MEMORIAL AMBULANCE

Mr. Homer E. Keyes received from Mrs. Elizabeth D. Hall, mother of Richard Hall who was killed in ambulance work in France, Christmas 1915, a letter dated March 16, from which the following excerpts have been taken.

"After a wonderfully interesting experience of five months in France, I returned to Ann Arbor for Christmas to be with Dr. Hall and the family on that sad anniversary. * * *

"Louis and I were given a very unusual privilege and drove by ourselves across France to the Vosges and Alsace, where we were received with open arms by the dear people who had known and loved Dick.* * * On our way back, we went right through the war zone near Nancy and there ran across Section 8, with whom we had dinner. There were two Dartmouth boys. One named Killeen had known Dick. They begged me to try and have Dartmouth 'send more boys.'* * *

"Ever since the Dartmouth car was destroyed last winter, we have hoped to have another sent from Ann Arbor to take its place. Plans were formed by some of the students to do so, but they fell through.

"This winter Dr. Hall and I, with our son Douglas and daughter Elizabeth, have joined together and last week sent the necessary amount to send and maintain an ambulance for a year, to be known as 'The Dartmouth Car in Memory of Howard B. Lines and Richard N. Hall.'"