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THOMAS D. BAROW
Pages 18-21

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... , chairman and chief executive officer of the Kennecott Corporation, and senior vice president of Exxon Corporation. Thomas Barrow was a Texan, born in San Antonio and raised in Houston.
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... , the American Museum of Natural History, the Geological Society of America Foundation, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, as well as president of both the American Society for Oceanography and the National Oceanography Association.
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... He was named chief executive of the year for the metals and mining industry in 1979 by Chief Executive magazine. In 2010 he received the Pioneer Award from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
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