Background
Vandersall, Stanley Byron was born on November 2, 1886 in East Liberty, Summit County, Ohio, United States. Son of Elias Wesley and Myra Ethel (Kling) Vandersall.
Vandersall, Stanley Byron was born on November 2, 1886 in East Liberty, Summit County, Ohio, United States. Son of Elias Wesley and Myra Ethel (Kling) Vandersall.
Bachelor of Arts, College of Wooster, 1907. Master of Arts, New York University, 1912. Bachelor of Divinity, Drew Theological Seminary, 1912.
Honorary Doctor of Divinity, Albright College, 1935.
Ordained in the Evangelical Church, 1908. Pastor, Canton, O., 1906-1907, Lorain, O., 1907-1909. Pastor, Methodist Episcopal Church, Sparrowbush, New York, 1909-1912.
Field secretary, general secretary, Ohio Christian Endeavor Union, 1912-1919.
Alumni secretary, financial secretary, vocations superintendent, International Society of Christian Endeavor, 1919-1934, associate secretary, 1934-1946, executive secretary program council, 1944-1947, secretary educational committee since 1944, chairman topics committee, 1934-1946 and since 1948. Treasurer World’s Christian Endeavor Union, 1919-1941, general secretary, since 1938, trustee, member Executive Committee since 1919.
Associate editor Christian Endeavor World, 1934-1937, editor, 1937-1946. Treasurer and member Executive Committee Lord’s Day League of New England, 1940-1947, director since 1930, general secretary since 1947.
President New England Watch and Ward Society since 1946, director since 1936.
Mason.
Married Leah Mary Talbott, June 30, 1914. Children: Dorothy Rena (deceased), Stanley Talbott, Elizabeth Ruth, Harold Wesley.