Keith Drummond
- 2003-09-24
After graduating from Hickman and
then the University of Missouri
with a Masters in geology, I went
to work for Chevron (Standard Oil
company of California) in Bakersfield,
California in 1969. After nine
years with Chevron in California,
my wife Linda and I moved to Denver,
where I've worked in the oil and
gas industry for the last 25 years. I
started my own consulting company,
Drummond Exploration Company, in
1982, and am currently active in
natural gas exploration from my Denver
office with another company in
California, primarily in the Sacramento
basin (no, the natural gas prices
in California were not my doing).
Two of my three
children from my first marriage still live in the
Columbia area (Scott is working
for the agriculture department at MU)
and my oldest daughter is living
here in Denver and working as a tax
accountant for Kinder-Morgan.
Our youngest daughter Loren graduated
from Colorado University two years
ago and is living in Portland,
working as office manager for a
non-profit organization. I'm up to four
grandsons, ages 5-10 (all four
in Hallsville) and we managed to get all
four of them together in our place
in Winter Park this summer (talk
about a sack of cats).
As you can see
from the picture, Linda and I love to bike tour (I
just finished a Telluride to Moab
mountain bike tour with my brother and
some friends), and we love to ski
at our place in Winter Park (Fraser).
After 25 years in Colorado,
we feel like natives, and I don't miss the
Missouri humidity. I'm looking
forward to seeing everyone next month.