Friday, March 30, 1923

Overcast and cool. Arose 6 A.M. Finished packing trunk etc. B. and D. Classes 8:30 to 10:30 A.M. Good Friday service in chapel  at 10:30 A.M. H. H. Crane delivered sermon. Very good. H.H. and I took 1 P.M. train for Sch'dy. On time. Arrived in Albany 7:25 P.M. Marion met us. She & H.H. over on trolley. I waited hour for train. Father met me with Ford. Home. Talked, supper etc. To bed 12:45 P.M. Thankful for privilege of being home again.

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H.H. (Henry Hitt) Crane (1890-1977) was a Methodist minister and a 1916 graduate of Boston University School of Theology. He was an interesting fellow. His papers are archived at the University of Michigan Bentley Library. You can also read about him at University of Virginia's Social Networks website. Here is an excerpt from that article:

Crane's first pastorate in Gorham, Maine was interrupted by the First World War. In 1917, he took a leave from his church to serve with the Y.M.C.A. in front line duty. His exposure here to the brutalities of war transformed Crane into a pacifist, a position to which he would adhere for the remainder of his life. Crane returned to Gorham for a brief period of time, then moved on to a Newton, Massachusetts church for two years from 1918 to 1920. For nine years (1920-1928), he was pastor of the Centre Methodist Church in Malden, Massachusetts. In 1928, he was appointed pastor of the Elm Park Methodist Church in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Located in the heart of the anthracite coal region, Elm Park was ranked as one of the three greatest Methodist Episcopal churches in the nation. Here Crane bolstered his reputation for controversy, organizing meetings of the American League Against War and Fascism, which the American Legion had labeled as "communistic." While at Elm Park, Crane took a year-long (1936-1937) sabbatical to tour the world to study for himself world conditions and the political tumult then occurring in Europe and the Far East.

Interesting that he was able to stay such a long time in one place twice in his career. His next assignment, for instance, was to Detroit Central Methodist Church, where he stayed for 20 years (1938-1958), until he retired. Stanford was a Michigan minister for the whole of his career. So he and Stanford probably met again when they both belonged to the same conference.