1925*
Bob Borwell has just been elected to the board of the Oak Park Trust Company, making one more responsibility for Bob.
Tippy Tower and wife Dodey, with the two young Towers were in Center Ossipee for a week-end of skiing recently. The young Towers are most well mannered, showing the West Newton influence.
Syd Batchelder sends a most interesting note on his digitalis. He says that the secret of getting good digitalis is in the drying and except for a few large drug companies who keep their secrets, no one knew much about it until recently here in the States. In 1939 and 1940 the farmers of New Hampshire dried digitalis to a USP potency of 120, this being the best in the world. By experimentation Syd has worked out a method of drying digitalis green to a potency of 175 USP. This is now the most powerful digitalis known. He offers this at a special discount to any 'asers with troubled hearts. It may be a trite phrase, and has often been used by class secretaries, but its swell to see another classmate making a real mark in the world.
Woody Wilson missed the Dartmouth dinner in Boston, due to the fact that C. E. Wilson, president of the General Electric Company was in town on that date and took all of his time. Woody is Boston branch manager for General Electric.
Pete Blodgett is another '25er who missed the dinner. He inadvertently made a dinner date for the night that President Hopkins was to speak to the alumni in Boston and hasn't been the same since.
Among those at the dinner were George and Stan Chamberlain, Don Hunt, Pete Haffenreffer, Lane Goss, Jake Penney, Dick Gratz, Chuck Eaton, Dick Holden, Jock Brace, Russ Fox, Ken Nugent, Ken Hill, Fair Sawyer, George Newman, Max Emerson, Steve Ryan, Paul Nute and Lang Spring.
Lin White, Bill Sleigh and Bob Bishop helped elect Don Gardner '27, Commodore of the Boston Yacht Club on January 30th.
Dick Holden has been commuting to Hanover quite a bit to supervise the renovation of the Theta Chi house.
Lou Kimball is back on his feet again after four weeks in the Salem Hospital. Lou claims that he now owns all the elevators, maternity wards and chem labs in that institution. Knowing Lou's abilities, we do not doubt his statement.
Not for personal pleasure, but simply as part of the secretarial duties your correspondent drove to Hanover and sat out in the driving wind and rain for one and one half hours to watch the opening night of Carnival. There was so much water on the skating rink that an outboard motor championship would have been much more appropriate to stage that night than exhibition skating. But everything went off as scheduled. The usual Hanover dogs chased the skaters around the rink and tried to get into the picture with the Carnival Queen, so we came away with the feeling that the old traditions had not, and were not, failing.
Sid Hayward has suggested that in an early issue I try the style employed in a column I have inflicted on newspaper readers in these parts for several years. It's a column that is very well liked by those who like it and is done in strictly rural style. If I get up my courage I'll try it next month.
Secretary, Center Ossipee, N. H.
