Schooling For Roughneck Jobs

Noble changed more than football

"Billy Vessels," OU's 1952 Heisman winner said, sticking out his hand. "You're with the Noble Foundation, right? Well, you need to know, without Lloyd Noble, none of us would be here today."

Oilman, philanthropist, regent, Lloyd Noble never apologized for being from Oklahoma.

He didn't want Oklahomans apologizing, either.

But in the 1940s, morale in the Sooner State had been shattered. The Dust Bowl had destroyed the land; "The Grapes of Wrath," the pride.

"People here had a pretty negative attitude about where they lived," said OU regent Max Weitzenhoffer, an OU alum and Broadway producer. "They didn't have anything to hang their hat on."

Noble refused to stand for it.

And in a defining regents meeting in 1945, the sandy-haired, tan-jacketed driller from Chickasaw Nation changed state history. He suggested OU build up its football program. Football, he believed, could help restore Oklahoma's spirit.

"Mr. Noble saw football as a means of building morale," OU president David Boren said. "A way of lifting up the state after the terrible period of the Dust Bowl."

Before long, Oklahoma became synonymous with college football. By 1957, the Sooners had won a record 47 consecutive games and three national championships.

Not much has changed since.

In the modern era, no team has been ranked No. 1 more often than the Sooners. This week, OU will open the season ranked atop the polls once again and is one of the favorites to reach the BCS National Championship Game.

"The building of the football program created something that was so much more than a sport," Weitzenhoffer said. "It gave people here something to be proud of."

Lloyd Noble was born in 1896 in the Indian Territory town of Ardmore.

Ironically, a leader in higher education later in life, Noble dropped out of OU in 1921, took out a loan and drilled his first oil well in Healdton, Okla. The Noble Drilling Corporation rapidly developed into an industry powerhouse, and Noble became one of the most respected drillers in the world.

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Understanding Oil Rig Welder and Roustabout Oil Jobs

People nowadays have become more concerned about the oil jobs . Yet, besides the fortune that the jobs can give to the workers, people also need to understand about the field that they want to join in such oil rig business. Oil jobs can be categorized into two basic fields. They are the job where people are aimed as the front army in getting the oil from its source that is called roughneck and the jobs where people are given the duty to maintain any supportive tools and the infrastructures related to the oil business that is called roustabout.

The roustabout oil jobs do the cleaning, hauling, transporting, and any supportive help for the roughneck team. Both the team contributes the significant help to the oil extracting activity. Such kind of job requires the maintenance ability to make sure anything to work properly. They must master the ability in using the tools and equipments of maintaining the infrastructures and the transportation also.

In roustabout job, the one that is considered having the huge responsibility is the oil rig welder jobs . Such kind of job requires the good physical endurance. It is because they must be placed in certain oil rig or any place to build or repair the metalwork. The workers in such field must not have the alto phobia. It is because they will often climb to the high place to repair or build.

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