The following excerpt comes from a November 20, 1924, Lowell Tribune article (page 1, column 5) entitled "Lowell Boys Honored at Indiana":
General Dwight E. Aultman pinned pledge ribbons of Scabbard and Sword, honorary college military fraternity on nine officers of the Indiana University R.O.T.C. during the Armistice day celebration at the school. There were nine officers out of twenty-two [who] received the honors, among them being Lieutenant Elliott Belshaw.