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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]
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.
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 YMCA of Central Texas faces a lawsuit claiming that one of its day care workers injured a 2-year-old boy. The day care worker named in the lawsuit, 45-year-old Geraline Browning, was charged ...
A set of rare identical quadruplets can’t stop holding hands — and it's touching to watch. “They’re constantly reaching for each other,” Jonathan Sandhu, the babies’ dad, tells TODAY ...
Butte Business College: Butte, Montana: Inactive [245] [219] [246] [r] Kappa Phi: Inactive Kappa Chi: Sullivan Junior Business College: Louisville, Kentucky: Inactive [247] [248] Kappa Psi: October 18, 1947 Evans Business College: Concord, North Carolina: Inactive [249] [250] [s] Kappa Omega: Inactive Lambda Alpha: Williamsport School of ...
This regional camp includes a swimming pool, two lakes, Olympic shotgun shooting range (along with world-class rifle and archery ranges), one of Colorado's premier mountain biking courses, natural rocking climbing areas, trading post, dining hall, two themed outpost camps, and that barely scratches the surface!
Swim classes at the YMCA for boys continued into the 1950s, as in Steubenville, Ohio. [86] A photograph publicizing the learn-to-swim program in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in 1950 was captioned "In order to have thorough sanitation, swim suits are not used by swimmers in the YMCA pool.