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The Ankeny Community School District is a public school district located in Polk County, ... Beginning in 1989 the Ankeny YMCA occupied space in the school building ...
Ankeny was founded as an agrarian community on April 22, 1875, by John Fletcher Ankeny and Sarah "Sally" Ankeny (née Wolgamot) on eighty acres purchased on July 11, 1874, for US$1,600. The town, a single square mile, was formally incorporated on February 28, 1903.
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 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.
The YMCA dance demonstrated in a photomontage. In this rendition, the M (second from left) is done in a popular variant. Members of the grounds crew of Yankee Stadium pause to do the YMCA dance. YMCA is also the name of a group dance with cheerleader Y-M-C-A choreography invented to fit the song. One of the phases involves moving arms to form ...
Hartman Reserve was named Camp Hartman when it was owned and operated by the YMCA and was only 56 acres (230,000 m 2) in size. Hartman Reserve was named after John C. Hartman who was the editor for the Waterloo Daily Courier. Hartman was a nature enthusiast and amateur archaeologist.
Carl Moyer, 83, the Ankeny businessman who founded Karl Chevrolet and built a legacy of business success and community involvement, died Saturday.
He also served as the director of the engineering division of the New Haven YMCA Junior College (precursor of the University of New Haven). [ 1 ] In 1951, Hibbard left Yale to become a research associate in materials processes at General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York .