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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]
Paul Moyer Limbert (May 27, 1897 – December 24, 1998) was a clergyman, educator and Secretary General of the World Alliance of YMCAs.. Born in Pennsylvania, Limbert earned a bachelor's degree at Franklin and Marshall College in 1918 and divinity degree at the Lancaster Theological Seminary in 1922.
Lehecka has been with the Salina YMCA as its associate executive director since September 2023 and succeeds Angie Lassley as CEO, after she accepted a new role as COO at the YMCA of Greater Kansas ...
Frances Gulick was a YMCA worker stationed in France during World War I who received a United States Army citation for valour and courage on the field. [10] In July 1915, American secretaries with the War Prisoners' Aid of YMCA began visiting POW camps in England and Germany. YMCA secretaries worked to create camp committees to run programs ...
Yen adopted the name James in memory of James R. Stewart after he died in 1916 in France during the First World War. [5] He later studied at Hong Kong University , and graduated in 1918 from Yale University , where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
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The Paris Basis is a group of principles guiding the relationships between individual YMCAs. [1]Ninety-nine YMCA leaders of individual YMCAs from Europe and North America met for the first time prior to the 1855 Paris World Exposition to discuss the possibility of joining together in a federation to enhance co-operation amongst individual YMCA societies.