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• # r ♦ a m < He's — ^ id Drive Kickoff ;i. v .'- . r • « ■ ..;. • w- t. ■; • <i 4 , ,r. * l •% . I V , ♦ t JOIN THE YMCA Serving Youth For A Better Community . . 1 ! i j i • * * . i i • * > r '[ V w \ i • < ' HE GREATER CUNTON YMCA Mem- bership Drive Opens Monday, Dec. 4, and Continues Through Dec. 22. You and Your Family Can be Charter Mem bers of Clinton’s First YMCA Organization. In Addition to Enjoying the Many Benefits of the YMCA, Your Investment Will: ' S ;1 , ■ • • ' ' , . ’ ’ . . , »* t • . . • Help the Youth of the Area Through Super vised Sports and Games •r* , a • t ■ • Provide a Varied Program of Activities for the Entire Family • Provide a Wholesome Meeting Place for 'll’’*’! * Young People \ \ v ■ 17 FIRSTS Many things that we NOW accept as part and parcel of our American way of life were invent- <2 ed, developed or pioneered by the YMCA. Here are just a few: ■■■ 1856 • * > i ^ vV . « V f v.» • J.-V ... * f • ■ 1861 YMOA rcS0<itl(i» to fettf youth is becomltilf r ’Jweftk, nervous, physlckily wM fit ness , “vital and practical godtinesa’;* ofienb first gymft ih usihp ofd cannon balls for exercises. rw : mm YMCA is first organization to provide large-scale aid to troops, helps fighting men of both North and South. YMCA does 90 C of welfare work with World War I’s AfCF, helps or ganize USO in World War II, succors millions of war prison ers. Anderson Hosiery Company Belk’s Department Store 1885 1885 1891 1— Sk.-: fa YMCA pioneers modern camping for boys at Camp Dudley, New York — now world's oldest youth camp. r/ l \ \ 1900 > /&S&2 . V. .%•>. y . Drive, for shorter wprk week in industry (Saturday after noons and Sunday off) gets underway with Y backing ■ . i ■ < 7 ' x \ H k ♦ ri >o > 7k YMCA invents basketball at its Y*” * YMCA conducts night school 1 /J Ah 1 U'' .'A' Springfield College, develops programs, work - and - study volley ball in 1895. plans so young people can bet \ / : ■ } fit* 1 ter themselves through educa 1M' tion. | . .. Citizens Federal Savings and Loan Association Lynn Cooper, Inc. Greenwood Mills Clinton Mills 1906 mi a > a i Y1\I( A launches first water safety and learn-to-swim campaigns. Today, half million learn to swim each year in Y's GOO pools. 1909 6 - * A YMCA starts country’s first W special father-and-son activi- *. . ties;/V-HidiahsGuide movement \ (father-son clubs based on In- ' ; v-* ' '*J$. dian lore) begins in 1925, now 1 *»^k !las over U,000 “tribes." 1910 \ YMCA fosters Boy Scouts of, America, enables it to become strong independent agency. In 1912 a Y man helps found Camp Fire Girls. **jr?w* iLIJi a.Ju'm-** ; V • Youth and Government, nation wide Y citizenship training pro gram for high school boys and girls, holds first session at New York state capitol. M. S. Bailey & Son, Bankers Piggly Wiggly Supermarket Torrington Company Young’s Pharmacv