When it comes to people in the oil business, the old stereotype is of Texas wildcatters straight out of a scene from Dallas or Arab sheiks from distant desert kingdoms wheeling and dealing around the world. Yet the face of Chevron Oil, the second-largest U.S. oil company, is undeniably different. The newly elected chairman and chief executive of Chevron, as of January 1, … [Read more...] about The 100 Most Influential Irish Americans in Business: Earning their Stripes at Chevron
Jim Sullivan
Mission Dolores
By Jim Sullivan
January / February 1994
A Californian Mission's Irish Past Mission Dolores, the oldest building in San Francisco, was the sixth of twenty-one missions, built under the direction of Father Junipero Serra and the Franciscan fathers, that would eventually stretch "about a hard day's drive [ride] from one to the next," from the Mexican border to an area north of San Francisco now known as Sonoma … [Read more...] about Mission Dolores