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The Surprise Recreation Campus is an athletic facility based in Surprise, Arizona, built in Its amenities include Surprise Stadium (the spring training home of Major League Baseball 's Kansas City Royals and Texas Rangers ), twelve baseball fields (six lighted) and Mark Coronado Park, an 8-acre (32,000 m 2 ) multipurpose field (lighted).
YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries.It has nearly 90,000 staff, some 920,000 volunteers and 12,000 branches worldwide. [1]
Macleod, David I. Building character in the American boy: The Boy Scouts, YMCA, and their forerunners, 1870-1920 (Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2004), a standard scholarly history. Putney, Clifford W. "Going Upscale: The YMCA and Postwar America, 1950-1990." Journal of Sport History 20#2 1993, pp. 151–166. online
Surprise is a city in Maricopa County, in the U.S. state of Arizona. The population was 143,148 at the 2020 census, [4] up from 117,517 in 2010 and just 30,848 in 2000.
The YMCA opened a summer camp at the site in 1918. [7] A post office operated briefly, from 1917 to 1919. [8] Frances Sanger served as postmaster. [9] Allah's population was 100 in the 1960 census. [10] A rail stop was built to accommodate the area. [6] The ruins of the Allah Railroad Station [11] are still visible.
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The first YMCA indoor pool in the United States was built in 1885, in Brooklyn, New York. [40]: 154 Male nudity was required at YMCA pools in both the US and Canada until they became mixed-gender in the 1970s. [59] The downtown Miami YMCA, built in 1918 and demolished in 1978, featured what was considered a modern swimming pool at the time.
The YMCA Youth and Government program was established in 1936 in New York by Clement A. Duran, then the Boys Work Secretary for the Albany YMCA. [5] The program motto, “Democracy must be learned by each generation,” was taken from a quote by Earle T. Hawkins, the founder of the Maryland Youth and Government program.