1897

Newspaper clippings, pamphlets and letters about Lull's seventieth birthday dinner continue to pour in on me; but Gilman has had a greater honor bestowed on him. On his seventieth birthday, instead of retiring him, they raised his salary. His job is getting electrical equipment for emergency ship construction for the Maritime Commission in Washington. He has two grandsons for Dartmouth '6O and '62.

In one of the Boston papers there was a column recently about Col. William E. Ela, one of the four children of our classmate, who is successfully operating the 220 th Salvage and Repair Company at Naples and the 819 th Sterilization Company. They repair clothes, shoes, field stoves, typewriters, snowshoes, and everything else for reissue to the soldiers, and at Pisa washed 55 million pounds of laundry for the sth Army last year.

Jack's other children are Col. Clayton M. Ela, serving in Alaska; Russell B. Ela who has taken over Jack's business in Portland, Maine, and Suzanne Ela Tracy whose son. Jack Ela Tracy, is '4B at Dartmouth.

Herbie Thyng writes that his son, Charles, is a major in the U. S. A. anti-aircraft service now stationed near Honolulu. Harrison, the Colonel, is leading his Fighter Group into the Japanese area. They will fly the newest and best planes and will be able to lead the bombing planes into combat and be a great protection to them. Harrison loves his thrilling, dangerous work. He has three very young children.

Secretary and Treasurer, 53 State St., Boston, Mass.