{"id":1376,"date":"2018-12-31T16:56:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T16:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2018-12-31T16:56:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T16:56:52","slug":"texas-reads-archiveglenn-dromgoole-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1376","title":{"rendered":"Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

7.22.2018\u00a0 Interesting lives: interesting books<\/h1>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Glenn Patterson believed in hard work and fair play<\/span> and built his Snyder oil drilling company on those principles, writes his son, T.M. \u201cRoe\u201d Patterson, in Crude Blessings: The Amazing Life Story of Glenn Patterson, American Oilman<\/span><\/a><\/span> ($24.95 hardcover).<\/p>\n

Patterson\u2019s brother-in-law, company co-founder Cloyce Talbott, commends the book to \u201cany CEO who wants to learn how it is possible to survive multiple financial crises, deal with the danger of bankruptcy, and in the end become one of the most financially stable companies in existence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Author Patterson says his father \u201cwas honest to a fault and hated a cheater or a liar. He measured people by their heart and their integrity. He was nice to everyone, even his competitors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patterson and Talbott rode the waves of boom and bust in the oil business for nearly thirty years, beginning in 1977, using the down times to purchase more drilling rigs at bargain prices in anticipation of the next boom. Patterson Drilling (eventually Patterson-UTI Energy) would grow from one rig to nearly 400 by the time Glenn retired in 2006.<\/p>\n

Roe Patterson tells his father\u2019s story in a lively, easy-to-read style, concluding with Glenn\u2019s struggles with early onset Alzheimer\u2019s and his late-in-life Christian conversion and baptism. Glenn Patterson died in 2015, and Roe is dedicating part of the proceeds from the book to Alzheimer\u2019s support and research.<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Twin sisters:<\/span> Identical twins Roberta and Rogene Faulkner were born in Breckenridge, Texas, in 1933, graduated from TCU with double majors in chemistry and biology, won Fulbright Scholarships to Germany, earned advanced degrees from the University of Texas, enjoyed careers in teaching and research that allowed them to travel extensively abroad, and married and raised families as well, each bearing four children.<\/p>\n

Now 85, Roberta Sund<\/span> and Rogene Henderson<\/span> tell their remarkable story in impressive (but not laborious) detail in Roberta and Rogene: The Intrepid Faulkner Twins from Texas<\/span><\/a><\/span> (TCU Press, $32.95 hardcover).<\/p>\n

\u201cWho would imagine,\u201d they write, \u201cthat two little girls from a small town in West Texas would experience lives of such travel and adventure, mingling not only with ordinary folk but with royalty, rubes, and rulers, teaching and consulting around the world, and making significant contributions to environmental health.\u201d<\/p>\n

One humorous note was that, growing up, the twins could not pronounce the letter r. So when asked their names, they would say \u201cWhoa Gene\u201d and \u201cWhoa Butta.\u201d Obviously, they grew out of it.<\/p>\n

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Glenn Dromgoole<\/span> writes about Texas books and authors. Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

>> Read his past Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Literary Life here.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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