[Deathwatch] Cecil H. Green, TI Co-Founder, 102

[Deathwatch Central]

Cecil H. Green, Texas Instruments Co-Founder and Honorary Knight of the
British Empire, Leaves Legacy of Philanthropic Works
Saturday April 12, 9:00 pm ET

DALLAS, April 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Cecil Howard Green, one of the
original founders of Texas Instruments and a renowned philanthropist
benefiting education, arts and culture, died today at age 102 in La
Jolla, California.

"Cecil's leadership helped shape the very foundation of Texas
Instruments -- respect for people, ethics in business, and the strong
belief that we need to give back to our community. He was a visionary
who understood the critical need for excellence in education and
planted the seeds for a legacy that is still in existence at TI today,"
said Tom Engibous, Chairman, President and CEO of Texas Instruments.

"With incredible foresight, Cecil and his wife, Ida, strengthened the
teaching and research capabilities of institutions around the world.
Millions of students and alumni throughout the years have benefited
from their generosity."

Mr. Green was made an Honorary Knight of the British Empire by Queen
Elizabeth II in 1991, in recognition of his lifetime of giving.

The Road to the Oil Patch

Mr. Green's life is the story of an uncommon journey, from nomadic,
uncertain early years, to becoming internationally recognized as one of
the world's leading philanthropists.

Born in Whitefield, a suburb of Manchester, England, on August 6, 1900,
Mr. Green and his family migrated to Nova Scotia, Toronto and San
Francisco. There, as a witness to the great San Francisco earthquake of
1906, young Cecil received his first lesson in geophysics.

"We finally made it out of the building with whatever personal
belongings we could carry and weren't allowed back in. Like thousands
of others, we wound up in Golden Gate Park, living in a tent. We
watched the whole city burn. It was a terrible thing. There was martial
law. I can still remember a soldier breaking a store window to get me a
pair of shoes," Mr. Green said in a 1982 interview.

The family finally settled in Vancouver, British Columbia, where Mr.
Green remained until he went to the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, earning both bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical
engineering.

In 1923, while working on his master's thesis at the General Electric
Research Center in Schenectady, New York, he met his wife-to-be and
partner in philanthropy, Ida Flansburgh. They were married 60 years
until Ida's death in 1986.

The couple crisscrossed the country five times, making their home in
auto camps and tents, as Mr. Green searched for a challenging career.
More than once, he and Ida slept on a pull-down bed, ate off an orange
crate and made do with $15 a month. During this time, he worked as an
engineer for various electronics companies. He unsuccessfully tried to
start a business selling neon signs in Canada. And he answered a number
of disappointing want ads for jobs selling everything from insurance to
automobile equipment.

But once Mr. Green found a niche in geophysical exploration, everything
fell into place. In 1930, the Greens moved to Oklahoma where Cecil
accepted a job from Eugene McDermott as chief of a seismographic field
crew for the newly organized Geophysical Service Inc. (GSI)

"It took me six years to figure out what I wanted to do," Mr. Green
said in a 1983 interview. "The geophysical exploration business offered
a happy combination of technology and people."

Founded in May 1930 in Dallas, Texas, GSI was one of the first
independent prospecting companies established to perform reflection
seismic exploration for petroleum. GSI's name changed in 1939 to
Coronado Corporation, with GSI becoming an oil exploration subsidiary
of the company.

Founding Texas Instruments

In 1941, Mr. Green and three partners -- J. Erik Jonsson, Eugene
McDermott and H.B. Peacock -- bought GSI when they heard the owners
planned to sell the oil production unit.

Mr. Green borrowed money, took out a mortgage, committed his and Ida's
insurance policies as collateral and scraped together everything they
owned to pay his share. The deal went through on December 6, 1941, the
day before Pearl Harbor was bombed.

Under the leadership of Mr. Green and his team, which by he end of the
decade included Pat Haggerty, GSI became a geophysical exploration
service leader. But it was the electronics work begun during World War
II that was to make important technology history. In 1951, the
company's name changed to Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI), and GSI
became a wholly owned subsidiary of TI.

Mr. Green served as vice president (1941-1951), president (1951-1955)
and chairman of GSI (1955-1959). He also served as vice president and
director of Texas Instruments and in 1976 was named honorary director
of the company.

Today, Texas Instruments is the world's leading designer and supplier
of digital signal processing and analog technologies, the engines
driving the Internet age. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, TI is an $8.4
billion company with more than 34,000 employees worldwide.

Championing Education

Internationally recognized as an engineer, geophysicist,
philanthropist, photographer and bibliophile, he devoted his energies
to cultivating the human mind. The generosity of Cecil and Ida is
evident throughout Dallas and beyond, with their names gracing
buildings, facilities, programs and professorships at numerous
institutions. Since 1950, Cecil and Ida Green have donated hundreds of
millions of dollars to universities and schools around the world,
making an indelible mark on scientific and medical education. Mr.
Green's giving was especially striking because of its magnitude and
diversity. He never picked just one level of education, but supported a
broad spectrum from kindergarten to post-doctoral studies.

While Mr. Green's philanthropy stretches from Australia to British
Columbia, England and Canada, much of his giving has been to Texas
institutions, co-founding the Graduate Research Center of the
Southwest, which became the University of Texas at Dallas in 1969.
Other Texas educational beneficiaries include Southern Methodist
University, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Children's
Medical Center of Dallas, St. Mark's School of Texas, Texas Christian
University in Fort Worth and Austin College in Sherman, Texas.

In 1965, Green established the Texas Association of Graduate Education
and Research, also known as TAGER. It was one of the first distance
learning networks in the world and was a source of collegiate education
for thousands of engineers in North Texas. In 1996, he participated in
the opening of the TI Founders IMAX Theater at The Science Place in
Dallas.

Beyond Texas, Mr. Green's giving has extended to some of the world's
most prestigious universities, including establishing the Green College
at Oxford. In addition, his gifts have enhanced the University of
British Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his
alma maters, as well as Stanford University, the Colorado School of
Mines, the University of California San Diego and The University of
Sydney.

In a 1982 interview, Mr. Green noted, "Intelligent giving is not easy.
In fact, Ida and I have discovered that lots of time, effort and
thought are necessary to make sure that our giving would have a
multiplying effect by triggering new and healthy growth in relation to
the finally selected project. All of this adds up to the ultimate and
rewarding result -- that our giving has been virtual investments in
pleasure and satisfaction."

In Recognition of Leadership

Mr. Green has been honored widely. He and his wife were cited as top
humanitarians and civic contributors when they received the coveted
Linz Award in Dallas in 1974, the first couple to receive it jointly.
In 1973, the University of Texas system presented Mr. Green with its
exclusive Santa Rita Award in recognition of his concern for and
support of higher education. A comprehensive documentation of his
outstanding contributions to science and industry was produced by the
National Academy of Sciences in 1978. Mr. and Mrs. Green were
recognized with an unprecedented international tribute for their
creative and visionary philanthropy that had a positive effect on the
lives of thousands of young people throughout the world.

He was also recognized as Philanthropist of the Year in Dallas and San
Diego, in 1987 and 1988, respectively. In addition, he held a long and
impressive list of honorary degrees from institutions including
Southern Methodist University, the University of British Columbia and
the University of Sydney in Australia, with the most recent being a
Doctor of Humane Letters in 1990 from the University of Southern
California. Of his many honors, Mr. Green's most unique was his being
appointed Honorary Knight of the Most Excellent Order of the British
Empire in 1991. Queen Elizabeth II honored Mr. Green as an educational
philanthropist for his contribution toward the establishment of Green
College at Oxford University in 1979. Green College was the 39th
college at Oxford University and the first to be built at Oxford in 200
years.

In a program from An International Tribute to Cecil and Ida Green by
the National Academy of Sciences, the Green's longtime friend,
Professor Emeritus Robert R. Shrock of MIT wrote of the couple's
generosity:

      "To think seriously of giving to help others is commendable; to
give is
      the essence of humanness and nobility; to give generously and
with deep
      purpose is the greatest act of all because it requires thought,
effort
      and discrimination of the highest order."


		      Cecil and Ida Green's Philanthropy

    The list of donations by Cecil and Ida Green is extensive.	A
partial
listing includes:
     * 50 academic, medical, and civic buildings
     * 14 special rooms in academic, medical and civic buildings
     * 20 special instructional and research facilities
     * 28 endowed chairs in 15 institutions
     * Countless endowed awards to students

    Some of the gifts include:

     * The Cecil H. and Ida Green Science Building at the University of
Texas
       Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

     * The Cecil H. and Ida Green Building for Earth Sciences at
Massachusetts
       Institute of Technology

     * The Green College at Oxford University in England

     * The Cecil H. and Ida Green Hospital of Scripps Clinic and
Research
       Foundation in La Jolla, Calif.

     * The Maggie Green Ward, named after Cecil's mother, in the
Children's
       Medical Center of Dallas

     * The Science Information Center at Southern Methodist University

     * The Cecil H. Green Center at the University of Texas at Dallas


		    Cecil H. Green Biographical Fact Sheet

     Born:
     Manchester, England, August 6, 1900
     U.S. Naturalized Citizen, Dallas Federal Court, 1936

     Married:
     Ida Mabelle Flansburgh (1903-1986), Schenectady, N.Y., February 6,
1926
     (no children)

     Education:
     * 1906-15 Public Schools, Vancouver, B.C.
     * 1915-18 King Edward High School, Vancouver, B.C.
     * 1918-21 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.
     * 1921-24 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.

     Earned Degrees:
     * 1923 - B.S. (Electrical Engineering) Massachusetts Institute of
       Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
     * 1924 - M.S. (Electrical Engineering) Massachusetts Institute of
       Technology, Cambridge, Mass.

     Honorary Degrees:
     * 1953 - Doctor of Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden,
Colo.
     * 1961 - Doctor of Science, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Okla.
     * 1961 - Doctor of Science, University of Sydney, Sydney,
Australia
     * 1964 - Doctor of Science, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver,
       B.C.
     * 1966 - LL.D., Austin College, Sherman, Tx.
     * 1967 - Doctor of Science, Southern University, Dallas, Tx.
     * 1974 - Doctor of Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
Mass.
     * 1974 - Doctor of Science, Texas Christian University, Fort
Worth, Tx.
     * 1976 - Doctor of Civil Jurisprudence, University of Dallas,
Dallas, Tx.
     * 1978 - Doctor of Commercial Science, Suffolk University, Boston,
Mass.
     * 1986 - Doctor of Science, Oxford University, Oxford, England
     * 1987 - Doctor of Philanthropy, Hawthorne College (with wife)
     * 1990 - Doctor of Humane Letters (LHD), University of Southern
       California, Los Angeles, Calif.

     Professional Experience:
     1924-26  General Electric, Schenectady, N.Y.
	      Research and design in steam turbine generator division
of A.C.
	      Engineering Department; Instructor in Advanced
Engineering, G.E.
	      School, Schenectady, N.Y.

     1928-29  Raytheon Manufacturing Company, Cambridge, Mass.
	      Research on gaseous tube devices

     1928-29  Wireless Specialty Apparatus Co., Boston, Mass.
	      Production Engineer in "Faradon" Condensers

     1929-30  Federal Telegraph Co., Palo Alto, Calif.
	      Production Engineer in Electronics Shop

     1930-31  Geophysical Service, Dallas, Tx. (Predecessor company of
Texas
	      Instruments)
	      Field Party Chief

     1931-32  Federal Telegraph Co., Newark, N.J.
	      Director of Electronics Laboratory

     1932-51  Geophysical Service, Dallas, Tx.
	      Field Party Chief, Supervisor

     1951-79  Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, Tx.
	      Director, Honorary Director of TI
	      Vice President, President, Chairman, and Honorary
Chairman of
	      Geophysical Service Inc. (GSI)

     Educational Affiliations:
     * Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
       * Life Member of the Corporation
       * Past President, Alumni Association, 1968-69
       * Past President, MIT Club of Dallas
       * Past Member, Visiting Committee, Electrical Engineering, MIT
       * Visiting Committee to Physics, Past Chairman, MIT
       * Visiting Committee to Earth and Planetary Sciences, Chairman,
MIT
       * Honorary Lectureship in Earth Sciences, 1973
       * Membership Committee
     * Excellence in Education Foundation, North Texas, Trustee and
Chairman
       of the Board of Trustees
     * The Association for Graduate Education and Research (TAGER),
North
       Texas Trustee and Chairman (Now The Green Network)
     * Austin College, Sherman, Tx., Past Trustee and Past Member,
Executive
       Committee
     * Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Tx., Past Trustee
     * Southern Methodist University Foundation for Science &
Engineering,
       Trustee
     * St. Mark's School of Texas, Dallas, Tx., Honorary Trustee and
Past
       President
     * University of Texas System, Past member, Executive Committee,
       Chancellor's Advisory Council
     * Scripps Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, La
Jolla,
       Calif., Member, Visiting Committee
     * Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass.,
Honorary
       Trustee
     * Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colo., Member of Advisory
Council
     * Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., Member of Visiting
Committee to
       Earth Sciences
     * Scripps Clinic & Research Foundation, La Jolla, Calif., Trustee

     Professional Affiliations:
     * Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Past President and
Honorary Life
       Member, Virgil Kauffman Gold Medal, Maurice Ewing Gold Medal,
1978
     * Dallas Geophysical Society, Honorary Life Member
     * Dallas Geological Society, Honorary Life Member
     * American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Member
     * American Geophysical Union, Member
     * Mexican Association of Petroleum Geologists, Member
     * European Association of Exploration Geophysicists, Member
     * Council of Scientific Societies, North Texas, Trustee
     * American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Fellow
     * National Academy of Sciences, Honorary Life Member (with wife)
     * Explorers Club

     Civic Activities:
     * National Advisory Committee to The Marine Biomedical Institute
of
       University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Tx., Chairman
     * Friends of the Dallas Public Library, Trustee and Past Chairman
     * Dallas Art Association, Trustee
     * Dallas Symphony Association, Trustee and Past Chairman

     Medical Affiliations:
     * University of Texas Southwestern Medical Foundation, Trustee
     * Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, Calif.,
Trustee
     * Citizens Advisory Committee to the Health Planning Council,
Member
     * University of Texas Marine Biomedical Institute, Galveston, Tx.,
Past
       Chairman of Advisory Committee
     * Children's Medical Center, Dallas, Tx. (with wife)

     Social Affiliations:
     * Dallas Petroleum Club, Dallas, Tx.
     * Dallas Country Club, Dallas, Tx.
     * La Jolla Country Club, La Jolla, Calif.

     Honors and Awards:
     * 1962 - Honorary Alumnus, Southern Methodist University, Dallas,
Tx.
     * 1970 - Honorary Alumnus, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colo.

     * 1972 - Membership, Eta Kappa Nu, Southern Methodist University,
       Dallas, Tx.
     * 1973 - Honorary Lecturer in Geophysics, Massachusetts Institute
of
       Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
     * 1973 - Santa Rita Award, University of Texas System
     * 1974 - Linz Award, Dallas, Tx. (with wife)
     * 1974 - 75th Anniversary Honor Award, National Jewish Hospital
Research
       Center, Denver, Colo.
     * 1974 - Human Needs Award, American Association of Petroleum
       Geophysicists
     * 1978 - Public Welfare Medal, National Academy of Sciences,
       Washington, D.C. (with wife)
     * 1978 - Honorary Life Membership, National Academy of Sciences,
       Washington, D.C. (with wife)
     * 1978 - Award for Excellence in Humanities, North Dallas Chamber
of
       Commerce, Dallas, Tx.
     * 1979 - Citation, Southern Methodist University Institute for
Study of
       Earth and Man, Dallas, Tx.
     * 1979 - Honorary Life Membership, National Academy of Sciences,
       Washington, D.C. (with wife)
     * 1983 - Great Trekker Award, University of British Columbia,
       Vancouver, B.C.
     * 1984 - Lay Award for Distinguished Service, American Medical
       Association
     * 1984 - Gold Plate Award, American Academy Achievement
     * 1987 - Freedom of City Award, Vancouver, B.C.
     * 1988 - Philanthropist of Year Award, City of Dallas, Dallas, Tx.

     * 1988 - Philanthropist of Year Award, City of San Diego, Calif.
(with
       wife)
     * 1988 - Uncommon Man Award, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
(with
       wife)
     * 1989 - Scientist of the Year Award, City of San Diego, Calif.
     * 1990 - First U.S. citizen named honorary member of Chinese
Geophysical
       Society, Republic of China
     * 1991 - Honorary Knight of British Empire, presented by the Queen
of
       England on May 22, 1991
     * 1993 - Honorary membership, American Association of Petroleum
       Geologists, New Orleans AAPG Annual Convention
     * 1993 - Lifetime Achievement Award, Reginald S. Lourie Center for

       Infants and Young Children, Rockville, Md.