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DEDICATION You've got to learn to relax. You'l1 wreck yourself. You'll wear yourself out before you've begun to live. That's what the director of physical education at Columbia University told young Peter Stam, jr. over thirty-five years ago. And well for him, he listened. Stam.-by nature-was the type then, and has been ever since, to try to do too much. Too much? Well, too much, at least, for anyone trying to lead an ordinary life. But whether he wanted it that way or not, his life has never been exactly ordinary. When the PE director offered his terse advice, Stam was approaching the breaking point. To pursue his studies at Colurn- bia, where he was doing extraordinarily well in math, he found it necessary to spend four hours of each day commuting to sprawled-out New York City. Besides, he was organist and choirmaster in his church, and to complicate the snarled schedule, he had a girl friend at the other end of town. It was too much, and soon he began to realize it. So he wel- comed the counsel of his friend. Ten-rninute cat-naps while riding the subways and streetcars, the ability to rest on a hard table or even on the Hoor, and relaxation through quick mental exercises saved the day for Peter Stam. Peter was born the oldest of nine children. I-Iis father was firmly set in strict Reformed traditions, and the whole family was trained rigorously in the things of the Lord. Family wor- ship was a foremost feature of daily life: the Sabbath was scrupulously kept. For them, it wasn't just a cold form. It was a living force that always kept the family together and gave them joy in all their activities. Stam does not now regard his childhood as an unfortunate time of being fenced in. Rather, he points to several results that must be seen by anyone as being most worthwhile. One of the most marked of these was the missionary empha- sis. Foreign missionary interest and the Stam family's way of life went hand in hand. Peter's brother John was to become known to the entire world as a modern Christian martyr, when the communists in China killed both him and his wife Betty in 1934. Now the tradition of foreign service is being carried on by another generation of Stams. Another interest that stemmed from early years, and one that has stayed with him ever since, is a great love for books. He was influenced in this regard partly by strict discipline at home, and partly by a highschool teacher, who while failing in disci- pline, succeeded nevertheless in gving Stam an insatiable desire to read. In high school he was literary editor of the school paper one year, editor-in-chief the next. At the same time, he was high school reporter for the Paterson CN.-IJ Evewing N ews. Peter's father had not received a college education, but he was determined that his son should have t.hat opportunity. So off to Columbia he went. There he was to complete four years' work in three fremernber the subways, the choir, and the girl at the other end of townj.
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