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NON GRADUATES CLASS OF 1906 141 

He is a member of the United (Congregational) Church of 
New Haven, Conn., and in politics is a Progressive. He served 
four years in the Naval Battalion, C. N. G., and three months 
in the Volunteer Navy, U. S. A. He is a member of the Society 
of American Foresters, the United Spanish War Veterans and 
the Patrons of Husbandry. 
*Gay E. Hills 
Died 1911 
Gay Elijah Hills was born September 5, 1882, in Swanzey, N. H., the 
son of Calvin Elijah Hills and Anna (Gay) Hills. 
He was prepared at Keene (N. H.) High School, and in 1904 received 
the degree of B.A. from Dartmouth College. 
He was married November 17, 1911, in Swanzey, N. H., to Miss Daisy 
Dawson of New York City, daughter of Walter Augustus Dawson and 
Kate C. Dawson. 
After leaving the Yale Forest School, Gay was employed by 
the Trumbull Electric Company of Plainville, Conn. 
He died November 19, 1911, at his home in Swanzey, N. H. 
Elmer R. Hodson 
United States Forest Service, Ogden, Utah 
Elmer Reed Hodson was born June 2, 1875, in Salem, Iowa, the son 
of James Lindsay Hodson and Anna Mariah (McGriff) Hodson. He 
is the grandson on his father’s side of George Hodson and Rebecca 
(Osborn) Hodson, and on his mother’s side of James McGriff and Mary 
(Reed) McGriff. He is of English and Scotch ancestry. He has one 
sister, Lulu Hodson, and one brother, Eugene Hodson. 
He received the degree of B.S. from the Iowa State College in 1898, 
and in 1900 the degree of M.S. 
He is unmarried. 
Upon entering the United States Forest Service in June, 1905, 
Hodson was appointed forest assistant. He is at present forest 
examiner with headquarters in Ogden, Utah. He writes: 
“Have traveled in the South and West mainly, since leaving 
Yale. In 1905 was in the Carolina pine belt, in 1906 in New 
Mexico and Colorado, in 1907 in Montana and Wyoming and 
