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...last meeting of the Aeronautical Society, officers for next year were elected. The new president, E. H. Kelton Occ., is also vice-president of the Intercollegiate Flying Association, and served overseas as a first lieutenant with the 185th Flying Squadron. The vice-president is J. B. Garver 1L., formerly overseas with the 25th American Squadron, where he downed three planes in combat. R. Blynn Varnum, elected corresponding secretary, served as instructor at Issoudon; France, and later with the 166th Squadron. The recording secretary W. W. Johnson '20, was an ensign in Naval Aviation at Pensacola...
...reasons why the University Aeronautical Society failed to score in the air meet at Mineola Friday was that only three of the six men entered were able to fly. E. H. Kelton, Occ., D. Gregg, 4 E.S., and R. Tuckerman '20 took no part in the flights. L. T. Lanman '20 and J. B. Garver, 1L., entered the race, but an inferior machine kept them far in the rear over the entire course. R. B. Varnum, Occ., placed fourth in the acrobatics but did not score...
...Kelton and Gregg, who had flown from Framingham Friday morning, were obliged to land in an uninhabited part of Long Island because their gasoline had given out; before they could get the right kind of fuel and cover the remaining distance to Mineola it was already past 7 o'clock. Incidentally, because no report of their arrival came through to Boston until the Crimson telegraphed to Colonel Moose, commanding officer at Mitchell Field, the next day, considerable anxiety was caused in Cambridge over their non-arrival. Tuckerman, who had been saved for the altitude event, did not compete because this...
...this banquet of the Intercollegiate Flying Association, held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Saturday evening, officers of the association for next year were announced as follows: president, M. Pyne, of Princeton; vice-president, O. H. Kelton, Occ., of the University; secretary, R. Currie, of Columbia; treasurer, Louis Dressere, of the University of Pittsburgh...
...fliers on the University team have had considerable experience in the air. Kelton, captain of the team, was attached to the 185th Squadron in France, while the other five either saw service in France as pilots, or as instructors on flying fields in this country...