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ADRIEN
J. FALK
Adrien J. Falk, president of S. &
W. Fine Foods, Inc., was born December 9, 1884, in San Francisco, California.
The son of Jerome and Jennie (Lindheimer) Falk; he
received his education in the public grade ad high schools.
Mr. Falk began his career in 1899 as
an office boy. He became associated with S. & W. Fine Foods, Inc., in 1906
and has been a director since 1927 and president since 1946. He is also
director of Anglo California National Bank; member of Advisory Committee of the
Loan Agency, Reconstruction Finance Corporation; director of Mount Zion
Hospital (president, 1944); vice president of San Francisco Federated Fund;
member of Board of Governors of Bay Area Council; and president of California
State Chamber of Commerce, 1951-52.
Mr. Falk was formerly president of
San Francisco Community Chest, 1948-49; president of San Francisco Board of
Education, 1947 and 1949, and member of the Board for five years; president of
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce in 1944; campaign chairman of National Jewish
Welfare Fund in 1941; president of San Francisco Board of Trade in 1933. He is
a director of San Francisco Distributors Association; vice president of San
Francisco Employers Council; and member of the Advisory Committee of San
Francisco State College.
Former member of Advisory Council on
Social Security, United States Senate Finance Commission; chairman of Citizens
Postwar Planning Committee in 1945; former member of Northern California State
Management-Labor War Manpower Committee; former chief deputy air raid warden in
San Francisco; former member of State Advisory Council on Unemployment
Insurance; and chairman of Conference for the Problems of the Aging, called by
Governor Warren in Sacramento on October 15 and 16, 1951.
Mr. Falk’s hobby is horses and dogs.
He holds membership in the following clubs: Concordia-Argonaut (past
president), Elks, Menlo Circus, Commonwealth, Stock Exchange, and San Francisco
Commercial. He is a Mason and Shriner.
On November 7, 1929, Mr. Falk
married Helen Ruth Flanagan; step-son, James P. Jones.
Homes: 2085 Sacramento Street, San Francisco,
California.
Offices: S. & W. Fine Foods, Inc., 155 Berry
Street, San Francisco 19, California.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”,
by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 523, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Cecelia M. Setty.
San Francisco County Biographies