Yale University - Sheffield Scientific School Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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A BIOGRAPHIES OF GRADUATES 205 Street, Senior year at 119 College Street, with W. H. Thorn- burgh. Polley took the course in Mining Engineering, and is unde- cided as to what branch of work he will engage in. His address is 483 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, N. Y. . F 5 Q ,Q i i Ei my We W .x Z..vb:.E IN THE PHYSICS LHS. RALPH WATERBURY POWELL Ralph was born in Ionia, Mich., October 4, 1889. He is a son of Herbert Ernest Powell, born April 27, 1866, and Alice May CWaterburyJ Powell, both of Ionia, Mich. He is a farmer. There are two sons and one daughter in the family. He prepared at the Ionia High School, and was graduated from the Michigan Agricultural College, with the degree of B.S. in engineering, in 1911, from Cornell University with the degree of CE. in 1914. He took some special work in the Yale School of Religion in 1914-15 and was in Sheff one year. Powell was married on September 10, 1914, to Maude Esther Nason, and he and Mrs. Powell have lived at 198 Hamilton Street for the year. Powell has taken the course in Mathematics and Physics, and expects to teach in Yale-in-China. His permanent address is Ionia, Mich.

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204 HISTORY OF 1916 S. Podoloff, Yale 1913 and 1915 L., and Jacob Podoloif, 1915, are brothers. He prepared at the New Haven High School, and received general honors during his entire course in Sheff. Sigma Xi. He has lived at home during the three years. Podoloff took the course in Civil Engineering. He will enter the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and will become a construction engineer. His address is 368 Ellsworth Avenue, New Haven, Conn. -1 Wir fel 74 ' 4 7' RAYMOND MACPHERSON POLLEY Poll was born in Buffalo, N. Y., December 9, 1893. His father, Cyrus H. Polley, was born in Rochester, N. Y., in 1862, and lived in Buffalo, Where he was president of the Seneca Coal Mining Company. He died in New York City, in September, 1913. His mother's name was Maud B. MacPherson, and her home was in Rochester, N. Y. Raymond has one brother and one sister. He prepared at the Lafayette High School, and the Nichols Preparatory School in Buffalo, and on entering Sheff was on the Apollo Mandolin-Banjo Club, and went out for swimming. Theta Xi and Franklin Hall. He roomed at 12 Prospect Place alone in Freshman year, Junior year with Paul Sims at 84 Wall

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206 HISTORY CF 1916 S. JZ 4? f, 5 N' mx S31 Jan p U i . 1... ..lu.. h,...., tgnbn lull' ...mf- CHARLEs DOWNER PRENTICE Prent was born in New York City, August 4, 1893, the only son of Andrew Tweedy Prentice and Carrie Robinson CRhodesD Prentice. His father was born in Greenville, Conn., April 19, 1850, and lived in New York, where he was buyer for the shoe department of R. H. Macy Sa Company. He died in New York March 25, 1904. Charles has one sister. He prepared at the Greenville Grammar School, and at the Norwich Free Academy. Norwich Club. Alpha Chi Rho. He has roomed at 293 York Street, with Harold Watson White, for the three years. Prentice took the Civil Engineering Course. His address is 223 Central Avenue, Norwich, Conn. WILL1s ORTH PRESTON Bill was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., April 23, 1898. His father, Matthew Alexander Preston, was born in Pittsburgh in 1845, and attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has retired from active business. His motheris maiden name was Annie Gertrude Cosgrave, there are six children in the family, two