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California[edit] The California YMCA Youth & Government (Y&G) organization has sponsored statewide educational programs for more than 70,000 junior high and high school students since 1948. Its mission is to "build values-based leadership and civic engagement in California's youth to strengthen our democracy."
YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries. [1] It was founded in London on 6 June 1844 by George Williams as the Young Men's Christian Association. The organization aims to put Christian values into practice by developing a ...
YMCA members will be notified about the Christ Church facility's final closing date via email, officials said. The Christ Church facility is one of 14 YMCA locations in Middle Tennessee.
The first YMCA indoor pool in the United States was built in 1885, in Brooklyn, New York.: 154 Male nudity was required at YMCA pools in both the US and Canada until they became mixed-gender in the 1970s. The downtown Miami YMCA, built in 1918 and demolished in 1978, featured what was considered a modern swimming pool at the time.
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 the letters Y-M-C-A as they are sung in the chorus: The dance originated during the group's performance of the song on the January 6, 1979 episode of American Bandstand.
Middle Tennessean. Middle Tennessee is one of the three Grand Divisions of Tennessee that composes roughly the central portion of the state. It is delineated according to state law as 41 of the state's 95 counties. [1] Middle Tennessee contains the state's capital and largest city, Nashville, as well as Clarksville, the state's fifth largest ...
83004256. Added to NRHP. November 17, 1983. The Knoxville Downtown YMCA, also known as the Lindsay Young Downtown YMCA, is a building in Knoxville, Tennessee, that is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It was designed by the Barber & McMurry architecture firm. Completed in 1929, it is the third oldest YMCA facility in the ...
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.