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

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248 HISTORY OF 1916 S. year he roomed at 120 High Street, with George A. Warner. Junior and Senior years with C. H. Matthiessen, Jr., and H. Wilcox, at 133 College Street. von der Smith took the Electrical Engineering Course, and will follow that profession. His address is Lancaster, Pa. all 'EXE I . P S li LM i O gsm Z 5596 . - ' 1' 5 ' :2'r ',, . 5 1 -its f i! LAWRENCE HERMAN SONNEBORN Sonny was born in New York City, January 26, 1896. His father, Leo Sonneborn, was born July 22, 1864, in New York City, and has lived there a great part of his life. He has retired from active business. His mother, whose name was Ophelia Herman, lived in New York before her marriage, there are two sons in the family. He prepared at Townshend Harris Hall, and at Hamilton Institute. He went out for wrestling and tennis. Battery B, Yale Battalion. He roomed alone, at 117 Wall Street in Fresh- man year, 129 Van Sheff in Junior year, and at 187 Van Shelf in Senior year. Sonneborn took the Course in Metallurgy, and will take post- graduate work in Shei. His address is 166 West Seventy- seventh Street, New York City.

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, BIOGRAPHIES OF GRADUATES 247 and one daughter in the family. Granville M. Smith, Jr., 1914 S., is a brother. He prepared at the Westport High School, Kansas City, and at Andover. He was manager of the 1917 Freshman Crew, and has numerals. Berzelius and the Colony Club. He roomed with J. D. Kirkpatrick, Jr., and W. J. Bales, Jr., at 125 High Street, in Freshman year 5 With Jack S. Condon at 17 Hillhouse Avenue, in Junior year, and with William Durfee, Jr., and Rockwell Keeney, at the same address, in Senior year. Smith took the Select Course, and plans to become a banker. His permanent address is 53 Janssen Place, Kansas City, Mo. um , '5 X Pb QV Q N ' v ESAQL, . ie, 'Eg X V X 4 fans PHILIP GossLER voN DER SMITH Phil was born February 12, 1896, in Wrightsville, Pa., the only child of Lucius Krotel von der Smith, and Katherine CGosslerj von der Smith. His father was born in Lancaster, Pa., in 1854, and was a banker, with the First National Bank of Wrightsville, Pa. He died in Mountville, Pa., in 1914. Mrs. von der Smith lived in Columbia, Pa., before her marriage. Phil prepared at the Hotchkiss School, and is chairman of the Yale Branch, American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Hotchkiss Club. Delta Psi and St. Anthony Hall. Freshman

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BIOGRAPHIES OF GRADUATE S 249 .sl Pg , I- fb If 2 ' I I ll , H' I ' ,J W 51 .ne ERNEST Osczia SPAENKUCH Dutch was born in New Haven, February 2, 1896. .His father, August Spaenkuch, was born in Marbach, Baden, Ger- many, April 16, 1854, and came to New Haven, where he is proprietor of a cafe. His mother, Katherine Friedrika Kienle, lived in Heimsheim, Wiirtembiirg, Germany, before her mar- riage, there are three sons and two daughters in her family. August Spaenkuch, a brother, won the Winchester Scholarship at the Yale School of Fine Arts in 1908. Dutch prepared at the New Haven High School, and has lived at his home. Spaenkuch took the course in Electrical Engineering, and will enter the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He may be addressed at 172 Commerce Street, New Haven, Conn. LOUIS PHILIP STEIN Steiny was born in Kiev, Russia, May 4, 1894. His father, Jacob Haress Stein, was born in Verona, Russia, in 1855, and spent most of his life in Kiev, Russia. He has retired from active business. His mother, Rebecca Jacobs. was also a resi- dent of Kiev. Jacob Louis Jacobs, OE., 1907 S., and Samuel A. Shift, 1918 S., are relatives.