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Spruce Street YMCA is a historic YMCA building located at Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was built in 1927, and is a four-story, brick and limestone building in the Classical Revival-style. The front facade features pilasters with Corinthian order capitals and two entrances with arched openings. The building house a YMCA ...
The Riverside YMCA at 221 Riverside Avenue was renamed the Claude J. Yates YMCA in January, 2000. The local government building at 231 E. Forsyth Street was named, the Claude Yates Building when it opened in 1989.
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]
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Tennessee YMCA Model United Nations MUN Tennessee YMCA: Murfreesboro, Tennessee United States: 1980 Model United Nations at United World College MUN@UWC UWCSEA East: Singapore Singapore: 2013 11–13 October 2024 Chennai Model United Nations CHEMUN American International School Chennai Chennai India: 2006 [61] 8–10 November 2024
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 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.
As of 2021, there are twenty two branches throughout the five boroughs, including the McBurney Y that was the inspiration for the Village People's song and the West Side YMCA. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] YMCA of Greater New York is affiliated with YMCA in America and also operated Camp Talcott , a more than century-old sleepaway camp that hosted more ...