[3] According to an account by his son Jim, Roth dated his wife Beatrice in High School, and married her after graduation around 1930, beginning a long marital relationship.

[6] Not long after receiving his gold medal on August 9, 1932, in front of 60,000 spectators, Roth walked out of the Los Angeles stadium and hitchhiked back to his home.

[10] George graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelors of Science from the University of Southern California in June 1942 while working full-time for Shell Oil and living on West 65th Street in Long Beach.

[4] He eventually found a job with the Work Projects Administration as a part of Roosevelt’s “New Deal” in the early 1930's and was later hired by the Long Beach Office of Shell Oil as a geological draftsman in 1935.

[4] After moving to Hollywood around 1948, George worked for the Petroleum consulting firm of William Ross Cabeen and Associates for around four years.

[12] He set up his successful consulting firm George H. Roth and Associates in Hollywood in 1952, meeting the initial challenge of obtaining funding and new clients by working long hours.

[5][4] His firm was instrumental in discovering portions of the Cascade field, roughly twenty-five miles Northeast of Los Angeles and overlooking the San Fernando Valley.

[13] Other California areas the firm helped discover included the Santa Clara Avenue, Brentwood, Los Medanos, Rice Creek, Livermore, West Edison Deep, Millar Winters, Zamora, and Freeport oil and gas fields.