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The YWCA of Manila was formally organized in October 1926. The first honorary president was Aurora A. Quezon. The first honorary president was Aurora A. Quezon. The organization of the Baguio and San Pablo YWCAs took place in 1946-47 and the first YWCA National Convention was held in 1948.
Elwood Stanley Brown (April 9, 1883 – March 24, 1924) was an American sports administrator, and basketball coach. As a leader in the YMCA, he promoted sports in the Philippines, helped establish the Far Eastern Games, and founded the first Boy Scout troops in the Philippines.
Youth Scouting was founded in the Philippines in 1910 in Manila by Elwood Stanley Brown (1883-1924) of the YMCA. The Boy Scouts of Calivo (now Kalibo in Aklan) was founded on April 22, 1922, by a certain Mr. Ong.
Aside from his cash donation, he also donated various parcels of land in Metro Manila and Zambales. [13] One of the biggest properties he donated was the 31,031 square meter lot in a commercial area in Manila that became the site of YMCA of the Philippines. [14]
Brown collaborated with J. Howard Crocker and YMCA from missionaries in China, Japan and the Philippines, to establish the Far Eastern Championship Games. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The first event was held on the Manila Carnival grounds (later the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex ) in Malate , Manila , Philippines on February 4, 1913 and was known as the "First ...
Most held simultaneous memberships in a number of organizations, such as the YMCA, the American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippine Islands, the Masons, the Elks, the Army and Navy Club, etc. The Council was disbanded when the Boy Scouts of the Philippines was inaugurated in 1938.
Physical Education Director, YMCA, Manila. Founded basketball, volleyball, and Boy Scouting in the Philippines in 1910. First Scoutmaster of the Philippines. Wrote letter [18] to Theodore Roosevelt praising Manila Boy Scouts (the same letter mentioned by Roosevelt in the BSA Handbook for Boys, 1st edition
During World War I, the clubhouse was leased to YMCA. In 1919, it was sold to the Plaridel Temple Association, an exclusive corporation of Masons. The Plaridel Masonic Temple property was handed to the Grand Lodge of the Philippines Islands in 1937 and had it improved a year after during the incumbency of Justice Jose Abad Santos, the Grandmaster.