Mr. Berg was the elder of two sons of Carl Edward & Signe Victoria (Magnusson) Berg. He was educated in the public schools of Jamestown, NY, at the Manlius School in central New York state, and at Cornell University at Ithaca, NY.
In the mid to late 1930s, at the height of the Great Depression, Mr. Berg travelled the United States supporting himself playing pool. In 1937 he took a factory job with the Fibreboard Corporation's corrugating plant in Antioch, California, where he continued to work in until entering Naval service early in World War II. He saw wartime service aboard the destroyers USS Radford and USS Neilds (of which he was navigator), primarily in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean, between March 1942 and his honorable discharge from the Navy in September 1945.
He married Marion Laflin on April 11, 1943 in New York City and they were the parents of one daughter.
After the war Mr. Berg returned to Fibreboard as a salesman, working his way up through the company to become a senior vice president by the time of his retirement in 1964. During his career in the paper and packaging industry he worked in virtually every aspect of the business, locating variously in New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Shreveport, Louisiana, where he assisted in the formation of the Shreveport Container Corporation in 1969. He was a resident of Shreveport from March 1969 until his death.
Mr. Berg appears in a photograph in the November 1933 issue of "National Geographic Magazine" (page 530, top color image) in which he leans on the base of the statue of Ezra Cornell on the Cornell University campus; he is the sole standing figure in the photo, among several seated persons.
In the mid to late 1930s, at the height of the Great Depression, Mr. Berg travelled the United States supporting himself playing pool. In 1937 he took a factory job with the Fibreboard Corporation's corrugating plant in Antioch, California, where he continued to work in until entering Naval service early in World War II. He saw wartime service aboard the destroyers USS Radford and USS Neilds (of which he was navigator), primarily in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean, between March 1942 and his honorable discharge from the Navy in September 1945.
He married Marion Laflin on April 11, 1943 in New York City and they were the parents of one daughter.
After the war Mr. Berg returned to Fibreboard as a salesman, working his way up through the company to become a senior vice president by the time of his retirement in 1964. During his career in the paper and packaging industry he worked in virtually every aspect of the business, locating variously in New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Shreveport, Louisiana, where he assisted in the formation of the Shreveport Container Corporation in 1969. He was a resident of Shreveport from March 1969 until his death.
Mr. Berg appears in a photograph in the November 1933 issue of "National Geographic Magazine" (page 530, top color image) in which he leans on the base of the statue of Ezra Cornell on the Cornell University campus; he is the sole standing figure in the photo, among several seated persons.
Mr. Berg was the elder of two sons of Carl Edward & Signe Victoria (Magnusson) Berg. He was educated in the public schools of Jamestown, NY, at the Manlius School in central New York state, and at Cornell University at Ithaca, NY.
In the mid to late 1930s, at the height of the Great Depression, Mr. Berg travelled the United States supporting himself playing pool. In 1937 he took a factory job with the Fibreboard Corporation's corrugating plant in Antioch, California, where he continued to work in until entering Naval service early in World War II. He saw wartime service aboard the destroyers USS Radford and USS Neilds (of which he was navigator), primarily in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean, between March 1942 and his honorable discharge from the Navy in September 1945.
He married Marion Laflin on April 11, 1943 in New York City and they were the parents of one daughter.
After the war Mr. Berg returned to Fibreboard as a salesman, working his way up through the company to become a senior vice president by the time of his retirement in 1964. During his career in the paper and packaging industry he worked in virtually every aspect of the business, locating variously in New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Shreveport, Louisiana, where he assisted in the formation of the Shreveport Container Corporation in 1969. He was a resident of Shreveport from March 1969 until his death.
Mr. Berg appears in a photograph in the November 1933 issue of "National Geographic Magazine" (page 530, top color image) in which he leans on the base of the statue of Ezra Cornell on the Cornell University campus; he is the sole standing figure in the photo, among several seated persons.
In the mid to late 1930s, at the height of the Great Depression, Mr. Berg travelled the United States supporting himself playing pool. In 1937 he took a factory job with the Fibreboard Corporation's corrugating plant in Antioch, California, where he continued to work in until entering Naval service early in World War II. He saw wartime service aboard the destroyers USS Radford and USS Neilds (of which he was navigator), primarily in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean, between March 1942 and his honorable discharge from the Navy in September 1945.
He married Marion Laflin on April 11, 1943 in New York City and they were the parents of one daughter.
After the war Mr. Berg returned to Fibreboard as a salesman, working his way up through the company to become a senior vice president by the time of his retirement in 1964. During his career in the paper and packaging industry he worked in virtually every aspect of the business, locating variously in New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Shreveport, Louisiana, where he assisted in the formation of the Shreveport Container Corporation in 1969. He was a resident of Shreveport from March 1969 until his death.
Mr. Berg appears in a photograph in the November 1933 issue of "National Geographic Magazine" (page 530, top color image) in which he leans on the base of the statue of Ezra Cornell on the Cornell University campus; he is the sole standing figure in the photo, among several seated persons.
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