Datebook 1921: Thursday, January 20, 1921

Mild damp day. Some snow & rain. Arose 7 A.M. Breakfast etc. To College 8-11 A.M. Home. Read paper. Dinner. To Library to write rhetoric speech. Clean up. To Chicken Supper at church with R.E.N. To Phi Nu Theta meeting. Learned oration etc. To bed 12 BELLS.

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I'm not sure who R.E.N. is, but it might be Russell Norris.

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 and friend. This is the third installment of Date Book, covering 1921 (the first two cover 1919 and 1920). For as long as seems practical, I will record subsequent years (they continue into the 1970s). I'm matching the days--January 1, 1921 to January 1, 2015, 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. By doing this, I hope to convey a sense of 1921 Schenectady, New York and the people Stanford interacted with. Of course, I'm also hoping to give Stanford's descendants a fuller picture of who he was as a young man.

Datebook 1921

Thursday, January 20, 1921

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