## The Old Tory Tavern

In 1912, Elihu moved to the Carmalt property on Elm Street, a New Haven landmark purchased at the cost of $58,000.

Its first owner, Nicholas Callahan, is celebrated in the song "Callahan the Tory," and his inn was the meeting place of such New Haven citizens as opposed to the American Revolution. Once confiscated as a nesting place of the enemy, Tory Tavern is nevertheless connected with leading patriots. Nathan Hale is said to have used it for meetings. A lieutenant of General Lafayette is romantically rumored to have eloped with the owner's daughter during a military ball.

But legend aside, the old tavern – restored by Elihu – now faces on the Green as a gem of New England's classic 18th Century architecture.

(from Concerning Elihu, 1952)

175 Elm Street before 1929 renovation

Included herein as a Centennial gift to members is a print of the House intended for framing. The original artwork was a gift to Elihu by renowned artist and member Eugene Kingman '32, son of founding member Eugene Allerton Kingman '03, brother of Lucius Kingman '35, and nephew of Lucius Collingwood Kingman '00. The original pen and ink drawing, capturing the colonial charm and essence of our dear old House, now hangs in the front parlor.

## "Suitable Quarters"

Befitting its purposes as an open, useful club, Elihu's founders decided that a house would be far superior to an imposing tomb. Elihu's first house was a rented property at 74 Wall Street near Temple. As the club grew, finding larger quarters quickly became a priority. Elihu in 1905 rented a larger house from the University at 245 York, near where the Branford pathway is today. In 1910, the University desired the property again for its own use, and graduate members set about to purchase "suitable quarters" for the Club. In 1912, with remarkably good fortune, Elihu purchased an old colonial at (then) 87 Elm Street on New Haven Green. This charming historic house has shaped our personal Elihu experiences possibly more than any other factor. We pay tribute to the House, to dedicated members who secured its purchase, and to all who have tended to its care, its expansion and its Centennial restoration. The House today stands as proudly as ever - our legacy to future delegations, and "suitable quarters" indeed.

## Special Thanks to Elihu's Outstanding Support Staff over 100 Years

* George and Hattie Dyer 1903 - 1952
* Laurence and Adele Minor 1952 - 1983
* Robert W. Nadolny 1984 - present
* Maude Paton, club secretary
* Barbara Nelson, club secretary

## Elihu's Place in the Yale Community

Elihu, as one looks back over the sixty years, has passed through the stages of youthful rebellion and reactionary conformity until, as we fondly hope and believe, it has reached maturity and found its place in the Yale community. It is a conservative force in that community because it believes in and fosters the traditions of the earlier Yale insofar as those traditions are a help and not a hindrance to the progress of Yale. It is a liberal force because it does not believe that everything new is necessarily bad but stands ready to support the advance of Yale to meet the conditions of each new day. It is aristocratic in that it is unwilling to accept anything less than the best. It is democratic in that it is eager to find the best and to foster it wherever it may be found within the reach of Elihu. It is provincial in that it is proud of its own home and history. It is cosmopolitan because it believes that its members derive from this provincial background not merely rights but responsibilities and that their obligation to church and civil state has broadened to include a world undreamed of in the days of Elihu Yale.

So here we have some witness to the changes of temper from the days of the founding fathers to those of our youngest alumni. To those who have made this possible, our deepest gratitude. May we find here an understanding of our past which shall be of value in projecting our course into the uncharted seas which lie before us.

Clarence W. Mendell '04

Introduction to Recollections of Elihu 1903-1963

## Yale Medal Recipients in Elihu

### Year Received

1952 Gilbert Kinney '05

1952 Lucius F. Robinson, Jr. '18

1952 Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes '96

1952 Herbert F. Sturdy '24

1952 Hon. Thomas W. Swan '00

1953 Clarence W. Mendell '04

1955 Marshall M. Bartholomew '07

1956 Irving S. Olds '07

1961 Robert J. H. Kiputh, Hon.

1967 Floyd W. Jefferson '02

1968 Robert U. Redpath, Jr. '28

1972 George B. Young '34

1977 Melville Chapin '40

1985 William E. S. Griswold, Jr. '34

1987 William Horowitz '29

1988 Henry P. Brightwell '35

1990 David E. Gile '44

1995 Shirley and Howard R. Lamar, Hon.

1995 George S. Lockwood, Jr. '33

2000 C. Newton Schenck, III '44

245 York Street 1905-1912