Early Life
Steers was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, and attended the White Plains, New York, public schools. He graduated from the Hotchkiss School of Lakeville, Connecticut, in 1935, and received a B.A. from Yale University in 1939. He obtained a Certificate of Advanced Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1943, and his J.D. degree from the Yale Law School in 1948.
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