Installation of New Haven Elks Lodge 25 Officers

With a special 'first'

The 127th Installation of New Suite of Officers, 2011-12 – New Haven Elks Lodge #25, Benevolent; Protective Order of Elks since 1884, took place April 9.   Shown here, back row, l to r, Richard Brennan – 4 year trustee; Richard Sharron, Past Exalted Ruler  - Chaplin; Deborah Chrostek – Tiler; Hilda Kilpatrick – Inner Guard; Antoinette D'Errico – Secretary; and John McLoughlin – Treasurer.   In front row, also l to r, Paul Welch – Leading Knight; Nancy Gorban-Brennan, Past Exalted Ruler  – Loyal Knight; Bonnie Mullin – Exalted Ruler; and Eric Parrie – Lecturing Knight   Bonnie Mullin and her mother, Patricia L. Mullin, Exalted Ruler Lodge 286, Ocala , Fla.., are believed to be the 1st mother/daughter Exalted Rulers serving a term during the same year.   Group Photo and mother & daughter Exalted Rulers photos taken by Petisia M. Adger