The History of The NABGG: The History of The NABGG 19 81 As Told and Remembered By Reg Spiller Sept 28, 2001


Slide2: 1981 NABGG Launched Hostages freed from Iran Aids 1st identified Columbia is Launched Oil Price Climb to at $30 per/bbl


Slide3: 1982 Falkland war Begins 1st artificial heart in Dr. Barney Clark NABGG 1st Conference E. T. Hits the Box Office Oil Prices Peak at $38 per bbl


Slide4: 1983 Korean airline shot down Terrorist kill 237 marines In Beirut Beat it Vanessa is Miss America


Slide5: 1984 Texaco offers $10 billion for Getty Oil


Slide6: Israel hits PLO in Tunis Rome and Vienna Bombed Achille Lauro hijacked Mexico City 7.8 Earthquake Titanic Found By Divers Texaco is ordered to Pay Pennzoil 11 billion 1985


Slide7: Challenger Disaster Chenernobyl Meltdown 1986 Oil Prices fall $27-12 p/bb


Slide8: La Earthquake Ollie North testifies Iran Contra Dow Jones Drops 13.17% in 1 week 'Black Tuesday' 1987


Slide9: 1988 Pan am Flight Lockerbie Scotland 259 killed


Slide10: 1989 Exxon Valdez Tiananmen Square US Invades Panama


Slide11: 1989 Collapse of Oakland Rt. 880 The Fall of the Berlin Wall Mickey Leland Perishes in Ethiopia


Slide12: 1990 E and W Germany United Persian Gulf war Hubble is Launched Mandela is free after 27 years The www web debuts


Slide13: 1991 Clarence Thomas Desert Storm Soviet Breakup


Slide14: 1992 Rodney king officers get acquittal Clinton elected US goes to Somalia


Slide15: 1993 World trade center bombing Waco


Slide16: 1994 Mandela elected O.J. arrested Small plane crashes At White House


Slide17: 1995 Tokyo Earth quake Nerve gas in subways Oklahoma City Bombing OJ not guilty Million man March Rabin is Killed Million Man March


Slide18: 1996 Hale- Bopp Appears Ella Departs US Government Shuts Down Ron Brown Dies in Air Crash


Slide19: Mother Teresa And Princess Diana Die 1997 Tiger Woods Wins the Masters


Slide20: 1998 Afghan Earthquake Tanzania and Kenyan Embassies bombing 10,000 die in hurricane Mitch Eye


Slide21: 1999 Columbine shootings John Kennedy dies World reaches 6 billion people NBA Looses Jordan NASA Looses the Polar Lander


Slide22: 2000 USS Cole Attacked The Dawn of a new Millennium


Slide23: 2001 Manhattan Sept 11, 2001


Slide24: Reg’s Top Ten Predictions: NABGG will become permanently Staffed and will continue to represent African Americans in the Earth Sciences. 2. NABGG will continue to Focus its $’s in Educating the Young NABGG will receive a permanent benefactor NABGG will Continue well beyond 2021 NABGG will see membership decline in the wake of lower oil prices similar to 1986 and will need to be prepared During high oil prices , Companies will look to NABGG for new Technical and Management personnel. 6. NABGG will get reconnected actively with NPC / Washington 7. Members will create new business together outside the traditional E and P company. NABGG will Joint Venture with AABE NABGG will continue to feel and act like a family but will become more business focused. 10. NABGG will continue to have a rich and lasting History


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Slide26: Respectfully Submitted Reginal W. Spiller Sept 28, 2001


Slide27: Rising Dome of Mt. St Helens 1982


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