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Some of the accused lived at the local YMCA and which was supported by members of Portland's upper class. Considered "unprintable" content, it still prompted attacks against the YMCA, its sponsors, and the city's upper class, especially by the working-class newspaper The Portland News and its editor Dana Sleeth. [5]
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]
The YMCA – whose full name is the Young Men’s Christian Association – was originally set up as a non-political Christian movement in London in 1844. Commonly referred to as “the Y,” it ...
It later was converted to the Mount Vernon Hotel and Café as the Baltimore area's Central YMCA of central Maryland reorganized in the early 1980s and cut back on its various activities in the downtown area to more suburban and neighborhood centers throughout the region (although not without controversy and some alienation as the "Old Central ...
The controversy arose when it was revealed that the WE charity had previously paid close family of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to appear at its events, [1] [2] despite making claims to the contrary. [3] In total, Craig Kielburger confirmed at a parliamentary committee, WE Charity paid approximately $425,000 to Trudeau's family including ...
A YMCA camp in Michigan has come under fire for a long-running Underground Railroad project. Camp literature (which you can see in this document on page 21) says the activity is meant to "take ...
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.
Walter Wilson Jenkins (March 23, 1918 – November 23, 1985) was an American political figure and longtime top aide to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.Jenkins' career ended after he was arrested and charged with "disorderly conduct" with another man in a public restroom in Washington, D.C.