Oil Discovery Jubilee

Diamond Jubilee Celebrating 75th Anniversary East Texas Oil Field 25th Anniversary East Texas Oil Museum October 3, 2005

Celebration Ceremony events.
East Texas Museum grounds
Hwy 259 at Ross St.  ( Ross St will be closed off)
 
• Musical Tribute
Kilgore College Band and Kilgore College Rangerettes

• Presentation of the Colors
Kilgore Boy Scout Troop 252

• National Anthem
Lana Phillips

• Texas State Song
Kilgore College Band

• Invocation
Father Mark Kusmirek
Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church, Jacksonville, Texas

• Master of Ceremonies
Dr. William Holda - President, Kilgore College

Welcome Introduction of Guests
• Chief Roughneck Hall of Fame
• Response - Byron Dunn, President and CEO, Lone Star Steel Company
• H.L. Cliburn Memorial Scholarship
• Response -Van Cliburn

Congratulatory Remaks
• Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts - Carole Keeton Strayhorn
• U.S. Representative, 1st District of Texas - Louis Gohmert
• Texas Railroad Commisioner - Elizabeth Ames Jones
• Society of Exploration Geophysics 75th Anniversary - Craig Beasley
• Texas Alliance of Energy Prodcers - Pat French

Musical Selection
• "Black Gold" - Charles Woolridge

Keynote Address
• Mr. Kent R. Hance  

Benediction
• Dr. William J. Ingersoll
First Presbyterian Church, Kilgore, Texas

Other Activities  on Oct 3 (Check the Calendar of Events for details of the events):

• 9:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M. -- Free admission to the Museum
• 9:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M. – Oil Field equipment on display in the parking lot west of the Museum & on Ross Street.
• 9:00 A.M. – 12:00       -- Oil Boom Art Show, artist Larry Kitchen.  Reception and visit with the artist in the conference room of the Museum.
• 9:00 A.M. – 12:00       -- Author Mary Brooke Casad will sign her new children’s book, “Bluebonnet at the East Texas Oil Museum” in the Rotunda of the Museum.
• 12:00 P.M. – 1:30 P.M. – Bar-B-Q lunch on the parking lot west of the museum.
• 2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. – Standard Flower Show in the Jim & Victoria Eggers home, 1603 Henderson Blvd, just south of the KC campus
• TBA – Reunion meetings of Oil Field Service personnel