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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
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]
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.
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Onalaska (/ ˌ ɒ n ə ˈ l æ s k ə / ⓘ ON-ə-LASS-kə) [4] is a city in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 18,803 at the 2020 census. It borders the larger La Crosse, Wisconsin, and is a part of the La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN Metropolitan Area. [5] Onalaska is built on a slightly elevated ridge above the Black River.
Shane Homes YMCA opened to the public in 2018 as the construction was fully completed in 2017. [1] This particular YMCA is known as the World's largest YMCA in terms of square footage (284,000 sq ft [26,400 m 2]) and contains North America's largest glue-laminated timber roof. [3]