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New Jersey Swimming. New Jersey Swimming ( NJ) is the Local Swimming Committee (LSC) ( governing body) for competitive swimming in the central and northern New Jersey area. They are a member of USA Swimming and the Eastern Zone. Most of the athletes who compete in NJ-sponsored swim meets are youths under the age of 18.
It employs 19,000 staff and is supported by 600,000 volunteers, and YMCA branches have about 10,000 service locations. [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.
YMCA Philadelphia. / 39.95472°N 75.16472°W / 39.95472; -75.16472. YMCA Philadelphia, also Greater Philadelphia YMCA was founded on June 15, 1854, by George H. Stuart, a prominent Philadelphia businessman and importer. The goal of the Association was to reach "the many thousands of neglected youth not likely to be brought under any ...
Hetty Green (November 21, 1834 – July 3, 1916), was an American businesswoman and financier known as "the richest woman in America" during the Gilded Age.Those who knew her well referred to her admiringly as the Queen of Wall Street due to her willingness to lend freely and at reasonable interest rates to financiers and city governments during financial panics.
A much-anticipated project to build a second Edmond Library and another YMCA branch is moving forward later this year on the roughly 10 acres of land Henderson Hills sold to the city for $3.8 ...
Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles. / 34.013°N 118.357°W / 34.013; -118.357. Baldwin Hills is a neighborhood within the South Los Angeles region of Los Angeles, California. Often referred to as the "Black Beverly Hills", Baldwin Hills is home to Kenneth Hahn State Regional Park and to Village Green, a National Historic Landmark .
The Pearl S. Buck House, formerly known as Green Hills Farm, is the 67- acre homestead in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where Nobel-prize -winning American author Pearl Buck lived for 40 years, raising her family, writing, pursuing humanitarian interests, and gardening. She purchased the house in 1933 and lived there until the late 1960s, when ...
The YMCA of Metropolitan Chattanooga is a chapter of the national YMCA-USA. In 2016, YMCA of Metropolitan Chattanooga served more than 250,000 meals to area youth through its feeding programs. [citation needed] Branches. The branches that make up the YMCA of Metropolitan Chattanooga are: Downtown Family YMCA; Hamilton Family YMCA