Covington, Guy

This is an oral history interview with Guy Covington conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Guy Covington is a 4th generation shipbuilder from Orange, TX. Guy's father, Don Covington, became president of Levingston Shipbuilding Company and later started Texas Dry Dock, Inc. (TDI) after Levingston shut down. Guy worked summers at Levingston and finally went to work for TDI in 1992. In 1999 he helped his brother, Russell, start Beacon Marine in Orange, TX, to refurbish and convert drilling rigs. Currently he is the vice president of the company and helps manage the firm's shipyards in the Golden Triangle and Mexico. Company history/significance: Guy and his brother, Russell, come from a long-line of shipbuilders; it is their heritage. The cumulative experienced gained over the last century by the Convington shipbuilders and their workers have been passed on to this generation at Beacon Marine. The company emerged after TDI-Hatler sold out to Friede & Goldman in the late 1990s. TDI pioneered the rig repair/conversion business in the 1990s and that legacy has carried over to Beacon marine. Beacon has several yards in the Triangle, including their main yard on the historic Harbor Island, first established by Weaver and Levingston in the 1930s and 1940s. Beacon has also taken their company global and opened a shipyard in Mexico to service rigs for PEMEX and their American drilling contractors

Anand, Pradeep

This is an oral history interview with Pradeep Anand conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Pradeep Anand came to Houston from Bombay in 1978. Born in 1950, his grandparents and ancestors were originally from Tamil Nadu. He attended a private Catholic school in his youth and trained as an engineer at Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT). Like his relative, Mr. Anand sought a scholarship for an advanced degree overseas and because his sister had moved to Houston, he applied to the University of Houston. He worked toward a PhD in business marketing but ultimately decided to graduate with a MBA in 1981. On campus, Mr. Anand was president of the Indian Students Association and was actively involved in Indian campus activities. After struggling through Houston’s economic recession in the early to mid-eighties, he founded Seeta Resources, a marketing strategy firm, in 1994. In 2006, Mr. Anand published a semi-autobiographical book, An Indian in Cowboy Country

Andrus, Nedra

This is an oral history interview with Nedra Andrus conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Nedra Andrus is the wife of Lafayette realtor Dwight Andrus. She was born in Merryville, but lived in a number of different towns in southern Louisiana while she was growing up. Her father was a manager for Morgan-Lindsay stores (a five-and-ten cent chain store). She moved to Lafayette when she was in the third grade and studied music at Southwestern Louisiana Institute (SLI) and Loyola. She describes the growth and changes in Lafayette related to the influx of oil-related business

White, Bill

This is an oral history interview with Bill White conducted as part of the Houston History Project

Nicholas, Bob

This is an oral history interview with Bob Nicholas conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Bob Nicholas is a native of Beaumont, TX. He is currently practicing maritime law in Houston, TX. He worked for Exxon Shipping Company in the 1970s and 1980s and was a "first responder" to the March 24, 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Tanker accident in Alaska. Nicholas is also an expert on the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, the oil spill legislation that resulted from the Exxon Valdez incident, one of the worst environmental disasters in US history

Houston Negro Hospital archival newspaper clippings

A list of newspaper clippings associated with the Houston Negro Hospital project that are available in the Joseph S. Cullinan Paper