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

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96 CLASS OF NINETEEN THIRTY-FIVE S. AND E. man, was awarded a prize for excellence in biology and botany the next year, and received general two-year honors in Iunior year. He was on the Freshman Cross Country and Track squads and is a member of the Undergraduate Medical Club. Nathan was his room- mate until Senior year, when he roomed alone. Roy plans to continue his studies in the Yale Medical School. His home address is 102 Woodmere Boulevard, Woodmere, N. Y. ' l RALPH POMEROY BASSETT, who is one of the four sons of Frederick Pomeroy and Marie Iosephine QSchulZj Bassett, was born in Chicago on Iuly 3, 1911. His father received a B.A. at Yale in 1900, and one of his brothers, Iohn A. Bassett, graduated from Sheff in 1933. Ralph received his preparatory education at the Westminster School and has taken the course in applied economic science at Yale. He sang in the University Glee Club for four years and is a member of St. Elmo. He had a single room until Senior year, When he roomed with Blair. After graduation he plans to enter business along financial lines. His permanent mailing address is 6246 Kenmore Avenue, Chicago, Ill. WALTER THOMAS BATTIS, Bat, who was born in Boston, Mass., on October 18, 1913, is one of the two sons of Iohn Otis and Harriet Etta fBigWoodj Battis. His father died in December, 1932. Allen T. Bigwood, '35, is his cousin. Entering Yale from the Roxbury Latin School, he has taken the course in metallurgy and in Senior year served as secretary of the

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BIOGRAPHIES Q5 WILFRED BANCROFT, JR., Banny, was born in Ardmore, Pa., August 22, IQIZQ he has also lived in Harrisville, R. I., and Haverford, Pa. His father, Wil- fred Bancroft, received a B.S. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1897, and his mother, Elizabeth QNieldsj Ban- croft, graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1898. Banny has a brother and a sister. He received his preparatory education at Exeter and West- minster. Banny, who has taken - the course in mechanical engi- neering, belongs to the Student Branch of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and to Book and Snake and is a member of Berkeley College. He was on the Freshman Football and Swim- ming squads and was a member of The Cloister. In Sophomore year he roomed with Hood and as a Iunior with Creighton, while in Freshman and Senior years he roomed alone. Banny is planning to go into the manufacturing business after graduation. His permanent address is Haverford, Pa. ROY NATHANIEL BAR- a NETT was born in Woodmere, N. Y., on Iune 6, 1914. His father, Nathaniel Barnett, received an M.D. at Columbia in 1910, and his mother, whose maiden name was Edith Rosenblatt, graduated from Barnard in IQI3. Roy has two sisters. His preparatory education was received at the Woodmere Acade- my, and he took the combined biological science and medical course at Yale. Roy was a scholar of the second rank as a Fresh-

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BIOGRAPHIES 97 Student Branch of the American E Institute of Mining and Metal- lurgical Engineers. Bat is a mem- ber of Calhoun College and played on its Hockey and Baseball teams in Iunior year. As a Freshman he roomed alone, in Sophomore year with L. M. Davis, ,32, and E. V. Tallberg, ,33 E., and for the next two years with Bigwood. Bat expects to become a metal- lurgist upon the completion of his course at Yale. Mail should be ad- dressed to him at 847 South Street, Roslindale, Mass. GRANT WINANS BAUER, Grunts,', was born in Linden, N. I., on Iuly 29, 1913, the son of George Wolf Bauer, who graduated from Rutgers University in 1904, and Ada QWinansj Bauer. He has two brothers and two sisters. Grant received his preparatory education at the Linden High School and spent a year with the Class of 1935 at Pennsylvania State College, where he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon and the Debating Society. Ioining our Class at the beginning of Sophomore year, he has taken the course in applied economic sci- ence. He played on the Class Bas- ketball Team in Sophomore year, and he belonged to The Colony Club and is a member of The Berzelius Society and of Berkeley - College. He roomed with Goodale and S. R. Morton in Sophomore year and subsequently with I. F. G. Miller. His permanent mailing address is 46 Gesner Street, Linden, N. I.