Thursday, December 23, 1920

Mild wet nasty day. Intermittent sunshine and cloudiness. Arose 9:10 A.M. Breakfast. Read paper etc. Dinner. Candled eggs. Supper. To Scotia at night to see Edison Drafting School beat Scotia H.S. Basket Ball. Bowled at Kinums with M.J.F. [Merlin J. Finch] To bed 11:30 PM.

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The Edison Drafting School was a vocational school in Schenectady, started by General Electric, of course. Here is some information about it from a 1907 issue of American Machinist.




Below is an article from a January 1920 Schenectady newspaper detailing a basketball game between Edison Drafting School and Milne High in Albany:


Notice that one of the players on the Edison team is Finch. That may be Stanford's interest in going to the game--Merlin Finch was on the team. Note, too, that the team represents all the G.E. apprentices (not just the drafting apprentices), one of whom is Finch, at that time a patternmaker's apprentice.

In this game against Milne, Finch, the team's center, scored 8 points in their win.

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