ABSTRACT
My memories begin with Shanghai, China, though I can dimly recall a little of my infancy in Kobe, Japan. Why was I in those places? Because my father, Hollis Adelbert Wilbur, was a secretary of the International Committee of the Young Men’s Christian Association and had been selected and urged by John R. Mott to take up temporary service in Japan after seven years as general secretary of the Dayton YMCA. In November 1909, when I was eighteen months old, Dad and Mother took the train trip to the West Coast with two little children, and then the steamer crossing of the Pacific, to begin the three-year assignment in Japan. They would also serve the Y in China and Korea before they retired in 1940 in Pasadena, California.
