Malcolm Bruce Roach ’42

MAC DIED Feb, 7, 1993, in Houston, his home (Texas) since 1958. Although he had been under a doctor's care for back pains, the "acute mylogenous leukemia" that caused his death had only been identified the day before. Still active (doing consulting work) in what he referred to as "oilfield peddling," he had left a few years earlier the position of V.P. of sales and service with the Otis Engineering Corp., a major oilfield supply and service business, with which he had been affiliated since 1962. Later he was senior V.P. of foreign operations for BrownHughes Oil Tools, from which he retired in 1984. He then went to Egypt, where he worked for a year.

After graduating from Bronxville (N.Y.) H.S., Mac majored in politics and was a member of the Dial Lodge club at Princeton. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1946. He was the commanding officer of his vessel at the Normandy landing on DDay.

After the war, he joined the U.S. Rubber Co. in a sales capacity and then was employed by the Dayton Rubber Co. as southwest regional manager. After a short stay with the late Dewey Bartlett's oilfield supply business, Mac joined Otis, now a subsidiary of the Halliburton Companies, traveling all over the world for them. From his earlier business connections, he had fallen in love with the southwest and happily made it his home for the remainder of his life.

He was an avid lifetime member of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and a member of the international and high bidders committees.

To his widow, Doris; daughters Laura and Wynnell; son James; stepchildren Cheryl, Richard, Nancy, and Patricia; and grandchildren and greatgrandchildren; the Class offers its condolences.

The Class of 1942