the covert operations chief Richard M. Bissell (Yale 32), was made director. Early registration endsNovember 5th (Price increases $10 after this date) By the early fifties, Dallas contained a small and close-knit community of Russian migrs, perhaps thirty in all. Empire worked hard to protect its foreign investments and especially its stake in the defense contractor General Dynamics. Mr. Westerman previously served as a Director of Vintage Bank, Benedictine College, the Dallas Petroleum Club, the . He joined the powerful Dallas Petroleum Club and became a regular at Council on World Affairs meetings. But its chief cause of grief came when the Communist-orientedCuban government refused to extend its concession to explore for oil. N. David Porter President Mr. Porter is the founder, President and principal shareholder of Four P Investments, Inc., an oil & gas company established in 1996 that currently has interests in approximately 400 producing properties in five states. In her spare time, Olivia enjoys kayaking, yoga, and hiking with her pups. AAPG; SPWLA, President San Antonio Chapter Or between Bush and the C.I.A.? Gary L. McDaniel began his career in the oil & gas business in 1975 with The McDaniel Company. More than a decade earlier, Barnes's first CIA job had been as deputy director of the Psychological Strategy Board, a . Mr. Montgomery was previously employed as Chief Operating Officer & Director by Aurora Gold Corp., Senior Mine Geologist by Gold Fields Australia Pty Ltd., Senior Mine Geologist by Mount Gibson Mining Ltd., and Senior Mine Geologist by Consolidated Minerals Pty Ltd. 1987-90 SPG Exploration/Amax Oil & Gas, Inc. (San Antonio, TX & Houston, TX) At the same time, what looks to have been intelligence operations under oil industry cover were moving into position, as Poppy Bush began moving his rigs to Howard Hughess Cay Sal Bank in the Bahamas. Patricia Dean Boswell McCall attended SMU and graduated from TCU with a major in education and a minor in speech therapy. Mr. Burnett also serves as Chairman of Burnett Petroleum Company, Magnolia Petroleum Company and Talco Oil Company. Hunt, Algur Meadows, Clint Murchison Sr., and Grady H. Vaughn Sr. were making history. Mr. Burnett currently serves on the industry related board of the Dallas Wildcat Committee and has served on the boards of both the Dallas Petroleum Club and the Dallas Producers Club. The Russian community as a whole bonded naturally with the citys right-wing oilmen and bankers, and all clustered together under the remarkable leadership of Poppy Bushs uncle, Neil Mallon. Or between the C.I.A. In March 1960, the Eisenhower administration signed off on a plan to equip and train Cuban exiles, and drills soon began in Florida and Guatemala. Over seventy years later the PECD is still regularly meeting for lunch in downtown Dallas, Texas. The program is laced with traditions handed down from the organizations founders and from those all who followed. From June 1958 until June 1986, he held various engineering and management positions in the oil and gas industry and, for six years before October 1991, he was a Senior Vice President in the Corporate Finance Department of Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. in . She currently serves as secretary of the Board of Directors of TIPRO and is a former recipient of the prestigious Mr. Geology Escalante, whose service was vaunted for its U.S. spy network, claimed that the Texas group was headed by George H. W. Bush and Jack Crichton. By November 30, 1956, the New York Times had this announcement: The Cuban Stanolind Oil Company, an affiliate of the Standard Oil Company(Indiana), has signed an agreement with the Cuban-Venezuelan Oil VotingTrust and Trans-Cuba Oil Company for the development of an additional3,000,000 acres in Cuba. Location:Dallas Petroleum Club,2200 Ross Ave.,Dallas, TX 75201, Registration:Special member pricing for DBC members: $45. In previous years he has served on the board of directors for Triumph Petroleum Company, Triumph Pacific Oil and Gas Company, Bagby Energy, LLC., U.S. Scientific, LLC., Leesburg Asphalt, LLC., Canada Energy Partners (TSX) and Choctaw Capital, LLC.. Mr. Burnett currently serves on the industry related board of the Dallas Wildcat Committee and has served on the boards of both the Dallas Petroleum Club and the Dallas Producers Club. In 2014, attendance for the event at the Omni Dallas Convention Center Hotel was capped at 1,600with a waiting list, says Paul Parchment, the clubs chief operating officer and general manager. Until the mid-1980s, membership in the Petroleum Club was limited to white men, and women had a separate dining room. Our people and their commitment to hands-on customer service are the backbone of the company and instrumental in our continued success. [box]WhoWhatWhy plans to continue doing this kind of groundbreaking original reporting. Michael W. Mitchell, CEO/Senior Managing Director. He crossed a river into Finland in the middle of the night and traveled to New York, where he went to work for the Rockefellers Chase Bank. For Part 1, please go here; Part 2, here; Part 3, here; Part 4, here; Part 5, here; A Cauldron of Right Wing Americans, Right Wing Russians, and Nazis. The Petroleum Engineer's Club of Dallas (PECD) was founded late in 1940 by a group of professionals who were at that time local members of the Petroleum Division, American Institute of Mining Engineers. Her familys business (involved in oil and gas, ranching and real estate) was started in the late 60s by her deceased husband, Bruce Boswell, and is run primarily by her son, John, though she and her daughters are active participants in the Partnership, with Pat serving as secretary and treasurer. He is also a graduate of Southwestern Graduate School of Banking at Southern Methodist University. Clyde has held the office of Secretary of the TIPRO Board of Directors, while Pat has been vice-president of the then Region IV (Dallas/Fort Worth). Outside of the industry he has served on The University of Texas Presidents Associates, Baylor Bethesda Board of Directors, Caduceus Society Baylor Health Care System, and the Presidents Council at Dallas Theological Seminary. In 1953 Jeanne and Robert joined the Russian elites move to Dallas. 919 Congress Ave, Suite 1000, Austin, Texas 78701. Boswell Interests, Ltd. Secretary and Class B DirectorPatricia Dean Boswell McCall attended SMU and graduated from TCU with a major in education and a minor in speech therapy. Both men consistently denied it. The NCPAs Swift Boat Campaign Against Its Own Leader and Founder. Copyright 2022 Burnett Companies United. These operated largely below the radar, and fronted for some of North Americas biggest names, including the Bronfmans (Seagrams liquor), the Du Ponts, and the Kuhn-Loeb family of financiers. In a 2001 oral history, Crichton volunteered that he was a friend of George de Mohrenschildts: I liked George. DAPL Board Meeting. Robert M. Donohue, Jr. Vice President of Land Scott Peacock Vice President of Operations Edwin Stacey Reservoir Engineering Manager James M. Mason Vice President of Treasury Brad Truett Senior Geologist Susie Skidmore Vice President of Human Resources Responsible leadership. This stock was listed on the American Stock Exchange but Inever see it quoted there any more. [Read More] jennifer elliott. Phillips and Hunt would be hounded by allegations that they had been present in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Hunt, Algur Meadows, Clint. Backed by Secretary of State Dean Acheson (Yale 43, Scroll and Key), this group spawned a subsidiary, the Crusade for Freedom, with General Lucius Clay, which proceeded to launch a series of gigantic annual fund-raising campaigns. He is also a member of TIPRO and the Board of Directors of the Dallas Wildcat Committee. In his spare time, he enjoys golf, skiing, and camping. Anne also serves on the non-profit boards of DFW Teach for America and Lone Star Big Brothers Big Sisters. In the early years; Mr. McDaniel was primarily active on the supply side, selling Oil Country tubular goods and production equipment. Dallas Petroleum Club 2200 Ross Ave. Dallas, TX 75201 Ron McCray is a seasoned corporate director, chief executive and investor. Hunt and Phillips attended the first meeting of the Cuban Task Force, held January 18, 1960, in Barness office. He currently chairs the Finance Committee and serves on the Church Council of Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas. Escalantes assertion cannot be easily dismissed: Crichtons role in covert operations, about which extensive new information is provided in chapter 7, was little understood at the time Escalante published his memoirs. Like George, Jeanne was Russian, and she had come to the United States and settled in New York City in the same year he did. Like many of the other migrs, he married into American society at a high level: his new father-in-law had set up the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank. Copyright Dallas Business Club, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. I remember growing up, and especially when I was in high school and college, having lunch at the Petroleum Club with my dad [Jack Vaughn Sr.] says Robie Vaughn, owner of Vaughn Petro LLC. During the 1950s, as petroleum reserves in the Southwest declined, oilmen there were looking to the southern hemisphere for new opportunities. Ms. Raymond will share her journey with us providing insights about deal making, real estate, capital raising, the inevitable cycles, company culture and her experiences as the only woman in the room. Kade McDonald. The CVOVT never amounted to much besides promising reports and modest production. Ron graduated from Cornell University, where he earned a varsity letter and set school and meet records in track and field, led student organizations, was named to Dean's Lists and, during his junior and senior years, to honor societies. Resident of Midland, Texas for 16 years, Professional and Honorary Societies Members of the Texas Crusade for Freedom would become a whos who of Texans connected to the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He is a former President and current member of the Dallas Petroleum Club and the Dallas Wildcat Committee and a member of the World . Stanolind has agreed to start drilling within 120 days andmaintain a one-rig continuous drilling program [for] three years. 2020-2021 DAPL Board of Directors (continued) NGL DIRECTOR. But according to his son St. John Hunt, E. Howard Hunt began confessing knowledge of a plot against Kennedy near the end of his life and named Phillips as one of the participants. Many of the figures involved in those two entities also showed up on the boards of other influential local groups. To me, it was always a father-and-son deal. Under this umbrella, Mallon brought together many of Dallass most powerful citizens, from oilmen and titans of the burgeoning military-contracting industry to German scientists who had fled the wreckage of Hitlers Germany to help fashion weapons against the Communist threat. Ronpreviously served on the board of directors of EveryWare Global, Knight Ridder, Inc. and Kimberly-Clark de Mexico, S.A. de CV. But can we count on you? But those days are gone, Parchment says.