The Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University has honored two former students with the 2009 Outstanding Alumni Honor Awards.

Morris E. Foster ’65 and James E. Wiley Sr. ’46 were recognized and presented their awards at a banquet April 2 at the Miramont Country Club in Bryan, Texas.

Morris E. Foster ’65, formerly president of ExxonMobil Production Co. in Houston, graduated from Texas A&M with a degree in mechanical engineering. The Belton native joined Exxon after graduation, serving in several capacities in production engineering and management in California, Louisiana and Texas. In 1995, Foster was appointed senior vice president and a member of the management committee of Exxon Co. USA. In 1998, he was appointed president of Exxon Upstream Development Co., and following the merger with Mobil, was named president of the ExxonMobil Development Co. In 2004, he was named president of Exxon Mobil Production Co. and vice president of the Exxon Mobil Corp.

A Distinguished Graduate of Texas A&M University, Foster was appointed to the Board of Regents of The Texas A&M University System in 2007 by Texas Gov. Rick Perry. His term expires Feb. 1, 2013.

Foster is a member of the American Petroleum Institute, the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the Texas Oil and Gas Association. He serves on the board of the Scott & White Medical Institute, the United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast, the Greater Houston Partnership and the First State Bank of Temple, Texas.

Foster was honored “in recognition of his outstanding achievements in leadership and management at the highest levels of corporate performance, of his considerable contributions in producing and developing the world’s energy resources, of his generous support of mechanical engineering education, and of his selfless service to The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents.”

James E. Wiley Sr. ’46 was just 16 years old when he became “Fish Wiley” at the all-male, all-military Texas A&M in 1942. While at Texas A&M, he played on the freshman football team in 1942, varsity football team in 1943 and was also on the varsity track team. Wiley left college in 1944 to serve as an Army lieutenant in World War II and returned to Texas A&M to finish his civil engineering degree –– the first in his family to earn a college degree. After graduation, Wiley went to work for a general contractor, and in 1960, joined his brother A.P. to form Wiley Bros. General Contractors.

Since first attending Texas A&M, Wiley has remained faithful to the university. He may have been the first, but today, three generations of Wileys are Aggies following in his footsteps. The university named him a Distinguished Alumni 1990 and in 2000, he became a Distinguished Graduate of the civil engineering department.

The Wiley family has been very generous to Texas A&M, providing a faculty chair, scholarships, and other gifts; most notably, endowing the prestigious, student-run Wiley Lecture Series.

Wiley was honored “in recognition of his exceptional and proven leadership from an early age and throughout life, of his many entrepreneurial successes in the construction and investment businesses, of his tireless yet unassuming generosity to numerous organizations across this great University, and of his unabashed devotion to the students served by Texas A&M and their educational excellence.”

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