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After Dave True died, the True sons added joint management
responsibility for True Oil to their other duties.
Tamma Hatten briefly worked for the True companies as
personnel coordinator. Her husband, Donald Hatten (Don Hatten),
worked full time for the True companies from 1973 to 1984. His
positions included assistant drilling superintendent and
assistant treasurer of True Drilling.
The True children (including Tamma Hatten before her
withdrawal, see infra pp. 39-42) always owned equal percentage
interests in each True company, regardless of the extent of their
individual participation in managing the various businesses.
Starting as high school students, the True children
participated in the True companies’ annual supervisors’ meetings
and semiannual family business meetings. Once they became
owners, the True children and their spouses began attending
monthly Partners, Officers, Directors, and Shareholders meetings
(PODS meetings). The PODS meetings followed an agenda and kept
the family informed of the True companies’ operations.
All the True children had children of their own by the time
Dave True died; Tamma Hatten and Diemer True also had
grandchildren. Only two of Diemer True’s children, out of all of
the grandchildren and great-grandchildren, worked full time for
the True companies.
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