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In 1946, Mr. Place began a 25-year career
at Chase National Bank (eventually Chase
Manhattan Bank). He moved up the ranks
at Chase, with promotions to second vice
president (1953), vice president (1956),
and senior vice president (1959), before
serving as senior vice president and area
executive responsible for Europe and Africa
for the bank’s international department
between 1963 and 1965. In 1965, Mr. Place
became one of the youngest executive vice
presidents in Chase history, overseeing
the bank’s 132 branches in and around
New York City.
On March 22, 1952, he married Katharine
Smart. Together, the couple raised three
children: John B.M. Place, Jr. (born in 1953),
Marian R. Place (born in 1955), and Judith
G. Place (born in 1961).
In 1971, Mr. Place left Chase for the
Anaconda Company, where he served
as chief executive of one of the world’s
largest copper producers. He took over
leadership at a time when Anaconda had
suffered recent losses due to changes in
international mining regulations, impact-
ing in particular the company’s mines in
Chile. Under his leadership, Anaconda
diversified, becoming less reliant on mining
and much more profitable overall. In 1976,
the company was acquired by Atlantic
Richfield. Mr. Place stayed on for two more
years, before leaving to become president
and director of Crocker National Bank in
San Francisco. He went on to become the
Chairman and CEO of Crocker. He retired
from that role in 1986.
In addition, Mr. Place served as a direc-
tor of the Lehigh Portland Cement Com-
pany and Ball Brothers Company and
served on the boards of the Chemical
New York Corporation, the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company, Marathon Oil,
and the Pacific Gas & Electric Company.
He was, at various times, a member of the
Union Club, the Wall Street Club, the 29
Club, the Millbrook Golf and Tennis Club,
the Links, the Burlingame Country Club,
the Pacific Union Club, and the Laurel
Valley Club. Mr. Place was active in many
local organizations, including the United
Way of California, the American Red Cross
of the Bay Area, the World Affairs Council
(president), and the University of Santa
Clara, among others.
A generous supporter of St. Paul’s,
Mr. Place gave back to the School consis-
tently. In 2003, he became a member of
the John Hargate Society, having remem-
bered SPS in his estate plans. In a 2002
survey, Mr. Place wrote that SPS gave
him a set of values that “guided me
through life.”
After many years spent in New York City,
San Francisco, and Millbrook, N.Y., Mr.
Place and his wife, Katy, retired to West
Chester, Pa., in the late 1990s, eventually
living in Bryn Mawr.
Mr. Place is survived by his wife of 63
years, Katharine Smart Place; and his
children, John Place, Jr., Marian Place,
and Judith Sloan.
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Lloyd Taft Salt
died on November 19, 2015, at the Bourne
Manor Nursing Home in Buzzards Bay,
Mass. He was 93 years old.
Born on September 28, 1922, he was the
son of Lloyd B. Salt of the Form of 1913
and Katherine W. Salt. Mr. Salt grew up in
Chestnut Hill, Mass. He attended Rivers
School in Weston, Mass., before enrolling
at St. Paul’s School as a Second Former in
the fall of 1937.
At SPS, he played ice hockey and football,
ran cross country, and competed in track
for Delphian. Mr. Salt also rowed with
Halcyon. Though he enjoyed his time at the
School, his father decided to withdraw
Mr. Salt at the end of his Fourth Form year,
in the spring of 1941. He worked for a short
time before joining the military in 1942.
Mr. Salt attended aviation school at the
331st College Training Detachment at
Williamsport-Dickinson Seminary in
Williamsport, Pa. He served in the U.S.
Air Force as a Flight Officer during World
War II, and was eventually stationed at
Shaw Field in Sumter, S.C., prior to his
discharge from the military in 1945.
On December 1, 1945, Mr. Salt married
Eleanor Jane Cooley, and together the
couple had two children, Lloyd B. Salt II
(born in 1949) and Judy Hays Salt (born
in 1955). Mr. Salt lived in South Yar-
mouth, Mass., on Cape Cod, and owned
Bass River Marina in West Dennis, a
marine sales, service, and storage center
established in 1958.
After the death of his first wife on Feb-
ruary 11, 1981, Mr. Salt sold Bass River
Marina and retired to Florida, where he
lived in the Fort Myers area. Mr. Salt
remarried to Wanda Middleton on Octo-
ber 31, 1981.
In 2014, his daughter, Judy, moved Mr.
Salt back to Cape Cod. She remembers
him as a great man and a wonderful,
loving father.
Mr. Salt was predeceased on October 29,
1997, by his wife, Wanda. He is survived
by his daughter, Judy Salt Klimm, and her
husband, Richard F. Klimm; and two grand-
sons, Donald Lloyd Klimm, and his wife,
Kathleen Klimm, and Richard F. Klimm III.
Mr. Salt was also predeceased on May 25,
1993, by his son, Lloyd B. Salt II.
1943
Carnes Weeks, Jr.
a country doctor, a sincere and giving
man, a storyteller, and a nature enthusi-
ast, died on November 29, 2015, in Exeter,
N.H., at the age of 91, after a long battle
with bladder cancer.
Dr. Weeks was the son of the late Dr.
Carnes Weeks, Sr. of the Form of 1917 and
Margaret (Shoemaker) Weeks. He was born
on August 27, 1924, in New York City. His
younger siblings, Robert ’44, Nonie, and
Margo, followed soon after. Dr. Weeks
grew up in New York City, attending
St. Bernard’s School before arriving at
St. Paul’s. Around the same time, his family
moved to a farm in Woodbury, Conn.
DECEASED
