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

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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

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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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220 CLASS OF NINETEEN THIRTY-FIVE S. AND E. and Swimming teams. He roomed with McQuade in Freshman year, with S. H. Englander, ,34 E., as a Sophomore, and with W. T. VanHuysen, '35, in Senior year, while in Iunior year he lived alone. lim, who plans to become a mining engineer, may take a course in mining at Michigan Tech after graduating from Yale. His per- manent address is Crosby, Minn. ALAN CLEAVER VEDDER, '6Al,,' was born in Wilmington, Del., on Iuly 13, 1912, but his home has been in Worcester, Mass., since 1916. He is one of the two sons of Iohn Warren and Aimee QCleaverQ Vedder. 1 Al, whose preparation for col- lege was received at The Horch- kiss School, has taken the course in applied economic science at Yale. He is a non-resident mem- ber of Branford College and be- longs to York Hall and Chi Phi. In Freshman year he was a mem- ber of the Swimming and Crew squads. That year he roorried with Redfield, in Sophomore year with Redfield, Bryant, Venter, and R. B. Warner, and for the next two years with Bryant and I. M. Fulton. He is planning to go into busi- ness along financial lines upon the completion of his college course. His permanent address is I4 Germain Street, Worcester, Mass. IULIAN DEFOREST VENTER, Def, was born in Tutuila, Sa- moa, August 3o, 1913, but his home is now in New Haven. His father, Iosiah Gillespie Venter, graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1912, his mother, whose maiden name was An- toinette DeForest, died in Ianuary, 1924. De has two sisters. He prepared for college at the Rectory School in Pomfret and at the Kent School and held a David C. DeForest Scholarship for the first three years of his course. He has taken the applied economic science course and is a member of Branford College. In Freshman year De was on the second Football Team and the Swimming