1925

Ken Montgomery has received a promotion and now has the rank of major.

Line Davis has been putting in some very long hard days at his hush-hush research work. As is our custom, he came up to New Hampshire over the Columbus Day weekend and we shot color pictures together, this making better than twenty years of very pleasant association in the field of photography.

It is rumored that lack of help has finally pushed Deac Blodgett right out of the restaurant business. I saw Deac in Hanover last spring, where he had gone for a few days of complete rest. At that time he was very tired, doing the work of three men.

George Amidon is punching away at his job of assistant State Treasurer of Vermont and is reported to be doing very well. Gene Callis, who is president of what is perhaps the largest independent oil-distributing outfit in the country, the Petrol Corp, has just had a royal row with OPA.

Due to paper economy, here's an ultratelescoped thumb-nail biography: Jack Davis will have played a small, but extremely important, part in winning the war when the score is added up. In 1927 he founded an outfit, with other interests, to develop and exploit the uses of stainless steel for chemical and processed industry equipment. In 1935 Jack bought out the other owners and moved the company from Boston to Linden, N. J., to be near the chemical trade.

Came the war and his factory was loaded with orders from TNT, smokeless powder, and gasoline plants. There have been E awards and other honors. He has a farm at Colts Neck in N. J., and an apartment on Park Ave. One more '25er doing a very swell job.

Cliff Hill's exact title is Deputy Vice Chairman of the War Production Board for Civilian Requirements. Lane Goss is another of the brethren who have gone to Washington. More details later.

They aint much happened here sence the last riting. Feller's house burned down and he lost his coon dog and mighty near lost his wife. The coon dog was extremely valuable and the sympathy of the entire community is extended tew him. I have put my sun out to pasture with Vince Rogers '24 what runs Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, a very nice place. Clayt Wallace '20 and Hollis Riddle '23 has two boys there, making the start of a very tight little Sons of Dartmouth Club. As I set pounding out these last lines tew make the morning train the sun has just lit up the red and gold October hillsides and the silver morning mists are sliding up offen the lake. Some of you fellers might of liked it.

MAJOR CURTIS A. ABEL '25, on foreign duty with the Army Ordnance Division.

Secretary, Center Ossipee, N. H. Treasurer, P. O. Box 428, Bristol, R. I.