Education Phillips Academy; Harvard University; Haverford College as Dean; Ph.D. from Harvard 1913; American Physical Society (APS) member from 1905; Cleveland meeting; December 1930; Homer Dodge becomes president and Palmer vice-president of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) and representative on APS council; American Institute of Physics (Karl T. Compton); Palmer president of AAPT in 1933, AAPT Journal with Duane Roller as editor; secondary teachers in AAPT; APS and AAPT relations; Palmer proposes Book on demonstration experiments, Palmer finances project secretly; McGraw-Hill publisher; the Oersted Medal (William. S. Franklin); Palmer on "multiple choice" testing. Also prominently mentioned are: Harold DeForest Arnold, Homer Levi Dodge, Paul Ernest Klopsteg, C. J. Lapp, Dayton C. Miller, Floyd K. Richtmyer, Marshall Ney States, Richard Sutton, and W. S. Webb.