THE STATES 
Louise Heath, Katherine Krieger, Una Lang- 
hauser and Aurelia Remondet. These ladies 
returned from the Seminar with beaming 
smiles, all flashing a Certificate of Training 
which was issued to those in attendance. 
Off the Sick List 
We are happy to report that Merrill Hall, 
chief clerk, Communications, who had an 
emergency appendectomy operation is now 
well on the road to recovery. Santa Claus 
was missed by the Hall children (albeit he 
left his calling card) this year but we know 
he will be there in person next year. 
McGovern Elected 
Harold J. McGovern, UF building engineer, 
was elected third vice president of the N. O. 
chapter. National Association of Practical Re¬ 
frigerating Engineers at a meeting held re¬ 
cently by that group. Congratulations, Mac! 
Accounting Department 
By Lillian Razza 
Ah! Christmas 
It was Christmas Eve and everyone arrived 
at 321 St. Charles in a festive mood, with 
arm-loads of prettily wrapped packages and 
in a pleasureable anticipation of coming 
events. Of course the quota of work was 
turned out in the morning and in a twinkling 
of an eye the crowd gathered around the 
trees — one on the ninth floor, IBM-TRT Ac¬ 
counting, and one on the fourth, Accounting. 
And so for a time delighted “Ohs” and 
“Ahs” were heard as well as general exclama¬ 
tions of “Just what I was wishing for” and 
“It’s beautiful.” There were pictures and at¬ 
tempts at caroling and the crowd hastened to 
the fourth floor for general merry-making and 
eating the tempting spread that awaited. 
The professional touch of the Bagala sisters 
gave the entire floor an attractive and artistic 
display which added immeasurably to the 
spirit of the occasion. Handy sprigs of mistle¬ 
toe invited the single men to pleasing oppor¬ 
tunities enjoyed at this season of the year. 
“Old-timers” dropping in to join the fun in¬ 
cluded Mr. and Mrs. Bill Foss, George and 
“Mama” Cecile Dejaham, Henry Leiden- 
heimer, Jolly Lily Cooper, Ed Lafaye, Mal¬ 
colm “Biff” Jones. Also present were Miss 
Carol Wetterhall and others. 
Leave-taking time arrived and the folks 
shouted their good wishes and rushed home 
to turkey stuffhng and package wrapping and 
busy Christmas Eves. 
Men and Uncle Sam 
Upon completion of his hitch in the Navy, 
handsome Donald Theriot returned to the 
fold in his former position of TRT Account¬ 
ing. Don’s keen appetite resulted in some 
added poundage, which only adds to his 
appeal. Okay, lassies, the line forms to the 
right! 
Another fine young man who joined our 
forces during the year is Lester P. Guillot. 
Lester’s work requires that he get around the 
building quite a lot, and he too, causes a 
flurry among the young fair sex. Good luck 
and success in your endeavors in the coming 
years with the company, Les. 
New in IBM 
IBM-Accounting welcomed three attractive 
jP**- M : .* ■ 
Helen A. Farrington Monteiro (Mrs. Charles) 
Schriever 
NEW ORLEANS sports medal winners R. J. 
Ragas, left, and T. L. Turner, right. Captain 
Beyer made the awards Dec. 23 (see story). 
employees recently in the persons of Mrs. 
Maria M. Davis, Mrs. Dolores Schmidt and 
Mrs. Gloria Blanchard. They joined our key 
punch operators staff. 
New at the Bush House 
Irwin Bush, Jr., passed out cigars and 
chocolates December 19, the day he became 
a proud father of an 8-pound boy, born at 
Touro Infirmary. Irwin and wife Beverly 
named their first-born David Walter. A long 
and happy life to the young man! 
Cedotal—Vidrine 
Beverly Vidrine of the Freight Claim De¬ 
partment was married to Arthur Cedotal De¬ 
cember 28 at St. Anthony of Padua Church in 
New Orleans. The groom is a law student at 
Tulane University. 
The bride wore a dress of white lace over 
white satin and carried a bouquet of lilies- 
of-the-valley, stephanotis and orchids. Her 
eight attendants wore chiffon dresses in au¬ 
tumn shades and carried bouquets of talisman 
roses. 
A reception was held at the Germania 
Lodge following the ceremony. 
— Junaita Hereford 
Steamships Department 
By W. L. McGartlin 
International Yuletidings! 
A dash of international flavor was injected 
into the atmosphere of the New Orleans 
Steamship Department Christmas Party as 
ever-genial Captain Burpee Rathbun hosted 
employees, associates and friends at the Julia 
Street Wharf. 
Having just returned from England after 
more than two years in connection with con¬ 
struction of the Calamares, Carrillo and Car- 
tago was Refrigeration Engineer Charles F. 
Easterbrooks. Visiting was a former UFer, 
Peter McClen, American Bureau Surveyor on 
vacation from Germany. John Melville who 
also just returned from a tour on the Euro¬ 
pean Continent acted as mixologist extraor¬ 
dinary. 
However, reflecting the most sincere spirit 
of Christmas, was the heartwarming presence 
of so many of our retired UFers, F. Anderson, 
R. G. Brewer, I. Butler, Captain A. Christen¬ 
sen, S. DeLeon, D. Findlay, J. F. Fredericks, 
E. Giardina, T. Humphreys, F. Lubrano, P. H. 
Kurucar, Captain G. A. McBride, T. F. Mel- 
hern, J. Mussle, Captain W. M. Rose, J. Sal- 
ibba, S. Schjott, E. C. Schroeder and L. F. 
Spath. All these oldtimers certainly looked 
exceedingly well and were enjoying the occa¬ 
sion fully, which leads us to believe life truly 
begins at 65. 
NEW YORK 
Accounting Department 
By Eileen Kee 
Happy Holiday 
We happily thank all the former co-workers 
who loaded our bulletin board with Christmas 
greetings. We enjoyed having this yearly holi¬ 
day greeting. 
Retirements 
William A. Boog, Freight Cashier at Pier 2, 
retired December 31 after 25 years of service. 
His hobby is “do it yourself” projects around 
his home and no doubt has a few lined up for 
his newly found freedom. 
Bernard C. Brady, Purchasing Export Bu¬ 
reau, retired December 31 after more than 43 
years of service. 
John A. Kelly, Weehawken Paymaster, re¬ 
tired December 31 after 44 years of service. 
Several of them were spent working in the 
Havana office. 
We wish each of them many years of 
pleasant retirement. 
The Welcome Mat 
We welcome Earl J. Garitty, Traveling 
Auditor from New Orleans, to the New York 
Division. Earl got nation-wide viewing January 
18 when he coped the camera spot during a 
dance on the Lawrence Welk show from New 
York. 
Ooops! 
Your reporter’s last copy; was hastily put 
together after a Florida vacation. In the mad 
rush, no mention was made of Teresa Ianelli’s 
vacation flight to Nassau. Nor of the Jean 
Bosco and Jayne Collision cruise to the tropics 
aboard the S/S Heredia. Sorry gals, I goofed. 
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THE STATES 
We are happy to have Phil DeNigris with 
us as Freight Cashier. 
Congratulations to R. P. Kennedy who now 
has a 21-year service record with UF; and to 
Kenneth Taddeo, promoted from the mail 
room. 
Freight Traffic 
By J. E. Slagle and D. Chinery 
New in the Department 
Welcome to our midst is Mildred Dahl, 
new file clerk. This welcome is a bit late, but 
nonetheless sincere. 
NEW YORK Accounting sons and grandsons 
and some of the Christmas loot: I. to r., Norman 
Frederick, grandson of Adrian Comtabad, 
FDCo., Robert Blakely, son of Chester Blakely, 
assistant chief clerk; Jimmy and Gregory 
Power, grandsons of Helen Scheele, FDCo. 
Helen Parker Retires 
On December 11 Mrs. Helen Parker re¬ 
tired after 15 years in the Freight Traffic De¬ 
partment. Helen’s co-workers in the Depart¬ 
ment presented her with a lovely gold watch. 
At the Commuters Club Helen was guest of 
honor at a cocktail party given her by the 
girls of the Freight Traffic and Passenger De¬ 
partments. Helen was presented a radio at 
the party from the girls (see photo). 
Helen is returning to her home in Water- 
vliet, New York. 
Service Records 
Congratulations to the following long serv¬ 
ice employees: J. J. Glennon, 47 years; F. E. 
Smith, 35 years; Miss E. McEvoy, 31 years; 
V. Bonnaffee, Jr., and F. A. Jenkins, 29 years; 
J. S. Gullion, 24 years. 
Condolence 
It is with profound regret that we learned 
of the passing of Elmer Wakefield’s mother 
who died on Sunday, January 12. Mrs. Wake¬ 
field resided in Dorchester, Mass, where she 
lived most of her life. 
John P. Todd 
The entire Freight Traffic Department and 
his host of friends throughout the steamship 
industry were shocked to hear of the sudden 
passing of John P. Todd which occurred on 
January 15. John was a career man with the 
United Fruit Co. and had over 38 years in 
the Freight Department. At the time of his 
death he was chief rate clerk. John resided 
in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey and left a 
widow, son and daughter. 
Fruit Dispatch 
Equipment Department 
By Nancy Camfora 
New in the Department 
Our staff of Jobber Service field engineers 
will now have a representative in Canada. 
K. C. MacKenzie from Halifax is currently 
undergoing technical indoctrination here in 
New York. 
We welcome J. D. Woodhouse from Canada 
and H. J. McIntyre from Scarsdale, New 
York, who have just joined our Dealer Service 
Department. These men entered the depart¬ 
ment just in time to assume the new title of 
Merchandising Representative. Henceforth, 
all the Dealer Sendee representatives will bear 
this new “handle.” 
Vacations and Hobbies 
Several of our Merchandising representa¬ 
tives took their vacations over Christmas and 
stopped in during our most successful Christ- 
A COUPLE of little lovelies join the same 
(above) parade: left, Kathy Jean Power, Jim 
Condolences 
Our heart felt sympathies are extended to 
Bill Tighe on the death of his brother-in-law 
and Henry Wheeler on the death of his mother- 
in-law. 
Freight Terminal 
By Norma Boivman and J. Martens 
W. A. Boog Retires 
“We hate to see you go!” was sung by the 
terminal family, led by G. T. Ross, and most 
sincerely meant, when W. A. Boog retired in 
December. He was presented with a gift en¬ 
velope and good wishes were extended all 
around. 
Bill was associated with UF since 1917 and 
worked as Freight cashier since 1941. We in 
Terminal felt that he belonged to us. 
The Boogs live in Belleville, New Jersey. 
Bill has no intentions of remaining inactive. 
So good luck and good life. Bill. 
This and That 
Frank Verderame is back with us after an 
18-month tour through Europe with Uncle 
Sam’s Army. Welcome back, Frank. 
The Walter Pitmans are rejoicing now that 
son Gerald R. is out of service and busy get¬ 
ting settled in a new apartment with wife 
Carolyn. 
Joe Moderachi dropped into the hospital 
for a tonsillectomy and returned to us four 
days later looking quite chipper. Joe, in case 
and Greg's sister; Joyce and Kevin Guinaw, 
Weehawken Paymaster Joe Guinaw's children. 
Zeller 
W. A. Boog 
you don’t know, drives Terminal’s jeep. 
Alicia Dominguez returned from Cuban va¬ 
cation, flying to Miami, then on to Camaguey 
and ending that journey by driving to Banes 
to visit her mother and sister. This was 
Hubby Charlie’s first look at Alicia’s native 
provincia Oriente. On the homeward flight in 
Havana and Miami the weather had Alicia 
wishing for a fur coat. How Havana has 
changed! 
UNIFRUITCO, January-February 1958 
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