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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
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.
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]
A $5 million outdoor pool area at the Chasco Family YMCA in Round Rock will give the community a new place to play and cool off beginning next summer. Laura Arredondo, the chief marketing officer ...
O'Fallon is a city in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. The 2020 census listed the population at 32,289. The 2020 census listed the population at 32,289. The city is the second largest city in the Metro East region of the St. Louis metropolitan area and Southern Illinois .
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Sloane House YMCA, West 34th Street, New York City, which was the largest residential YMCA in the U.S.A. Old Poughkeepsie YMCA, Poughkeepsie, New York, listed on the NRHP as "Young Men's Christian Association". [2] United States Post Office (Canandaigua, New York), now used by the YMCA and listed on the NRHP in Ontario County, New York. [2]
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.