ROBERT HENDERSON CROSS ’42

ROBERT HENDERSON CROSS, 87, an oil geologist and geology professor, died April 14, 2007. A veteran of World War II, he served in the Army Signal Corps in the Pacific. He earned a master’s degree at Louisiana State University and worked as an oil geologist in Venezuela, Montana, and New Mexico; he then taught geology at San Jacinto Junior College in Pasadena. In 1989, at the age of 70, he resumed his graduate work on a grant from Baylor University to study plate tectonics. After retirement in 1994, he served as a docent at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. He is survived by his two daughters in Houston and several nieces and nephews.