Class of 1903

Nathaniel Batchelder and Harry Watson were made members of the examining committee of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Cheshire County, N. H., at a meeting in December, 1934. It was the occasion of the annual Christmas reunion of graduates and undergraduates held at Keene, and once more the association proved itself an active and enthusiastic unit of the Dartmouth associations.

A letter received from "Wooly" Woolverton of Birmingham, Ala., tells of a very severe illness which came suddenly upon him in August and nearly ended his career. "Wooly," having spent four years at Dartmouth, had just a little more granite in his veins than the ordinary Alabamian and refused to be conquered. I know you Potholeskers will rejoice with me on learning that "Wooly" is once more back at his work, chafing a bit at restrictions, but happy as of old. He sends his kindest regards to you all.

Lt. Col. Philip L. Brown of Newton Highlands has been raised to the colonelcy of the noth Cavalry, Mass. National Guard. He has had many years of service in the National Guard, most of which has been in the cavalry arm of the service. In addition to his regimental duties he is assistant commandant of the training school of the National Guard, which gives intensive training to candidates for commissions in all arms and branches of the guard. He has been largely instrumental in the development of indoor polo in Boston during the past ten years and recently was active in the promotion of the noth Cavalry horse show. Phil served on the Mexican border in the World War, and has undoubtedly been the leading military man of our class. Congratulations, Phil, from old 1903.

The recording of an inventory of the Massachusetts interests of Percival B. Palmer, a retired business man of SwamDscott and Chicago, has given me the first intimation of the death of our classmate Percival attended Dartmouth for his first collegiate year and then transferred to Amherst College, receiving his degree in 1904. Naturally his college interests, as he wrote in a class letter some years ago, were with his classmates at Amherst, but he retained pleasant memories of his associations at Dartmouth. He left four children, Mrs Lucy Palmer Warren of South Shore Drive Chicago; David Hamblen Palmer of Washington, D. C.; Nahum Chapin Palmer of Winnetka, Ill.; and Dudley C. Palmer of Winnetka, Ill.

He died February 6, 1933, at Chicago.

Secretary, 198 Humphrey St., Marblehead, Mass.