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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...
Temporary Job. Soon he decided he could do a better job if he knew more about the human body. So for the next ten years, in his spare time, he studied medicine, finally took his degree. During 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...