THE TROPICS. 
DINORAH Bolandi, researcher with tropical pub¬ 
lic relations office in San Jose, and Carlos Var¬ 
gas, P. R. representative for Cia. Bananera dis¬ 
cuss selection of UF news-photo material for 
newsmat service which is sent to 50 newspapers 
and magazines throughout Latin America. 
A Dona Belarmina de Quesada tuvimos 
el gusto de saludarla en casa de sus hijos 
Marina y Ricardo Quesada. 
A fijar su residencia en Finca Heredia 
llego la familia de Quincho Rojas. Nuestra 
cordial bienvenida a dona Betty y sus 
pequenos. 
Vcscacionistas 
Regreso presuroso a su paraiso de blancas 
piedras nuestro buen amigo don Dimas 
Murilla, quien andaba disfrutando de sus 
vacaciones en San Antonio de Belen de 
Heredia. 
De los Estados Unidos de America regres- 
aron Alicia y Adolfo Hurtado, donde gozaron 
de sus vacaciones. Bastante impresionaron 
a Adolfo los rascacielos de New York. 
Fanaticos 
Los “fans” del foot-ball de este Distrito 
se dieron cita en San Jose y apreciaron el 
encuentro entre las selecciones de Mexico y 
Costa Rica en su lucha por conquistar la 
asistencia a Suecia y participar en el torneo 
“Copa del Mundo”. Pudimos ver la entusi- 
asta salida de Don Luis Arroyo y Sra. 
Ricardo Quesada y familia, Luis Munoz, 
Claro Gonzalez, Alberto Chaves y Augusto 
Cuadra quien aprovecho el momenta y se 
“colo” para ir a echar una canita, de las 
muchas que tiene, al aire. 
Babmington y Boliche 
Con gran entusiasmo se inauguro la cancha 
de Babmington del Distrito de Esquinas. 
Senores obesos y agiles senoras compiten 
diariamente por conquistar el campeonato 
de Piedras Blancas. Sobresalen los quin- 
ceaneros, Cuadra, don Luis Arroyo y Jorge 
Solano. 
En el boliche, continua sentando catedra 
don Claro Gonzalez quien con inconfundible 
estilo constantemente pasa de los 100. El 
campeon titular Ricardo Quesada feme por 
su corona ante los impetus de los nuevos 
jugadores. 
Sumamente lucida resulto la fiesta, que 
con motivo de la entrega de trofeos a los 
equipos que clasificaron, campeon y sub- 
campeon de futbol de este aho, organizo la 
federacion de futbol del distrito y que se llevo 
a cabo en el club de finca Cartago. 
Recibieron los magnificos trofeos donados 
por la cia, los equipos representatives de 
fincas Cartago y Puntarenas, campeon y 
sub-campeon respectivamente, de manos del 
superitendente de agricultura don Luis Arroyo 
Zuniga, quien tuvo palabras de estimulo y 
simpatia para jugadores y directivos. Tambien 
fueron premiados por un hermoso pergamino 
los jugadores mas sobresalientes del certamen. 
—Enrique Gil Ruiz. 
Palmar Sur 
By Charity McClellan 
This is Paimar Today 
We welcomed Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Brooks, 
late in the year, from Almirante. New addi¬ 
tions to the office staff include Alvaro Solor- 
zano, Carlos Garcia and Cesar Lacayo. Luis 
Vindas is new at the commissary. Louis 
Arroyo is latest arrival to Esquinas District. 
An increase in school population brought two 
new teachers: Kay Krupka of Edmonton, Al¬ 
berta, and Otilia Ferreira from Taunton, 
Massachusetts. Saying farewell to Central 
America was John Heron of Piedras Blancas. 
Palmar Sur lost Millrey and Tom Beardsley. 
Terry and Huston Lacombe went to Coto. 
Ah ambition! Two brave souls who were 
off to study English in the states were Alejo 
Solera and Ricardo Jimenez. Nothing like 
being tossed into the drink to learn to swim! 
The stork paid a few late ’57 calls and 
deposited baby boys with the Huston La- 
combes and the Jose Castros. A little girl 
delighted the Mario Chinchillas. Reverend 
and Mrs. Russel Sargent are proud of a new 
son. 
And the big talk around town includes the 
new school being built by the Franciscans, 
the highway and bridge construction with 
dreams of driving to San Jose, aching muscles 
from the red-hot boliche tournament, sun¬ 
burns from the golfers, happy shouts from the 
younger generation now that the pool is in 
year-round use. 
Hesse 
AFTER 35 years with the company, Gabriel 
Lopez, Banes Merchandise clerk, has retired. 
RICARDO de Leon Arce, hijito de Don Pancho y 
Beatriz de Golfito en el dia de su cumpleanos. 
CUBA 
Banes 
By George W. Hesse 
Farewell 
Shortly before his retirement, Walter W. 
Schuyler, vice president in charge of Cuban 
operations, who has served the company for 
more than 45 years, arrived in Banes for a 
farewell look around the Division and to 
bid “adios” to the facilities and personnel 
over which he had supervision for so many 
years. With W. W. was his niece, Miss Jean 
Printz who has been closely associated with 
him as social secretary, and whom we have 
all learned to know well over the past decade. 
Accompanying Schuyler on this occasion was 
William G. Raines and Mrs. Raines, to whom 
we were presented and they to us — Raines 
will assume the duties of the office being 
vacated by Schuyler. To both W. W. and 
Jean we extend our sincere best wishes for 
health, happiness and good fortune in the 
future, and to Mr. and Mrs. Raines our salu¬ 
tations, congratulations, and offer of coopera¬ 
tion, together with our best wishes for success 
in their new undertaking. 
To Haiti 
Making the most of our Banes school clos¬ 
ing for the year-end holidays, our school 
teacher, Miss Stella Lee, made a flying trip 
to Haiti where she stopped with the Andrew 
Hesse 
CAMILO C. OJEDA, Banes Merchandise 
chauffeur, retired, was a UFer since 1933. 
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THE TROPICS 
THE WILLIAM J. Kropatsches honor Bill's sister, Mrs. Louis Iwan, and her husband from Cheyenne, Wyoming, with bocadito and cocktail party. 
Hesse 
Peytons of Port-Au-Prince. The Peytons, for¬ 
merly with the company in Cuba (Guaro) 
and now with the United States government, 
were stationed some three years in Java be¬ 
fore their present assignment in Haiti. Stella’s 
holiday in this tiny island republic was a 
busy one as the Peytons had arranged a pro¬ 
gram of continuous activity for our teacher, 
including a trip to the famous old citadel con¬ 
structed by the self-acclaimed emperor, Cris- 
tophe, some miles distant from Cape Haitian. 
To the Orange Bowl 
Oklahomans both, Jim and Carol Stephens, 
vociferously and spiritually aided the famous 
Oklahoma Sooners to emerge the victors over 
Duke in the annual Orange Bowl classic in 
Miami on New Year’s Day. Their presence 
in Miami at this time was in the form of a 
“long” weekend the result of an invitation ex¬ 
tended by Jim’s parents who arranged to be 
in Miami for the football event and to have 
the Banes Stephens with them during their 
Miami sojourn. 
Back from Louisiana 
Just returned from Lockport, Louisiana, we 
have with us for the coming crop, Rafael 
Garcia Ricardo. Rafael is a bench chemist in 
the Fabrication Department and during the 
1957 dead season helped take off a crop with 
the Valentine Sugar Co., in Lockport, under 
Al Gissing who formerly was in our Mill 
Fabrication Department at Macabi. 
From the States 
Former Banenses, Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. 
Skelly, presently of Miami, Florida, were 
year-end holiday house guests of the John F. 
Lords. With them were their two daughters, 
Marguerite Elizabeth, and Mary Ellen. Dickie 
is with the International Business Machine 
Corp., and he, with his family, will shortly 
remove to Puerto Rico where they will estab¬ 
lish their residence. Dickie’s parents, the G. 
M. Skellys of Ft. Lauderdale, are well known 
company personages as George M., prior to 
his retirement in 1950, fulfilled the position 
of Supt. of Railroad of the Banes Division for 
many years. With hosts of Banes friends of 
earlier days and the many activities which 
feature the season of the year, this couple 
completely filled the days of their visit with 
little time to spare. 
Cecilia Fonts de Betancourt, of the Banes 
Accident Report Department, and her family, 
Charles R. Chaulk 
were hosts to Cecilia’s sister, Alicia, now Mrs. 
Charles F. Dominguez, and Alicia’s husband, 
of Fairview, New Jersey. Formerly of the 
Banes Accounting Department, Alicia left 
Cuba in 1946 and began working for the 
company in New York. She is currently with 
the company in Freight Terminal in New 
York. To make the most of their three weeks 
paseo, Alicia and her husband made the trip 
down by plane to Cameguey, and returned 
by plane from Havana after a stopover for 
“doing the town” in the capital city. Mr. 
Dominguez, who is in exports, and although 
Havana born, is a long-time New Yorker and 
is a stranger to Oriente. However, personal 
contact and observations in connection with 
our people hereabouts, our beautiful tropical 
vistas and the many points of historical inter¬ 
est, have left a pleasing impression that will 
be a reminder of this, his first visit to our 
Banes locale (See also New York). 
Charles R. Chaulk 
It was indeed sad news when we learned 
of the recent passing on November 19 of 
Charlie Chaulk, Chief of Office of the Banes 
Accounting Department. A comparatively 
young man, bom December 7, 1907, at Man¬ 
chester, Mass., Charlie had not enjoyed good 
health for the past several years, and since 
April 19 had been confined in the hospital of 
the National Institute of Health at Bethesda, 
Md. 
A graduate of the Bently School of Ac¬ 
counting, Charlie began his career with the 
company in the Accounting Department at 
Preston on July 28, 1928. In December of 
1937 he was transferred to the Banes Ac¬ 
counting Department to take over the duties 
and responsibilities of the position he so cap¬ 
ably filled during his many years in Banes. 
In the war years between November 1942 
and October 1943, he was temporarily located 
in New York in the Accounting Department. 
He was a member of Kane Lodge, F. & 
A. M., of Preston, and was also interested in 
and participated actively in the various com¬ 
munity affairs of the division. 
Before coming to Banes, in Miami, Florida, 
on June 19, 1935, Charlie married Adelina 
Hogan, and there are two sons, Charles 
Richard, Jr., 20 years, and John R., 16 years. 
Endowed with a friendly, pleasant and un¬ 
selfish personality, suiting his work, his untir¬ 
ing efforts to help others made him a host of 
friends among his co-workers and other em¬ 
ployees throughout the Cuban divisions. 
We herein extend our sincere and heartfelt 
condolences to Adelina, Dickey and Johnny, 
as well as to the other members of Charlie’s 
bereaved family circle. 
Last of the 19 57 Vacations 
The Hogges, Horacio who heads the Engi¬ 
neering, Construction and Water Service de¬ 
partments, and Bitin of the Accounting De¬ 
partment, after diverting a portion of their 
vacation in Havana, filled in their remaining 
weeks in various cities of the Sunshine State. 
In so doing this couple made contact with 
many former Banenses now resident of the 
aforementioned state, (Florida) some now 
retirados, some in private business, and others 
who are employed there, but all with ques¬ 
tions and news relating to the goings and 
comings of other Banenses. 
Prentice Bolin, Manager of the Preston and 
Banes divisions, and Mrs. Bolin, enjoyed a 
respite from the rigors of office, at their 
home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They were 
occupied to some extent in the supervision of 
doing over a portion of their house, and at 
the same time they helped in establishing 
their son, Junior, and his family, in their own 
home, also in Baton Rouge. The Louisiana 
weather was not conducive to good hunting 
and Prentice had to somewhat curtail one of 
his favorite outdoor diversions. Football and 
a number of social activities rounded out their 
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