Some of Gary M. Robb’s best memories stemmed from his years at The University of Tulsa. Robb (BS ’54, MS ’55) was a letterman in baseball, playing catcher for the Golden Hurricane and earning the distinction in 1955 as the team’s homerun leader. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and was actively involved in student life activities at the university.

He married his college sweetheart, Jocarol Teel (BA ’57), and the couple had two children, Gary and Susan. Jocarol was a proud member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.

Robb’s undergraduate degree was in chemical engineering, and his master’s was in petroleum engineering. Following his graduation from TU, he embarked on a distinguished 22-year career with Exxon Chemical Company.

The Robbs moved to Hong Kong in 1974, where Jocarol was a lecturer at Lingnan College. In 1977, while posted in Hong Kong, Gary unexpectedly passed away. At the time, he was a manager for Exxon’s Essochem Eastern Limit, overseeing the Chemical Raw Material and Intermediate Department of the Asia-Pacific regional office.

In honor of her husband, Jocarol established a permanently endowed fund, the Gary M. Robb Memorial Scholarship for Petroleum Engineering. Through this endowment, the memory of Gary Robb is forever woven into the history of The University of Tulsa and into the careers of future generations of TU petroleum engineering graduates. In recognition of this generous act, the University inducted Jocarol into the Circle Society – TU’s most distinguished donor affinity group.