Obituary William Robert Woolner

     Willam R. Woolner died on December 26, 2005 of cancer in Wichita Falls, Texas.  Bill was born and raised in Dedham, Massachusetts, and

was graduated from Noble and Greenough School.  He majored in geology at Dartmouth, pledged Zeta Psi and played freshman football.

     His career was spent in exploration geophysics and spanned four decades from 1952 to 1988.  He worked for Taylor Exploration, States Geophysical as vice president and two years as chief geophysicist with Chital Petroleum.  He married Jodie Parrish in 1964.

     His career continued with some consulting, which gave him time do indulge his passion for deep-sea fishing and sailing.  He was pre-

deceased by his wife Jodie in 2002 and his son Jo Paul.  He is survived by children Johnny and Connie, six grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.  Bill's father, William Woolner, was Class of 1910.