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The first YMCA in the United States opened on December 29, 1851, in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1851 by Captain Thomas Valentine Sullivan (1800–59), an American seaman and missionary. He was influenced by the London YMCA and saw the association as an opportunity to provide a "home away from home" for young sailors on shore leave.
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]
Elwood Stanley Brown, Physical Education Director of the Manila YMCA, founded basketball, volleyball, [53] and Boy Scouting in the Philippine Islands (then a territory of the USA) in 1910. Hence the first Boy Scout unit in the Philippines was the YMCA troop organised by Brown.
Pages in category "Sports clubs and teams founded by the YMCA" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Founded in 1929 by YMCA Director Roy Coble, a former Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey performer, the Great Y Circus is a unique tradition in Redlands, California. Billed as the oldest community circus in the world, it is one of only a handful of programs like it in the United States.
Old Central YMCA was across Charles Street from the first church in the city and metropolitan area, Old St. Paul's Anglican (Episcopal) Church, founded 1692 in southeastern Baltimore County and later relocated to the southeast corner of Charles and Saratoga when Baltimore Town was first laid out in 1729–30. The Old 19th Century YMCA was later ...
The records of YMCA of the USA, founded in 1851, and its various committees, programs, and constituent bodies, form the core of the Archives. In addition to personal papers of over 300 YMCA leaders, the collection has more than 75,000 photos dating from the American Civil War to the present. Other materials include a complete set of Association ...
1907 – California School of Arts and Crafts founded. [6] 1909 Samuel Merritt College founded. Moore & Scott Iron Works in business. 1910 Oakland Public Museum and YMCA open. Population: 150,174. 1912 – Oakland School Women's Club [9] and Children's Hospital founded. 1913 – Oakland Yacht Club established. [6] 1914 Oakland Technical High ...