Datebook 1923: Sunday, April 8, 1923

Cloudy in A.M. Rain at noon. Cleared, bright and cold in P.M. Arose 9:30 A.M. Breakfast. To Church and S.S. Dr. Fred Goodman of Y.M.C.A. International Committee spoke. Dinner at Sirkers. Father, mother, Mr. & Mrs. Zerby and I. Out for walk with Ed Gemlich. Home. Talked. Lunch. To E.L. and Church. To call on Mildred L.S.[Swart] To bed 12:15 P.M. Thankful for Sabbath day.

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Fred Goodman was an important leader in the YMCA in the early 20th century. Below is a little bit of information about him that was published in the YMCA journal, Association Men, for May 1923.

About this blog . . .

I've created this blog to make a record of the hand-written journals of Stanford Stillman Closson (1900-1982), who was in his life a Methodist Minister, grandfather, father, brother, husband, son, cousin, nephew and friend. This is the fifth installment of Date Book, covering 1923 (the first four cover 1919-1922). For as long as seems practical, I will record subsequent years (they continue into the 1970s). I'm matching the days--January 1, 1923 to January 1, 2017, for instance--with one entry per day.

The daily entries are pretty short, though, so in addition to recording the diaries, I'm also annotating them, giving additional information about the people, places and events mentioned by Stanford.

And this year, because Stanford is living in Boston, attending Boston University School of Theology, I will be adding information about early 1920s Boston as well as Schenectady.

Through these annotations, I hope to convey a sense of Stanford's life and times. And of course, I'm also hoping to give his descendants a fuller picture of who he was as a young man.

Datebook 1923

Sunday, April 8, 1923

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