THE ALUMNI JOURNAL 



105 



JOHN ALFRED STEEPENS, Pb. G., Ph. C, Phar. D., 

 C. U. C P., I9I0. 



We take pleasure in pre- 

 senting the photograph of 

 one of our recent graduates, 

 John A. Steffens. 



Dr. Steffens has just 

 received his degree as 

 Doctor of Pharmacy and 

 ahnost immediately after- 

 wards was offered a position 

 as Chemist and Bacteriolo- 

 gist to the Ponce Sanitary 

 Milk Company, of Ponce, 

 Porto Rico, which position 

 after due consideration he 

 has accepted and is now 

 down in Ponce. 



He was born November 

 14th, 1890 in Brooklyn, N. 

 Y., and attended the Public 

 and High Schools there; 

 after leaving high school 

 he went with his parents 

 on a trip to Europe, and 

 when he returned later he 

 secured a mercantile position, which he followed for a time, but his 

 inclination was towards Pharmacy and Chemistry, more so the latter, 

 with the result that he took a course in a preparatory school, as he 

 wished to secure enough points from the regents of New York State, 

 so that with what points he already had from his high school course 

 would enable him to enter a University and take a course there. He 

 finally decided to matriculate as a University Student in the New York 

 College of Pharmacy, which he did in the fall of 1907. During his 

 junior year there he was appointed assistant in the Pharmaceutical 

 Laboratory which position he held until recently, when he left to assist 

 a sanitary expert for a short while. He graduated as Ph. G , as an 

 honor man in May, 1909, he delivered the Valedictory for his class, 

 and this valedictory was exceptionally well prepared and delivered, he 



