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

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218 CLASS OF NINETEEN THIRTY-FIVE S. AND E. His permanent mailing address is 72 Oak Avenue, Glenbrook, Conn. WARREN AYRES TYRRELL, IR., was born in St. Louis, Mo., October 2, 1914, the son of Warren Ayres Tyrrell CB.S. Washing- ton University 1897, and Flora Bell fHessj Tyrrell. He prepared for college at the 1 South Side High School at Rock- ville Center, N. Y., and has taken the physics course. In Freshman year he was a scholar of the first rank, received the third Benjamin F. Barge Mathematical Prize, and divided the second New York Yale Club Prize. Warren was awarded a prize for excellence in all studies as a Sophomore and in Iunior year received prizes in en- gineering mechanics and drawing, held a Iames Raymond Goodrich Memorial Scholarship, and also had general tW0-YCHI' honors. In Senior year he held the Samuel M. Richardson Scholarship, and he is a member of Sigma Xi, The Sachem Club, and Saybrook College. In Freshman year he roomed with P. E. Brown, ,35, in Sophomore year with Warren, and then with Wing. Warren, who is planning to become a physicist, may be addressed at 343 South Merrick Avenue, Merrick, Long Island. PETER DEMETRIUS VALAS, 'cPete, was born October 16, 1913, in Hartford, Conn., where he has always lived with the excep- tion of eight years spent in Greece. I-Ie is the son of Iames and Mary QCookaraj Valas and has two brothers and two sisters. Entering Yale from the Hartford Public High School, Pete was a scholar of the first rank and was awarded a New York Yale Club charm in Freshman year and as a Sophomore received general one- year honors. He held a Hartford Alumni Association Scholarship for four years and also had the Class of 1888 S. Scholarship in Sopho- more and Iunior years. He has taken the course in chemical engi- neering and is a member of the Student Branch of the American

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BIOGRAPHIES 217 course at Yale. He served as treas- urer of the Student Branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in Senior year and also belongs to the Dramat, the Out- ing Club, and Book and Bond. Ed, who is a member of Berkeley College, roomed with Brainard in Freshman year, with Brooke and I. F. G. Miller in Sophomore year, and subsequently alone. He intends to go into railroad switch and signal work after graduation. His home address is 629 St. Iames Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. GLEED THOMPSON was born in Topeka, Kansas, November 20, 1912, but since 1924 he has lived in Denver, Colo. His father, Roy Smith Thompson, graduated from Yale in 1907, his mother's name before her marriage was Cornelia Gleed. Gleed has one sister. He received his preparation for college at Los Alamos and Taft. He took the course in applied economic science at Yale, remaining with our Class until the end of Sophomore year. He was on the Freshman Crew Squad and on the University Crew Squad the fol- lowing year. He belonged to The Cloister and Book and Snake. He roomed with Combs in Freshman year and with Combs and Mills as a Sophomore. Gleed is now a member of the Class of 1936 at Cornell Univer- sity. His permanent mailing address is the Denver Country Club, Denver, Colo. EDMUND KENT TWEEDY, who was born in New York City on November 9, IQI3, now lives in Glenbrook, Conn. His father, Edmund Francis Tweedy, graduated from Shelf in 1897. His moth- er's name before her marriage was Cornelia M. Nelson. Kent has two brothers. He received his preparatory education at the King School in Stamford, Conn., and at The Loomis School. He remained with our Class until the end of Freshman year, rooming with M. S. Bull, '35, while in New Haven.

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BIOGRAPHIES 219 Institute of Chemical Engineers and of Branford College. As a Senior he served on the Dwight Hall Cabinet. In Freshman year he was on the Soccer and Track squads, the Wrestling Team, and the Class Track Squad, and he was on the University Wrestling Team for the next three years, re- ceiving numerals and a minor Y.,' He was also a member of the University Track Squad as a Sophomore, of the 150-pound Football Squad and the Branford Football Team in Iunior year, and of the Branford Crew as a Senior. He was elected to the News Pictorial in 1932. In Freshman and Senior years he lived alone, he roomed with Russ and Tarlton in Sophomore year and with Russ the next year. Pete is planning to become a chemical engineer. His home ad- dress is 277 Wethersfield Avenue, Hartford, Conn. IAMES WILBUR VANEVERA, IR., Jim, was born in Virginia, Minn., on December 24, 1913, his home is now in Crosby, Minn. His father, Iames Wilbur VanEvera, received a B.S. at the Michi- gan College of Mines in 1907, and his mother, whose maiden name was Hazel Laura Payne, is a graduate of Smith. Iim has three brothers and two sisters. He received his preparatory training at the Crosby Ironton High School and has taken the industrial administration course at Yale, where he is a member of Trumbull College. Iim was on the Freshman Track Squad. As a Sophomore he was on the Univer- sity Track Squad and the Class Football Team and in Junior year was on the Trumbull Football