Dr. Ernest Yeakey

Dr. Ernest Yeakey of Austin, Texas, is a retired laboratory director from Texaco Chemical Company. He grew up in Sikeston, Missouri, and graduated from Southeast Missouri State University in 1956 with a Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in chemistry and mathematics. On campus, he was active in Sigma Tau Gamma. He received his doctoral degree in organic chemistry from the State University of Iowa in 1960. Dr. Yeakey joined Texaco Chemical Company’s Austin Research Laboratories as a research chemist in 1960. After various assignments in the laboratories, he was relocated in 1980 to Texaco Chemical Company’s Headquarters in Bellaire, Texas, as the manager of new products development. In 1981, Yeakey was reassigned to the Austin Research Laboratories as manager of research, where he was responsible for the research and development of activities at the laboratories. He served in this capacity until his retirement.