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GEORGE W. VAN DYKE
George W. Van Dyke, attorney at law,
with offices in the Heartwell Building at Long Beach,
was born in Smyrna, Delaware, April 14, 1898, and is a son of Horace T. Van Dyke, also a native of that state. The father, who has large dairy interests,
resides in De Ruyter, New York. The mother, Belle Morgan (Price) Van Dyke,
was born in Maryland and is also living.
A member of a family of three
children, George W. Van Dyke was reared in his native village and following his
graduation from the Smyrna high school attended Bucknell University at
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where he won the A. B. degree in 1920 and that of A.
M. in 1920. He received the LL.B. degree
from La Salle Extension University of Chicago in 1926 and while a student there
excelled in debate. Mr. Van Dyke was
very active in extra-curricular activities while in the university having
served as associate editor of the college paper, president of the Law Club,
manager of the Intercollegiate Debating Team, and assistant instructor in
debating. Admitted to the bar of
Missouri in 1927, he practiced law in St. Louis for three and a half
years. In 1930 he was admitted to the
bar in California and opened an office in Long Beach. While well-grounded in the fundamental
principles of jurisprudence, he is at his best in corporation work and has
already acquired a desirable clientele.
He is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the
California State Bar Association. He
also belongs to Kappa Delta Rho, a national fraternity, to the Knights of
Pythias, Theodore Roosevelt Lodge, No.
61, F. & A. M., the Eastern Star, the White Shrine of Jerusalem and the
Order of the Amaranth. In his hours of
leisure he enjoys golf and other outdoor sports.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. IV, by John Steven McGroarty, Page 507, Clarke Publ.,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis.
1933.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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