New-York tribune., 1919-05-16
New York Students
Figure in Senior
Elections at Yale
Deforrest Van Slyck and
Harry I'll. Dawson Taken
by SSBones''; Naval Ace Is
the Last Man stTapped''
Special Correspondence

Special COrresp pondence
NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, May 15-Yale's s
senior society elections were held to-
day on the campus, which was closed
to the public and to the freshmen and
sophomore classes by the faculty, who
wished to make the occasion as free
from excitement as possible.
The time-honored slapping between
the shoulders of prominent members of
the junior class by the forty-tive pres
ent members of the societies in token
Of election was Witnessed, however,
by several hundred upper class men.
The honor of being the last man
tapped" for Skull and Bones fell to
David L. Ingalls,, of Cleveland, the
only American ace in naval aviation
and captain of the Yale hockey team
Deforrest Van Slyck, of New York
City, captain of the basketball team
and member of the junior promenade
committee, was given the honor of
being the first man chosen for
Bones Harry H. Davidson. son of
the head Of the Red Cross Society. was
elected to Bones. William Dwight
Whitney, grandson and namesake of
the authority on Europe and Lam
guages, to Scroll and Key, and Collier
Platt, grandson of the former United
States Senator, to VOLTS Head
"Bones" Elections Refused
Elections to "Bones" were refused by
c. S. Hemingway, of Brooklyn; John
Crosby, of Minneapolis, and George F..
Lawrence, Of Short Hills, N. j. All
three later accepted elections to Scroll
and Key. Moorhead Patterson, OF New
mistake, later being elected to Bones"
Of the athletes Frank HefFlinger, the
runner, went to Bones" Charley
Flaherty, the baseball outfelder; Bob
Hamil, the basketball and tennis play
err, and P. D. Schreiber, the oarsmen,
to Scroll and Key. Cal. Holmes, the
baseball catcher; William Prizer, Eg-
bert Driscoli, runners. and Zack Cor
don, baseball player, went to VOLTS
Head. Following are the complete
elections:
Skull and Bones Deforrest Van
Slyck, New York; James McHenry
Baltimore; Joseph Weir Sargent, New
Haven; L. G. Adams Lawrence, N. Y,
Daniel r. Winter, Chicago; Henry R.
I. Luce, Chanting, China; John M.
Hincks, Bridgeport, Conn; Harry P.
DAWSON, blew York; Theodore Lee
Stafford, Lakeville, Conn; Morehead
Patterson, New York; Britton Hadden,
Brooklyn, N. T.; Alfred c. Schermer-
horn, New York City; Frank P. Heffel-
finger, Wayzain, Mimi; Francis r.
Hobson, New York City, and David L.
Ingalls,, Clev. land.
Scroll md Key Recruits
Scroll and key-Seymour II. Knox.
Buffalo; William D. Whitney. New
Chicago; Nelson j. Smith, Syracuse,
D. G.; John G. Hustled, Peekskill, N.
Y; Blake T. Lawrence, Short Hills, N.
j.; Charles H. Hemingway, Brooklyn,
N. y; Robert Lyon Hammill, Hinsdale,
lll;; Evans Wotten, jr., Indianapolis;
John Crosby, jr, Minneapolis; Benja-
min B. Jennings, New York; George F.
Ralph P. Hanes, Winston-Salem, N. c.;
Pierrepont D. Scheiber, Short Hills,
N. ].
VOLTS Head-James S. Hemingway,
jr., New Haven, Conn; Charles e. G
Holmes. Fall River, Mass; John w.
Andrews, New Haven, Conn; Walter
Mills, Chicago; Robert l.. Fisher,
New York; William D. Prizer, East
Orange. N. j.; Calvin D. Trowbridge
Lake Forest, ILL.,; Egbert G. Driscoll
st. Paul; Charles w. Gamble, Haver-
ford, Penn; Charles Stedman Garland.
Edgewood Penn. Craig D. Munson,
Wallingford. Conn; John H. Hamline.
Chicago; Collier Platt, New York:
Elbridge Strattont Bronxville, N. Y;
Aacchcus Gordon, ~jr., Brookvillc, Penn.