Victor Selim Debs

Background

Debs, Victor Selim was born on May 8, 1909 in Alexandria, Egypt. Came to the United States, 1939. Naturalized, 1944. Son of Selim and Marie (Messarra) Debs.

Education

Student, College des Freres, 1927. Student, Jesuits School Engineering, Lebanon, 1935.

Career

Draftsman French Corporation Engineers, Beirut, 1928-1935, design engineer, 1935-1939. Exhibitor for French and Lebanese governments at New York World's Fair, 1939-1940. Private practice drafting, designing, engineering New York City, 1940-1943, 46-47.

Chief engineer Lorentzen Hardware Manufacturing Corporation, 1947-1956. Design and project engineer American Machine & Foundry, Brooklyn, 1956-1959. Chief engineer Levelor Lorentzen, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, 1959-1984.

Achievements

• Victor Selim Debs has been listed as a noteworthy mechanical engineer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1945, European Theatre of Operations. Member American Society of Mechanical Engineers, National Society of Professional Engineers, Smithsonian Institution, National Geography Society.

Connections

Married Sonja Saba, May 18, 1947. Children: Eugene, Victor, Monique, Raymond.

Father:

Selim Debs

Mother:

Marie (Messarra) Debs

Spouse:

Sonja Saba

child:

Eugene Debs

child:

Raymond Debs

child:

Victor Debs

child:

Monique Debs