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and members from outside of the company. The board announced their decision to interview an employee from inside the company, and a second member from outside. The board had decided to select the outside member, who was from an industry unrelated to petroleum. When they approached Spahr, he reputedly
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In 1955, he became Sohio's
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major in charge of pipeline construction during World War II. Assigned to the China-Burma pipeline, he gained significant experience in pipeline installation while making important military connections. During the war he helped "build 1,800 miles of pipeline in Burma and supervised construction of a
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In his taped interview, Spahr expresses a positive attitude toward the environmental groups which were critical of the building of the pipeline. “I think that the opposition we encountered, particularly in the beginning, was healthy, because it did make us doubly sure that our designs were good. The
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Cleveland and it has stayed for a long period of time "one of the largest and most famous companies in the world". Until that point, though Sohio had diversified through coal, and the creation and growth of a series of motels and restaurants on the new Interstate Highway system, it was still just
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Christmas holiday at home, his sister Marjorie arranged him a date with her school classmate Mary Jane Bruckmiller, who became his wife in 1937. He married Mary Jane Bruckmiller of Sugar Creek just before leaving for Harvard. Her father was a superintendent at the Sugar Creek refinery
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was a development of great magnitude. There were weather handicaps, and large quantities of supplies had to be moved over great distances. The four years spent addressing political matters allowed for in-depth study of the process of building the pipeline. Once started, time was one of the greatest
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by binding books for the engineering program, and working as chauffeur for
Chancellor Ernest Lindley. He would later give money to the University of Kansas, which helped fund the construction of a large classroom in the new School of Engineering building and the Spahr Engineering Library for the
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a marketer and refiner. Sohio needed to produce oil, as well as refine and market oil products. It took Spahr about seven years to complete all the necessary works for oil to begin transporting through the pipeline in 1977. It was the year of Sparh retiring from
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where Spahr's father was employed as a foreman. The two men knew one another. During their marriage, Charles and Mary Jane had five children: Sally, Steve, Cynthia, Stephanie, and Susan. Stephanie and Susan are twins.
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Caribou herds grew by four times their 1969 size, as the pipeline grounds produced grazing lands. Their migration was not impeded, as was a concern on the part of environmental groups at that time.”
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Through 2011 Spahr and his wife (who died within a year of each other) through their estate had donated $ 45 million to the
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in 1968. It had the largest oil reserves of about 10 billion barrels of crude. In late 1968 and early 1969, Charlie Spahr began to work out the details of Sohio’s working relationship with
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