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MRS. N. E. SANDERSON with two members of 
the family who have moved into the Cia. 
Bananera-sponsored March of Homes Campaign 
low-cost home in San Jose, C. R., (see story). 
LA SENORA de Sanderson obsequiando un cesto 
de fruta a dos miembros de la familia que fue 
favorecida con la casa No. 13, donada por la 
Cia Bananera al Movimiento de la Vivienda. 
ATTENDING the wedding and reception of 
Almyr L. Bump, UF vice president, and Tona 
Echeverri, on right, were Beverly Bump Kuhn, 
left, and her brother Barry. The wedding and 
reception were held in Arlington, Mass., Nov. 30. 
ENTRE los que asistieron a la ceremonia nupcial 
y recepcion en honor de ios distinguidos con- 
trayentes, Almyr L. Bump, vice-presidente de la 
UF, y Doha Antonia Echeverri (derecha) estaban 
(izq.) Beverly Bump Kuhn y su hermano Barry. 
Hines, Illinois, and Bay Pines, Florida. 
Late in 1941 he was appointed in charge of 
medical services at Saint Elizabeth’s USPHS 
hospital, Washington. In 1945 he took up 
private practice. In 1950 he joined UF’s hos¬ 
pital at Almirante, Panama. Two years later 
he was appointed superintendent of UF’s 
Armuelles, Panama, hospital, and then spent 
some two years gaining valuable administra¬ 
tive experience as assistant superintendent of 
Gorgas hospital in Panama which will be 
most beneficial in his present position. He 
returned again as superintendent of the Ar¬ 
muelles hospital in 1955. 
Last year he acted as special assistant to 
the Manager of the Tela Bailroad Company 
with duties connected with improving, both 
economically and professionally, the medical 
department operations in the division. 
Drennan and his wife, Elizabeth, have two 
sons and two daughters, Michael and David, 
now in college, and Carol Ann and Mary 
Elizabeth. The Drennans’ home is in New 
Jersey. 
El Dr. Drennan Nombrado 
Asistente del Director 
NUEVA YORK — El Dr. Lawrence M. Dren¬ 
nan, Jr., cuyo padre, Dr. L. M. Drennan, quien 
fuera en vida por muchos anos un medico muy 
estimado de la UF, ha sido nombrado Asistente 
del Director Medico de la misma. El tendra a 
su cargo la supervision de las operaciones del 
Departamento Medico en la Region del Caribe. 
El Dr. Drennan nacio hace 47 anos en la Zona 
del Canal de Panama, habiendo obtenido su 
doctorado en medicina en la Georgetown Uni¬ 
versity, Washington, D. C., despues de lo cual 
sirvio en los hospitales Gorgas de la Zona del 
Canal, en el de Georgetown University, y en 
el Walter Read General Hospital. 
Desde 1937 al 41, el fue agregado a la U. S. 
Veterans Administration en los hospitales de 
Plines, Illinois y Bay Pines, Florida. De alii 
fue nombrado director del hospital St. Eliza¬ 
beth en Washington, habiendose retirado a la 
practica privada en 1945. En 1950 ingreso al 
hospital de Almirante en Panama de la UF, 
siendo nombrado dos anos despues superin- 
tendente del hospital de Armuelles, y luego 
pasd dos anos mas obteniendo valiosa experien- 
cia como asistente del superientendente del 
hospital Gorgas en la Zona del Canal, de donde 
volvio a regresar como superientendente del 
mencionado hospital de Armuelles en 1955. 
El ano pasado fue asistente especial del 
Gerente de la Tela Railroad Co. con instruccio- 
nes de mejorar en lo economico y profesional 
las operaciones del departamento medico de 
dicha division. 
El Dr. Drennan y su distinguida esposa, 
Dona Elizabeth, tienen dos varones ya cursando 
en la universidad, Michael y David; y dos en- 
cantadoras muchachas, Carol Ann y Mary 
Elizabeth. Los Drennan viven en New Jersey. 
UF Assists Homes Plan 
Project in Costa Rica 
SAN JOSE — The United Fruit Company is 
cooperating with a group of civic leaders in 
San Jose, Costa Rica, who have launched The 
March of the Homes (Vivienda en Marcha), a 
humanistic program of rehabilitation of people 
now living in poorer sections of the city. 
Heading the local committee of private citi¬ 
zens sponsoring a campaign to supply low-cost 
homes for poor families are Andres Borrase, 
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Captain Joseph A. Boyd 
editor of La Prensa Libre , and two business¬ 
men, Edmond Woodbridge and Alvaro Gon¬ 
zalez. 
The new houses are supplied at manufac¬ 
turer’s price (about $800) by the Institute 
Nacional de Vivienda y Urbanismo which is 
also donating the land. Cost of the house is 
covered by donations from local individuals, 
groups and businesses. 
Already, 13 families have been removed 
from the shack areas to homes on the new 
estate. The thirteenth home was donated by 
the Cia. Bananera de Costa Rica. 
La UF Ayuda al Plan de Viviendas 
En Marcha de Costa Rica 
SAN JOSE — La United Fruit Company 
ha contribuido hacia el “Movimiento de la 
Vivienda en Marcha” que se esta desarrollando 
con gran entusiasmo civico en la bella capital 
de Costa Rica, con rnotivo de un programa 
profundamente humanistico encaminado a la 
“reinvicacion del menesteroso, de la familia 
pobre” que vive en cobachas en los alrede- 
dores de la ciudad. 
Un comite central de ciudadano particu- 
lares, encabezados por Andres Borrase, re¬ 
dactor de La Prensa Libre, Edmond Wood- 
bridge y Alvaro Gonzales, arnbos comerciante, 
ha patrocinado tan digna causa: de proveer 
casas nuevas a familias pobres. 
Las casas las entrega el Instituto Nacional 
de Viviendas y Urbanismo a precio de costo 
($800) cuyo valor se obtiene por medio de 
donaciones de particulares, grupos y comercian- 
tes, cediendo el terreno dicho Instituto. 
La casa No. 13 fue donada por la Cia. Ba¬ 
nanera de Costa Rica, la cual le toco a una 
familia de 9 hijos, habiendo hecho la entrega 
el Gerente de la misma, Sr. N. E. Sanderson, 
y su distinguida Senora durante animada cere¬ 
monia que se celebro en tal ocasion. 
Escuela Agricola Panamericana 
November Newsletter 
TEGUCIGALPA — Last week we had a visit 
by Sir Thomas Dalling of the United Nation’s 
FAO who, after making a tour of the school 
and commenting that he had seen nothing like 
it elsewhere in the world, rather unhappily 
said, “It’s too bad after the school was built, 
that the United Fruit Company did not endow 
it.” 
Sir Thomas was just as surprised as are 
most people when they learn that the United 
Fruit Company DID endow the school with 
$3,000,000.00 — which has since grown to 
nearly $5,000,000.00. 
Of all the questions we receive from visitors, 
the number one is: What is the United Fruit 
Company to the Escuela Agricola Panamerica¬ 
na and the Escuela Agricola Panamericana to 
the United Fruit Company? The answer is not 
easily understood because it involves the phrase 
“six million dollars plus” and the word “gift.” 
Even with TV’s Space Cadet teaching our 
children the meaning of “trillion,” it still is 
difficult to understand six million dollars — and 
this, and more, is what the United Fruit Com¬ 
pany has given to the Escuela Agricola Pan¬ 
americana, Inc. 
Our endowment and the Escuela Agricola 
Panamericana are supervised and controlled by 
our ten-man Board of Trustees — only two of 
whom are United Fruit Company employees. 
Thus, with control relinquished to the Board, 
the “six million dollars plus” becomes a true 
“gift.” 
We annually receive about $225,000.00 from 
our endowment, but costs us nearly this much 
again to operate. The deficit is made up an¬ 
nually by the United Fruit Company. 
The United Fruit Company, then, continues 
to support the school, an organization over 
which the company has no control (the com¬ 
pany, to underline the spirit of the gift, even 
refuses to employ our graduates!) and asks only 
one thing: That we give our Latinamerican 
students the best agricultural education 
possible. 
Noticias Zamoranas 
TEGUCIGALPA — Durante una visita que 
hiciera recientemente Sir Thomas Dalling, 
distinguido personaje de las Naciones Unidas, 
por la Escuela Agricola Panamericana, se le 
ocurrio decir que “era una lastima el que des¬ 
pues de fundada la escuela, la United Fruit 
Company no la hubiese subvencionado”. Pero, 
cual seria la sorpresa de dicho senor, cuando se 
le dio a conocer que la Compania habia dotado 
a la escuela con una suma original de $3, 
mill ones de dolares que han aumentado en la 
actualidad a $5 millones. 
Una de las preguntas mas corrientes es: “que 
relation tiene la Frutera con la Escuela?” La 
respuesta no es facil de comprenderse, porque 
implica la cifra de $6 millones y aun mas, lo 
mismo que la palabra “donacion”. Aunque 
parezca sorprendente, es dificil que lo crean; 
sin embargo, dicha cifra que va creciendo, 
representa, hasta hoy dia, la contribution de la 
United Fruit Company al sostenimiento de la 
Escuela Agricola Panamericana. Dicha subven¬ 
tion esta bajo la supervision y control de un 
consejo compuesto de diez personas, de las 
cuales solamente dos son miembros de la UF; lo 
que quiere decir que la “donacion” de mas de 
$6 millones de dolares es real y verdadera. 
La Escuela recibe cerca de $225,000 dolares 
anualmente de la subvention, costandole otro 
tanto mas para sostenerse. La United Fruit 
Company reponc ese deficit anual. De tal 
manera la Compania sigue manteniendo a una 
organization sobre la cual no tiene control, y 
para darle realce al concepto de la donacion, 
WILLIAM L. TAILLON, Gerente General de la 
Cia. Agricola de Guatemala en momentos de 
firmar contrato de entrega de mas de mil 
caballerias de terrano con funcionarios del 
gabierno de Guatemala en la zona del norte. 
no permite el empleo de sus graduados en la 
Compania, siendo su unico proposito: proveer- 
les a los estudiantes hispanoamericanos lo mejor 
en entrenamiento agricola. 
Great White Fleet Hero Dies— 
Captain Boyd 
NEW YORK — Captain Joseph Albert Boyd, 
who as master of the United Fruit Company's 
steamer Cape Ann was the first to reach the 
stricken Andrea Doria off Nantucket Island in 
July 1956, died January 23 at the Kew Gardens 
General Hospital, Long Island, after a year’s 
illness. 
Captain Boyd was born at Newry, County 
Down, Northern Ireland, in 1903 and was 
educated in Belfast. He emigrated to USA in 
the nineteen-twenties and subsequently became 
a naturalized citizen. He joined the United 
Fruit Company’s Great White Fleet in 1930 as 
a quartermaster. He had earlier spent three 
years with the Dunbar Molasses Company and 
the Munson Line. 
In 1933 he got his third mate’s ticket and 
served in several ships while rising in rank, 
until, in 1942, he became a master. During 
the war he served with distinction as captain 
of various UF ships, including the Tivives and 
Parismina, on the north Atlantic convoy route 
and in other theaters of operations. 
Captain Boyd’s home was at 68-09 Booth St., 
Forest Hills, Long Island. He leaves his wife, 
Eliabeth, their 15-year-old daughter, Vickie; 
five brothers and two sisters. 
Masonic funeral rites were held January 26 
at the Fox Funeral Home, Ascan Avenue, 
Forest Hills, followed by cremation. It was re¬ 
quested there be no flowers; in lieu of them, 
donations were sent to the Masonic Brother¬ 
hood Foundation Fund, Kilwinning Lodge, 
Claremont and Lafayette Avenues, Brooklyn, 
N. Y., and to the St. Rose’s Cancer Home, 
Hawthorne, N. Y. 
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