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The Paseo YMCA opened in 1914, when Julius Rosenwald encouraged Kansas Citians to raise $80,000 toward building a new YMCA. [2] The architect of the Paseo YMCA was local architect Charles A. Smith. In 1920 eight independent black baseball team owners met to form what would become the Negro National League. [3] The facility closed in the 1970s.
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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.
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 news article from the Kansas City, Kansan dated Feb. 15, 1987, shows a photo of the YMCA in 1911 during the first phase of construction. The building was dedicated on Nov. 20, 1927.
The Sarasota branches, at 1075 S. Euclid Ave., and 8301 Potter Park Drive, will now be known respectively as Sarasota City YMCA Branch and Palmer Ranch YMCA Branch. “CoreSRQ is to be celebrated.
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]
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