In his decades as a major provider of heat exchangers and other equipment used in the worldwide petroleum industry, Charles N. Chittom has gone down 9,000 feet in a South African gold mine, narrowly missed a $240 million job with the Indonesian government, and invented an assembly for heat-exchange fans, which he also patented. In addition, he performed for many years as a member of Dixieland jazz band called the Rotary Rooters, playing engagements in Mexico, Canada, and the West Coast--among other places--and recording two albums. He attributes many of the accomplishments in his remarkable life to simply being in the right place at the right time.