GRADUATES CLASS OF 1903 55 

September 3, 1908, in Ilchester, Md., and James Girvin Peters, Jr., born 
May 18, 1911, in Baltimore, Md. 
Peters has been employed in the United States Forest Service 
since graduating from the Yale Forest School. In 1903 he was 
made forest assistant, in 1908 forest examiner, in 1909 chief 
of state and private codperation, and in 1911 chief of state codp- 
eration. Since 1905 he has been a member of the Graduate 
Advisory Board of the Yale Forest School, his present term 
expiring in 1916. He was a member of the Committee on 
Admissions from 1909 to 1911, and in 1908 and 1912 of the 
Committee on Meetings, of the Society of American Foresters. 
He writes: “From July to September, 1903, studied forest 
conditions in Northern New Hampshire. From December to 
March, 1904, studied waste in lumbering yellow pine in Louis- 
iana and Texas. In October and November, 1904, gave a six 
weeks’ course at Biltmore Forest School, North Carolina, on field 
methods of the Forest Service. This course was repeated in 
October and November of 1905. From May to September, 
1905, made forest working plans in Hudson River valley, New 
York. In Juneand July, 1906, accompanied Gilbert Rogers of the 
British India Forest Service on a tour of lumbering regions and 
national forests, covering the Southern Appalachians, the long 
leaf pine country, the western yellow pine regions of the Black 
Hills, S. Dak., and the Southwest, and the redwood and sugar 
pine districts in California. In August and November made a 
working plan for the Henry’s Lake district of the Targhee 
Forest, Idaho. From May to September, 1907, engaged in a 
cooperative timber sale with the War Department on Fort Win- 
gate Military Reservation, N. Mex. From 1908 to 1912 assisted 
in directing the policy of codperation between the Forest Service 
and states, including Porto Rico, with a view to the enactment 
by them of remedial forest legislation. In December, rg11, 
attended the Yale Forest School reunion, which was a corker.” 
Peters is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church. In 
politics he is a Democrat. He says: “I am for regulated com- 
petition as against legalized monopoly, publicity as against star 
chamber deals, conservation in all things, woman’s suffrage 
(despite her being the ‘more deadly’ of the species), and any 
progressive measure which is constructive.” He is a member 
