Petroleum History Society Archives, October 2008, Volume XIX, Number 6   Page 10 career  involved  all  aspects  of  the  exploration  and  production  business  from  field  work  in  the frontier  areas  to  exploration  research  in  the  company’s  regional  offices  to  senior  executive management when it was in Toronto.  Peter died in 2006. Throughout his career, which involved the discovery and development of a number of major oil and gas fields in Western Canada, he was dedicated to the company and the oil business as well as his family of course. He was well respected by all he did business with as a man of integrity and open to creative and innovative methods of exploration and geological interpretation. In this respect he continued the tradition of the family in being open to all sorts of new ideas just as his forbearers  had  been.    Peter  and  his  wife  Shirley  had  two  sons,  Mark  and  John  who  will  be mentioned later in the comments on their generation. David is the youngest in the Stauft Family having been born in 1934, four months after the death of  his  father,  Jacob  Lauer  (Peter)  Stauft.  He  followed  his  brother  Peter  to  the  University  of Toronto for a similar degree in Geological Engineering, graduating in 1955, and joined Imperial Oil Ltd. as a well site geologist. A decision in 1962 by the company that they needed computer oriented geologists sent David to Calgary for two years training as a computer programmer. Imperial Oil was a pioneer in the use of computer technology in the exploration business. At the time the Oil and Gas Conservation Board of  Alberta  was  recording  all  current  well  information  on  80  column  punched  cards,  but  after printing their monthly reports were disposing of the cards in the garbage. Imperial offered to take them instead, and that was the beginning of the world’s first comprehensive computer-based Well Database System. David was to be trained to write programs and retrieve that well information for mapping and other uses in the exploration process. Unfortunately two years was a bit long, in that instead of becoming a computer-oriented geologist David turned into an exploration oriented computer expert. He spent the rest of his career working in  that  area  with  a  number  of  different  companies,  as  well  as  working  in  a  consulting  and/or contracting role on his own and in a small consulting practice. Most of his employers and clients have  now  disappeared  or  merged  with  other  companies.  These  include  Hudson’s  Bay  Oil  and Gas, Wascana Energy, Canadian Occidental, PanCanadian Petroleum, as well as the consulting firms of SB Geological Consulting and Stauft Management Ltd. David retired in 2003 but has kept busy since, writing family history and generally enjoying life. FIFTH GENERATION – TIMOTHY STAUFT, MARK STAUFT, JOHN STAUFT The current generation of the family includes offspring of both David and Peter. All of the above named persons have worked in the oil business although only Timothy is currently fully employed in that world. Mark and John, both sons of Peter, worked for Imperial Oil at the beginning of their working lives. Both  have  since  moved  on  to  other  areas,  Mark  as  a  lawyer  in  Calgary  with  several  clients directly involved in the oil business, and John as an IT engineer in Victoria. Timothy  is  an  engineer  responsible  for  the  Canadian  operations  of  AuxSable,  which  is  a petrochemical company based in Chicago. He is in the process of setting up a plant in Alberta, which will process light end hydrocarbons to produce petrochemical products. Editor – Dave’s brief summary remarks could not be fitted in.  Sorry!