Barbara Howes:  

My family moved to Calgary from Winnipeg in 1950. All my schooling was in Calgary. My favourite teacher in high school was Phyllis Weston (English). She passed away a few years ago. Another favourite was Helen Smith, who was my homeroom and French teacher for all three years in high school. After high school, I went to the University of Calgary and took a year in Honours Math. I switched to my original first choice, engineering, in 1966 and graduated with a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering in 1970. Our engineering class had a 45th anniversary reunion in August 2015. It was great to see old friends and classmates. I married one of my classmates, Brian Howes, in December 1969. Remarkably, we are still together in spite of having renovated our home in 1996. We had a wonderful trip to Italy in the fall of 2010. Wish I had travelled more when I was younger. Brian is a mechanical engineer and was the Chief Engineer for Beta Machinery Analysis Ltd., (now owned by Wood Group of Aberdeen, Scotland) where he has worked since 1972. He is an expert in machinery problems and has travelled to many countries. Brian cut back to working about 50% in January 2016 and retired in December 2022. We took a couple of great trips in 2016. In February, we went to Arizona for a week and visited with Calgary friends who winter in the area, then spent a couple of weeks in Palm Desert. We traveled to Scotland,in May then took a cruise from Glasgow to Copenhagen, and then did some travelling in Denmark. My mother was from Aberdeen, Scotland, and my father was from southern Denmark. We met my relatives in both countries and had a wonderful time. In mid-September, we took a road trip to the Oregon coast, then drove south as far as San Francisco. We spent a couple of days in the Napa Valley, tasting wines (we recommend the wine train). We spent a week at a timeshare near Kelowna with golfing friends, and also tasted a lot of wines there during the fall wine festival. I worked for Amoco from 1970 until 1989, one year after the merger with Dome Petroleum. Most of my time at Amoco was as a petroleum reservoir engineer. I worked one year at Amoco's Research Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1989, a package was offered that made the decision to stay or go very difficult. I opted for "go". I did contract consulting work from 1989 to about 2007. My last contract was with Petro-Canada, where I worked off-and-on from 1997 to 2007. I traveled three times to China (1993, 1994, and 1996) working on a CIDA project where I taught some reservoir engineering classes. In 1999, I was in Pakistan on another CIDA project and again taught classes in reservoir engineering. As a volunteer, I was very active with the Petroleum Society of CIM from 1980 to 1996. I was the national Chairman in 1995. I became a Fellow of the CIM in 1996. I served a term on the Council of the Association of Engineers, Geologists, and Geophysicists of Alberta (now called the Association of...Expand for more