Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adolph G. Studer's time, Detroit has swelled from a dozing Midwestern town of less than 200,000 to the fourth city in the U.S., a brawling industrial center of nearly 2,000,000. The Young Men's Christian Association has grown with it. The chief reason: aged (79), devout Dr. Studer, the world's oldest active Y secretary, and one of the shrewdest Christian gentlemen who ever wore the triangle. Says...
Young Adolph came to Detroit in 1887 to learn the hardware business. A crack athlete, he went to the Y for exercise. Four years later he was exercising full-time-as the Y's physical director. But he was doing a good deal more than exercise. He found that he was serving God in a way that best suited his abilities and temperament...
...these years Dr. Studer helped James Naismith invent basketball, hired a young mechanic named Henry Ford for $2 a night to teach a Y class in ironworking. The strain of work and school eventually buckled Dr. Studer's health, and he went to Arizona to practice medicine. The Detroit Y soon persuaded him to come back "temporarily" as general secretary...
...building. When the directors demurred, he crammed the old Y with every available member, took the ' board on a tour. After squeezing through groups of sweaty athletes and dodging medicine balls, the board gave in. Dr. Studer raised $400,000, built a ten-story building (now Detroit's downtown Y), which became the model for Y.M.C.A. buildings all over...
...looked like a child of nine. He weighed only 75 Ibs.; he was only 4 ft. 6 in. tall. His ankles and abdomen were bloated. His heart beat so faintly that it could scarcely be detected. At Detroit's Art Center (osteopathic) Hospital, Surgeon Albert Collum Johnson guessed that the boy's heart was in some kind of strait jacket. His guess was right...