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"YWCA" Definitions
  1. an organization that exists in many countries and provides accommodation and social and sports activities (the abbreviation for ‘Young Women's Christian Association’)
"YWCA" Synonyms
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She was at the YMC or YWCA, directing activities and programs.
Steve Farley, and Kelly Fryer, the CEO of the YWCA Southern Arizona.
Steve Farley and Kelly Fryer, the CEO of the YWCA Southern Arizona.
It's a commitment that CEO of YWCA Victoria, Jan Berriman, feels strongly about.
Clinton shared a stage at a YWCA in Manchester with New York Sen.
The women pictured here met on the job at the YWCA, Australia's oldest women's organisation.
Most of the YWCA tenants have experienced trauma, and many are survivors of domestic violence.
"When women thrive, whole economies thrive," said Dorri McWhorter, chief executive of YWCA Metropolitan Chicago.
But shelters operated by the YWCA around the country are at capacity, according to Castillo.
The women pictured here met on the job at the YWCA, Australia's oldest women's organisation.
Another, smaller fund that began trading in August is the Impact Shares YWCA Women's Empowerment ETF.
So far, YWCA shelters around the country are responding to the crisis with ingenuity, Castillo said.
Whether it's housing, counseling, or financial literacy, YWCA opens our doors to women seeking safer lives.
I appreciated the century-old mantle from the building's original function as a YWCA women's hostel.
In 2010, it signed a 20-year lease with the YWCA, with a 10-year extension option.
The YWCA center is now voluntarily closed as the Florida Department of Children and Families conducts an investigation.
I counted three, the YWCA, Bay Area Women Against Rape (BAWAR), and San Francisco Women Against Rape (SFWAR).
Take the Impact Shares YWCA Women's Empowerment ETF, which is up about 26% year-to-date, according to Morningstar.
Doris O'Neal, the program manager of domestic violence services for Seattle's YWCA, also fears the possibility of a coronavirus infection.
Along with our partners, the YWCA of Greater Charleston, We Are Family, People Against Rape, Black Women 2020, EveryBlackGirl, Inc.
This consortium lists 116 members, including groups as diverse as the National Organization for Women, the AFL-CIO, and the YWCA.
But Powell said Impact Shares, based in the Dallas suburb of Frisco, Texas, will donate advisory fees after expenses to the YWCA.
According to her book, the highest level of education she received was a one-year course in business administration at a YWCA.
The YWCA Carol Glassman Donaldson Center Day Care in Miami is now voluntarily closed after a 22-month-old boy died on Dec.
Its original function was as a YWCA hostel, a haven for professional women travelers before its time when it opened back in 1926.
The products raise awareness of the social problems they focus on and may prod corporate America to act, says Dorri McWhorter of the YWCA.
The Splash say their match-ups at the local YWCA inspire "big smiles," and have helped them prove that age is just a number.
Forty years after opening, Roulette is now nestled inside a YWCA complex at the corner of Third and Atlantic avenues in another downtown: Brooklyn's.
The fund is a collaboration between Impact Shares, a provider of socially conscious ETFs, and the nonprofit YWCA, which advocates for women's and minorities' rights.
Some of the women featured were Lily Tomlin, Kathy Bates, Nelly Bly, and Angela Lansbury, and proceeds from the sale of this work benefits the YWCA.
The YWCA is 162 years old, and, she pointed out, "we also weathered the Spanish flu" — the 1918 pandemic that claimed at least 17 million lives.
Book Hotel Figueroa starting at $174 per nightThe iconic, nearly century-old Hotel Figueroa originally opened in 1926 as an exclusive women's hostel by the YWCA.
We learn that the hotel once was a YWCA in the 1920s and '30s, offering a safe place for single women and their children to stay.
Time's Up, along with NARAL Pro-Choice America, the Women's March, the YWCA, and Planned Parenthood helped plan the walkouts, organized under the hashtags #BelieveSurvivors and #StopKavanaugh.
The 37-year-old worked at the YWCA in Toronto for five years, where she helped immigrant and refugee women settle into the community, the Guardian reported.
Staff at the YWCA of Kalamazoo in western Michigan found that while people who had experienced hate crimes could find individual counseling in the area, which is home to many immigrants working in the agriculture industry, there were no services for people feeling the indirect effects of hate crimes against people of their race or religion, said Jessica Glynn, the director of law and policy at the YWCA.
His father was a respected family doctor in town, his mother a civic activist who, as a local YWCA official, was known for focusing on racial justice issues.
"The generous donation from Taylor Swift could not have come at a better time for our organization," Dianna Payton, CEO of YWCA Baton Rouge, said on its website.
That's one of the many reasons I was drawn to the new campaign I Am A Philanthropist from the Women's Philanthropy Institute in partnership with the YWCA and Facebook.
If you want to invest in companies that care about gender equality, the Impact Shares YWCA Women's Empowerment ETF (WOMN) hit the market under the ticker WOMN last year.
The YWCA, meanwhile, is urging Americans who can afford it to donate to its emergency fund as well as to local shelters, whether that's money or in-kind donations.
As the country's largest network of domestic and sexual violence service providers, YWCA witnesses how crucial economic security is to the immediate safety and independence of survivors every day.
When YWCA USA surveyed women on their priorities and concerns for 2020, nearly 89% of women said they consider creating a paid family and medical leave program a top legislative priority.
Among the most inspiring speakers of the day were youth leaders, including Maya Green of "She Strong" at YWCA, Cora Webb of We Are Family, and Vivian Anderson of EveryBlackGirl Inc.
These include the Australian e-safety commissioner's office, the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative and the National Network to End Domestic Violence in the US, the UK Revenge Porn Helpline, and YWCA Canada.
"Don't allow someone to put you in a box, and don't put yourself in one either," said Ireland, who also works with nonprofits like the YWCA and The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation.
This month, the singer recently allocated relief funds to Convoy of Hope, The Life of a Single Mom and YWCA Greater Baton Rouge as part of her $1 million pledge in mid-August.
The Impact Shares YWCA Women's Empowerment ETF is expected to launch in the first quarter of 2018, and enable people to invest with companies that promote women's interests and take strong stands against workplace harassment.
The Palo Alto University professor was greeted with a standing ovation when she accepted the YWCA Silicon Valley Empowerment Award, which celebrates and honors women in the community who are advocates and ambassadors for change.
To fill the gap, the YWCA of Kalamazoo earlier this year created a support group for survivors, witnesses and others affected by hate crimes, and plans to create more groups in the area if needed.
The building's history, and the history of the Arts Council building – it once served as the "colored Y" (YMCA/YWCA) when Princeton's "colored school" was around the corner, on Quarry Street – resonated with White's series.
But now, shelter-in-place orders could increase the amount of control wielded by abusers, Alejandra Y. Castillo, CEO of the YWCA USA, the nation's largest provider of services and housing for domestic violence survivors, told Vox.
Four other funds are focused primarily on gender and diversity: Glenmede Women in Leadership U.S. Equity Portfolio, Impact Shares YWCA Women's Empowerment ETF, Pax Ellevate Global Women's Leadership Fund and State Street's SPDR SSGA Gender Diversity Index ETF.
Hope has received several awards including the Penn State Smeal Diversity Award, Healthcare Businesswomen's Association's Rising Star Award, Auburn Lives of Commitment Award, YWCA Tribute to Women in Industry Award, and the National Sales Network Community Service Award.
Harper, who now heads World YWCA, told The Guardian that in addition to the sexual harassment and assault she experienced at the hands of Loures, she filed an earlier complaint about another member of staff for bullying and intimidation.
The YWCA facility, which can house up to 222522 women and their families, has just a communal bathroom; if someone got sick, O'Neal said she'd have to simply send them to the hospital because isolation would likely be impossible.
Steve Farley and Kelly Fryer, the CEO of the YWCA Southern Arizona, for the Democratic nomination in a traditionally red state that has shifted to the left in recent years: Hillary Clinton lost there by just 4 percentage points.
The process involves contacting one of Facebook's trusted partners, which include the Australian Office of the eSafety Commissioner, the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative and The National Network to End Domestic Violence in the US, the UK Revenge Porn Helpline, and YWCA Canada.
FestivalMarch 5 – Melbourne at the Tote BeachesHoly BalmLucy ClichéRed Red KrovvyDeep HeatMolluscMassesStationsPleasure SymbolsSimona CastricumEN VSleepless NightsThetaHi-Tec Emotions All proceeds go to the Victorian YWCA housing facilities, which provides shelter, education and support for over 250 at-risk and marginalised women around Melbourne.
Dara Richardson-Heron, former CEO of women's organization YWCA and current chief engagement officer for the National Institutes of Health "All of Us" Research Program, told The New York Times that she always ask interviewees this question to see how they package themselves. 
As such, it is partnering up with safety organizations, survivors, and victim advocates, including the Australian Office of the eSafety Commissioner and the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, the National Network to End Domestic Violence in the US, the UK Revenge Porn Helpline, and YWCA Canada.
Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg thanked the National Network to End Domestic Violence, the Centre for Social Research (CSR) India, and YWCA Canada for their contributions to these features, and Facebook says it also considered feedback from 150 safety experts around the world when developing the tools.
And Martha Kamber, the CEO and president of YWCA Brooklyn, noted that when she was teaching an all-girls health class at a "last stop" school for students who had dropped out of other schools, 100 percent of her students had been sexually harassed at their prior schools.
According to polls conducted by the ERA Coalition, a group of over 75 member organizations as diverse as the American Association of University Women, Union Theological Seminary, the YWCA, GLAAD and the African American Policy Forum, 80% of Americans think women already have equal rights under the Constitution.
Shocked by the glaring omission, Murray began researching and found women like Dorothy Guinn, a YWCA director, who co-wrote Out of the Dark (1924), a pageant in which spectators and its high school performers got a theatrical tour through the slave trade in Africa, Reconstruction, and then-contemporary moments.
A woman of formidable energy, she also threw herself into an array of reform causes: president of the Indiana Humane Society, active in the campaign for Prohibition, creator of the Muncie YWCA (the Y's were then fierce temperance and revivalist organizations), and founder of a "refuge," the Friendly Inn, for former prostitutes.
So far, Facebook has rolled out the tool in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, and it has partners in each country: the Australian Office of the eSafety Commissioner, the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative and the National Network to End Domestic Violence in the U.S., the Revenge Porn Helpline in the U.K., and the YWCA in Canada.
"The coliseum needs to hold the artist accountable and know they are hosting a sexual predator who has committed acts consisting of statutory rape and the sexual conditioning of young African American girls," said the letter by the nine local groups, including North Carolina Black Women's Roundtable, NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina, North Carolina Women United and the YWCA of Greensboro.
The Institute identified 45,000 organizations registered in the U.S. that it deemed "dedicated to serving primarily women and girls" or closely-associated causes such as domestic violence, Tessa Skidmore, the project manager for the report, tells CNBC Make It. That includes organizations such as the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, the National Women's Law Center and YWCA chapters around the country.
The organization (previously YWCA England & Wales), YWCA Scotland, and the independent YWCAs in England form an ‘umbrella’ organisation, YWCA of Great Britain.
The YWCA Building, located at 25 West Rayen Avenue in Youngstown, Ohio, is an historic building built in 1911 for members of the Young Women's Christian Association. On July 23, 1986, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. YWCA Mahoning Valley, formerly known as YWCA Youngstown, occupies the building. YWCA Youngstown merged with YWCA Warren on May 1, 2018 to become YWCA Mahoning Valley.
This is a list of notable YWCA buildings. YWCA buildings are prominent in many cities.
YWCA of China Continues to Meet the Social Needs of its People World YWCA May 2010.
YWCA Chicago Club YWCA Metropolitan Chicago is the oldest and largest women's organization in the region, with a mission to eliminate racism and empower women. For more than 140 years, YWCA Metropolitan Chicago has been committed to serving the evolving needs of women and families. The Monroe Gallery at the YWCA started in 1961. Originally located at the YWCA Loop Center at 59 E. Monroe St. until 1969.
In November 2014 the World YWCA and the YWCA of the Solomon Islands is hosting 30 women from Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Samoa for the Pacific skills and leadership training. In 2011 Solomon Islands YWCA member, Jenta Tau travelled to Geneva to begin a one-year internship with the World YWCA.
The Norwegian YWCA worked with Girl Guides and Scouts, and did more social oriented work. Together with Sweden, USA and Great Britain, Norway founded the World YWCA in 1894. Now, the YWCA og YMCA in Norway is a joint association, with one organization working with youth and social issues and one with YWCA and YMCA Guides and Scouts.
She organized the first Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) for black women. Gibbs also became a board member of Phyllis Wheatley YWCA.
The YWCA-YMCA of Sweden () is the Swedish branch of the YMCA and the YWCA. It was established in 1966 following a merger of the YMCA of Sweden and the YWCA of Sweden. In 2011, the organization decided to use the term during promotion where M now stands for ("people") instead of (men) as before. The YWCA-YMCA of Sweden has 40,000 members in 140 local associations.
Oakland YWCA Julia Morgan's affiliation with the YWCA began when Phoebe Apperson Hearst recommended her for the organization's Asilomar summer conference center, a project she began in 1913. The Asilomar Conference Center, no longer YWCA but State-run, is still in Pacific Grove near Monterey, California. Morgan also designed YWCAs in California, Utah, Arizona, and Hawaii. Five of the Southern California YWCA buildings were designed by Morgan.
The 1918 Harbor Area YWCA (San Pedro, CA) in a Craftsman building is still standing, as is the 1926 Hollywood Studio Club YWCA. Morgan's Riverside YWCA from 1929 still stands, but as the Riverside Art Museum. Her 1925 Long Beach Italian Renaissance branch has been demolished. The "gorgeous" Pasadena YWCA is being acquired by the City for restoration and public use after several decades of decay.
Sustainable development has also been a characterizing priority for the YWCA. In 1987, the World YWCA stated its "extensive commitment to development that empowers women to become decision-makers and community leaders."World YWCA Annual Report, 1987-88. (Geneva: World YWCA 1988) The movement has emphasized a gender and human rights approach, acknowledging the exploitative and exclusionary factors that perpetuate the feminisation of poverty.
Agnes Blizzard organized the first Canadian YWCA member association in two rented rooms in Saint John, New Brunswick, in 1870. Other early YWCA member associations were started in Toronto (1873), Montreal (1875), Quebec City (1875), and Halifax (1875). Adelaide Hoodless, second president of the Hamilton, Ontario, member association of the YWCA, was a key figure in organizing a national YWCA body in 1895. Women of Distinction are awards given to notable women by about 60% of the local chapters of the YWCA in Canada.
The YWCA would be demolished decades later, coming down in 2019.Ellerbrock, Josh. “Old YWCA Demolished, No Plans for Empty Lot.” The Lima News, 25 Dec.
Due to her work performance and resulting reputation, she received job offers from the New York Urban League, the national YWCA headquarters, and two local YWCA branches.
The Young Women's Christian Association of the Philippines (YWCA of the Philippines) is a member of World YWCA. The association was established in the Philippines in 1926.
YWCA-YMCA of Sweden (Swedish: KFUK-KFUM Sverige) was established in 1966 following a merger of YMCA of Sweden and the YWCA of Sweden. In 2011, the organization decided to use the term KFUM Sverige during promotion where M now stands for människor ("people") instead of män (men) as before. YWCA-YMCA of Sweden has 40,000 members in 140 local associations. Several Swedish YWCA-YMCA associations have been successful in sport.
YWCA of Greater Portland YWCA of Greater Portland is a charitable organization with a mission to eliminate racism, empower women, and promote peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
YWCA USA was founded as the Young Women's Christian Association in New York City in 1858. In 1905, the Harlem YWCA hired the first black woman general secretary of a local YWCA branch, Eva del Vakia Bowles. Bowles joined the national association as the head of "colored programs" in 1913 and remained in that capacity until 1932. Prior to the Civil Rights Movement, some YWCA facilities were segregated or operated as separate organizations.
Terry also helped to form the African-American branch of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in Little Rock. Her assistance in this feat led to the YWCA opening in 1921.
Several women resided at the YWCA while studying at the University, including international students. Over time, however, the YWCA found it increasingly difficult to maintain the property. In 1976, the University of Scranton purchased the YWCA building for $500,000. The University of Scranton initially named the building Jefferson Hall. After the YWCA vacated the building in June 1978, moving to a new location on Stafford Avenue, significant renovations converted the structure into an off-campus residence for 91 students.
Graham began her association with the YWCA as a teenager in 1939, joining the colored division of the YWCA Girl Reserves in Springfield. After earning her undergraduate degree, she served as associate director of the YWCA teen program department in Grand Rapids, Michigan, from 1947 to 1950. From 1953 to 1956, she was the metropolitan teenage program coordinator in Detroit. She was a member of the board of directors of the YWCA USA from 1970 to 1989.
In 2003, Ireland served for six months as the CEO of the YWCA. In October 2003, Ireland was dismissed after refusing to step down, although YWCA spokespeople denied that conservative pressure was a factor in the decision. Following her dismissal from the YWCA, Ireland was former Senator Carol Moseley Braun's national campaign manager for her brief 2004 presidential bid.
Rod Love, former chief of staff to Ralph Klein, suggested that the Greens could potentially cut into the NDP's support. Layton's stance drew criticism from the YWCA,""Who's Afraid of Elizabeth May?" YWCA Canada calls for a woman's voice in election debate", YWCA press release, September 9, 2008. Judy Rebick, and members of his own party.
The YWCA in Norway was first established as a small women's group called Friends of Young Women by Sophie Pharo and her four friends in 1886. Through this work, they got in contact with the YWCA in London. On 30 January 1887, the Young Women's Christian Association, KFUK, was founded. By 1890, there were 10 YWCA groups in Norway.
In 1921, Felicisima Balgos Barza, with assistance from the Honolulu YWCA, formed the Time Investment Club. The YWCA of Manila was formally organized in October 1926. The first honorary president was Aurora A. Quezon. The organization of the Baguio and San Pablo YWCAs took place in 1946-47 and the first YWCA National Convention was held in 1948.
She became a student adviser with the YWCA. She began work with the YWCA traveling in the Mid-West of the United States. In 1923 she met Ida Pruitt, who had grown up in China, where her parents were Southern Baptist missionaries. Pruitt influenced her to accept a position as a YWCA foreign secretary in China.
The YWCA is independent of the YMCA, but many local YMCA and YWCA associations have merged into YM/YWCAs or YMCA-YWCAs and belong to both organizations, while providing the programs of each.
The YWCA moved out of this building in 2003; headquarters moved to 1013 West Lake Avenue in Lakeview Park, where the YWCA had maintained a campground since the late 1960s.; accessed via link "Agreement and Lease 1966 1013 W Lake Peoria" at "Bank-Owned Former YWCA Peoria, IL" (Chicago: Rick Levin & Associates, Inc.), 2012. Later, partially due to funding a new pool at the YWCA Lakeview building in the 2000s, the Peoria YWCA became financially distressed, moving out of the Lakeview building in 2011 and closing down completely in the summer of 2012. Since April 2008, this building has been New Hope Apartments, supportive housing with 79 apartments.
Clyburn is a past chair of the YWCA of Greater Charleston.
The building was built in 1911 for members of the YWCA. Like many YWCAs of the time, the Youngstown YWCA provided rooms for single women to rent in addition to providing recreational and social activities. YWCA Mahoning Valley is still actively using this building as its headquarters and administrative offices. Housing is now provided for homeless families as well as homeless women.
Mason's professional life began when she took the job as the program director of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in Brooklyn, New York. After leaving her position at YWCA, she accepted the position of administrator of the city's Department of Welfare . Mason was the first black woman to ever hold this position. She remained a national board member at the YWCA.
Ma was also the founding member of the YWCA Hong Kong chapter.
Budd received the YWCA Women of Distinction Award for Arts in 1983.
She was a member of the YWCA and the Fidelis Coterie club.
The YWCA of Greater Portland was established in 1901 as part of the larger YWCA USA, Young Women's Christian Association, which was founded in New York City in 1858. The original Portland board consisted of women from prominent white families, including the Corbetts, Failings, Ladds, and Honeymans. Like other "city associations" of the day, the YWCA sought to reach working women in the downtown area. Along with providing lodging and meals to local women, the Portland YWCA also organized programs to address the needs of female workers more broadly.
During the World YWCA Council in Phoenix, Arizona in 1987, the World YWCA passed a resolution urging the national organizations to implement programs for education for the prevention of the spread of HIV. Today, YWCAs in 70 countries have programs related to HIV, including prevention, advocacy, treatment, care and support, and addressing stigma. The YWCA works closely with HIV-positive women on a grassroots level. Initiatives within the YWCA by HIV-positive women have allowed for the tailoring of programs to meet the specific needs of their communities.
Advocates like Helen L. Seaborg in Washington, D.C., worked successfully to mediate mergers between the segregated groups. Mary Ingraham was president of the National Board of the YWCA from 1940 to 1946 and involved with the YWCA's war work and interracial efforts. YWCA USA changed its corporate name from “Young Women’s Christian Association of the United States of America, Inc.” to “YWCA USA, Inc.” in December 2015.
Fulwylie taught beginning in 1937. In 1959, she was director of the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA in Louisville,"Teacher Named Head of Wheatley YWCA" Courier-Journal (August 26, 1959): 8. and part of the merger of the black and white branches of the YWCA in Kentucky. She was executive director of the Pittsburgh Negro Education Emergency Drive (NEED) in 1969."TokiTypes" Pittsburgh Courier (June 14, 1969): 11.
As a young woman, Klugh lived and worked at the Robert Gould Shaw House, a settlement house in Boston's South End."Robert Gould Shaw House, Fortieth Anniversary 1908-1948" brochure. She attended the national meeting of the YWCA in 1924, as Girl Reserve and industrial secretary of the St. Aubin Branch of the YWCA in Detroit."St. Aubin Branch YWCA" The Chicago Defender (May 3, 1924): A8.
YWCA, Think Big! Lead Now! Young Women’s National Leadership Summit , Jan. 29, 2015.
The YWCA Lok Wah Community Centre is located at 80 Chun Wah Road.
It was in 1917 purchased by the Danish branch of the YWCA (KFUK).
The YWCA of Duluth is a former YWCA building in Duluth, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1908 to provide programs and activities for Duluth's young, single women. It contained a gymnasium, swimming pool, cafeteria, meeting rooms, and apartments. In addition to the organization's usual suite of athletics, Bible study, and employment assistance, the YWCA of Duluth catered to the city's large foreign-born population with English and citizenship classes.
An expanded economic activity brought many immigrants from the countryside and from Europe after the Civil War. Concerns for young, single Protestant women alone in cities led to the growth of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) movement. When the Baltimore YWCA was founded in 1883, they only offered their services to white women and so the Colored Women's YWCA was founded in 1896. They merged in 1920.
Now the YWCA and YMCA is a joint association, KFUM og KFUK i Danmark.
Kirkcaldy Civic Society's "Pathhead Walkabout", p.39. Kirkcaldy YWCA has acquired the Pathhead Halls.
Lowell YWCA Camp Weetamoo is located on Long-Sought-for Pond in Westford, MA.
Three years later, she was nominated for the 2013 YWCA Women of Distinction Award.
She was given a scholarship to the YWCA National Training School in New York.
She gave additional contributions to Rutgers College. Both the YMCA and the YWCA benefited from her contributions, as well as other organizations. She was a member of the board of the Russell Sage Foundation and of the national board of the YWCA.
In 1911 she launched the YWCA Travellers' Aid Society to support government-assisted immigrants, particularly young women who intended to seek work as domestic servants. In June 1914 the Rose Birks wing of the YWCA hostel in Adelaide was opened by Lady Galway.
Daley died in 1943 and a room at YWCA, Canberra was named in her honor.
Together with her husband, Mary flew over 50,000 miles for YWCA activities around the world.
She was the executive director of the Centre Avenue branch of the YWCA in Pittsburgh.
Afia was appointed as the Communications Manager for the endowment campaign of the World YWCA.
She served as vice-president from 1973 to 1979 and was elected president of the YWCA USA in 1979, the second black woman to fill that post. She served as national president for two three-year terms. Graham joined the executive committee of the World YWCA in 1975. She was elected president of the World YWCA in 1987, being the second black woman in that post, and served a five- year term until 1991.
Finally, after retiring from this position, Brown served as executive director the NAACP in Pittsburgh. She was the first African American President of the YWCA Greater Pittsburgh, as well as the first employed woman to serve as YWCA President. Brown's presence encouraged more black women to become more involved within the organization. Brown co-founded the Coalition to Counter Hate Groups in 1979 through joint funding from the YWCA and National Organization for Women.
The Studio Club closed in 1975, and the building was used as a YWCA-run Job Corps dormitory until April 30, 2012. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 and remains the property of the YWCA Greater Los Angeles.
It was a pivotal point in the founding of the World YWCA, cementing the principles of unity based on service and faith on a global scale. The YWCA motto: "Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord Almighty" (Zechariah, 4.6) In the beginning of the 20th century, a profound shift began within the YWCA. While industrialization had been a founding concern of the association, it had sought primarily to insulate women morally and socially from urban life. During the 1910 World YWCA conference in Berlin, however, the voices of thousands of working women from the United States were heard, and these objectives began to change.
This led to the recognized need for forming an umbrella organization, which consequently became the YWCA of the Philippines, conceived to serve as a coordinating body for organized local clubs that had begun to proliferate. The YWCA of the Philippines was admitted as a corresponding member of the World YWCA during the World Council Meeting in Hanchow, China in 1948. It became an active member at the World Council meeting in Beirut, Lebanon in 1951. The YWCA of the Philippines policy making is vested on a 17 member National Council headed by the President while the national staff headed by the National Executive Director does the implementation work.
"She believes in the Russian people with an unshakable faith," reported a YWCA publication, after her return to the United States in 1919."Announcements" The Association Monthly (April 1919): 184. Cotton continued her work with the YWCA on a national level, organizing supports for working women.
Isaac was an alcoholic and his death was rumoured to have been a suicide. His death left the McQuesten family in severe debt. In 1889, McQuesten proposed the founding of a chapter of the YWCA in Hamilton. The Hamilton YWCA Building opened on May 1, 1889.
Rodie Child Care Center, run by the YWCA of Bergen County, is open to children from 6 weeks old to 6 years old, including an all-day private Kindergarten class, and is located on Pleasant Avenue.ywFull Day Child Care. YWCA of Bergen County. Accessed December 19, 2013.
This work was launched at a time when women were said to kidnapped into prostitution (White Slavery). In 1886 the British government raised the age of consent from 13 to 16. The World YWCA was founded in 1894, with USA, Great Britain, Norway and Sweden as its founding mothers. A YWCA poster from 1919 The first world conference of the YWCA was held in 1898 in London, with 326 participants from 77 countries from around the world.
The YWCA would help to support these emigrants. In 1884 the YWCA was restructured – up to that point, London had almost a separate organisation, but there was now just one national YWCA organisation. Beneath this there was different presidents and staff for London, England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, "Foreign", and Colonial and Missionary. This organisation was involved in distributing Christian texts and literature, but it also interviewed young women in an effort to improve living conditions.
In Tacoma, Hall was in the YWCA with her sister, and her brothers were in the YMCA where they all took swimming lessons. During this time the YWCA only had a few levels of swimming lessons, unlike the YMCA. At age 8, Hall was put into the high-level swimming lessons with the boys because she was too good for the YWCA lessons. During this time there were no Title IX, high school, or college swimming teams for women.
Ten Sing Norway is a one-year leader training program within YMCA/YWCA of Norway. During the year the participants visit YMCA and YWCA – festivals, Ten Sing groups, youth clubs and groups within YMCA/YWCA in both Norway and Europe. When on tour, Ten Sing Norway is holding seminars, shows, concerts and Ten Sing rehearsals. The participants live at Rønningen Folk High School in Oslo, and study Bible studies and Christian Youth Work at the University of Oslo.
In 1916, the first Chinatown YWCA branch was established in a former saloon at Stockton and Sacramento; the San Francisco YWCA passed a resolution in October 1929 to build a new facility on three adjacent lots bounded by Joice, Clay, and Powell. Noted architect Julia Morgan was contracted to design the now-historic building, and after consultation with Chinese-Americans, included cultural elements from Chinese arts and crafts. The building housed the Chinatown branch of the YWCA from 1932 until it was damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake; the board of the YWCA decided to sell the building to the CHSA in 1996 with the help of Supervisor Tom Hsieh and Mayor Willie Brown. In November 2001 the CHSA relocated and opened the Chinese Historical Society of America Museum and Learning Center in the Chinatown YWCA building.
Grace joined the church's Atlanta Interracial Student Forum, and also became an active member of the YWCA.
Ten Sing is a Christian youth program within YWCA and YMCA, engaging teenagers in creative performing arts.
She retired to Arlington, Virginia, and did volunteer work with the American Red Cross and the YWCA.
Toronto YWCA Woman of Distinction Special Award] (1991) for co-authoring Canadian Women: A History, 1st edition.
YWCA is a historic YWCA located in downtown Evansville, Indiana. It was built in 1924, and is a three-story, Tudor Revival style red brick clubhouse on a raised basement. Note: This includes , , and Accompanying photographs It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
YWCA Boston, 2006 The Boston Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) (est.1866)The handbook of the Young Women's Christian Association movement. 1914. Google booksElizabeth Wilson. Fifty years of association work among young women, 1866-1916: a history of Young Women's Christian Associations in the United States of America.
The Royal Hawaiian Girls Glee Club was founded as the YWCA Hawaiian Girls Glee Club c.1917 by Louise Akeo Silva (1893–1980). Known by her maiden name of Akeo until 1951, Silva followed in the footsteps of her athletic older sisters May Akeo Kamaka (1887–1936) and Amelia Akeo Guerrero (1885–1977), by joining the YWCA in 1912. When the Hawaiian Girls Club formed in 1916, the Honolulu YWCA was creating several ethnic clubs, geared towards specific polling results.
Gerlach went to Shanghai in 1926 to organize a YWCA office. In April 1927 she met and befriended the YWCA secretary Maud Russell, who had been forced to leave Wuchang due to the civil war. That year Gerlach joined a political study group in Shanghai with progressive foreigners such as Rewi Alley, Agnes Smedley and George Hatem (Ma Haide). Other members of the study group, which usually met in Alley's house, included YWCA secretaries Maud Russell, Lily Haass and Deng Yuzhi.
Ruth Logan Roberts (1891-1968) was a suffragist, activist, YWCA leader, and host of a salon in Harlem.
After graduating from high school, Gabriel completed a one-year business administration course at a YWCA in 1984.
In collaboration with the YWCA of Middle Tennessee a coffee table book was produced entitled: "Women of the YWCA. Today I Won't Be Afraid," featuring success stories of overcoming abuse, featured in the photos. The band has also performed numerous school shows, coupled with a motivational program hosted by Shadow.
This building was then adapted for use by local YMCA and YWCA organizations, and then as a senior center.
In 1932, the two moved to Boston, where she taught at The Winsor School and volunteered at the YWCA.
Portrait of Tsuda Umeko In 1905, Tsuda became the first president of the Japanese branch of the Tokyo YWCA.
Apart from the YWCA, Haslam was executive director of the Elizabeth Fry Society in Toronto from 1953 to 1978.
Billings French was very involved with the Young Women's Christian Association, also known as the YWCA. She was chair of the executive committee, as well as president. Her daughter Mary also carried on the tradition; In 1951 she joined the YWCA National Board, then was vice-chairman and then chairman of the YWCA's international division from 1955 to 1973. From 1958 to 1964, she was chairman of the YWCA's World Service Council, followed by being elected to the YWCA Board of Trustees in 1988.
The grounds and outlying area also provided locations for landscape painting. Some of Britain's best contemporary artists such as Tom Coates, Edward Wesson, Ken Paine, Deborah Manifold, and John Yardley provided tuition, amongst others. The YWCA remained at Philipps House until 1995. Despite the art courses being as heavily subscribed to as ever, the withdrawal of the YWCA was inevitable after the terms of the lease were changed when it was presented to the YWCA for renewal, a process that occurred every ten years.
John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s wedding gift to Abby was a sum of money, which she promptly donated to the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) of Providence in Rhode Island. Later, she would be more active in the YWCA of New York. From 1918 to 1936 she held active service in the YWCA, though upon her retirement from leadership roles, she was considered an honorary member. She was a member of the YWCA's National Board, and served as the vice-president and chairman of numerous committees.
Lady Bird Johnson dedicated the house in a special ceremony. Mary was an ardent supporter of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), carrying on the tradition from her mother who was also involved with the organization. In 1951 she joined the YWCA National Board, then was vice-chairman and then chairman of the YWCA's international division from 1955 to 1973. From 1958 to 1964, she was chairman of the YWCA's World Service Council, followed by being elected to the YWCA Board of Trustees in 1988.
The YWCA's participation in this movement peaked during the 1940s, shortly after the start of the Second World War. "In 1940, a National Board commission was charged with mobilizing decisively integration work in the YWCA. This group devised an ‘Interracial Charter’ calling for the full integration of black women into YWCA life and pledging the efforts of the collective YWCA to fight racial prejudice." While these efforts were not successful on a national level, they did raise awareness and re-affirm the organization's mission.
Y-ME was founded in 1978 by breast cancer patients Ann Marcou (1932-2004) and Mimi Kaplan (d. 1983), and began as a hotline operated out of Marcou's Chicago-area home and a support group that met at a local YWCA. The organization was originally named YWCA and Me after its association with the local YWCA and the name was later shortened to Y-ME. Y-ME became a national organization that helped breast cancer patients receive support, access information and make informed decisions about their healthcare.
The YWCA, Phillis Wheatley Branch in St. Louis, Missouri is a building dating from 1927. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The branch was founded in 1911 and named for Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American poet. It was only the fifth YWCA for African-Americans.
His other works included the YWCA Hotel (1931), (atmospheric) Cafeteria, & Gym, 320 NW 1st St, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (razed 1975).
She was also nominated twice for the YMCA-YWCA Women of Distinction Award in the Technology Category (1999 and 2001).
She coached at American Gymnastics in Bedford Hills, New York and YWCA in White Plains, New York.Eugenia Golea. Romanian Gymnastics.
Abbie Adella Graham (May 28, 1889 – February 11, 1972) was an American non- fiction author, YWCA secretary, and camp director.
She was also active in the Girl Guides of Canada and the YWCA. She had been legally blind since 1983.
YWCA is a national organization with 215 local associations across the United States. At YWCA's annual meeting in May 2012, a transition from the prior regional structure to a national federated structure was approved, followed by the adoption of new bylaws in November 2012. Alejandra Y. Castillo, Esq., is the CEO of YWCA USA.
Kensington Branch of the Philadelphia YWCA is a historic YWCA building located in the Hugh neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1911 and expanded in 1916. It is a six-story, brick with terracotta trim building in the Colonial Revival style. The original three-story section was built as the Hoffman Memorial wing.
Bessie Boies married American YMCA worker Thomas Cotton in 1919; they met when both were working in Russia. They had two children, John Boies Cotton and Deborah Boies Cotton Leighton, and divorced in 1938. Her daughter Deborah remained active in the YWCA."Homemakers to Hear of YWCA in Russia" Bridgeport Post (December 6, 1959): 32.
She spoke at Wellesley College in 1932 on "Extra-Curricular Activities for the Negro".Wellesley College, "Addresses", Report of the President (1933): 76. via Internet Archive In 1946 Eolyn Guy was named program director of the 12th Avenue Center YWCA in Tucson, Arizona."YWCA Has Board Meeting" Tucson Daily Citizen (May 21, 1946): 3.
The Young Women's Christian Association headquarters for Honiara are based in Town Ground. In 1978 a Solomon Islands chapter of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) was established to address the specific needs of young women through developing personal growth and addressing various women's questions. The YWCA runs classes on sewing, cooking, and other home economics subjects demanded by women, complementing the work performed in these areas by the churches and the WDD. However, the YWCA has moved a step beyond this traditional focus in addressing some of the fundamental issues affecting women's lives.
It then moved to the new YWCA location 37 S. Wabash Ave. Members include Diana Solis, Diana Avila, Malu Ortega y Alberro, Salima Rivera, Eleanor Boyer, Karen Peugh, and Judith Arcana. The Women's Video Project at the YWCA was initially created to complete video projects related to the Loop YWCA's Lay Advocacy program, provide support to other YWCA groups and individuals to use, and teach video equipment usage and guiding video projects. Judy Hoffman made equipment recommendations early on, and by 1974 the first grant assistance had come in.
In 1932 Woodsmall returned to the YWCA as staff specialist for the National Board, and in 1935 she became General Secretary for the World YWCA, a post she held until 1947. Between 1947 and 1948 she did special service for the YWCA in Japan. In 1949 Woodsmall became Chief of the Women's Affairs Section of the U.S. High Commission for Occupied Germany, a position she held until 1952. She was appointed by the Department of State to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women for two sessions in 1949 and 1952.
Local residents committed to its preservation organized and the house was moved from Old Road to 110 Orange Road, its current address. The Crane House and Historic YWCA is one of the few remaining federal mansions in northern New Jersey. It currently operates as the Crane House and Historic YWCA, which is open to the public. The Crane House and Historic YWCA neighbors two other buildings with historic significance: the Clark House, which houses the Albert Payson Terhune library, and the Nathaniel Crane House, which houses a General Store collection, schoolroom, and gift shop.
Each year during the third week in October, YWCAs worldwide focus on raising awareness on violence against women. The YWCA Week Without Violence was launched in 1995 and has grown from a grassroots initiative into a global movement with women, men and children participating in events in over 20 countries. The Canadian YWCA in particular has a strong program for working with domestic violence. The YWCA is Canada's largest national network of shelter (45 facilities at 24 sites) and subsidized housing for homeless women and women escaping violence.
Since 2004, the YWCA has been campaigning for young mothers to get Child Support before pregnancy, rather than after the baby is born. As of 2009, mothers were able to claim the Health in Pregnancy Grant from the 25th week of pregnancy (this is similar to a pregnancy premium to Income Support, which the YWCA called for through the Respect Young Mums campaign). By virtue of its work for the welfare and development of young people, YWCA England and Wales is a member of The National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS).
The YWCA (KFUK) in Denmark was founded 28 November 1883 in the city of Vejle by a nurse named Karen Petersen. The association worked for women's right to speak and participate in civic work and the church mission. YWCA was in the forefront on addressing social issues in Denmark, and worked with single mothers, gender- based violence, women shelters and people with mental disabilities. The YWCA had its own educational program for women, and this program became the start of the official study programme of social counselling in Denmark.
In September 1920, Copenhaver became a Field Secretary on the national staff of the YWCA covering the south and central region. From 1920 to 1923 she was a rural community organizer. In addition to introducing the programs of the YWCA to local communities and churches, Copenhaver participated in seminars and retreats like one held in 1922, which explored the tenets of internationalism that had sprung up after the first World War. The YWCA believed that if women used their moral and professional authority, they would reshape the world.
Birks was elected President of the Adelaide Young Women's Christian Association in 1902 and is credited with its expansion and the modernisation of the Australasian movement. Under Birks' leadership the Adelaide YWCA was the first branch to introduce junior membership in 1893, opening club activities to girls as young as ten. Other innovations included introducing child-rearing lectures and classes promoting the development of womanhood 'science'. Birks was involved in the YWCA internationally and attended conferences in London and Paris in 1906 and Berlin in 1910 as the Australasian member of the YWCA world committee.
Deng started working at this time with the woman brocade workers in support of their causes, albeit her husband pursued her to return to the marriage. But Matilda Thurston, president of Ginling College, intervened and sent Deng to Shanghai to join the YWCA in 1921, and in the next few years, she moved several time. After returning to Changsha, she met Maud Russell who was working at the YWCA who offered her employment. Then Deng's divorce came through and she was able to lead an independent life, continuing her work with the YWCA.
In February 1925 Venable announced that she intended to resign, and through her influence the national committee agreed to appoint Ding as her successor as of 1 January 1926. Under pressure, Ding accepted this position, and returned to Shanghai late in 1925 after a year in the US. She was the first Chinese woman to head the YWCA. In late 1927 the forceful secretary Lily Haass argued unsuccessfully with Ding over the direction of the YWCA industrial program. Lily Haass wrote to the World YWCA headquarters to argue her case.
By the mid-1920s it was becoming clear that to remain a relevant organization in China the YWCA had to pay more attention to the women in rural and industrial occupations and less to the middle classes. In June 1925 Haass, who had graduated from her LSE course, took over as head of the Chinese Industrial Department from Mary Dingman. Haass led the combined efforts of the YWCA and the NCC in industrial reform. The YWCA soon gave up trying to cooperate with employers, who refused to make any improvements to working conditions.
Together with her husband Laurance, Mary flew over 50,000 miles for YWCA activities around the world, inspired from her mother's example.
YWCA Boston's historic landmark headquarters at 140 Clarendon Street was built in 1929, designed by George F. Shepard and Frederic Stearns.
Games were centred around teams from the YWCA and Williamstown. By 1940, war time conditions saw the sport go into recession.
Following his retirement in 1927, Hormel and his wife Lillian moved to California, donating the home to the local YWCA chapter.
Eolyn Carolyn Klugh Guy (born about 1901 – died October 9, 1963) was an African-American social worker, active with the YWCA.
The suit also expressed concern that the national YWCA had allegedly been infiltrated by communists and its board had balked at signing loyalty oaths "declaring their loyalty to this nation." The suit was settled in 1955, with the YWCA assuming full control of the home and the old management committee acknowledging that its term of office had expired.
As a young woman, Saunders taught at South Carolina State University.Ida E. Jones, Mary McLeod Bethune in Washington D. C.: Activism and Education in Logan Circle (History Press 2013): 99. Saunders became executive director of the Harlem YWCA in 1914.Judith Weisenfeld, African American Women and Christian Activism: New York's Black YWCA, 1905-1945 (Harvard University Press 1997): 115.
Willis-Aarnio with Prince Philip in 1987 Willis-Aarnio received Texas Christian University's Alfie Special Achievement Award for her choreography in Gilbert and Sullivan's ballad operetta, Patience. In 1998, she received the "Woman of Excellence Award in the Arts" from the YWCA, City of Lubbock, Texas.Overton, Melony. (February 28, 1998) "YWCA recognizes Women of Excellence", Lubbockonline.
Elks Athletic Club, also known as YWCA, in Louisville, Kentucky, is an eight- story building that was built in 1924. It was designed by Joseph & Joseph in Classical Revival style. It was sold and adapted into use as a hotel four years after it was built. It served as a hotel until 1963, then became a YWCA.
The YWCA was brought to China at the start of the twentieth century to provide a support system and to help Chinese women to move away from their original roles in the household.Drucker, Alison R. 1979. "The Role of the YWCA in the Development of the Chinese Women's Movement, 1890–1927." Social Service Review 53 (3): 421–440.
Gertrude Kinnaird was born in 1853 to the 11th Baron Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird and Mary Jane née Hoare, philanthropist and founder of Youth Women's Christian Association (YWCA). Kinnaird was a missionary and a member of YWCA. She had a keen interest in affairs concerned with India. Kinnaird had a reputation of most capable and impressive platform speaker.
While caring for her mother Clark's role as an educator and activist did not subside. During this time, she taught in the Charleston public schools, she was active with the YWCA, and served as membership chairperson of the Charleston NAACP. The YWCA was one of the few organizations in Charleston that was interracial. There were black and white branches.
Robin Patterson received the Women of Distinction Award, May 2007, in the field of Arts and Culture from the Niagara Region YWCA.
The college moved out of the YWCA and into a house on Highland Street, where it would remain for almost two decades.
Gertrude Mary Kinnaird (1853-1931) was an English philanthropist and Christian missionary. She was a member of Youth Women's Christian Association (YWCA).
Ding Shujing (, February 1890 – 27 July 1936) was the first Chinese leader of the Chinese YWCA, holding office from 1925 to 1936.
The mental hospital was shot at the Laniakea YWCA in Honolulu, except for Dr. Brooks's office, which was done inside a studio.
The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in West Adams is another Los Angeles landmark built by the Clark family. In 1954, heirs of Senator Clark sued the YWCA over its alleged violation of the terms of the agreement under which the home was deeded to the YWCA. The suit alleged that the YWCA had improperly depleted the home's trust fund, terminated Clark's niece as chairman of the home's management committee, and adopted new by-laws under which it assumed the right to appoint a chairman of the management committee. For 35 years, the home had been managed by a committee composed of women members of the Clark family and others of their choosing; however, in 1949, the YWCA asserted the right to take complete control by appointing committee members independently.
The World YWCA has been involved in recent global forums on sustainable development and related issues, and is an active member of the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance, a network of churches and ecumenical organisations working for recognition of international human rights, social, and environmental agreements as a priority over trade agreements and policies. There are YWCA programs for sustainable development in 40 countries, ranging from literacy and awareness building of environmental issues in Papua New Guinea to skills building and job training in Peru. Racial equality and anti-lynching initiatives Throughout the course of its existence, the YWCA has focused on incorporating racial equality into its framework and goals. In coordination with this initiative, the YWCA focused on creating campaigns and writing letters to legislators, with the intention of passing anti-lynching legislation.
She returned in 1911, spending the next 27 years helping to push the status of Japanese women forward through social and religious education. In 1918, Emma was appointed to the position of Associate Secretary for the Tokyo YWCA. As with all the positions Emma held with the YWCA, she declined any salary. Ms. Kaufman introduced camping as well as other activities.
Allen M. Fletcher, a banker, was governor of Vermont in 1912–15. His widow and daughters gave the property to the YWCA in 1928 for use as a training school. The program did not succeed and in 1933 the YWCA returned the property to the Fletchers. Later that year a non-profit educational foundation was formed named Fletcher Farm Inc.
BHEL Matriculation Higher Secondary School (BHEL) is an English medium co- educational school affiliated to the Matriculation Board of Education in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. It was formerly known as the YWCA Matriculation Higher Secondary School (YWCA). The school is managed by the Neelaveni Thayarammal Memorial Trust, Coimbatore, which took over the school management from BHEL Educational Society, Trichy on 1 June 2011.
YWCA Blue Triangle Residence Hall is a historic YWCA residence hall located at Indianapolis, Indiana. It was designed by the architecture firm Rubush & Hunter and built in 1924. It is a five-story, "L"-plan, Classical Revival style steel frame building clad in red brick. It has a raised brick faced foundation and central entrance with a carved limestone surround.
She received her LLB in 1949 and was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn the following year. Baëta also participated in religious and social work during her free time in London. She worked with youth camps organised by the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) and was elected to the Executive Committee of the World YWCA during her final years as a student.
The property was sold by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne–South Bend to the YWCA of Fort Wayne in the 1970s. Note: This includes and Accompanying photographs. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. in 1978 the property was purchased by the Fort Wayne YWCA and housed the largest women's shelter in Indiana.
Wing found paid employment at the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) in Cleveland. She started work with the YWCA as a receptionist in 1907. After a short period of time, she attained the positions of industrial secretary and financial secretary. As industrial secretary, Wing worked with factory girls to improve their education, aiming to guide them towards safe, healthy, moral recreation.
Reviewer, Woodson, C. G (1941). [A nickel and a prayer, by J. E. Hunter], The Journal of Negro History, 26(1), 118-120. The YWCA, like many other foundations, was refusing to house Negro women migrating from the South. Jane Edna Hunter decided to try and convince the white woman who was running the YWCA to establish a separate foundation for Black women.
In 1920 it was donated to the YWCA who continues to use the building. Other additions were built onto the building in subsequent years.
The building was put on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.Belmont Hotel It has been owned by the YWCA since 1968.
Zetzsche studied Engineering at the University of Buenos Aires. Since 1992 she presides López Castro SRL. She has been President of YWCA (2003-2007).
She took a leave of absence from her work and volunteered to assist in the New York-based training headquarters for overseas YWCA workers.
She was the first African American woman named to the national board of the YWCA. She was an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
YWCA Greater Los Angeles is a charitable organization with a focus on addressing issues of poverty, homelessness, domestic violence and skills training for the community.
She was also involved in the city's YWCA and YMCA, and active in the Georgian Club and the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE).
The YWCA Site is an archaeological site in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Tom, Susan. "YWCA set to sell its building", Statesman Journal, July 4, 2003, Local, p. 1C."Women's", Statesman Journal, October 10, 2001, Local, p. 3C.
She won the YWCA Tribute to Women Award in 1992. Her husband is named Herbert, and they have two children, Samuel Wolfgang and Saul William.
She trained to dive at the Multnomah Athletic Club under instructor Jack Cody. Following the 1920 Olympics, Payne became the swimming and diving instructor at the Portland YWCA. Her work at the YWCA involved training girls under six for various aquatic sports including synchronized swimming and diving. In 1922, Payne was hired by the Windemuth Bath House on Ross Island to instruct their swimming and diving courses.
In 1994, Frederick received the YWCA award as a philanthropist and is a member of the YWCA Tribute to Women Alumnae. 2008, The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) awarded Frederick the DAR Medal of Honor during the DAR National convention in May of that year (Sonoran News, 2008). The award is presented to those showing exemplary leadership, trustworthiness, service and patriotism.
It currently operates as the Crane House and Historic YWCA, which is open to the public for tours. The Crane House and Historic YWCA neighbors two other buildings with historic significance: the Clark House, which houses the Albert Payson Terhune library, and the Nathaniel Crane House, which houses a General Store collection, schoolroom, and gift shop. These buildings are also owned by the Montclair Historical Society.
Particularly, after finishing her career in Teachers College, Columbia University, she took courses at the YWCA National Training School and Union Theological Seminary and worked for the YWCA in Germantown, Pennsylvania. After attending an international student conference in Oxford, England, Spearman decided to begin a three-year journey around the world. She studied Asian culture in Japan and travelled to the Soviet Union, and India.
YWCA is a historic YWCA building located at Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana. It was built in 1925, and is a three-story, five bay by three bay, restrained Colonial Revival style brick building with limestone detailing. It has swimming pool in the basement, meeting and recreation rooms on the first floor, and sleeping rooms on the second and third floors. Note: This includes and Accompanying photographs.
In Chicago, Jenkins began writing songs for children while volunteering in recreation centers. She subsequently was hired as a Teenage Program Director for the YWCA in 1952. While working at the YWCA, she was invited to perform on the Chicago public television show, The Totem Club. She was soon offered a regular job as the host of its Thursday program, which she entitled This is Rhythm.
The YWCA-YMCA Guides and Scouts of Norway () is a Norwegian Scouting and Guiding association founded in its present form in 2003, when the YMCA-Scouts and the YWCA-Guides merged. Norges KFUK-KFUM-speidere serves about 13,000 members. The association is a member of Speidernes Fellesorganisasjon, the national Scouting and Guiding federation of Norway. It is divided in 20 districts with about 350 local troops.
Crane House and Historic YWCA Nathaniel Crane House 1818 Clark House 1894 The Montclair History Center, located in Montclair, New Jersey consists of a campus at 108 -110 Orange Road, Montclair, New Jersey 07042 with three historic buildings. The first building is the Crane House and Historic YWCA, a Federal Revival style home dating from 1796. The Montclair Historical Society (MHS) was founded in 1965 to save the Israel Crane House, which was moved from its original location near Lackawanna Plaza in downtown Montclair. The Crane House and Historic YWCA was used as a Y for African American ladies from 1920's to 1965.
In the late 1950s, the YWCA Greater Los Angeles began operation of a transient hotel for women and in 1965 the first Los Angeles Job Corps Center opened. By the late 1960s the YWCA established both the East Los Angeles and the Angeles Mesa Activity Centers. By the late 1970s, the Infant Learning Center at San Fernando High School was opened in 1975 as the L.A. Job Corps program continued to grow and expand when it moved into the Hollywood Studio Club. In the early 1980s, the YWCA began child development and lLtchkey Services in thirteen area elementary schools within the Los Angeles Unified School District.
In 1993, she received the Silver Achievement Award from the Greater Los Angeles YWCA and special commendations from both the County and City of Los Angeles.
Curtis walked 185 miles from Cold Lake to Edmonton in women's high heels as part of the YWCA Edmonton's Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event.
They were also architects of the University Club (extant, Washington Street on Fayette Park) and YWCA building (East Onondaga Street, demolished), both in Syracuse, New York.
YWCA Mahoning Valley also operates a site at 375 North Park Avenue in Warren, Ohio, as well as scattered-site housing in the greater Youngstown area.
The Frontera Women's Foundation collaborates with the YWCA of El Paso, Texas to supply information on home ownership and support community members in need with transitional living.
In 2014, Bligh was appointed CEO of YWCA New South Wales.YWCA NSW . Retrieved 29 March 2014 In 2017, she was made CEO of the Australian Banking Association.
She was, for a time, director of appeal, Munition Workers' Welfare Committee, for the YWCA, and was national vice-president from 1914–1920 and from 1922–1928.
Kathi Goertzen served on the WSU Foundation Board of Trustees from 1994 to 2000. She was also a Board Member of the YWCA of Seattle-King County.
Gender Tick is an initiative from the YWCA and to earn the accreditation companies must have a safe and inclusive culture, flexible working arrangements and equal pay.
In early 1953 Amarteifio travelled to Britain to study with the YWCA. On her return – together with Annie Jiagge, Thyra Casely-Hayford, Amanua Korsah and others – she established a YWCA in the Gold Coast. She also travelled to the United States, where she learned about the Jamaican Federation of Women. She used this as a model for the National Federation of Gold Coast Women, a non-governmental national women's organization.
In 1951, she affiliated the Zenzele with the world YWCA, though with objection from the South African YWCA, which denied black women membership and the South African Government. She was elected as president of the national council of the South African Young Women's Christian Association on 1955. On February 1963, a year after husband's death on 1962, she returned to Winston-Salem, North Carolina until her death on 10 September 1982.
Leahy Hall was originally the home of the Scranton Chapter of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). The building was constructed in 1907 in the Colonial Revival style. The three-story, red brick building, designed by Scranton architect Edward Langley, featured offices, lounges, meeting rooms, a gymnasium, and a cafeteria. The YWCA held classes in physical culture, sewing, music and singing, arithmetic, grammar, Bible study, cooking, and English.
Ms. Fuller was a charter member of the Hawaiian Girls Club of the YWCA and one of the oldest members of the organization. She died in India while a member of a Hawaiian group of entertainers. In her memory, the club raised $1,000 toward the hall, which the YWCA named after her. At the makai end of the rear building is a restaurant, Cafe Julia, named after the architect.
In retaliation, Asha leaves from Indira's house but she has nowhere else to go. She takes help of the professor and he gets her admitted to YWCA hostel. All the while, Asha makes it a point to avoid Unnikrishnan and he feels terrible and insulted because of that. While at YWCA hostel, he barges into her room when she informs through the matron that she doesn't want to see him.
During the following decades, the World YWCA spent much time researching and working with the issues of refugees, health, HIV and AIDS, literacy, the human rights of women and girls, the advancement of women and the eradication of poverty; mutual service, sustainable development and the environment; education and youth, peace and disarmament, and young women's leadership. These issues continue to play an integral role in the World YWCA movement.
Phillips was consistently concerned with the betterment of women and children throughout her work in China. While working with the YWCA, Phillips wanted to create mother's clubs. Peking's YWCA successfully established a mother's club for women coming from lower income families. At the same time, Phillips pushed the creation of a Home Training School in which students would learn care for the sick, cleanliness, and a number of other simple tasks.
As part of her post-secondary education in Toronto, Haslam worked at the Grandview Training School for Girls before joining the YWCA upon graduation. Haslam started out as a campus director for the organization's Montreal branch from 1936 to 1941. She later held executive director positions in Cornwall, Ontario and Trinidad during the 1940s. Haslam ended her tenure with the YWCA after becoming their personnel director from 1948 to 1953.
She was an advocate for hostels for low-income workers and women with children. From 1960 to 1964, and again from 1966 to 1968, Davies served as president of the Singapore YWCA. In 1967, she was awarded a gold badge from the YWCA for her service. In a 1969 project to build a 6-storey women's hostel on Fort Canning Road, Davies proposed that women donate their weight in dollars.
She also worked as a consultant from time to time to the YWCA of Changshu, Shanghai, Wuhan, Chongqing, Guiyang, Kunming, and Hong Kong. She then established night schools in Shanghai and Guangzhou for women workers. In the later part of 1930s, she was sponsored for graduate studies at Columbia University. While serving as the head of the YWCA Industrial Department, Deng reopened schools for women workers in the factory districts.
She was national vice-president and chairperson for the YWCA Convention, national vice president for the National Council of Negro Women and national project chairperson of Delta Sigma Theta. In 1989, she was named to the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame. She also received the National Lifetime Achievement Award from the American YWCA. As well as the Detroit Urban League's Distinguished Warrior Award, and the Spirit of Detroit Award.
After graduation, Hunton moved to Normal, Alabama, to teach at the State Normal and Agricultural College, which is now known as the Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University. In New York, Hunton was recognized by the National Board of the YWCA in 1907 and appointed as secretary. She was responsible for organizing projects among black students. Additionally, she traveled through the South and Midwest to conduct a survey for the YWCA.
The founding date of the YWCA has been given as 1876 or 1877. Kinnaird and Robarts had met in 1876 and an agreement was made in January 1877.
In 1987, she gained a diploma in business studies via the YWCA and worked for an NGO.Kristjana Guðbrandsdóttir, Von: Saga Amal Tamimi ([Reykjavík]: Bókaútgáfan Hólar, 2013), p. 48.
Cross, Pamela. Abortion in Canada: Legal but not accessible . YWCA, 2009 (accessed 2011-08-29). This lesson was reinforced in 1990 by the Conservative attempt to recriminalize abortion.
In 1949, a Planning Group was formed, representing national associations, members of the Executive Committee and the World YWCA staff. Some chosen themes for the Observance Day have been: My Faith and My Work, My Place in the World, My Contribution to World Peace, I Confront a Changing World, Toward One World and My Task in Family Life Today. In 1972, an Executive Committee decided that the event name would be changed to World YWCA Day and that the theme would be chosen by the Executive Committee from among various programmes decided by the World Council. A 1989 Executive Committee Task Force decided that the date of celebration for World YWCA Day would be April 24.
In 1930, when the World YWCA relocated to Geneva, Dingman moved to Switzerland and the following year began to work with pacifist organizations. Over the course of her fourteen years as Secretary, she traveled to more than forty countries throughout Australia and New Zealand, East Asia and Europe, creating educational programs for women factory workers. She also trained YWCA personnel to oversee the initiatives, which were developed after analyzing each country's labor regulations and safety measures. The World YWCA, offered space in its Geneva headquarters to a newly formed umbrella organization, the Peace and Disarmament Committee of the Women's International Organisations (PDCWIO) in 1931 and provided clerical assistance for the committee through Evelyn Beresford Fox.
Wolfe has involved herself, many times anonymously, in supporting the Wikimedia Foundation, the California YWCA, an EMS/Air Rescue Service, North American Wild Wolves, and several dog rescue organizations.
Simon served as executive director of the YWCA in Fort Wayne in the 1970s. In the late 1990s, she was the executive director of the League of American Bicyclists.
She was a member of the NAACP and the Urban League, and served on the boards of the Boston YWCA, Freedom House, and St. Mark's Congregational Church in Roxbury.
An ardent supporter of the YWCA, she built, in 1891, the Margaret Louisa, a YWCA hotel strictly for transient guests at 14 E. 16th Street in New York City. Mrs. Shepard fully financed and furnished the building which was named the "Margaret Louisa Home for Protestant Women". Margaret Louisa narrowly escaped being a victim of the RMS Titanic, having booked passage but for unknown reasons cancelled and traveled a week earlier on the RMS Olympic.
Nagle Warren Mansion, also known as Cheyenne YWCA Building, is former residence and YWCA with three buildings located in Cheyenne, Laramie County, Wyoming. The mansion is on the edge of Cheyenne's historic downtown section on Cattle Barons’ Row. It operated as a bed and breakfast ("B&B;") establishment since 1997 with twelve guest rooms decorated in Victorian West style. One guest room is a suite and each room has its own bath.
When her husband died in 1976 Aqorau returned to her home village in Munda, but continued her work with UCWF. Asked to help establish a YWCA centre to help prevent young women from leaving school, she began an affiliation with the organisation in 1978. Because there was no facility, the organization met in her home, until a building could be built. The YWCA Women's Training Centre is colloquially called the "Merle Aqorau" Centre.
The THA also administers subsidy for 30 single room occupancy apartments at the YWCA of the Greater Capital Region. THA also funds a range of services to the homeless at area shelters including emergency shelter, transitional housing, job training, primary health care, education and some permanent housing. These services are provided in affiliation with Joseph's House, Unity House, Catholic Charities and the YWCA of the Greater Capital Region (as of March 2020).
Her work at the YWCA put her in contact with organizer Eva Del Vakia Bowles, and in the YWCA canteen, contact with soldiers returning from the French World War I battlefields underscored her awareness of the differences between the Black experience in the U.S. and that in Europe. When a benefactor offered to pay for a year of study abroad, Fisher chose the London School of Economics and made her way there in 1920.
In 1973, she and her husband Aaron G. Jackson moved to Washington, DC, when he took a position at Howard University. Dr. Jackson would eventually become Chief of the Urology Department. Clement-Jackson began her involvement with the YWCA not long after YWCA passed the One Imperative agenda, which sought to eliminate racism. Clement-Jackson worked closely with the YWCA's National Office for Racial Justice, which was headed for many years by Dorothy Height.
Janet Powell was a member of the Patrons Council of the Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria, a Life Member of YWCA Victoria, and also an inaugural appointee to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2000 "for services to the community". In the 2012 Queen's Birthday Honours list, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia, in recognition of her service to the Parliament and people of Australia, "particularly through leadership of YWCA Victoria".
From 1955 to 1960, she was president of the YWCA. She and her husband adopted a child, Rheinhold, in 1959. In 1959, she became a judge for the Circuit Court.
After several weeks there, she moved to Los Angeles and enrolled at the University of California. She also worked in the school's library and at a YWCA while a student.
Mary Jackson McCrorey, from a 1921 publication. Mary Jackson McCrorey (November 9, 1867 – January 13, 1944) was an American educator, mission worker, and leader in the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA).
Okimāsis received the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award in 2000, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Regina in 2005. In 2019, a park was named after Okimāsis in Regina.
She won the 2002 YWCA Woman of Achievement Award, the Ohio Health Speaking of Women Health Award, NAACP Freedom Award, Woman of Courage Award, and the Urban League Leadership Recognition Award.
Emma S. Connor Ransom (August 8, 1864 — May 15, 1943) was an American educator and clubwoman, active in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) and the YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association).
On her return to New Zealand, Lovell-Smith joined the YWCA and was appointed general secretary of the Timaru branch in 1932. In 1937, she moved to Dunedin and became the general secretary of the Dunedin YWCA, and from 1945 to 1947 she was general secretary for the Hamilton YWCA. In 1947, she returned to live in Christchurch and continued her community work: in November 1949 she was made founding president of the Soroptimist Club of Christchurch. She also joined the local women’s unemployment committee, the Canterbury Women’s Club, the United Nations Association of New Zealand and CORSO. In the 1960s, she edited the journal of the New Zealand branch of the Pan-Pacific and South-East Asia Women’s Association.
Clement-Jackson also facilitated services for women, which included, shelters for victims of domestic violence and childcare centers. During her term as president of the YWCA, she was a member of the United States delegation to YWCA World Council meetings in Seoul, Korea, and Cairo, Egypt, and joined a 10-member World YWCA delegation for a fact-finding mission in the Middle East. In addition to her five-year term as national president, Clement-Jackson is the immediate past president of Black Women’s Agenda and recently retired from the board of The National Museum of Women in the Arts after 12 years of service. She is also a recent past chair of the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region.
For two years, Hedgeman taught English and History at Rust College, a historically black college in Holly Springs, Mississippi, where she had her first experience with segregation. Anna Arnold Hedgeman began work in the community in the 1920s when she became executive director of a black branch of the YWCA in Jersey City, New Jersey. She worked for the YWCA as an executive director in Ohio, New Jersey, Harlem, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn. All of these branches were segregated.
He houses her in a YWCA hotel and takes her to a live TV show where she sings live. During her stay she meets an Italian gendarme who already tried to win her over while on the ship. The Italian takes her to his relatives soon after Cruchot who has seen her performance on TV chases her out of the YWCA hotel and gets arrested. Cruchot is released with a warning and a suggestion to visit a psychiatrist.
Watson began her career in public service as the executive director of the Downtown Detroit YWCA. She would eventually rise to the position of assistant executive director of the National YWCA. From 1987 to 1990, she worked the New York headquarters, where her responsibilities included directing the Office of Racial Justice. In 1989, Watson was selected as a delegate to the Women for Meaningful Summits/USA, which was held in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Through this organization, she encountered the YWCA, which she remained affiliated with for the remainder of her life. At a YWCA summer retreat in Silver Bay, New York, van Kleeck was drawn to the ideas of Florence Simms, the YWCA's industrial secretary. Van Kleeck became determined to dedicate her career to public service, an ideal to which she dedicated a poem in Smith's yearbook. Van Kleeck studied at Smith College before beginning her career in New York City.
The Crane House was built by Israel Crane in 1796 on Old Road (now Glen Ridge Avenue) in Cranetown, which is now the southern part of the Township of Montclair. The house stayed in the Crane family until 1920, when it was purchased by the YWCA. The YWCA used the house for offices, dormitories and as a social center for African American women and girls for 45 years. In 1965, the house faced the prospect of demolition.
Retrieved on 2008-03-25 The YWCA used the house for offices, dormitories and as a social center for African American women and girls for 45 years. In 1965, the house faced the prospect of demolition. Local residents committed to its preservation organized and the house was moved from Old Road to 110 Orange Road, its current address. The Crane House and Historic YWCA is one of the few remaining federal mansions in northern New Jersey.
The YWCA can trace its history back to 1855 when the philanthropist Lady Mary Jane Kinnaird founded the North London Home for nurses travelling to or from the Crimean War. They addressed the needs of single women arriving from rural areas to join the industrial workforce in London, by offering housing, education and support with a "warm Christian atmosphere". Kinnaird's organisation merged with the Prayer Union started by evangelist Emma Robarts in 1877. In 1884 the YWCA was restructured.
YWCA was founded as two separate organisations in 1855 in London by two women (see below). The organisation changed its name to Platform 51 in December 2010 to reflect changing attitudes and to distinguish itself from the YMCA, and because the women and girls who use the charity wanted it. The name reflected the proportion of the world population that are female. The re-branded charity retains affiliations with the national and international YWCA umbrella organisations.
Bessie Boies worked as a staff member of the YWCA from 1909 to 1940. By 1913, she was placed in charge of the department of personnel for the YWCA's Department of Method. She directed the organization's presence at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915, and in 1917 went to Russia,Elizabeth Boies, "Planting the Association in Russia" Association Monthly (May 1919): 194-195. to establish YWCA educational programs for Russian women during the Provisional Government period.
Gogin taught one year (1908-1909) in St. Joseph, Louisiana, and at the Baldwin School in Pennsylvania in 1914. Soon after, she was a national secretary of the YWCA. In 1918 she was national head of the Girls' Division, responsible for the organization's wartime "Victory Girls" program. In 1919 Gogin wrote manuals for YWCA programs for various age levels, including the Rainbow Club for schoolgirls, the Girl Reserves for teens, and the Be Square Club for young working women.
In 1919, Muskrat enrolled at the University of Oklahoma, where she studied for three semesters. During the summer of 1921, she worked for the YWCA and was sent to work on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico. Her report on her organizing efforts earned her a scholarship to attend the University of Kansas, where she studied for three more semesters. In 1922, Muskrat went to Peking, China for an international youth conference as part of a YWCA delegation.
Malloch a member of the Movement for the Whole Ministry which aimed to make the Church more inclusive. She volunteered as an English Tutor at YWCA Roundabout Centre, an anti-racist charity.
Under her leadership, the YWCA strongly supported the anti-mui tsai movement in the 1920s. The couple had 13 children, of which the fourth son, Ma Man-fai, was a social activist.
The following year she joined the Riccarton Choral Society. Her solo in a May 1886 concert was praised in the Lyttelton Times. She also served on the management committee of the YWCA.
His father, Thomas, was a professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, and his mother, Sarah, was a teacher, homemaker and social service coordinator at the YWCA.
Mabel Cratty (June 30, 1868 - February 27, 1928) was an American educator and served as the General Secretary of the National Board of the YWCA from 1906 until her death in 1928.
In January 2018, Akande attended and spoke at the 2018 Women's March in Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto. In May 2018, Akande was honored with the YWCA Toronto Women of Distinction Award.
At that time seven women led by video maker Eleanor Boyer went to work setting the equipment up, creating tapes, and providing support to other YWCA members. Countless tapes were made documenting workshops and lectures; workshops were given to provide hands-on experience in making small-format video, including planning, shooting, and editing; and YWCA members created their own tapes. Boyer herself created more than a dozen tapes with the program, including Street Interviews on Rape (1974) documenting attitudes and beliefs about rape held by men and women, Getting Strong: Self Defense for Women (1976) discussing the dimensions and politics of self-defense for women, Breast Cancer Tapes (1977) opening up the subject of breast cancer from the point of view of women who had undergone treatment, and Bonne Bell: 10,000 Meter Race for Women (1978) documenting Chicago's first 6.2-mile race for women which was organized and hosted by the YWCA. As technology shifted, the Women's Video Project at the YWCA started to seek out newer equipment that was lighter, was easier to use, and recorded in color.
Schubert has been a vice president of the National Press Club of Australia since 2008, having been elected to the Board in 2006. She is also a life member of the YWCA Victoria.
Leon's celebrated its 100th anniversary with a donation to Boys & Girls Clubs of Canada. Leon's has also supported organizations such as Canadian Cancer Society, Salvation Army, Cerebral Palsy Association and YWCA, among others.
She was named among America's top 50 most powerful and influential executives by The NonProfit Times for three consecutive years, and in 2002 she was honored with the YWCA Women of Achievement Award.
Bessie Boies Cotton (April 5, 1880 – April 23, 1959) was an American staff member of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). She worked in Moscow and Petrograd during the Russian Provisional Government period.
Bernadette or Bernadeta Nemphombe Kunambi (born 2 June 1934) was a Tanzanian politician. She was National General Secretary of the YWCA, Chair of the Tanganyika Council of Women, and a Member of Parliament.
Three of the debate sponsors dropped out ahead of the first presidential debate due to the exclusion of major third party candidates. These companies were BBH New York, YWCA USA and Philips Electronics.
Teichrob was the recipient of the YWCA Woman of the Year award in the Business category. She also received the Golden Wheel award for Industry and Commerce from the Rotary Club in 1990.
Recent YWCA campaigns include the More than One Rung campaign. It called for help for young women to get skills and training so they can work their way off the bottom rung of the career ladder. The More than One Rung campaign led to, amongst other things, an increase in the minimum wage for apprentices from £80 a week to £95 a week. YWCA also undertook the Respect Young Mums campaign which worked towards getting better support for teenage mothers.
Merrill Hall, Asilomar Conference Grounds Asilomar State Beach incorporates Asilomar Conference Grounds, designed in the Arts & Crafts style by architect Julia Morgan. The facility was built in 1913 as a conference center and summer camp for the YWCA. Morgan designed and built 16 buildings on the property, of which 13 are still standing. The retreat was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987 for its role in the development of the YWCA and the resort nature of nearby Monterey, California.
She became the second president of the Hamilton branch of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in 1890, a role she used to work towards the establishment of domestic science education, and taught classes in domestic science (home economics). Hoodless is credited with being the founder of the Canadian National YWCA in 1895. In January 1897, the Minister of Education asked Adelaide to write a textbook for Domestic Science courses. In 1898 she published a book Public School Domestic Science.
In 1976 Dr. Alpha Alexander began her career as a graduate assistant in Women's Athletics at Temple University. She was the Assistant Women's Athletic Director while there from 1980-1983 and the Women's Athletic Director in 1981–1983. She went on to work at Women's Sports Foundation 1985–1986. In 1986 she worked at the YWCA of San Francisco as Health and Wellness Director until 1987 until she became the health and sports advocacy for YWCA of the USA National Office.
According to Helen Foster Snow, a journalist in China in the 1930s and wife of Edgar Snow, Gerlach worked at the YWCA headquarters in Shanghai for most of the 1930s. She became involved with the Communist Party and the "national salvation" groups led by students opposed to Chiang Kai-shek's right-wing policies and efforts to appease Japan. War broke out between China and Japan in 1937. The YWCA decided that its secretaries should remain in place, whether they were Chinese or Foreign.
The retired brigadier general Evans Carlson publicly supported the committee, and progressive China hands such as Edgar Snow were active in it. Agnes Smedley was not at first invited to join, perhaps because of her disagreements with the CPUSA. The Christian leader and YWCA executive Rose Terlin became a supporter of the committee, as did the American YWCA Secretaries Talitha Gerlach and Lily Haass, who had both worked in China. From 1946 the organization was headed by Maud Russell as executive director.
She was the recipient of two environmental awards from the Sierra Club of Canada and she helped create the NDP Green Car Strategy with Greenpeace and the Canadian Auto Workers. In February 2009, in recognition for her work as a trailblazer who opened doors for women in the labour movement, and making childcare issues a public priority, Nash became the recipient of the 2009 YWCA Toronto Woman of Distinction award, in the Labour category. The YWCA also recognized her contributions for advancing the women's causes in politics, through her involvement with the founding of Equal Voice and becoming an elected member of the House of Commons. She was presented with the award at the 29th Annual YWCA Women of Distinction Awards Dinner, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on May 13, 2009.
Kim was born in Incheon to a large, modern family. She attended Christian schools as a girl. She attended Ewha Girls School. Between graduating from Ewha, she "established the national YWCA Korea" in 1922.
In 1988, Shimer began to offer a chess scholarship. Subsequent beneficiaries of this scholarship include grandmasters Jesse Kraai and Noureddine Ziane. Prairie House, (the former YWCA) the main administration building of Shimer in Waukegan.
Reverend Clarence Virgil Thompson Richeson (February 15, 1876 – May 21, 1912) was executed for the murder of his fiancée Avis Willard Linnell. Avis Linnell died on October 14, 1911 at the YWCA in Boston.
His son Øystein Magelssen became chairman of the YMCA-YWCA of Norway in 2011. He was decorated with the King's Medal of Merit in gold. He resided at Slependen. He died in June 2013.
She also worked as a member of the Comprehensive Welfare Policy for the Disabled Person (Ministry of Health and Social Affair, Korea). Her work was recognized by Citi-YWCA Women's Leadership Awards in 2009.
Cupples founded a school erected by public subscription, for the training of orphan girls and boys from Glasgow, situated on Duchray Water, Aberfoyle. She was also a member of the committee of the Edinburgh YWCA.
In 2014, Benson received a YWCA Woman of Distinction Award for Community Building. To further strengthen community services, she co-founded the Saskatoon Collaborative Funding Partnership and has co-chaired the Saskatoon Regional Intersectoral Committee.
All of the Carr sisters had a role in founding the YWCA in Victoria. Initially, there was no official headquarters, so members of the community would meet at the Carr household to talk and pray.
Eleanor Gertrude Gogin (March 23, 1885 – February 6, 1967) was an American educator, and a national secretary of the YWCA, in charge of the organization's programming for girls and young women from 1918 to 1927.
Green, Carol. YWCA: Celebrating 90 Years in Salem. Salem Public Library. Retrieved on September 14, 2008. By the 1960s, the small library had a collection in excess of 100,000 volumes, but needed a larger facility.
Lillian Katherine Haass (, Xia Xiulan 26 November 1886 – 7 January 1964) was a YWCA worker in Shanghai, China, between 1914 and 1945. She led efforts to educate Chinese women to become leaders among industrial workers.
Her parents also provided her with piano lessons even when facing financial adversity. Throughout middle and high school, Esther played the piano at her church and was president of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA).
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011 for its local significance in the theme of social history. It was nominated for its role in local civic development through the YWCA's social welfare efforts. After a century in the building, the YWCA sold the property to the American Indian Community Housing Organization (AICHO) in 2008. The YWCA had determined that it was no longer using the space to its full capacity and it was financially burdensome for them to maintain.
In 1934, she became a statistic of the Great Depression when she was one of several employees laid off. Until 1941, she associated herself with the Memphis branch of the YWCA where she helped to establish the first Negro YWCA in the city. In 1935, she was hired to supervise a survey for the WPA on the black labor force in Shelby County. The result was published by the United States Government Printing Office in 1938 as The Urban Negro Worker in the United States, 1925–1936.
With its policy rooted in the 1920s, the World YWCA has emphasized peace education and justice as an integral part of the movement's promotion of human rights. The movement officially recognized these concepts as enmeshed during the conference in Singapore in 1983, wherein the statement was made, "No solution can be found for one people at the expense of another",Carole Seymour-Jones, Journey of Faith: The History of the World YWCA 1945-1994 (London: Allison & Busby 1994) in regard to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Bremer strongly opposed Americanization programs and wrote that Americanization stimulated fear and hate. She then served as a special agent for the United States Immigration Commission. Bremer was concerned that the existing public and private agencies serving immigrants largely ignored women so she made her most important contribution by establishing the first International Institute in New York City as a YWCA experiment in December, 1910. As a national field secretary for the National Board of the YWCA in New York, she began to work with immigrant girls.
Willamette University College of Law, 2008. p. 7. The library cost $30,000 to build, and within a year of operating had expanded to serve nearly 7,700 patrons with a collection of nearly 10,500 books. On January 4, 1920, a small fire damaged the furnace room and about 50 books at the library. In 1914, the YWCA of Salem was organized by the same Salem Women's Club. Located in downtown on Cottage Street Northeast, the YWCA moved in 1954 to the lot adjoining the library.
The ideas contained in that statement and others by Saddler influenced the 1946 YWCA integration charter. In 1933 Saddler became dean of women at Fisk University working with Mary McLeod Bethune from 1935-1936. In 1935 she earned her master's degree from Teachers College, Columbia University During the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration Saddler moved to Washington, D.C. to work on integrating welfare programs for young people. She moved to the Boston area in the 1950s where she was active with the YWCA, and the Community Relations Committee.
The principal organizations involved with the AWHF are the Zonta Club of Anchorage, the YWCA, Alaska Women for Political Action, the Anchorage Women's Commission, the University of Alaska Anchorage, Alaska Women's Network and the ATHENA Society.
Sunday, November 30, 1924 page 15 Later in his career he frequently lectured on African American history and continued involvement with civic organizations."YWCA Starts Study of Racial Problems". Omaha World Herald. Friday, March 5, 1926.
He had also segregated the camp's Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) Hostess House, which was widely popular among soldiers. Vanderbilt lifted the bans in September as the result of the public outcry generated by Cayton's articles.
The centre provides training in the hospitality sector to women who might not have that opportunity, with her end-of-the-day product given to a local YWCA women's shelter or Out of the Cold Program.
1907), Olympic Hotel (c. 1928), the "Modern Apartments" (c. 1929), Dalton Apartments (c. 1929), Gary State Bank Building (1929), Hotel Gary (1926), City Methodist Church (1926), YWCA Building (1922), and former U.S. Post Office Building (1936).
This work included training activities, writing, and working with the Public Affairs committee on race issues where her "insight into the attitude and feeling of both white and negro people [was] heavily counted on." It was during this period that the YWCA adopted its Interracial Charter (1946), which not only pledged to work towards an interracial experience within the YWCA, but also to fight against injustice on the basis of race, "whether in the community, the nation or the world." Convinced that segregation causes prejudice through estrangement, Height facilitated meetings, ran workshops, and wrote articles and pamphlets aimed at helping white YWCA members transcend their fears and bring their daily activities in line with the Association's principles. Height was an active member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, throughout her life, developing leadership training programs and ecumenical education programs.
Terlin denied this in a sworn affidavit, but the charge was often brought up as evidence that the YWCA had been infiltrated by Communists. In her affidavit Terlin stated that she had only just returned to the US on 1 October 1939 after spending two years in Geneva, Switzerland, working for the World Student Christian Federation (WSCF), and was now Economics Secretary of the National Board of the YWCA USA. Terlin was a member of the national board of the YWCA USA from 1939 to 1943, and was also director of social and economic studies of the WSCF in Geneva. In August 1942 she was among the signatories of Christians for Victory: A statement by American Christian Leaders to their Fellow-Christians on the Moral and Spiritual Issues at Stake in the Outcome of the War.
Duniway sought to increase the educational level for students and the salaries for UM faculty. The number of student activities on campus increased, including new organizations such as the Debate League, YMCA, YWCA, and the Silent Sentinel.
Ademola returned to Nigeria in 1935 and took up appointment as a teacher at Queens College. While in Lagos she participated in some women organizations such as YWCA. In 1939, she married Adetokunbo Ademola, a civil servant.
Women's organizations were represented by the Women's Trade Union League, Business and Professional Women's Club, the Visiting Nurse Association, the YWCA, Hull House, the Illinois Club for Catholic Women, and the Auxiliary House of the Good Shepherd.
She was recognized in 1982 by the Academy of Women Leaders (AWL) for her "achievements... and contributions to the success of other women." The AWL is a program of the YWCA of the City of New York.
Her mother served as the organization's first president, later donating funds for a new wing of YWCA building at 84 Federick Street. While growing up in Kitchener, she attended the Suddaby Public School and the Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School. Kaufman went on to study at the University of Toronto in the Faculty of Household Science and the Methodist Training School, before spending a year at Teachers College in New York. Kaufman first visited Japan in 1909, remaining there for six months during which time she taught and assisted with work at the YWCA.
The lease transferred the cost of maintaining the structure of the house and other amenities from the National Trust to the YWCA at a time when many major works were due, such as laying new pipes from the neighbouring village of Dinton. After the YWCA left, the National Trust carried out a thorough refurbishment of the house, which was leased to a tenant family. The house is, as of June 2016, closed to the public. The parkland that surrounds the house is still known as Dinton Park, and is accessible by the public.
Prior to becoming a Professor at Northern Michigan University, Hogan was an Assistant Professor and Assistant Research Scientist at New York University (from 1981–83; then again 1985-91) in New York City, New York. She was also the Health and Fitness Director for the National Board of the YWCA of the USA in New York (now YWCA of the USA in Washington, D.C.) from 1983-85. In addition, she has done international, national and regional consulting (around the issues of education and health & fitness) for many agencies. Professor Hogan received graduate degrees (Ph.
After graduating, Dhiru worked for New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. Dhiru was the youngest president of the YWCA of Wellington and Hutt Valley and represented New Zealand twice at World YWCA young women's forums. She has served on the board of a number of charities such as Inspiring Stories Trust, Dress for Success Wellington and Trade Aid. In her work for Trade Aid, she travelled to India and Bangladesh to record stories of the Trade Aid partner groups which she then delivered to school, community and business groups to promote Fair Trade.
In addition, she served on the executive of the Lucy Thurman YWCA branch and was the residential and maintenance secretary of the Detroit YWCA for six years. In 1916, Smith organized the Young People's Department of the AME Church's Women’s Parent Mite Missionary Society. In 1923, the year that her husband died, she was elected the first vice president of the Mite Society and in 1931 began serving as president of the organization. In that capacity, she traveled to Kingston, Jamaica several times, to make presentations and assist them in their missionary work.
It is the United States' oldest YWCA. With a mission to eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all, the organization has been providing services to Boston residents and visitors for 150 years. Historically, YWCA community programs have included recreation facilities, daycare, adult and child education, and advocacy work for women and children's rights. Today, YW Boston directly serves over 3,000 Bostonians per year through its six programs: Dialogues on Race and Ethnicity, Girls' Health, LeadBoston, Women's Health, Youth Leadership Initiative, and Youth/Police Dialogues.
The World Young Women's Christian Association (World YWCA) is a movement working for the empowerment, leadership and rights of women, young women and girls in more than 100 countries. The members and supporters include women from many different faiths, ages, backgrounds, beliefs and cultures. Their common goal is that > [B]y 2035, 100 million young women and girls will transform power structures > to create justice, gender equality and a world without violence and war; > leading a sustainable YWCA movement, inclusive of all women. The World office is currently based in Geneva, Switzerland.
A resolution was passed requiring the association to study social and industrial problems, and to educate working women about the "social measures and legislation enacted in their behalf."Dorothea Browder, A Christian Solution of the Labor Situation: How Workingwomen Reshaped the YWCA's Religious Mission and Politics (Journal of Women’s History, Vol 19, Summer 2007) Thus the social conscience of the YWCA was born in the form that it maintains today. Until 1930 the headquarters of the World YWCA were in London. The executive committee was entirely British, with an American General Secretary.
While at Kansas State she served on the local board of the YWCA and with her help, students who were members of the YMCA and the YWCA planned a sit-in at lunch counters nearby campus. Soon after earning her tenure and becoming an associate professor at Kansas State, Dr. Marlatt was hired in 1956 at the University of Kentucky's College of Agriculture to be the inaugural Director of the School of Home Economics. She was hired at a senior level with tenure in the Department of Nutrition and Food Science.
Dorothy Height was born in Richmond, Virginia, on March 24, 1912. When she was five years old, she moved with her family to Rankin, Pennsylvania, a steel town in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, where she attended racially integrated schools. Height's mother was active in the Pennsylvania Federation of Colored Women's Clubs and regularly took Dorothy along to meetings where she established her "place in the sisterhood." Height's long association with the YWCA began in a Girl Reserve Club in Rankin organized under the auspices of the Pittsburgh YWCA.
An enthusiastic participant, who was soon elected President of the Club, Height was appalled to learn that her race barred her from swimming in the pool at the central YWCA branch. Though her arguments could not bring about a change in policy in 1920s Pittsburgh, Height later dedicated much of her professional energy to bringing profound change to the YWCA. While in high school Height became socially and politically active in anti-lynching campaigns. A talented orator, she won first place and a $1,000 scholarship at a national oratory contest held by the Elks.
She spent most of 1950 organizing Sherwood's papers and preparing them for donation to the Newberry Library in Chicago. The following year, she was rehired by the YWCA working on their United Community Defense Services, which was a program aimed at providing "health, welfare, and recreation services" to communities supporting the defense industry. She remained with the YWCA until her retirement in 1961. After her retirement, she served as Sherwood's literary executor as well as the overseer of his property at "Ripshin" and her mother's legacy at "Rosemont".
In 1900 she went to India to work for the YWCA, mainly among Anglo-Indians and Indian women students, until ill health compelled her to return home in 1906. She went back to India after her illness and became travelling secretary of the YWCA Student's department in Southern India, finally leaving in 1908 after a bad case of malaria. She never lost her interest in India, and later was active in Indian debates during her two years in the House of Commons. On returning home she became Head of the Foreign Department from 1909.
In 1915, following the Second Battle of Ypres, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, a physician with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, wrote the poem, "In Flanders Fields". Its opening lines refer to the fields of poppies that grew among the soldiers' graves in Flanders. In 1918, inspired by the poem, YWCA worker Moina Michael attended a YWCA Overseas War Secretaries' conference wearing a silk poppy pinned to her coat and distributed over two dozen more to others present. In 1920, the National American Legion adopted it as their official symbol of remembrance.
In 1929, the Riverside YWCA selected the corner of 7th (now Mission Inn Avenue) and Lime Streets as the site for its new building. The association's directors hired architect Julia Morgan to design the building over the objections of Frank Miller of the Mission Inn, who wanted an architect who would design the building in the Mission Revival Style architecture. Morgan used the Mediterranean Revival and Classical Revival styles in composing the design. In 1960, the Riverside Art Center began fundraising to purchase the YWCA building, which had recently come onto the market.
During the 1930s, a turbulent and dangerous time to work in China during civil war and war with Japan, she worked mainly at the headquarters of the YWCA in Shanghai. She participated in a Marxist study group which included the likes of Rewi Alley, Lily Haass, Talitha Gerlach and Cora Deng. Russell departed China in 1943, and began working for the YWCA in Passaic, New Jersey the following year. She was appointed executive director of the Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy in 1946, which she held for 6 years.
Paton was a member of several charities and organisations in Aberdeen, including the YWCA. She was praised for her involvement in St Katherine's Community Club, which helped girls from working class backgrounds by organising social and educational activities.
Eckert designed Curmanska Villan at Floragatan (1880), Royal Stables in Stockholm (1895), Antuna Gård in Upplands Väsby (1881), YWCA building in Stockholm (1905) and the Mariestad City Library (1895–96) as well as contributing to numerous church restorations.
Elm Park is the home of Glenlawn Collegiate, Windsor School, the South Winnipeg YM/YWCA, and St. Mark's Anglican Church. It is in the federal riding of Saint Boniface—Saint Vital and the provincial riding of St. Vital.
Mary Elizabeth Jackson (1867–1923), was an African-American female suffrage activist, YWCA leader and writer. She worked with the Northeast Federation of Colored Women's Club and lead the suffrage movement with the National Association of Colored Women.
The Faroese YWCA Scouts, the local Girl Scouts, were founded in 1928. There are five groups in the country, connected to the Lutheran Church. In most places, there are only female members. The uniform is a green shirt.
The building remains connected to the neighboring former offices of the YWCA, which is a Pietro Belluschi designed building also owned by Willamette University.Old Y. W. C. A. Building. Historic Campus Architecture Project. The Council of Independent Colleges.
Juanita Jane Saddler (1892-1970) had a long involvement with the Young Women's Christian Organization (YWCA) and was active in working to integrate that institution. She also served for a time as dean of women at Fisk University.
Robin Poitras is a recipient of the 2016 Saskatchewan Lieutenant Governor Lifetime Achievement in the Arts award, the 2006 Mayor's Awards for Business & The Arts' Lifetime Achievement Award, and the 2004 YWCA Women of Distinction Award for the Arts.
They eventually divorced, and he remarried. The Emma Ransom House YWCA in Harlem, New York City, was named in honor of his second wife Emma S. Ransom. She helped many young black women to better their education and lives.
The house was originally built for New York native Andrew W. Shephard. Norwegian immigrant Mons Anderson purchased it in 1861. Anderson would add onto the house in 1878. Following his death, it was sold to the YWCA in 1906.
Mabel Simis Ulrich (1876 – August 12, 1945) was an American medical doctor and health educator, lecturing nationally on sex and hygiene for the YWCA. She also wrote, owned several bookstores, and ran the Minnesota Writers' Project during the 1930s.
Lopez is a member of SEIU Local 500. She serves on the Montgomery County Board of Social Services, the NARAL Pro-Choice America board, and the YWCA board, and is a National Volunteer Partner of the Girl Scouts of the USA.
The Herd Centre (formerly the YWCA Hall) is at the bottom of townhead. The centre has a large hall as well as a fully equipped kitchen. The Manse can be located in West Park housing estate on the edge of Inverbervie.
Neville began her senior netball playing career with YWCA Bury. Neville was just one of several England netball internationals to get their start at the club based in Bury, Greater Manchester. Others included Karen Atkinson, Natalie Haythornthwaite and Jodie Gibson.
Karen Garner. Precious Fire: Maud Russell and the Chinese Revolution. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003). . In the 1920s, YWCA organizer Deng Yuzhi (Cora Deng) was important in organizing women factory workers in Shanghai and supporting the emerging revolutionary forces.
Emil Honig, "Christianity, Feminism, and Communism," in Daniel H. Bays' Christianity in China from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996. ), pp. 243-262. The YWCA in China today has associations in Beijing and Shanghai.
In 2005, the YWCA of Salt Lake City gave Cohen their Outstanding Achievement Award. In 2009, Cohen and Riesenfeld won the Pierre Bézier Award of the Solid Modeling Association for their work on B-splines in computer aided geometric design.
The International Institute is an organization in Gary, Indiana in the United States, which teaches citizenship and English classes to immigrants. The organization was started in 1919 by a group of women who were creating a YWCA (Young Women Christian Association).
These include environmental matters, providing accommodation for young girls, and establishing a kindergarten. The Association recently undertook a new micro-credit scheme for disadvantaged women in Honiara as a government pilot project funded by the United Nations Development Program but the project has collapsed as a result of the political crisis. Young Women's Christian Association building and kindergarten YWCA SI runs a young women’s hostel in Honiara and kindergartens in both Honiara and Munda. Recently, the YWCA SI has also started to run training and programs for young women in leadership, human rights, gender and sexual and reproductive health.
The YWCA of The City of New York, the oldest of all of the YWCAs in the United States, was founded in 1858. It is unique in that the organization is guided purely by human service-oriented programs rather than physical services. Such programs include their Early Learning Centers, Family Resource Center, Out-of-School Programs, Professional Development Programming, and Women's Employment Programming to name a few, and are still guided by the YW mission of eliminating racism and empowering women. YWCA of The City of New York services are a major component of the non-profit community in New York City.
By the mid-1960s, times had changed, and the idea of a chaperoned dormitory had become dated. In 1964, the club expanded its membership to include studio secretaries, dancers, models and others working broadly in the talent field. The club was losing money, and the YWCA Greater Los Angeles considered using it for executive offices or selling it until a petition drive by residents persuaded the YWCA Greater Los Angeles to keep the facility open. By 1971, the club was forced to open its doors as a regular hotel for transient women and stopped serving meals, but it still lost money.
It also created a debate club, served lunch to the public in its cafeteria, and became a meeting spot for local women's civic organizations. In 1927, the Platt- Woolworth building was constructed as an addition to meet the growing needs of the YWCA. Funded by Frederick J. Platt and C. S. Woolworth, the new wing to the YWCA headquarters provided housing for 100 women, as well as kitchens, laundry facilities, an auditorium, and a basement swimming pool. As the University of Scranton expanded and began to accept women students, its women students also benefited from the YWCA's services and programs.
In 1985 the Compton Center began counseling programs for women who were survivors of sexual assault which continued until the building was sold in 1993. The YWCA became the lead agency for the "LA Bridges After School Program" at L.A.'s John Muir Middle School in 1998. The YWCA Greater Los Angeles was granted an extended five-year contract in 2000 for the operation of the LA Job Corps program from the Department of Labor. In 2001, the organization created an Urban Campus Project focused on housing, health and medical services, charter high school, and vocational services.
Ingraham was the president of the Brooklyn Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) from 1922 to 1939. She was president of the National Board of the YWCA from 1940 to 1946 and involved with the YWCA's war work and interracial efforts. Ingraham was founder in 1941 of the United Service Organizations, more often referred to as the USO. She inspired and promoted USO shows and entertainment for service people during World War II. She was given the United States Medal for Merit in 1946 by President Harry Truman for her work, the first woman to receive this award.
In 1997, Greater Harrisburg YWCA CEO Patricia Schwartz was approved for a state funded charter school planning grant to the Pennsylvania Department of Education for an elementary school that would focus on science, math, and related technology. Christie, Hansen & Associates was hired to assemble a group of volunteers and to prepare the application for a charter. The planning committee included: interested educators, community activists, businesspersons, parents, and YWCA staff. Individuals in the group included: Taja Barber, Cheryl Giles, Cheryl Harmon, Maryann Havalchak, Louise Kunkel, Brook Lenker, Fredrika McKain, Linda Moser, Bill Mosher, Jeanne Predmore, Stinson Stroup, Donna Weldon, and David Wise.
Front entrance In 2003, Willamette University purchased the old building from the YWCA.Basalyga, Stephanie. "Willamette University buys Salem property", Daily Journal of Commerce, July 15, 2003. The $1.35 million purchase included the main YWCA building adjacent to the former library for a total of , with the YWCA continuing their operations in the building for three years after the sale. After that group left the building in 2006, Willamette spent $4.6 million ($2 million more than originally planned) to remodel the old library building over a year's time and convert it into the Oregon Civic Justice Center as part of the College of Law.
In 1923, Mason's father died and she returned to the YWCA as the general secretary and remained there until 1932. During her time as general secretary she developed a range of innovative programs that were aimed at training and the economic advancement in the lives of both white and black young women and workers in general. With the YWCA Mason generated public support for state labor laws that ensure safe workplaces, end child labor, raise minimum wages, and shorten work hours. Mason also traveled throughout the South during this time promoting voluntary employment agreements that incorporated fair labor standards.
She thought the YWCA had to start to work with the "masses" or else go home. Ding gave considerable freedom to the YWCA secretaries, who vigorously developed the industrial and rural programs. Ding also served in executive roles with Jinling College in Nanjing, Yenching University in Beijing, Bridgeman Academy in Beijing, McTyeire School for Girls in Shanghai, the National Council of Women of China and the National Christian Council of China. Ding took a furlough in 1935 and traveled in Europe, the United States and Japan, where she promoted peace and friendly relations between the Chinese and Japanese YWCAs.
The Midwest Clinic has experienced much growth over the years. From the reading session held in the YWCA gymnasium in 1946 to its multiple venues and record attendance each year, the Clinic's popularity proves it is a vital resource for instrumental music educators.
The YWCA Greater Los Angeles each year presents its award for Phenomenal Woman. The 2011 honoree was actress/model Kathy Ireland and local politician Jan Perry. The 2012 award went to SEIU - Butler United Long Term Care Workers' Union President, Laphonza Butler.
Records of Organizations include the minutes, correspondence, reports, publications and related materials documenting the activities of more than sixty organizations focused on women’s issues, like Planned Parenthood Federation of America; the National Congress of Neighborhood Women; and the National Board of the YWCA.
From 1943 onwards, she was engaged in various social organisations, among them the Red Cross Volunteers and the YWCA. Under royal patronage, she founded schools and organizations for children, health and social welfare. In 1970, she initiated the Thai SOS Children Foundation.
This is in contrast to the mainline Protestant denominations, which tend to be more aloof and other-worldly. Overall, the city is becoming more secular. Youth are less inclined to attend church, but more likely to be involved with the YMCA and YWCA.
The ISS was founded as the 'International Migration Service' in 1924. It was initially established in London by the World YWCA under the Chairmanship of Lady Dorothy Gladstone. Its headquarters moved from London to Geneva in 1925, where it has remained since.
Katharine Lambert Richards Rockwell (1891-1972) was an American theologian, writer, and professor. Rockwell served as national secretary for the YWCA and as a member of their Board of Trustees for two terms. She also chaired the YWCA's Department of Religious Education.
Packard was inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame in 2008. She has also received awards including the Women in Cable & Telecommunications Woman of the Year award, YWCA Tribute to Women Award, and E.W. Scripps William R. Burleigh Award for Distinguished Community Service.
Bekkevold has also been active in YMCA/YWCA locally. He was a board member of Teater Ibsen from 2004 to 2008, and the county library from 2007. In 2020, Bekkevold became chair of the board for UWC Red Cross Nordic in Fjaler, Norway.
Talitha A. Gerlach ( – Geng Lishu; 6 March 1896 – 12 February 1995) was an American YWCA worker who spent most of her life as a social worker in Shanghai, China, where she died. She received various awards from the Shanghai and Chinese governments.
Rose R. Terlin (24 October 1908 – 17 June 1979) was an American Christian leader, economist, author of several books on religion and economic justice and a YWCA leader. During and after World War II (1939–45) she held various senior government positions.
Her Master's thesis was entitled "The Immigrant in St. Louis." She began doctoral work at Johns Hopkins but did not complete her studies there. In 1914, she worked as the YWCA's Field Secretary for the Immigration and Foreign Community Program of the YWCA.
Emma Sarah Connor (or Conner) was born in Selma, Ohio. She trained as a teacher at Wilberforce University as a young woman.Judith Weisenfeld, African American Women and Christian Activism: New York's Black YWCA, 1905-1945 (Harvard University Press 1997): 56-58, 103.
History , Mankato YWCA, Accessed August 12, 2009. The second floor housed at least eight girls until 1952.Dan Linehan, Cray still unrented, Mankato Free Press, April 25, 2009, Accessed August 12, 2009. The building was converted into the YWCA's offices as well as a preschool.
In 1994, Hyde was awarded with the Outstanding Woman in Public Service Award by the YWCA Academy of Women. In 1998, she received the Triangle World Affairs Council's Distinguished Citizen for Public Service Award and the International Visitors Council's Citizen of the World Award.
Daley was the district commissioner and president of the Girl Guides Association, Vice-President and president of the Canberra Mothercraft Society; Vice-president and the national board of the local branch of the YWCA; and the founder, inaugural president of ACT, National Council of Women.
As of 2010, Burden was working with the YWCA organization, mentoring and coaching basketball. Since 2012, Burden experienced medical problems related to ATTR amyloidosis. He died on October 29, 2015, after developing a fever from cataract surgery in Winston- Salem, North Carolina. He was 62.
YWCA O'ahu formed in 1900 and was housed in several buildings through 1926. Fundraising for the new building began in February 1925. A ten-day campaign was scheduled with the aim of raising $350,000. Their goal was met in a week with $1,350 to spare.
She was a member the Jersey City Young Woman's Christian Association (YWCA) and was director of the Aviation Club of The Jersey Journal, and the editor of the Junior Club Magazine. Eddie met her at an aviation function. They did not have any children.
Charmaine Nelson has received a Woman of Distinction Award from the Montreal's Women's YWCA in 2012 (Arts and Culture Category) as well as a Teaching Award from The Arts Undergraduate Society of McGill University (2016), and McGill's Faculty Award for Equity and Community Building (2016).
Herron Gymnasium consisted of two floors and a basement. The first floor held two classrooms and the chapels for the YWCA and YMCA, as well as offices, bathrooms, and dressing rooms. The gym took up the entire second floor, and had an elevated track.
She was active in the Laura Street Presbyterian Church, where she taught and was chosen as an elder. She volunteered with the YWCA, where she was on the board of directors, and also on the Methodist Hospital Board of Directors. She died in 1984.
22 April 2011. has promoted the adoption of abandoned dogs, and has campaigned against domestic violence towards migrant wives. His advocacies are World Vision, Compassion Korea, DAIL Community, Social Welfare Society Inc., YWCA of Korea, Nanum House of Sharing and Korean Association of Cinematheques.
She became a supporter of the Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy. The American YWCA leaders Talitha Gerlach and Rose Terlin were also supporters. In November 1964 the Wisconsin alumnus reported the death of Lily Katherine Haass, class of 1912, in Los Angeles, California.
After spending a few years in Normal, she journeyed back to Chicago and graduated from Hyde Park High School in 1919. She studied at the historically black college Wilberforce University and worked in its Carnegie Library. After studying there for a year, Anderson returned home to Chicago and was hired as a junior library assistant at the Chicago Public Library in 1921. A short time after, she moved to New York where she first settled in downtown Manhattan living at a YWCA. While staying at the YWCA she applied to be a librarian at the 135th Street branch of the New York Public Library, working under the supervision of Ernestine Rose.
From 1906 to 1917 Woodsmall worked as a high school English teacher and principal in Nevada and Colorado. From 1917 to 1928 and 1932 to 1948, Woodsmall held various positions with the National and World YWCA. As a member of the National Board of the YWCA of the United States, she worked with the War Work Council directing Hostess Houses in the United States and France during World War I. From 1918 to 1920 she did post war work and field studies of the Baltic and Balkan countries. In 1920 Woodsmall became executive secretary of the Near and Middle East, a post she held until 1928.
Weisenfeld attended Barnard College, where she graduated cum laude in 1986 with an A. B. degree in Religion. She then attended Princeton for her M.A. and Ph.D. (1992), with her dissertation focusing on the Black women’s branch of the YWCA in New York in the first half of the 20th century. This became the basis for her first book, African American Women and Christian Activism: New York’s Black YWCA, 1905-1945. While in graduate school in Princeton, Weisenfeld also became interested in film, which became a focus of her second book project: Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949.
Mohini Maya Das (she preferred her Indian personal name to the English name Dora) was the associate general secretary of the YWCA for India, Burma, and Ceylon from 1920 to 1923,Elizabeth Wilson, The Story of Fifty Years of the Young Women's Christian Association Of India Burma And Ceylon (Indian National Committee of the YWCA 1925): 55-56, 109. and a vice chairman of the General Committee of the World Student Christian Federation from 1922 to 1923.Robert P. Wilder, "The World's Christian Students at Peking" Missionary Review of the World (July 1922): 533. In the latter role, she addressed the World Student Christian Federation conference in Beijing in 1922.
Her education was notable because of the discrimination she suffered due to her gender, She attended Mount Holyoke College which she found empowering and she briefly went into teaching before returning to the college to run the YWCA. By 1919 she had a B.D. from the Union Seminary where she deepened her interest in teaching the bible which she had started whilst at the YWCA. She was not allowed to sit with the other graduates because she was the only woman and she was obliged to sit with the wives. She had the highest marks at the seminary and she was awarded a travelling fellowship.
Founded in 1894, the YWCA Greater Los Angeles serving the needs of women and their families in the Los Angeles community is modeled after the national Young Women's Christian Association which is a membership movement dedicated to the concept of empowering women by creating opportunities for growth, leadership and eliminating racism. In 1913 the Mary Andrews Clark Memorial Home began serving as an Institution of "Comfort and Uplifting", which served as an affordable residence for working girls until 1987. In 1918 the YWCA took control of The Hollywood Studio Club a hotel residence for aspiring actresses. In 1953 the Compton development Center was established with programs designed for teens.
In Seattle, Campbell was a committed activist and organizer. She was a charter member of the Christian Friends for Racial Equality, an organization which worked to expand housing and other opportunities for the black community; she worked with the Seattle Urban League; and was the first black member of the board of directors of the YWCA of Seattle-King County. She was an active member of the YWCA for 53 years. At age 92, Campbell led 10,000 members of her Delta Sigma Theta sorority in a march down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the participation of the organization in the suffrage march of 1913.
In 1907 she founded the Day Homes' Club, an organization to support African-American children in Nashville. She was involved with Fisk University, and was invited by the local Red Cross chapter to work with them during World War I. She was treasurer of the National Association of Colored Women, leading the organization together with Margaret Murray Washington. In 1915, during a decade when the national Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) was considering expanding its services to colored women (its facilities would be segregated), Napier attended the organization's conference in Louisville, as the representative of Nashville. She wanted to establish a YWCA in Nashville for women of color.
After the bitter marriage, she resolved to work exclusively on social work and not to marry again. With professional and financial help from Russell, she participated in international conferences and in the middle of 1920s, she continued her studies at the London School of Economics with a scholarship for one year. After her studies, she interned with the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva, learning about the security and rights of women and child workers. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, with her return to China, she headed the Students and Workers's Departments in YWCA and eventually became General Secretary of the Chinese YWCA.
In 2005, Finlayson was the recipient of the Order of Canada. Two years later, she received the 2007 YWCA Women of Distinction. In 2010, she was the recipient of the Chancellor's Distinguished Service award. In 2012, SFU honoured Finlayson by naming their new student centre after her.
The YWCA Building in Peoria, Illinois was built in 1928. It was designed by Hewitt, Emerson & Gregg. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. It sits at 301 Northeast Jefferson Avenue, at the north corner with Fayette Street in downtown Peoria.
She served as a member of the Standing Committee on Agriculture and the Election Committee, but was not re-elected in 1969. She chaired Norges Husflidslag from 1968 to 1974. She also held regional board memberships in the YWCA, the Norges Bondekvinnelag and the Norwegian Missionary Society.
Prior to this national conference, regional groups had met to start planning for the bigger event. The head organizer was Elma Barrera. Other major organizers included Yolanda Garza Birdwell and Gloria Guardiola. Anglo women working at the YWCA helped plan and organize the event as well.
After his death in 1904, his wife resided in the house until she died in 1953. After Mrs. Lovejoy's death, Joseph A. Craig bought the Lovejoy mansion in order to present it to the YWCA, whose offices remained there for the rest of the twentieth century.
Dr. Karmarkar uses these two stories as a way to illustrate the plight of Indian women to her counterparts in the United States. Karmarkar was a member of the National Board of the YWCA in India."Dr. Gurabai Kamarkar" The Woman Citizen (6 July 1918): 113.
Wilcannia Airport (IATA: WIO, ICAO: YWCA) is an airport located near the town of Wilcannia, New South Wales, Australia. The airport is 9 kilometers (6 miles) from the center of Wilcannia, and is the sole airport serving it. The airport does not service scheduled commercial traffic.
The first chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Nashville No. 1, rented the Vespers room of the YWCA building from 1917 to 1927 for their meetings. In 1982, the building was redeveloped as an office building. It was renamed the Jacques-Miller Office Building.
Poet Ridgely Torrence wrote a play about him titled Simon the Cyrenian. A 1920 YWCA production of this play was directed by Dora Cole, sister of composer Bob Cole, and starred Paul Robeson.Sheila Tully Boyle and Andrew Bunie. Paul Robeson: The Years of Promise and Achievement.
Young Women's Christian Association of Cincinnati is a historic building in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on September 16, 1982. The Young Women's Christian Association of Cincinnati was founded in 1868. The building hosts an active YWCA fitness facility.
Alexine Clement Jackson (born 1936) was the Chair, Board of Directors of Susan G. Komen and former National President of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). She is the immediate past president of Black Women's Agenda and former Chair, the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Her accomplishments in China include the construction of two hospitals, work with the YWCA, and the establishment of a private practice. Phillips was interned in China during the Second World War. Phillips returned to the UK in 1948 and died three years later.Phillips, Clifford H. 2003.
Funny Women works with organisations that represent aspects of women's wellbeing. It Women has raised awareness and over £70,000 for Refuge, Womankind Worldwide, Rise UK, The Victoria Foundation, Women's Aid, V-Day, ActionAid, Ovarian Cancer Action, the YWCA, Jo's Trust and the Bristol Cancer Help Centre.
After her return to England, Kelley's interest turned to social work during the war. She became a YWCA youth club leader in 1939. Although she kept an academic interest in prehistory she went to work as an Admiralty welfare officer in Bath in 1942. She remained a devoted Christian.
Margaret Hickey volunteered to work for the Red Cross and YWCA throughout her life. In 1931, she began running her own class to help train unemployed women with credentials or experience. The federal government took over this program in 1933. Hickey began volunteering for the Red Cross in 1946.
Days pass and as Radha's grief increases day by day, Ravi gets a job for her in YWCA. However, as per their rules, Radha has to stay there. So Radha parts with them to stay there. Venu returns after the training, and they start partying in a bar.
She also founded the Negro History Club at the Harlem Library and regularly attended lectures and meetings at the YWCA. During this time, Baker lived with and married her college sweetheart, T. J. (Bob) Roberts. They divorced in 1958. Baker rarely discussed her private life or marital status.
She was most recently a recipient of the 2017 YWCA Women of Distinction Award for her work at Queen's University and Simon Fraser University. She is also notable for her research in natural resource and environmental policy, the effects of environmental regulation on the economy, and environmental tax policies.
The daughter of a chemist and a speech pathologist, Belle grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee. She earned a BA from Agnes Scott College. Before she turned to writing fiction, Belle worked in marketing and fundraising for Habitat for Humanity, the YWCA, Annie E. Casey Foundation, and theUnited Way.
The campus faced Canal Street, occupying the block between Tonti and Rocheblave streets backed by Gasquet (now Cleveland Avenue). After the university was absorbed into the newly created Dillard University, the campus buildings served as a school and YWCA for nearly two decades. They were demolished in 1950.
In 1920 she helped to found the Indian Students' Union and Hostel in Gower Street in London.Indian Students' Union and Hostel, Open University, Retrieved 31 May 2017 Kinnaird died in September 1947 and a memorial service was held for her at Queen Mary Hall the YWCA building in Campden.
Exie Lee Hampton (1893 — 1979), born Exie Lee Kelley, was an American educator, community leader and clubwoman in Southern California. She served on the national board of the YWCA during World War II, and was executive director of the Eastside Settlement House in Los Angeles after the war.
She was named a Woman of Distinction in 1999 by the Brandon YWCA. She has also received a Community Builder Award from the Lambda Business and Professional Club of Winnipeg, an organization of gay and lesbian businesses and professionals. Howard was elected MLA for Fort Rouge in 2007.
She also served on the executive of the Provincial Capital Commission. In 1994, she was named a member of the Order of Canada. She was recognized for Lifetime Achievement by the YWCA Women of Distinction program. Bayer also published a number of collections of poetry, including Faces of Love.
Among the city's most distinctive residential neighborhoods, the "Golden Block" on the west side, was almost entirely demolished in the 1960s; only the MacDonell House, part of the Allen County Museum, and the YWCA survived.Hopkins, Phyllis G. '. National Park Service, 1980-05-15, 3. Accessed May 13, 2010.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation awarded the CHSA its National Preservation Honor Award in 2004 for its work restoring and retrofitting the 1932 building, nicknamed the "Lantern on the Hill". In 2005, CHSA received another award from the California Heritage Council for its restoration of the YWCA building .
They were also involved with organizing the YWCA, PTA and Traveler's Aid in Charlotte. They also brought the first public health nurses to Charlotte and helped create the League of Women Voters. The CWC also supported the creation of the Mint Museum of Art and the Domestic Relations Court.
The elements used in the logo of the Norges KFUK-KFUM-speidere are a fleur-de-lis for Boy Scouting, a trefoil for Girl Guiding and a triangle for YWCA-YMCA. The triangle is more prominent in the historic logo of Norges KFUM speidere prior to the merger.
Riverside Art Museum is an art museum in the historic Mission Inn District of Riverside, California. The museum is a non-profit organization. The building originally served the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), and it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 13, 2009.
Saddler was born in 1892 in Guthrie, Oklahoma. She attended Fisk University, graduating in 1915. She joined the staff of the Young Women's Christian Organization (YWCA) in 1920. There she worked in the student division and in 1933 she authored "Statement Made to the Student Staff Regarding Interracial Education".
The YWCA Boston building is a historic building located at 140 Clarendon Street in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The 13-story brick-faced steel-frame building was designed by George F. Shepard and Frederic Stearns, and built in 1929. The building once housed an indoor swimming pool and recreation facilities for the YWCA Boston; it is now operated by Clarendon Residences LLC, which provides affordable and market- rate housing, the boutique Hotel 140, facilities for the Lyric Stage of Boston and Snowden International High School, and corporate offices for several small and mid-sized for-profit and not-for-profit tenants. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
Karen Garner, Global Feminism and Postwar Reconstruction: The World YWCA Visitation to Occupied Japan, 1947 (Journal of World History, Vol. 15, June 2004) Shortly after the end of the war, the YWCA worked to fortify the bonds of women throughout the world by holding the first World Council meeting in nearly a decade in Hangzhou in 1947. This was significant in being the first World Council held outside of the West, and further voiced the desire to be an inclusive, worldwide movement. It also served to bring together women who lived in countries that had been enemies during the war, and to raise awareness among the western YWCAs that the ruin of war was not limited to Europe.
Mary Dingman (April 9, 1875 – March 21, 1961) was an American social and peace activist, who served as a staff member of the YWCA USA and World YWCA to develop programs to improve the working conditions of women and children in the workforce. Traveling throughout the world, beginning in 1917, she organized programs in the United States, Europe, and Asia. In 1931, she joined the pacifist movement and serve as chair of the Peace and Disarmament Committee of the Women's International Organisations for a decade. Turning her attention to the need for world cooperation, she pressed for the formalization of the United Nations, serving as a delegate to the first United Nations conference.
Dingman established fifteen Foyers des Allies, or social centers, to provide the women workers with books, writing materials and a communal area in which to socialize when they were not working. At the end of World War I, Dingman became responsible for establishing YWCA clubs throughout Belgium and France. Over the next several years, she established organizations in over twenty locations. She was awarded the Adolphe Max Bourgmestre de Bruxelles Medal by Belgium and in 1919 was honored by the French government with the Jeanne D'Arc Liberatrice du Territoire and La Victoire Restaure le Droit plaques for her service. In 1921, Dingman moved to London and became the Chief Industrial Secretary of the World YWCA.
Brooks became the first president of the home and of the Women's Loyal Union, and remained in these roles until 1930. The building itself is still standing in New Bedford and is two and half stories tall, topped with a hip roof, six dormers and a front facade with a flat-roofed portico. Brooks began teaching again, this time at the Taylor School in 1901 where she became the first African American teacher in New Bedford. In 1918, she was recruited by the War Council of the National board of the YWCA to supervise and oversee the building of the Phillis Wheatley YWCA in Washington, D.C. In 1929, she retired from teaching.
After leaving the YWCA in 1951 Gerlach accepted an invitation from Soong Ching-ling to manage a welfare institute for war refugees. Gerlach joined Yu Jiying, a former YWCA secretary, to undertake social service work at the China Welfare Institute, which Soong Ching-ling had founded during the civil war to help the poorest people in the slums of Shanghai, and after the war to give infant care, health and literacy classes. In 1956, at a time when US politics was very right-wing, Russell wrote to Gerlach expressing envy for her greater freedom in China. The reality was the foreigners such as Gerlach had little freedom of speech, and were subject to tight travel restrictions.
Over the years the Ball brothers made financial contributions to establish or strengthen an abundance of institutions: the local branches of the YMCA and the YWCA, the Masonic Temple auditorium, the Art Museum at Ball State, Ball Memorial Hospital, Ball State University, and Minnetrista, Muncie's cultural center, and assisted other groups.
Fok Hing-tong (; 1872–1957), also known as Huo Qingtang, was a Hong Kong businesswoman and social reformer. Wife of Ma Ying-piu, founder of the Sincere Department Store, she was the director and chairwoman of Chinese YWCA of Hong Kong and the leader of the 1920s anti-mui tsai movement.
Ouellette has volunteered for many organizations in his community, including the Pine Lake Hub Centre, Crossroads Agricultural Society, YWCA in Lethbridge, Pine Lake Agricultural Park, former director of the Pine Lake Restoration Society, former co-chair of Clean Lake Days in Pine Lake and STARS Ambulance. He has coached minor baseball.
In the mid-1980s, she was inducted to Temple University's Sports Hall of Fame. A state historical marker stands at the location of the Colored YWCA where she taught and played, at 6128 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, now home to Settlement Music School.Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. "Search for Historical Markers ".
She also helped found the Gate City Free Kindergarten Association for the children of working black parents. She was the first black woman to serve on the board of Atlanta's YWCA. Her mother Hattie McNair lived with the family until her death. Nellie McNair Towns died on May 11, 1967.
She was a leader in the YWCA in Honolulu. She and her husband were active in the Hawaii Kennel Club., and in 1962 she won an award from the Dog Writers' Association of America for her newspaper story, "Tippy Has Two to Go On", about a dog with two legs.
KFUK-KFUMs Scoutförbund (The Swedish YMCA-YWCA Guide and Scout Association) was Sweden's third largest Scouting association with 12,500 members. The headquarters were in Stockholm. Scouternas almanacka was a wall almanac sold annually by KFUK-KFUMs Scoutförbund, starting in 1945. Each month is represented by a season-related nature illustration.
In 1919, Woolfolk married Dr. Alfred G. Taylor and bore a daughter named Alfred Marie. Taylor was involved in leading a range of civic-related activities in Atlanta. She helped to organize the Community Chests, which preceded what is now the United Way. She chaired the Finance Committee of the YWCA.
Rice High School was established in 1938 in Central Harlem by the Congregation of Christian Brothers. The building it occupied was converted from a YWCA. The school was the subject of a 2008 book by Patrick McCloskey, The Street Stops Here: A Year at a Catholic High School in Harlem.
She also attended the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. After graduation she gained some experience as (an untrained) school teacher in the Appalachian Mountains in Transylvania County, North Carolina. In 1918 Shaw travelled to France and Italy with the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), before setting up a school in Rome.
The ACWF also established affiliations with other mass movements: The YWCA of China and the Women Personnel Section of the Trade Union.Bohong, Liu. "The All-China Women's Federation and Women’s NGOs". In Ping-Chuna Hsiung, Maria Jaschok, and Cecilia Milwertz (eds), Chinese Women Organizing: Cadres, Feminist, Muslims, Queers, Oxford: Berg, 2001.
The neighborhood is also dotted with murals, some hidden and others placed in full view of the main roads. Sylvan Heights Mansion, which is now occupied by the YWCA, and serves as housing for homeless women and children who are victims of domestic violence, sits on the hill and overlooks downtown.
After Keeney's death, his daughter Ruth inherited the house. She helped establish the YWCA and Girl Scouts at the national level, and organized the Le Roy Historical Society in her hometown. From her the property passed to her niece Elinor Townsend. Currently, the property is owned by William and Susan Schmidt.
Originally, the #NotOkay movement was established around November 25, 2014 in Canada. It made its debut alongside the annual Rose Campaign, which was hosted by YWCA Canada. Although the notokay.ca website was put into place, the movement was mainly ignited through social media, specifically using Twitter as its prime platform.
Claxton won the 2020 Governor General's Award for Artistic Achievement in the Visual Arts Category. In 2019, the Hnatyshyn Foundation awarded Claxton their prize for outstanding achievement by a mid-career Canadian artist. In 2019 Claxton received the YWCA Women of Distinction Award in the category of Arts, Culture and Design.
Gail Courneyea has won numerous awards for her work with Angels of Flight Canada, including 1993 Woman of the Year by the Peterborough YWCA and winner of the 2003 Women in Business award. It is ISO 9001-2008 certified through NFS and maintains an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau.
The second demonstration, however, in April 1935, drew 175,000 students, 160,000 of whom outside of New York, and was co-sponsored by the National Student Federation of America, the National Council of Methodist Youth, YMCA, YWCA, the Interseminary Movement, and the youth section of the American League Against War and Fascism, among others.
Young Women's Christian Association is a historic YWCA building in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1913–1914, and is a three-story, five bay, brick and stone Renaissance Revival style building. The two-story rear block contains the gymnasium. The building features an elaborately designed entry portico with a curved exterior staircase.
Retrieved 5 March 2012. Budd had been practicing architecture for over 30 years when she applied for recognition by the American Institute of Architects. She became the first woman member of the New York chapter of the AIA in 1924. She designed "Hostess Houses" for the YWCA in the South and Mid- west.
Oberlin College welcomed stenographers and clerical workers at its Summer School for Office Workers. Barnard College in New York City hosted classes for unemployed unionized women. Black sharecropper women in the south studied at an agricultural college in Arkansas. The YWCA in Philadelphia provided a space for 40 women to study and live.
The York House School community embodies its motto of "Not for Ourselves Alone" through a culture of volunteerism, regular fundraising events, international trips, and community service program partnerships with organizations including KidSafe Society, YWCA Munroe House, Granville Park Lodge, BC Children's Hospital, Family Services of Greater Vancouver, and Cause We Care Foundation.
The conference took place between May 28 and May 30, 1971 and was held at the Magnolia Park YWCA in Houston. It was held as part of the International Decade for Women. Chicana women faced three different kinds of discrimination: racism, classism and sexism. The conference was meant to address these issues.
From 1998 to 2001, she was president of the . From 2001 to 2006, she was a member of the board of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. She is also a member of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1995, she was named a Woman of Distinction by the YWCA.
Emily is recognised for building on her mothers work in founding the YWCA. Unlike her mother she did speak publicly and not only on religion but also on business matters. In 1918 her work was recognised when she was given an OBE. Four years later she was promoted to be a CBE.
During her years in Indianapolis she was active in Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, the National Bar Association, the Lawyers Guild of American, Americans for Democratic Actions, American Society of Friends, the YWCA and NAACP. She also served as chairman of the board of directors of the Marion County [Indiana] Colored Women's Republican Club.
2019, www.limaohio.com/news/389559/old-ywca-demolished-no-plans- for-empty-lot. Today, the city includes twenty-four buildings and one historic district that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Allen County Courthouse, the post office, the Barr Hotel, the Hotel Argonne, and the Neal Clothing Building.
Elizabeth Sornam Cornelius Appasamy (1878 – 1963), known professionally as Mrs. Paul Appasamy or E. S. Appasamy, was an Indian social worker and educator, working in Madras with the YWCA, and as national secretary of the National Missionary Society in India in the 1920s. She founded the Vidyodaya School for girls in 1924.
In 1924 she represented India at the world committee meeting of the YWCA, in Washington, D.C. In 1926, she visited Singapore, to speak on "Ideals of Women's Education." In 1928 she wrote a biography of Pandita Ramabai, and traveled in the United States as she attended an international meeting in Detroit, Michigan.
On July 5, 1967, the YWCA officially sold the building to the Riverside Arts Center for $250,000. In 1982, the building was designated a Registered Historic Place and a city historic landmark. In 1992, a three-phase renovation of the building was undertaken with the financial assistance of the City of Riverside.
She had a talent for drawing, and later became an interior decorator. After graduation she worked for the YWCA and later taught at a school in Short Hills, New Jersey.Pace, Eric (October 6, 1988). "Lois Burnham Wilson, a Founder Of Al-Anon Groups, Is Dead at 97", The New York Times, p. B26.
Mayor Whelan would be convicted of extortion as part of the "Hudson Eight" trial in 1971. Sister Cristiano joined the faculty of the Jersey City YWCA in 1969, becoming the first Catholic Sister to teach at the organization. In 1971, she founded the Hudson Day Care Center Inc., located in Guttenberg, New Jersey.
Coles Park was once in its peak of glory with a bandstand and 3 tennis courts. The Band of the Bangalore Rifle Volunteers, played at the bandstand every first Saturday of the month. YWCA used to run of the tennis courts. The park is fairly maintained, even though there is some encroachments.
Whitney Beth Metzler (born April 19, 1978) is an American former competition swimmer. Metzler grew up in York, Pennsylvania. She followed her older sister Staci into swimming for the York YWCA, Sonship Aquatics, and ultimately, to the North Baltimore Aquatic Club.Maryland Swimming, Maryland Swimming Hall of Fame, Whitney Metzler. Retrieved November 4, 2012.
On October 22, 2015, Joanne Smith of Girls for Gender Equity discussed a new City Council initiative to help young women with a special panel, including Errol Louis, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Ana Oliveira from the New York Women’s Foundation, and Danielle Moss Lee from the YWCA of New York City.
In 1994 she quit politics after a dispute over the handling of an investigation and firing of Ontario civil servant Carlton Masters. As of 2009, Akande is retired but continues to be involved in the community, serving as a volunteer on boards and committees of local organizations including the YWCA and Centennial College.
Benhayon's daughter Simone is one of the Trustees of The Sound Foundation in the UK, a second related charitable organisation that Universal Medicine called one of its "two main world headquarters". The Sound Foundation was the subject of a 2013 complaint to the Charity Commission for England and Wales which found extensive irregularities and resulted in the charity being given a mandatory compliance plan. It also attracted attention from a National Health Service Forum who distanced itself from the group. Universal Medicine is reported to have received a portion of AUD$709,493 federal funds to provide six public lectures and "counselling services to parents" under a Commonwealth grant scheme applied for by the YWCA. The Australian Government refused to fully release documents explaining how the funds were used, saying "YWCA raised objections… including that the information does not accurately reflect YWCA’s activities" and could "have an adverse effect on the YWCA by affecting its relationships with other entities and its reputation". In 2016, twenty Universal Medicine adherents joined the Australian doctors' reform lobby group, the HPARA, en-masse causing turmoil and a split in the organisation.
The YWCA of The City of New York produces several fundraising events annually including the Salute to Women Leaders Luncheon, the YWCA-NYC Theatre Benefit (featuring the Broadway hit The Color Purple in 2005 and the revival of Michael Bennett's A Chorus Line in 2006). During their annual Summer Soirée (held at the W Hotel in 2005 and Cipriani 23rd Street in 2006) they present their "W" award. This award is presented to a woman who is a visionary, an innovator, trend-setter, a woman who gives back to her community and helps those the YW serves daily: the women, girls and families of New York City. In 2005, this award was given to Marian McEvoy, and in 2006 to Star Jones-Reynolds.
The idea for NEFFA came about in the summer of 1944, in a discussion over coffee after a square dance at the Boston YWCA. The participants were Grace Palmer, director of the YWCA; Mary Gillette, head of the YWCA's physical education program; and Ralph Page, the popular New Hampshire caller who presided at the square dances. The series had been running for little more than a year, but was already drawing over two hundred people every week, most of them college students. As Ralph Page later recalled the conversation, they were discussing a recent attempt at a "New England Folk Festival" at the Boston Garden which had left them unimpressed: "Mary said: 'Why don't we have a real folk festival?' and so the idea was born".
Though the aim of the organisation was to increase the political and socio-economic equality of women in Singapore, Davies preferred to work on social projects for women in need; however, she was a staunch supporter of the anti-polygamy campaign of the SCW and pressed for men's support in the cause. When the Women's Charter passed the Singaporean Parliament in 1961, a ban on polygamy was adopted, as well as many legal protections for which Davies and the SCW had pressed. After passage of the Charter, Davies turned her attention to social projects with the YWCA and decreased her participation in the SCW. In her work with the YWCA of Singapore, Davies pushed for adult women's education and children's programs.
After the end of World War II (1939–45) Gerlach worked with Ida Pruitt from 1945 to 1951 raising money for the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives while continuing to work for the YWCA in New York City. Gerlach campaigned to obtain money and support in the US for the China Welfare Fund, which disregarded Chiang Kai-shek's protests and sent aid to Communist-held regions of China. She was among the supporters of the Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy, as were Rose Terlin, Lily Haas and others. Gerlach returned to China in July 1946 to resume her YWCA work, and was invited by Madame Sun to join the China Welfare Institute executive, but was recalled to the US in December 1947.
In her 1936 You and I and the Movies she noted that in typical labor films like Black Fury or Riff-Raff it is taken for granted that there is "no cause for the strike save personal animosities or someone's personal ambition." Hollywood would very rarely blame a business for giving cause to strike. In her Christian Faith and Social Action (1940) she wrote, As Economic Secretary for the YWCA National Association, and later as Editor of the YWCA Woman's Press, Terlin was often attacked for her views. On 9 October 1939 a witness told the Dies Committee that Terlin was a member of the Young Communist League and that she had attended the national training school run by the Communist Party.
Kaufman was born in Kitchener (then Berlin) in 1881. "Service planned for Emma Kaufman", K-W record. March 8, 1979 She was the daughter of industrialist Jacob Kaufman, founder of the Kaufman Rubber Company, and Mary Ratz. Her family was active at the local Zion Evangelical Church, which founded the Berlin YWCA in 1905.
Her father, Richard Cuff, was a tanner in an African-American owned business. Her maternal grandfather was a Civil War veteran. In Bordentown, New Jersey, she attended the Industrial School for Colored Youth and graduated with the highest grade point average. At Howard University, she was chairwoman of the collegiate chapter of the YWCA.
AICHO planned to adapt the space to create apartments, a cultural center, an art gallery, a health-care clinic, and offices for social services, while retaining the auditorium, gymnasium, and rooftop play area. The YWCA relocated its headquarters to another building and arranged to lease space in the old for its child-care center.
Breaux was the first woman president of the Oklahoma Association of Negro Teachers and was posthumously inducted into the Oklahoma YWCA Hall of Fame, Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame and the Oklahoma Bandmasters Association Hall of Fame. The Oklahoma City/County Historical Society made a posthumous presentation of its Pathmaker Award to Breaux in 2017.
Demolition of Leahy Hall began September 16, 2013, and revealed a time capsule, which held a 1907 almanac and a wealth of YWCA papers, pamphlets, and clippings dating back to the 1890s. Construction was completed on the new Edward R. Leahy, Jr. Hall in 2015 and it opened for use for the Fall 2015 semester.
The site has changed hands many times over the years. The YWCA bought the property in 1909 and built a new state-of-the-art facility. They sold the building in 1978 and moved to Woodmont Avenue. The Capitol Hotel (formerly Best Western) now occupies the former site of Polk Place in downtown Nashville.
Lambda Delta Sigma (ΛΔΣ) is the only remaining Greek society at Concordia College. Founded in 1919 as a literary society, the ladies of Lambda Delta Sigma have since shifted to a philanthropic organization with their main charity being the YWCA of Fargo. The society operates under their original motto: "Enter to Learn, Depart to Serve".
Olivia's childhood outside of school was spent at Abyssinian Baptist, the first black church in America with a master's degree educated director of religious education as well as at the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), both blocks away from Olivia's family home.Black Women Oral History Project. Interviews, 1976–1981. Olivia Pearl Stokes. OH-31.
Her mother and father were usually of one mind but her father did believe in women's suffrage. Emily was secretary of the London branch of the YWCA and she used this position to assist the Indian Female Normal School and Instruction Society. In 1889 she and her elder sister, Gertrude, became missionaries to India.
As a principle of young women's leadership, the World YWCA is involved with other youth organizations, such as Youth Employment Net, European Youth Forum, and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. It is also a member of CONGO, Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in a Consultative Relationship with the United Nations.
She later described her time at the NAC as "the harshest political experience I ever had", claiming that the group was polarized by internal divisions during this period. Hošek was named B'nai Brith Woman of the Year in 1984 and received the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award in 1986 for Community and Public Service.
The former Zanesville YWCA, located at 49 North 6th Street in Zanesville, Ohio, United States, is an historic building built in 1926 for members of the Young Women's Christian Association. It was designed by Howell & Thomas. On July 17, 1978, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It is now Bryan Place.
Madrigal also lectured at the Adult Education Department in a local YWCA. There, she taught classes using her own method using a textbook she was then completing. She described it as a "streamlined," simple method whereby the student learns conversational Spanish rapidly and has fun doing so. By 1941, she had already achieved wide acclaim.
In 1921, Bessie Cotton was appointed foreign staff secretary, responsible for seeking out candidates for foreign service, planning their training, and supervising their work. Cotton was especially interested in women's rights, and supported organizations that promoted the welfare of women and children. She continued to work as a consultant for the YWCA up until 1945.
She is also the former President of the 270-unit Bain Apartment Co-operative, Inc (1982–83) and former National Chair of the 2000-member TWUC, The Writers Union of Canada (2003-2004). Awards include the Toronto YWCA Women of Distinction Award for Communications (1987) and the Robertine Barry Prize for Feminist Journalism (1984).
Appasamy was the All-India Woman's Secretary for the National Missionary Society, and vice-president of the Madras YWCA. Her colleagues in Madras included politician Mona Hensman and physician Muthulakshmi Reddy.Sita Anantha Raman, Crossing Cultural Boundaries: Indian Matriarchs and Sisters in Service, Journal of Third World Studies 18, no. 2 (Fall 2001): 131–48.
Mary Noel Arrowsmith (May 28, 1890 – October 7, 1965) was an American educator who was awarded a Croix de Guerre for her work with YMCA in France during World War I. Later she was active in promoting safety education and in the peace movement. She also served on the national staff of the YWCA.
Abbie Graham was born in Alice, Texas on May 28, 1889 to Rev. John Thomas Graham, a Methodist minister, and Adella Annabelle Bourland."Our Field County Secretaries," Association Monthly Vol. 10 No. 12 (January 1917) Graham became involved with the YWCA while attending Southwestern University, where she served as president of the university's student association.
20 No. 2 (Feb. 1922) It was later adopted as a Girl Reserves song.The Song Book of the YWCA, 1926 > Fire, fire, swift and free, Our gifts we consecrate to thee; Offerings of > the woods we make, Incense of the earth we take. Silences and memories And > our evening reveries Unto thy flame we give.
Grant- John received the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award for Social Action in 2001, an honorary Doctor of Laws from Royal Roads University in 2003, and a National Aboriginal Achievement Award, now the Indspire Awards, for Community Development in 2006. In the fall of 2011 she received another honorary doctorate from Simon Fraser University.
Matsuda taught at Kobe College from 1899 to 1904. She worked with the YWCA in Tokyo, and edited a women's journal, Meiji no Joshi, in 1907. In 1922, she became the head of the Doshisha Women's College in Kyoto.Charlotte Burgis DeForest, "Three Leading Educators" The Woman and the Leaven of Japan (1923): 117-118.
Lily K. Haass was born in Merton, Wisconsin. She graduated from the Whitewater State Teachers college and the University of Wisconsin. She moved to China in 1914 and worked as an American YWCA secretary in Beijing. Haass wanted social and economic justice for Chinese factory workers, but as a Christian believed in peaceful, cooperative reform.
Huntley-Cooper is actively involved in community organizations in Madison, Wisconsin. She is a charter member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority – Kappa Psi Omega chapter – and served as president from 2009 to 2012. She is on the board for the Capital City Hues newspaper. She has been honored as a YWCA Women of Distinction.
In 1961 the Honolulu Junior Academy was founded by a committee of educational and community leaders. Although many of the founders were Quakers, the school has never had official ties with any denomination. Classes began in two rooms at the Richards Street YWCA. In 1969 classes moved to the George Q. Cannon mansion in Nuuanu.
Bradley-Evans received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the YWCA in 2013 and was made a Fellow of the Utah State Historical Society in 2013. She was also awarded the Mormon History Association's highest honor in 2013, the Leonard J. Arrington Award. The Communal Studies Association gave Bradley-Evans the Distinguished Scholar Award in 2017.
Baits was also civic minded, serving as Chairman of Metropolitan Education Committee, the Detroit Young Women's Christian Association (4 years), Chairman of Central Branch, Detroit Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA),and Member of Speakers' Bureau, Detroit chapter of American Red Cross. She was also active in cultural activities in her community of Grosse Pointe.
The Lorin Cray House (also known as the Cray Mansion) is a historic structure in Mankato, Minnesota. Originally a private home, it was owned by the local YWCA for just over 80 years, from late 1927 until they changed locations in early 2008. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 28, 1980.
It was built in the late phase of the Cheung Ching Estate. The building is of 7 storeys, providing various community services for mainly south part of the new town of Tsing Yi Island. The Community Centre is operated by various NGOs. YWCA operates one integrated centre (for youth, family, female and school), one elderly centre, and a kindergarten.
Mary Montagu Billings French (March 6, 1869 – 1951) page 251. was an American heiress and society figure, as well as YWCA president and board member. She was the daughter of Frederick Billings and inherited the Marsh-Billings- Rockefeller National Historical Park from him before she died. She passed it on to her daughter, Mary French Rockefeller.
Cameron serves on the boards of a number of philanthropic organizations. These include the Women's Leadership Initiative for the United Way of America, local chapters of the United Way and YWCA, as well as Senior Services, Inc. She also serves on the boards of Salem College, the University of Florida Foundation and RR Donnelley, and Tupperware.
Levine helped establish Ottawa's Internal House: the city's first shelter for women who had suffered domestic violence. In 1998, she was awarded the YWCA Ottawa Woman of Distinction Lifetime Achievement Award. Levine died in Ottawa, Ontario, at age 95, by medically assisted death. In 2019 her personal records were donated to the University of Ottawa Archives and Special Collections.
She also designed YWCAs in Northern California, including those in Oakland and in San Francisco's Chinatown. The YWCA building in San Francisco reflects her understanding of traditional Chinese architecture. The building was restored in 2001 by the Chinese Historical Society of America (CHSA), and now houses the Chinese Historical Society of America Museum and Learning Center.
She also was a member of the Sulgrave Club, working to save the Wadsworth House on Massachusetts Avenue in DC, and was a board member of the YWCA of the National Capital Area. She worked with the Democratic National Committee in the office of vice-chairman Margaret Price during several presidential campaigns and assisted with presidential inaugurations.
First she worked in California and later she attended the University of Arizona in Tucson as a "special student." In Tucson, she met her first husband, Joe Weissmiller, who was drafted into the Army not long after their marriage. Heuser moved to El Paso in 1953. She started teaching at the YWCA and then at Virginia Weaver's dancer studio.
Most crucial during the late 1930s and the 1940s were the issues of how the Movement would relate to 1) the general student Christian movements (YMCA,YWCA, denominational student work and union movements), 2) conservative student Christian movements such as the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, 3) the mainline denominational missionary programs, and 4) the evolving missions theory of the period.
The Peoria chapter of the YWCA was founded in 1893. By 1928 it had run out of space in its original building; it raised $350,000 in just eight days to build this replacement. This building was dedicated on September 16, 1929. Among its features were an auditorium, swimming pool, chapel, several club rooms, and residential facilities for 86 people.
In 1954 Braund created the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) Christmas card design.Dorothy Braund, Jim Alexander (ed.), Fathers & sons by Dorothy Braund: and impressions, Jessie l. Evans (1860-1943), (East Malvern VIC: Jim Alexander Gallery, 1983), 2. Braund also gave talks on ABC Radio from 1961–64, and reviewed children's books for The Australian newspaper from 1969–77.
Precious Jewel Freeman Graham (May 3, 1925 - November 30, 2015) was an educator, social worker, and attorney. She was professor emeritus of social work and legal studies at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. She was the second black woman to serve as president of the World YWCA. She was named to the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 2008.
In the late 1930s and early 1940s, she was active in the YWCA in California. In 1944, she was named as "the outstanding woman for 1943" by the Xi Alpha chapter of the Zeta Phi Beta sorority in Pittsburgh. Her hobby was collecting rare American pottery. She died on February 27, 1953, in Los Angeles County, California, US.
Later on, another tutor was hired, by the name Francis Whitney. Reba Masterson and Francis Whitney were the same age. Reba studied at the University of Texas from 1908 to 1912 and had joined a sorority called Kappa Kappa Gamma. Reba also joined the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) and was very active in the club.
Anne Curwen was educated at Birkenhead High School and Harrogate College, attending Newnham College, Cambridge, where she gained a First in History. After teaching, she became the secretary of the Scottish Women's Hospitals in 1916. In 1919, she joined the YWCA as education secretary, then as National General Secretary from 1930-49. NPG.org; accessed 18 October 2014.
The film was named was best documentary at the Whistler Film Festival. The film was streamed for free at NFB.ca in conjunction with International Women's Day, and as of March 2013, was being screened at more than 60 events across Canada, with support from the YWCA, the Canadian Federation of University Women, Cinema Politica and public libraries.
YMCA Kowloon Centre logo The Chinese YMCA of Hong Kong () is an social and charity institution in Hong Kong. It was founded in 1901. It operates several majorfacilities such as the Wu Kai Sha Youth Village. The Chinese YWCA of Hong Kong was founded in 1918 by Fok Hing-tong, wife of Cantonese Christian businessman Ma Ying Piu.
Nada Gordon was born in 1964 in Oakland, California. Gordon was a precocious poet, exposed to poetry early by parents who both wrote poetry, she remembers dictating poems to her mother at seven. Her junior high school poetry teacher was Cole Swensen. While still in her teens she taught a poetry workshop at the Berkeley YWCA.
In 1862 she married Sir Thomas Buxton, 3rd Baronet and resided with him at Warlies, Upshire near Waltham Abbey. The couple had thirteen children of whom ten survived. She assisted her husband with his political career and worked to support social services and church missions including the YMCA and YWCA. In 1869 she began to suffer from osteoarthritis.
At age 13, Michelle created, produced, designed, and directed a dance show at the YWCA in New Orleans. She was named Miss New Orleans in 1960. She attended Rivers Frederick Junior High School where her principal, Leah McKenna, encouraged her to pursue a career in entertainment. While in high school, Michelle won fifteen certificates and medals for language proficiency.
She wrote the 1921 book Unsung Heroes which details African-American lives and achievements. Haynes pursued her master's degree at Columbia University where her thesis was "Two Million Negro Women at Work", a landmark study on black women and employment. She received her MA in 1923. She was elected to the national board of the YWCA in 1924.
Several ministers and parishioners of other Congregational churches were in attendance. The First Congregational Church of Portland donated stained glass windows that read "The Bible and the Cross and Crown". Another donation of $1,200 was given by the Congregational Church Building Society for the purposes of moving the structure. By 1930, the building was occupied by the YWCA.
Uddin started her professional career by creating and leading community working groups in the late 1970s.About Baroness Uddin The Baroness Uddin. Retrieved on 6 May 2009. In 1980, she started working as a Youth and Community worker with the YWCA, and then a Liaison Officer for Tower Hamlets Social Services, and Manager of Tower Hamlets Women's Health Project.
In addition to her work in the San Francisco public schools, Yu was a community leader and activist. She was involved with many Chinatown organizations including the Square and Circle Club, Chinese Needlework Guild, the YWCA, and the Lake Tahoe Christian Conference. She also contributed to the Chinese Digest, a progressive Chinese language newspaper founded in 1935.
In the fall of 1934, Carlson married Elsa von Mallon, whom he had met at a YWCA party in New York City. Carlson described the marriage as "an unhappy period interspersed with sporadic escapes." They were divorced in 1945. Carlson married his second wife, Dorris Helen Hudgins, while the negotiations between Battelle and Haloid were under way.
This would become the only concurrent daycare and orphanage available to children of color in the area. After the huge success of this center, Tilghman began fundraising for a second children’s care facility which would require a significantly larger amount of capital. Additionally, she worked to establish and manage a YWCA specifically dedicated to black youth.
Then prime minister Paul Keating famously told Franks, protesting in 1996, to "get a job".Taxing time lands MLC in hot water: AdelaideNow 29 October 2011 Franks has since worked in community organisations such as Amnesty International and the YWCA and held such positions such as Policy Officer for the Mental Health Coalition of South Australia.
The festival in Houston exploited the city's special qualities and spaces, including the Astrodome, the tunnel system of downtown, various office lobbies, a YWCA pool, and incoming airline flights. ;New Music Parade New Music Parade by New York musician/composer Tom Cora, noted for his improvisational work in jazz and rock, launched New Music America 1986 in Houston.
Currently, she volunteers at a clinic for the working poor in Dayton. Since 2007, Moody has led a volunteer group every summer to teach English in the Arab-Israeli village of Deir al-Assad, in the northern Galilee region of Israel. In March, 2011, in acknowledgement of her philanthropy, Moody was honored as a 2011 YWCA Woman of Influence.
Reilly is a Member of the ACT Health Council, and is Deputy Chairperson of the ACT Ministerial Advisory Council on Ageing. She has served on the Board of the YWCA of Canberra from 2002 to 2007; on the Council of the University of Canberra from 2004 to 2008; and on the Board of ACT Shelter during 2006.
Highland is located in Freeport, Illinois on 140 acres (or 56.6 ha). There are seven buildings on the campus, which are mainly used for classes. The college's sports complex is also the local YMCA, to which Highland's students who are carrying 12 or more credit hours a semester can receive a free membership at the YWCA.
She lectured often, across the United States. She addressed a national YWCA meeting in San Francisco in 1922, on the topic of flappers: "Why rail at the flapper? She is as good and as true as any girl of any time. She is but the product of the present and the conditions of the present," she explained.
She wrote articles for Rural Manhood, The Church School Journal, The Vassar Miscellany, and other publications. Gogin resigned from the YWCA in 1927. She returned to school work, and by 1933 became principal of the Santa Barbara Girls' School in California. The school closed in 1938; she taught at the Marlborough School in Los Angeles after that.
The library was also looking at the Calhoun School at 3016 Girard as a possible site. By 1976 a joint library/park recreation center and new gym for West High School was floated. West High did later get a new gym, which became the YWCA when West was demolished. The Minneapolis Park Board rejected the joint use idea.
Later, after the YWCA ran into financial difficulties, the group was taken over by the Canadian Council of Churches' Department of Christian Education, and was an independent organization by 1976. Today, it is supported by the United Church of Canada, the Presbyterian Church in Canada, and the Canadian Baptist Ministries, and numbers approximately 2,000 members in 150 groups.
In widowhood, Charlotte Chang worked at the Oakland International Institute branch of the YWCA as a "nationality worker", from 1928 into the 1930s. She is considered one of the first Chinese-American social workers in the San Francisco area. She also volunteered at the Oak Knoll Naval Hospital. She applied again to have her American citizenship reinstated in 1935.
She was president of the Business and Professional Women's Club in Harlem in 1932."Dentist" The Chicago Defender (May 14, 1932): 6. via ProQuest She was a member of the NAACP, spoke at the YWCA and Mother Zion Church on health topics, and helped to raise money for the Sojourner Truth Home for Wayward Girls.Traweek, Alison.
Faith Chapel started in April, 1981 at Dr. Moore's residence in Wylam, northwest of Fairfield. The church began with four people: Dr. Moore, his wife, his mother, and a friend. The church grew and in six months moved out to Stallworth Funeral home in June 1981. After another year, the church moved to the YWCA in downtown Birmingham.
For a short period she was a teacher. In 1914 Ding joined the Beijing YWCA. She felt that Christianity gave people wholeness of life and thus let them develop their potential as humans and search for higher spiritual ideals. She thought the church should recognize the equal participation of women and men in the Body of Christ.
Although the award is open to any woman, it has been noted that the large majority of applications come from university and polytechnic institute students. Kate Sheppard, circa 1914. Photographer unidentified. The selection panel is made up of representatives of Christchurch City Council, National Council of Women, NZ Council of Trade Unions, Rural Women of New Zealand and YWCA.
The YWCA sponsors groups such as the Y-Buds which consists of elementary school girls, the Y-teens organized in secondary schools and the Student Y organized in colleges and universities. Furthermore there are the Young Professionals and the Adult Y'ers. There is also the Community Youth Club whose members could either be in school or out-of-school.
Some of its members founded the China Welfare Appeal in April 1949, with Gerlach as Chairperson of the Board. Soon after the Attorney General added this organization to his list, and the YWCA decided to dismiss Gerlach. She retired in 1951 as soon as she had completed 25 years of service and was eligible for pension benefits.
He represented the municipalities on the board of the Municipal Tramways Trust from 1907 to 1919, resigning in April 1919 amid imputations of corruption. He was president of the South Australian branch of the YMCA for many years. His wife was also recognised for her civic and charitable work; with the YWCA and, most notably, for the Red Cross.
Dr. Lucy Wanzer The foundation of the Children's Hospital was made by women physicians. Dr. Martha Bucknall and Dr. Charlotte Blake Brown in 1875 called on 70 women in San Francisco to secure a board of directors of eight women. Women's boards were then a new idea. No YWCA existed, no Associated Charities, no Fruit and Flower Mission.
Name that tune, Philip. The Times, 21 May 2005. The Queen had not visited Saskatoon since 1987, when she toured Wanuskewin Heritage Park, among other engagements with the Duke of Edinburgh. The Prince of Wales visited Saskatoon for the first time in 2001, when he carried out engagements at its Community Services Village, YWCA and Meewasin Valley trails.
The organization moved out in 2008; the move was prompted by expensive maintenance costs for the historic building.Dan Linehan, Fears raised for future of Cray Mansion, Mankato Free Press, February 11, 2008, Accessed August 12, 2009. The YWCA put the structure up for sale in 2006 for $682,400.Robb Murray, City to wind up with Cray Mansion, Mankato Free Press, January 11, 2007, Accessed August 12, 2009. The Mankato Area Foundation showed serious interest in purchasing the house for the city, but terms that would have allowed the YWCA to occupy the building with no other tenants for up to ten years while the city paid upkeep of $50,000 a year killed the deal.Dan Linehan, Cray mansion deal disintegrates, Mankato Free Press, April 4, 2007, Accessed August 12, 2009.
Redcliffe College was founded on 5 April 1892 as the YWCA Testing and Training Home.Redcliffe College, Redcliffe College: 1892-1992 (London: Redcliffe College, 1992), p.1. Originally based at 495 Kings Road, Chelsea, in 1896 497 Kings Road was purchased and a door was made between the two houses. Redcliffe was the first institution to provide missionary service training for women.
In 1905 he began his law practice in Haverhill, Massachusetts, with the office of Poor & Fuller (later Poor & Abbott), until he opened his own practice (Wells & Hale) in 1907. In addition to practicing law, he was a trustee of the Haverhill YWCA, member of the City Hospital Aid Association, Vice President of the Haverhill Boys Club, and director of the Haverhill YMCA.
Naifeh was born to missionary parents in Wuhu, China, in 1928. Her father, B. W. Lanphear (1886-1951), was headmaster of the St. James Middle School in Wuhu, China. Her mother, Carolyn March (1889-1928), worked in the YWCA in Tientsin, China. Naifeh's mother died soon after she was born, and she was subsequently raised by two servants in her missionary household.
After a lengthy career as a suffragette activist in New Zealand, Daldy retired from the public eye after suffering from a stroke in 1905. On 17 August 1920, Amey Daldy died, leaving financial legacies in her name to the New Zealand Congregational Ministers' Retiring Fund, the Salvation Army Rescue Fund, the Door of Hope Association, the Auckland YWCA, the NCW, and the WCTU.
James Lyband Jackson, Computer Education Coordinator for both the YWCA/Day Care and the Church, included the "hands-on history" program as part of their education program. The School Edition of the game came with a three-ring binder to hold the software, a User's Guide, a custom-developed Teacher's Guide, and the resource book World History Simulations by Max W. Fischer.
17, 1904) – Her maiden name was Mary Jane Kithcart Andrews, and her husband's name was John Clark (Nov. 13, 1797 – July 7, 1873). (1814–1904). The home was operated by the YWCA from 1913 to 1987, when it was closed as a result of damage sustained in the Whittier Narrows earthquake. The building reopened in 1995 as housing for low income single workers.
Ravi, Indu and Minimol visit Radha in YWCA and they go for an outing. After the outing, Minimol wants to stay with Radha. So Ravi and Indu return after leaving Minimol with Radha, with the assurance that Radha will drop her at the house the next morning. Ravi and Indu takes dinner outside and they go for a second show (movie).
His wife, known as Lora, was active in the First Baptist Church, forming the first women's missionary society, the Edmonton YWCA, and Women's Christian Temperance Union. Bellamy was a Mason, and served as lodge treasurer for twenty years. He had a reputation as an excellent ritualist. According to legend, this was because his business required him to travel extensively by horse and buggy.
He was also prominently active in the National Medical Association, NAACP, YWCP, YWCA, and the Catholic Church, as they ran a large number of relief charities. In a 1940 Census, Ballard, aged 50, was listed as living with his sons, one 19 years old and the other, 15 years old, at the address 1483 1/2 W 36th Place, Los Angeles, California.
From 1995 to 1998, the total value of the college's real estate holdings rose approximately 40% to 2 million dollars. This included expansion of on-campus housing, renovation of the Prairie House administration building, and clearing of the central quadrangle. This also included the "Shimer Commons" plan for the former YWCA gymnasium, which was to have been funded by a capital campaign.
It is a two-story, Federal style stone structure built in 1832. A narrow attic crawlspace is believed to have been used to hide slaves escaping to Canada on the Underground Railroad. The YWCA purchased the building in 1927, and it continues to be owned by that organization. It is one of approximately 75 stone residences remaining in the city of Lockport.
Floretta "Doty" McCutcheon (July 22, 1888 – February 2, 1967) was a professional bowler and activist. She is widely regarded for her professional achievements as well as work in popularizing bowling among women. In her early years, McCutcheon competed on the local women's volleyball team at her YWCA. McCutcheon originally started bowling because she was advised to be more physically active by her doctor.
She took a room at the Boston YWCA The date for her marriage was set for October 1910. She wore the engagement ring until Christmas, 1910 when she gave it back to Richeson "to be repaired." Richeson later in 1912 claimed to Dr. Briggs that his first sexual encounter was not until 1904 and he had no others until 1910 with Avis Linnell.
Ludmila Kuchar Foxlee was a social worker at the Ellis Island immigration station. Employed by the YWCA after World War I, Foxlee spent time in Czechoslovakia to assist in rebuilding efforts before working at Ellis Island from 1920 to 1937. She became one of most well-known immigrant aid workers and her meticulous notes are currently stored at the Ellis Island archives.
Graham was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 1988. She was also named to the Greene County Women's Hall of Fame in 1982. In 1987 she was named one of the Ten Top Women by the Dayton Daily News. In 1985 the Ohio House of Representatives passed a resolution to honor her for her leadership in the YWCA.
They also had the chance to create an Oprah inspired dessert, namely Oprah Gold, with chocolate and a wild Hibiscus surprise. In November 2013, Bliss was named as one of YWCA Queensland's "125 Leading Women". Isabella has completed Year 12 and in 2016 commenced study at University of Queensland. Sofia has deferred a year from University and is currently working.
Camp Whelen, a Christian summer camp for young girls, was founded in the early 1920s after the former Harvey Cedars Hotel was purchased by the Philadelphia YWCA. Camp Whelen survived until the Depression. After shutting down due to declining attendance, the hotel was abandoned for about 10 years. After this, it was purchased and turned into Harvey Cedars Bible Conference.
Racism and censorship in cold war Oklahoma: The case of Ruth W. Brown and the Bartlesville public. Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 100(1) They, together with the YWCA, sponsored interracial conferences and seminars featuring black and white speakers. In 1939, only 99 of the 774 Southern public libraries provided services for African American patrons.Robbins, Louise S. The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown.
Her interest in helping others who have experienced domestic violence led her to take the Assaulted Women's and Children's Counsellor/Advocate program at George Brown College. Her career highlights include overseeing the Children and Youth Services Program at Transition House in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and wide-ranging roles including frontline work, management and training with YWCA Toronto. She is based in Toronto.
"Obituary: Rhinehart Friesen" Winnipeg Free Press (February 9, 2009). The Manitoba Women's Advisory Council and the YMCA-YWCA of Winnipeg present an annual Eira "Babs" Friesen Lifetime Achievement Award to honour contributions to women's equality in Winnipeg."Eira 'Babs' Friesen Award Recipient Announced" press release (April 2013). A scrapbook of Eira Friesen's is in the collection of the University of Manitoba Archives.
Ginny HasselfieldGinny Hasselfield is a Canadian politician, and was the leader of the Manitoba Liberal Party between 1996 and 1998. A former Manitoba teacher and principal, she was also president and co-founder of Cross Cultural Communications International Inc. a company that provided diversity training and education throughout Canada. In 1995, she was awarded the Manitoba YM/YWCA Woman of Distinction award.
In 1991, Michelle was recognized as a YWCA Role Model. The National Council of Negro Women named her one of five community leaders of the year in 1995. Michelle has been named New Orleans Woman Business Owner of the Year and has received the Best of Black Business Award. The Business and Professional Women's Foundation has named her Employer of the Year.
Inga-Brita Castrén (1919-2003) was a Finnish theologian who spent ten years abroad working in Geneva for the World Student Christian Federation, the World YWCA, and the World Council of Churches as an ecumenical adviser. Returning to Finland, she worked in adult education and served as the General Secretary of the Finnish Ecumenical Council. After retirement, Castrén continued writing for a decade.
Valentine was named 2017 Transportation Woman of the Year by WTS Central Virginia Chapter. She has also been honored with the Humanitarian Award by the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities, Democracy in Action Award by the League of Women Voters, Freedom Fighter Award by the NAACP, Woman of the Year in Government by the YWCA, and the Commonwealth Autism Services Award.
At the same time she designed and built the headquarters of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in Helsinki. In 1945 the Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory, designed by her, was also completed. In 1956 she became the first woman to be awarded the honorary title of the "Professor" by the Finnish Association of Architects. Wivi Lönn died on December 27, 1966 in Helsinki.
In 1996, the YWCA of Metropolitan Toronto presented her with the Woman of Distinction Award for excellence in the field of education. Her book ReVisions: Seeing Torah Through a Feminist Lens won the Canadian Jewish Book Award in the field of Bible 1998. She was named ORT "Woman of the Year" in 2001. Elyse Goldstein received the 2004 UJA Rabbinic Achievement Award.
Starting in 1904, the World YWCA and the World Alliance of YMCAs have issued a joint call to prayer during the Week of Prayer and World Fellowship. During this week, the two movements pray and act together on a particular theme in solidarity with members and partners around the world. The week-long event is a Bible study based on that year's theme.
In the Norwegian YMCA-YWCA Association she served as deputy chair from 1905 to 1917 and 1932 to 1941. She was also a co-founder of the Women Teachers' Missionary Association in 1902 (chair 1905 to 1946), the Missionary Workers' Ring in 1907, the Norwegian Christian Teachers' Association in 1909 (now a part of KPF) and the Norwegian Missionary Studies Council in 1911.
Her writing has also been recognized in awards from the Canadian Medical Association (2000), the Professional Writing Association of Canada (2002, 2010), and she has been nominated for the John Alexander Media Award (2000), the Aventis Pasteur Medal for Excellence in Health Research Journalism (1999), the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award (2007), and the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction (2009).
In 1917, as a 20 year old in Boston society she met William Otho Potwin Morgan (1895–1934). He enlisted to fight in World War I and went abroad. Morgan trained as nurse aid at the YWCA in New York City and served as a nurse during the 1918 flu pandemic.Staff Test Developer Profiles: Christiana Morgan Copyright 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies.
John received a mural commission by the Young Women's Christian Association, the Blue Triangle branch, of Houston in 1952. The YWCA is a place for African American girls and women to be empowered and to participate within their community. This mural inspired John's doctoral thesis. His mural was titled The Contribution of the Negro Woman to American Life and Education.
Judge Griffin is a current board member and Past-President (2015-2019) St Katharine Drexel Preparatory School (formerly Xavier University Preparatory School ) past- president of the Crescent City Chapter of Links (2015-2019), past member of the United Way Agency Relations Committee, past-president and treasurer of the Greater New Orleans YWCA, and past board member of Catholic Charities of New Orleans.
The second floor was meeting room for the YWCA. 2415 and 2417 Pickwick date from about 1870 while 2407 and 2411 date from around 1860. 2412 was built in 1853 for one of the first IOOF lodges in the U.S. There was a tin shop in the basement. Later, it became a general store, with a Post Office and gas station.
German Village Historic District is a registered historic district in Hamilton, Ohio, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on February 7, 1991. It contains 177 contributing buildings. German Village contains many community landmarks; these include the octagonal Lane-Hooven House, the Lane Public Library, St. Julie Billart Catholic Church, the Hamilton YWCA, and the Butler County Historical Society.
Feger was director of education at the West End Branch of the YWCA in Cincinnati in 1930. She was active in the Atlanta branch of the NAACP in the 1930s. From 1931, Feger was a professor of education at Atlanta University and Spelman College. She served on the Atlanta University Defense Committee during World War II, and retired from the school in 1944.
In addition to her teaching activity, she took part in the World Student Christian Federation and became its chairman for India, Burma, and Sri Lanka. In 1947, she was a vice president of the World YWCA. She was involved in the work of the World Council of Churches (WCC). She spoke at the first assembly of the WCC in 1948, in Amsterdam.
With another woman, Kathrine Nielsen, she enrolled in the teacher's preparatory program of the N. Zahle's School. The training also included nursing courses and instruction in Chinese. Upon their graduation in 1897, both women were referred a second time by the YWCA to the DMS board, which agreed to send them to Manchuria as the first missionary women from Denmark.
Her series of articles written for Chatelaine were published as the 1957 book A Woman Doctor Looks at Love and Life. That same year, she attended the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women as the Canadian representative of the YWCA. Her illness, diagnosed later in 1957, stopped her from being installed as President-elect of the International Medical Women's Association.
The community was founded as a stop on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad. It was once home to the Alabama White Sulphur Springs Hotel, an 80-room hotel, which also included six cottages, built by Col. A. B. Hanna in 1871. The hotel remained in operation until 1929, when it and the surrounding property were donated to the YWCA of Chattanooga.
Her other honors include a Parents' Choice Award for Moving Picture Books, a Genesis Award for Whale Wars, a Delta Delta Delta Community Volunteer Award, a YWCA Tribute to Women Community Service Award, a Junior Achievement Business Award, the New York Festivals World Medal, University of Tennessee Distinguished Alumni Award, Knoxville Chamber of Commerce Leadership Award, and numerous ADDYs and Tellys.
On July 7, 2018, Matthews hosted his second Vanderbilt Legends Charity Softball Game at Vanderbilt's Hawkins Field. The proceeds from the event benefited YWCA and AMEND Together, two organizations that fight domestic violence. The event included a home run derby and a softball game with teams composed of former Vanderbilt athletes. The event is a part of Matthews' foundation called Matthews Mission.
She matriculated in 1895 and commenced the Bachelor of Science course in 1896, and was conferred with her BSc in 1898. She went on to study Medicine, and qualified MB and BS in 1904. Between 1896 and 1908, Chapple and Edith Lavington Tite (1877–1955) were associated with Our Girls' Institute, an offshoot of the YWCA, and sister organization of Our Boys' Institute.
Guiding within the YWCA was started in 1920, Scouting in the YMCA in 1945. In 2003 both organizations merged; for the first years after the merger, the association run both former programs and the units were free to decide if they followed the Guide or the Scout scheme. In 2007, a new organizational structure as well as new program were decided.
Etaugh has published over 100 articles in such journals as Developmental Psychology, Child Development, Psychology of Women, Sex Roles, and the American Psychologist. She also is the author of four books in the fields of developmental psychology and the psychology of women. She is a member of the board of directors of the Girl Scouts of the USA and the YWCA.
She consulted the World Health Organization on child and maternal health and authored the book Baby's First Year. She also chaired the University of Benin Teaching Hospital's board of management and was a member of the YWCA World Executive Committee. She was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1958. Ighodaro died on 29 November 1995.
In 1918 Woodard graduated from Kalamazoo College with a history degree. He spent a short period of military service as a sergeant during World War I. Woodard married Harriet Mead in May 1920 and graduated from Union Theological Seminary in 1921. Harriet died in Tokyo, October 9, 1956. Later that year, Woodard married Margaret (Peggy) Cuddeback, a missionary and YWCA secretary.
Bullard moved to California in 1886 and soon was helping with a smallpox epidemic in Los Angeles. She shared a practice with Elizabeth Follansbee. She taught gynecology at the University of Southern California. She was one of the first officers of the YWCA of Los Angeles, when it formed in 1893."Landmarks Day for Local Association" Los Angeles Times (February 27, 1916): 24.
She was also named a YWCA Montreal Women of Distinction. Pettinicchi was the fourth-best scorer on Team Canada during the 2006 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship with 8 points. During the 2008 Summer Paralympics, where Team Canada finished fifth, Pettinicchi recorded a team-leading 14 points and 6 rebounds. In 2010, Pettinicchi took part in the first Canadian Paralympic Torch relay.
In 2009, Darrell Dexter of the New Democratic Party identified THANS in his promise to increase government funding of halfway houses in Nova Scotia. In 2012, THANS partnered with the World YWCA, Family SOS, Silent Witness Nova Scotia, and Leave Out Violence to host the Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada's Ghosts of Violence, a ballet about domestic violence, in Halifax.
The couple had four children. McIntyre was widely involved in the community, and for these services she was appointed an OBE in 1948. Her activities included serving as the State Commissioner for Girl Guides, serving on the board of the Queen Victoria Hospital and the ABC advisory committee. She was the vice-president of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA).
Shortt was the president of the Kingston YWCA, Kingston Musical Club, and the Queen's University Alumnae Association. In her position with the Alumnae Association, she organised a fundraising campaign for a residential hall for women to be opened on the Queen's campus. The campaign opened in 1910, and by 1919 had raised $42,000. Shortt was also active in the Women's Canadian Club.
In 1971, the YWCA purchased the adjacent Carnegie library building for $150,000, and on July 6, 1972, the Salem Public Library vacated the Carnegie building and moved to Salem's new Civic Center located west of the old library. Located next to the YWCA's existing home, the old library was turned into the organization's youth center. The building was remodeled from 1990 to 1991.
Cecilia Elise Beatrice Dickson (31 March 1852 – 18 January 1941) was a Swedish philanthropist and a pioneering temperance activist in Gothenburg. In 1884, together with her mother, Dickson founded the Överås Blue Cross Association (Öfverås Blåbandsförening), Sweden's first temperance society, serving as its secretary for 15 years. She also chaired the city's Kristliga Föreningen av Unga Kvinnor or YWCA from 1891 to 1916.
Prior to her disappearance, Al-Wadud had threatened to murder Panek numerous times due to her not raising their son in Islam, and she contested in a restraining order against him that he had threatened to slash her throat. In 2014, the YWCA of Portland established the Yolanda Project, a shelter for victims of domestic violence, named in Panek's honor.
Denning née Newsom was born in 1930 in Detroit. At the age of 16, she taught swimming at the Lucy Thurman branch of the Detroit YWCA. In 1951, she began work as a physical education teacher in Detroit public schools; she retired as assistant superintendent for community relations. She was also assistant professor of education at the University of Michigan.
She was the second principal of Ethiraj College for Women from 1953 to 1960, succeeding Subur Parthasarathy. In 1962 she attended the biennial conference of the Australian Federation of University Women, as former president of the Indian Federation of University Women. Hensman took particular interest in supporting Christian women. In 1929 she was appointed the first Indian president of the YWCA in Chennai.
Talitha Gerlach was born in Pittsburgh, to a family of German origin. She was the daughter of a Methodist minister and spent her childhood near Columbia, Ohio. She earned a bachelor's degree in social economics at the North Western Christian University (Butler College) in 1920. She intended to go into social work and joined the campus branch of the YWCA.
She has been honoured with the Queen's Silver Jubilee and 125th Anniversary of Confederation Commemorative medals and has been recognized as the YM/YWCA Woman of the Year (Community Service category) in 1978, Volunteer of the Year (by the Association of Fundraising Professionals of Manitoba) in 2000 and with a Distinguished Service Award from the University of Manitoba in 2003.
In the 1880s, Stewart married the former Consuelo Clarke, a medical student who was the daughter of a Cincinnati school superintendent. When the couple settled in Youngstown, Consuelo Stewart became the community's first African-American doctor. In addition, she helped organize a local chapter of the YWCA and sponsored Youngstown's first free kindergarten. Consuelo Stewart died in 1911; William Stewart never remarried.
The Magee Maternity Hospital had headquarters in the building in which they conducted a maternity dispensary. Summer work was conducted on the roof garden, which was also adapted for the playing of basketball. The YMCA and the YWCA cooperated in the work of the House, and through these, many of the older boys and girls were able to enjoy camping experiences.
Jordan was a math teacher in Louisville as a young woman. She was president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Council of Negro Women,"Los Angeles Council of Negro Women Opens Membership Drive with Meeting" Pittsburgh Courier (February 24, 1945): 11. via Newspapers.com and was active in Alpha Kappa Alpha, the NAACP, the Order of the Eastern Star, and the YWCA.
In her role as its first Director, Height helped to monitor the Association's progress toward full integration, kept abreast of the civil rights movement, facilitated "honest dialogue," aided the Association in making best use of its African- American leadership (both volunteer and staff), and helped in their recruitment and retention. Shortly before she retired from the YWCA in 1977, Height was elected as an honorary national board member, a lifetime appointment. Height became President of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) in 1958 and remained in that position until 1990. While working with both the YWCA and NCNW, Height participated in the Civil Rights Movement and she was considered a member of the "Civil Rights Six" (a group with up to nine members, including Martin Luther King, Jr., James Farmer, John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young).
As World War I approached, Stamp applied her experience as a recreation director and classwork in sociology as a social worker for the War Work Council of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), where she formed recreation programs for female factory workers. She led recreation education for the 5,000 women employed at the Old Hickory Munitions Plant (external link) in Jacksonville, Tennessee 1918–1919.
She was named a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania in 2011 by Governor Tom Corbett. and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Coalition Award in 1990, Fannie Lou Hamer Award from Women for Racial & Economic Equality in 1994, the Mother Jones Award from the PA Labor History Society in 2003, the YWCA Tribute to Women award in 2003 and the Just Harvest Award in 2004.
ZerNona Stewart Black (1906–2005) was the wife of civil rights leader, the Rev. Claude Black. She was an instructor at Langston University in Oklahoma and at St. Philip's College in San Antonio. In 1943, she accepted a three- month transfer to the San Antonio YWCA-USO for Black Military, a group formed to help morale for African American service members and their families.
In 1952, President Harry S. Truman appointed Davis' husband to serve under the first African American U.S. Ambassador, Edward R. Dudley, as the director of the Technical Cooperation Administration program in Liberia. The Davises arrived in Monrovia in December 1952, residing there for the duration of his tenure in 1954. While in Liberia, Davis was active with the YWCA Conference at University College Ibadan in Ibadan, Nigeria.
John Gladstone Rajakulendran (20 September 1907 – 27 February 1950) was a Ceylonese Tamil teacher and politician. John Gladstone Rajakulendran was born in Manipay, Ceylon on 20 September 1907, the son of Dr. Vethanayagam R. John. His brother was T. G. Francis, owner of the horse ‘Cotton Hall’ and the President of the YWCA Colombo. Rajakulendran studied at the English Memorial School Manipay and St. John's College, Jaffna.
Made of brick, construction of the building began in 1888 and completed 1890 on land owned jointly by the university and Iowa City. The cost of construction was supplemented through a contribution of $10,000 by Mrs. Helen S. Close in order for the YM-YWCA to be completed. The three-story building was the site of the first five-on-five college basketball game in 1896.
She attended the Radcliffe College of Harvard University. She was an honorary member of the Phi Beta Kappa society. She also received an honorary doctorate in Literary Science from Syracuse University "as special recognition of the field of study that you have made your own, the field of the international auxiliary language." She was Vice President of the World Service Council of the YWCA United States.
She has received the Lifetime Achievement Medallion Award from the Children’s Theatre Foundation of America, the Sam Payne Award for Humanity and Integrity from the Union of BC Performers (ACTRA), and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Vancouver Theatre Alliance. She has been recognized by the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame StarWalk, the Granville Island Outstanding Contribution Award, and the YWCA Woman of Distinction nominations.
Chanter: Ruby Notley Namaho The Royal Hawaiian Girls Glee Club is a chorale group of performers who have entertained audiences in Hawaii for a century. Initially a group created through a YWCA program, they became the resident performers at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. They sang on the first broadcast of Hawaii Calls, and for six decades were the featured entertainment at the Kodak Hula Show in Waikiki.
Waletzky has two sisters, Marion Rockefeller Weber and Laura Rockefeller Chasin, and a brother, Laurance Spelman Rockefeller Jr.. Her patrilineal great-grandfather was Standard Oil's co-founder John D. Rockefeller and her matrilineal great-grandfather was Frederick H. Billings, a president of Northern Pacific Railway. Both of her grandmothers, Mary Billings French and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, were important to the early development of YWCA USA.
Lenore Romney worked on behalf of many volunteer organizations over a number of years. In 1963, she was co-chair of the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Starting in 1965, she was a member of a special committee of the American Mothers Committee. By 1970, she was on the national board of directors of the YWCA and a member of the national advisory board to American Field Services.
Following her work as the special associate general counsel of the US Post Office, she moved to Los Angeles. She opened a small practice there and practiced law until her return to Detroit in 1970. Even when she wasn't working, Cora remained involved in Civil Rights and community building organizations. Brown worked with the NAACP, YWCA, the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, and the New Calvary Baptist Church.
The Deaconal University College offers a 4-year bachelor's degree programme in diaconia and social pedagogy. The education produces deaconal personnel, which in a modern Danish context are church- related social workers. Deacons educated in Denmark are lay people. Graduates from the Deaconal University College often get jobs in NGOs, such as the YMCA and YWCA social programmes, as well as state-based institutions and projects.
Those most influential in promoting the Manifesto had been Protestants who were not affiliated with mainline churches, but with backgrounds in the YMCA and YWCA and whose role the missionaries consequentially failed to grasp. The NCC's relations with Westerners began to be called into question. In April 1951, the RAD initiated the Denunciation Movement which lasted until 1953. During it, the NCC was outright condemned.
He married Fok Hing-tong (1872–1957), second daughter of Fok Ching- shang, the Vicar of St. Stephen's Anglican Church. Fok Hing-tong accompanied Ma to Australia and helped out his business. She also doubled as a saleswoman on occasion. She co-founded the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in Hong Kong and became its chairwoman (1920–23) and director (1920–28, 1948–57).
Between 1962 and 1969 she served as the World YWCA Consultant on Christian Education and Ecumenical Affairs. Then in 1969 she joined the World Council of Churches as executive secretary for mission education. After four years, she left Geneva, returning to Finland in 1973. Arriving back in Finland, Castrén supervised adult educational learning activities and from 1974-1984 served as the General Secretary of the (SEN).
In 1944 he married Aslaug Sandøe. He was hired as a secretary for the Norwegian Christian Youth Association in 1941, then secretary for the Norwegian Universities and Schools Christian Fellowship in 1943. He became secretary-general here in 1947, followed by a stint as secretary-general of the Norwegian Christian Youth Association from 1954 to 1965. This organization later changed their name to YMCA-YWCA of Norway.
He also served as chairman of the school board and coroner for Huron County. Macdonald was deputy speaker and chairman of Committees of the Whole from 1901 to 1904. He ran unsuccessfully for reelection to the House of Commons in 1904. Macdonald's daughter Annie Caroline went to Japan in 1904 as a representative of the YWCA and later became involved in prison reform there.
Sarah Ann Evans moved to Portland with her husband and children in 1893. She was a founding member of the Portland Woman's Club, the Portland YWCA, and of the Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs in 1899.Kimberly Jensen, Doctor to the World: Esther Pohl Lovejoy and a Life in Activism (University of Washington Press 2012): 90. She was president of the Federation from 1905 to 1915.
After the Group Areas Act, she worked at the clinic in Dobsonville.Mpho Raborife, "Wits Med School Honours First Black Woman Graduate from 1947" News24, 12 June 2015."Dr Mary Susan Makobatjatji Malahlela (Posthumous)" , Order of the Baobab, Office of the Presidency, Government of South Africa. Malahlele was a founding member of the YWCA in South Africa, and active in the peace and anti-apartheid movements.
The YWCA in China was established early in the 20th century and became an important venue for social reform and the advancement of women's status.R. G. Tiedemann, Reference Guide to Christian Missionary Societies in China from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century. (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2008), p. 293 Although the organization was founded by foreign workers, leadership was soon taken over by Chinese women.
Ann Shaw (November 21, 1921 – May 5, 2015) was an American social worker and civic leader based in Los Angeles for five decades. Shaw was a leader of the YWCA of the Greater Los Angeles for two terms and the first African American to head the organization and the first woman and first African American to serve on the California Commission on Judicial Performance.
In 1891 he was appointed chief draftsman for Alfred Wells. In 1896 he went into practice on his own account, collaborating with Hedley Allen Dunn on a design for the new YWCA building (not adopted) in 1899, and the Adelaide Stock Exchange, which was built in 1901. From 1911 to 1913 he was in partnership with Alfred Barham Black. Fuller was also prominent in Adelaide's art scene.
She then moved to New York and attended Columbia University, where she earned her M.S. degree in psychology. She worked for the YWCA in Connecticut before opting for a career in medicine. Logan was the first person to receive a four-year $10,000 Walter Gray Crump Scholarship that was exclusively for aiding African American medical students attend New York Medical College. She graduated in 1933.
George E. Bemi is a Canadian architect who practiced in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada from 1955 to 2005. During his prolific career, he contributed over 300 buildings to the National Capital area, including significant projects such as St. Basil’s Church, the Main Branch of the Ottawa Public Library, the downtown YM-YWCA, and the Ottawa Police Headquarters.University of Carleton Archives, George Bemi. Accessed 21 April 2010.
Fox would become Dingman's colleague, as well as her life-long companion. Dingman was elected to head the PCDWIO and represented the organization at the World Disarmament Conference held in 1932. In 1935, she was re-elected to the presidency and resigned her post with the YWCA. She spoke at the League of Nations in 1936 and traveled widely as a lecturer on disarmament.
Lovell-Smith was also a writer and editor. From 1952 until 1960, she was assistant editor of the National Council of Women’s New Zealand Women in Council; she wrote a history of the Christchurch YWCA, published in 1961, and a history of the Christchurch branch of the National Council of Women. Lovell-Smith died at her family home in Riccarton on 3 February 1973.
Adelaide Hoodless (née Addie Hunter; February 27, 1858 - February 26, 1910) was a Canadian educational reformer who founded the international women's organization known as the Women's Institute. She was the second president of the Hamilton, Ontario Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), holding the position from 1890–1902. She maintained important ties to the business community of Hamilton and achieved great political and public attention through her work.
Quander demonstrated leadership at the YWCA, where she was a board member and chairman of the young women's department. She was a member of the board of directors of the Business Professional and Industrial Committee in the Phillis Wheatley YMCA. Quander was the national industrial field secretary in work related to unions. She was a delegate for unions related to education and the Women's Trade Union League.
It was inspired by Sing Out, which later became known as Up with People. The years that followed more groups were formed in Norway, and today there are over hundred groups all over Norway. The Norwegian YWCA–YMCA wanted to implement Ten Sing in other European countries, and the starting point was Germany in 1986. This was the start of Ten Sing Norwegen, now Ten Sing Norway.
She continues to teach at the university as well as conduct research on a part-time basis. In 2019 she received a Women of Distinction Awards Lifetime Achievement Award from the YWCA Saskatoon. Alongside her research and academic work, the Honourable Dr. Lillian Eva Quan Dyck is well known for advocating for equity in the education and employment of women, Chinese Canadians and Aboriginals.
There are numerous community and service groups in Boronia, including a Lions Club, a Rotary Club, the Returned and Services League (RSL), YWCA Women's Group, Probus Clubs, Country Women's Association, VIEW Club, Scouts and various church groups that build community and/or provide meals, such as St Paul's Anglican, Boronia Road Uniting Church, Mountain District Vineyard, Boronia Church of Christ and St Joseph's Catholic Church.
1876 – Nell Saunders defeated Rose Harland in the first United States women's boxing match, receiving a silver butter dish as her prize. 1882 – At the YWCA in Boston, the first athletic games for women were held. 1884 – Maud Watson, of England, won the first Ladies' Singles title at Wimbledon. 1887 – The American Ellen Hansell was crowned the first women's singles tennis champion at the U.S. Open.
After her husband was knighted in 1891, she became Lady Mary Colton. She died at her home on 30 July 1898 and is buried in West Terrace cemetery, and was survived by her husband, one daughter and four of her sons. The Colton Ward at the Women's and Children's Hospital and Lady Colton Hall in the 1900 YWCA building on Hindmarsh Square were named in her honour.
It was operated as Camp Elizabeth Lupton by the YWCA until 1953. The community was named for the springs of sulphur water near the town site. A post office called Sulphur Springs was established in 1885, and remained in operation until 1918. The post office was moved across the border to Sulphur Springs, Georgia, with mail being brought over from the train depot in Georgia.
Community gardens are also present in the neighborhoods. The Weldon Yerby Senior Gardens are located in the Castner Heights neighborhood near the YWCA. The Weldon Yerby garden is most likely the oldest community garden in El Paso, according to the El Paso Times. Approximately 100 people contribute to and work on the garden which was started to encourage senior citizens to get exercise and eat healthier.
The branch in St. Thomas, Ontario illustrates the evolution of one local branch. It was founded by eleven members at a meeting at the St. Thomas Business College on 26 March 1895, with the painter and teacher Miss Susan Paul as first president. The branch met at different locations, including the YWCA, the St. Thomas-Elgin Art Gallery and Sifton House at Alma College.
Hannah's next job was as a superintendent for the YWCA in Liverpool. In 1890 she was selected by the Church Missionary Society (CMS) as a missionary to Japan. She arrived in Japan in 1891 and was transferred to Kumamoto, Kyūshū. At Honmyoji, the most popular temple in Kumamoto, she witnessed leprosy patients begging for mercy and made up her mind to dedicate her life to their care.
She also gave piano and harpsichord recitals and performed on CBC Radio. She lectured on pedagogy at the University of North Dakota and was an examiner for the University of Manitoba. From 1971 to 1974, she was president of the Manitoba Registered Music Teachers' Association. In 1988, she was named Woman of the Year for Manitoba in the arts category by the Winnipeg YM-YWCA.
The site was home to a YWCA. It was designed by Jules Henri de Sibour, for the Public Health Service in 1931. It was renamed to the Combined Chiefs of Staff Building on January 30, 1942. It was the site of the planning for the Manhattan Project; the Atomic Energy Commission occupied the site from its creation in 1947 until its relocation to Germantown, Maryland in 1958.
The shopping centre contains 120 stores and services on a single enclosed level. The interior hallways are laid out in a rectangle, with secondary branching halls from the six entrances. Offices and services including the management office are located on a small second level in the northwest corner of the building. There are also two small underground sections for some discount stores and the Carlingwood YWCA/YMCA.
As an educator at the high school level in North Carolina for nearly 40 years, she had a critical role in teaching the next generations. With her outstanding qualifications, she maintained a high academic standard. Brown also developed exhibits to teach the community about African-American history. She helped found the YWCA in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and expanded Alpha Kappa Alpha by founding a local chapter.
While in her seventies, she lobbied Congress for a health center to combat tuberculosis, and for land to be converted to playgrounds near two local elementary schools. She was vice president of the Public School Association, an officer of the Association for Childhood Education, and a member of the NAACP, the Citizens Advisory Committee on Hot Lunches for School Children, the YWCA, and St. Luke's Episcopal Church.
It opened with the assertion, "This war must be won by the United Nations." She joined the National War Labor Board, where she was appointed head of the white collar section in the New York area. Terlin became a supporter of the Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy. The American YWCA Secretaries Talitha Gerlach and Lily Haass, who had both worked in China, were also supporters.
Rona Miriel Stevenson (13 February 1911 – 4 September 1988) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. Born in Wellington in 1911, she served on the executives of the Women's Division of Federated Farmers, the YWCA and the Presbyterian Church. She represented the Taupo electorate from 1963 to 1972, when she retired. In the , she narrowly beat (by 258 votes) Labour's Barry Gustafson.
She taught at the Pooi To Middle School before she received social work training in the United Kingdom and the United States. She took her husband name Kwan Bing-kwong when they married on 19 September 1947. The couple has one son, Kwan Kay-cheong. She joined the Hong Kong Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in 1952 and became its long-time general secretary in 1962.
From the College, September 2004, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba She has served as president of the Manitoba Museum (1998-2000) and president of the Manitoba Museum Foundation (2000-2002). James is a Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. Her other awards include YWCA Woman of the Year Award (1981), Queen Elizabeth 50th Jubilee Medal, and the Order of Manitoba (2004).
As of 2006, Akande was president of Harbourfront Centre and was serving on the boards of the YWCA and Centennial College. She is also a member of the Urban Alliance on Race Relations. She was also a founding member board of directors of Milestone Radio, owners of Canada's first urban music radio station, Flow 93.5 in Toronto. During the 2014 Toronto mayoral election Akande endorsed John Tory.
Girls were able to learn democratic principles and cooperation skills. Physical education instructors were brought in from the US which started to raise awareness for Japanese girls physical schooling. The Kaufman family had made their fortune in rubber, and from her inheritance she donated money to the YWCA organization at Kyoto and Nagoya; she built an apartment for Y staff, sponsored 27 young Japanese women for studying abroad, and brought 12 from the USA and Canada to work at the Japanese Y. She returned to Canada before the Second World War and involved herself in the plight of Japanese- Canadians, many of whom were taken from their West Coast homes during the war and transported to camps on the prairies and in Ontario. Kaufman remained an executive committee member of the YWCA after her work in Japan and spent the rest of her life in Toronto, Ontario.
The earliest recorded reference to the prayer is a diary entry from 1932 by Winnifred Crane Wygal, a pupil and collaborator of Reinhold Niebuhr, quoting the prayer and attributing it to Niebuhr. Several versions of the prayer then appeared in newspaper articles in the early 1930s written by, or reporting on talks given by, Wygal. In 1940, Wygal included the following form of the prayer in a book on worship, attributing it to Niebuhr:Wygel, We Plan Our Own Worship Services: Business girls practice the act and the art of group worship, New York, The Woman's Press: 1940 > O God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed, the courage to > change what can be changed, and the wisdom to know the one from the other. Wygal was a longtime YWCA official and all early recorded usages were from women involved in volunteer or educational activities connected to the YWCA.
During her time in private practice, she served as county attorney for Monroe County, Madisonville city judge, and city attorney for Vonore and Madisonville. She is a former Rule 31 listed family mediator. Other activities include: Tennessee Bar Association (house of delegates), Knoxville Bar Foundation, Tennessee Bar Foundation, American Bar Foundation, Tennessee Judicial Conference (executive committee), Tennessee Lawyers’ Association for Women (director), East Tennessee Lawyers’ Association for Women (president), Knoxville Executive Women's Association (secretary), Boys and Girls Club of Monroe Area (board of directors), East Tennessee Historical Society Board of Directors, Knoxville YWCA Board of Directors, Knoxville YWCA Foundation, Monroe County Bar Association (president, vice president and secretary), Million Dollar Advocates Forum, American Judicature Society, Scribes, National Association of Women Judges; coauthor of Opening and Closing Arguments. Before becoming a Tennessee Supreme Court Justice, she served on the Tennessee Court of Appeals, Eastern Section.
Her autobiography, Fighting Without Ceasing, was published in 2005. In 2007, she received the World YWCA Council Award in recognition of dedicated leadership for her involvement as a Women's Rights Activist. In 2014 she was appointed Peace Ambassador in Kenya of The International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace (IFLAC).Solveig Hansen, "A strong voice from Kenya: Muthoni Likimani appointed IFLAC Peace Ambassador", IFLAC News, 18 February 2014.
She received the national award "Woman Veterinarian of the Year" from the Women's Veterinary Medical Association in 1972. The organization transitioned into a foundation, Association for Women Veterinarians Foundation, and continues its awards and scholarships through the American Veterinary Medicine Association. Her community recognized her hard work in 1983 and titled her a Leader of Distinction and was added to the YWCA Metro St. Louis Academy of Leaders.
Women of Waterloo County, Ruth Weber Russell, Toronto: Natural Heritage/Natural History Inc. for the Canadian Federation of University Women, Kitchener-Waterloo, 2000 In honour of Ms. Kaufman, there was a reception and dinner within a week of celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the YWCA. On November 3, 1965, Kaufman's services to young Japanese women’s education, was recognized by being awarded another Silver Cup given to her by the Emperor.
She later accepted a position as assistant professor at Mount Holyoke Women's College in Massachusetts. She resigned before finishing her contract because of her discouragement over the lack of biblical scholarship opportunities available to her. In 1946, Goff was hired as executive director of the YWCA in Springfield, Indiana. She later returned to Yale as Erwin Goodenough's research assistant and worked at Yale for the next twenty years.
Other buildings in the district include the Syrian Orthodox Catholic Church, built in 1822 and moved to 8 Inman Street from Lafayette Square in 1888, the 1888 Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Building at 763 Mass. Avenue, the 1912 Cambridge Electric Light Company Building at 719 Mass. Avenue, and the 1910 Cambridge YWCA at 7 Temple Street. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
In the early 1900s, Laurence Colman and Arn Allen of Seattle formed a partnership to build a facility for YMCA and YWCA groups to hold summer conferences. In 1914, Lawrence Coleman and his brother George purchased much of the original Seabeck site. In 1936, Laurence Colman's son, Ken Colman, incorporated the conference grounds as a private, nonprofit corporation. He deeded to the corporation the that now make up Seabeck Conference Center.
Mary Andrews Clark Memorial Home is a four-story, "French Revival Chateauesque" brick structure in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles near downtown. It was built in 1913 as a YWCA home for young working women. The house was built by William A. Clark (1839–1925), the copper magnate after whom Clark County, Nevada, was named, as a memorial to his mother Mary Andrews ClarkMary Andrews Clark (Jan. 24, 1814 – Dec.
"Szeto Wah: staunch democrat and patriot ." South China Morning Post. Retrieved on 16 January 2010. Under his brother Szeto Ming's influence, he and his siblings joined the YWCA which had a strong left-wing leaning at the time during his student life. He was contacted by the underground Communists and joined the Chinese New Democracy Youth League, the predecessor of the Communist Youth League of China, in September 1949.
Cowell also advised that, before approaching Schoenberg, Cage should take some preliminary lessons, and recommended Adolph Weiss, a former Schoenberg pupil.Nicholls 2002, 24. Following Cowell's advice, Cage travelled to New York City in 1933 and started studying with Weiss as well as taking lessons from Cowell himself at The New School. He supported himself financially by taking up a job washing walls at a Brooklyn YWCA (World Young Women's Christian Association).
Geunuhoe (Korean:근우회 Hanja:槿友會) (Society of the Friends of the Rose of Sharon) was a Korean women's organization founded in June 1927 to promote women's status and the national independence struggle in Korea. Though the founders were mainly Protestants and members of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) and Temperance Union, the organization became dominated by socialists. It was dissolved by the Governor-General of Korea in 1931.
Her husband was a member of the national board of the NAACP and was New Jersey state president. Williams volunteered for the YWCA of The Oranges and Maplewood and served in several leadership capacities. She was one of the organizers of the East Orange League of Women Voters, serving as its vice president in 1947. In 1952, Governor Alfred Driscoll appointed her to the New Jersey Migrant Labor Board.
Curtis Hargrove is a Canadian long-distance charity runner and fundraiser. He ran from Port Alberni, British Columbia, to Burbank, California to raise awareness for the work of Angel Magnussen in 2015. He walked from Cold Lake Alberta to Edmonton Alberta in 2013 for YWCA Edmonton's Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event. He ran across Canada to raise money for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation in 2012-2013.
Quo received a bachelor's degree in Social Welfare from UC Berkeley and a master's degree from the University of Chicago. In the 1940s, while she was working in China as a teacher, Quo escaped Communism on a U.S. destroyer along with her husband, Edwin Kwoh, and infant son. After resettling, she also worked at the Chinese YWCA building, which is now the Chinese American National Museum and Learning Center.
Zuber was married to civil rights attorney and Rensselaer Polytechinic Institute professor Paul B. Zuber. The couple lived briefly in Croton, New York, followed by Troy, New York, when Paul became the first tenured African American professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Zuber had two children with Paul. She served as President of the Troy YWCA and was a board member of the Troy Boys & Girls Club and Black Dimensions in Art.
Paderewska had participated as leader of the Polish White Cross. The Polish government soon approved the new entity, and a few months later - after the aristocratic first president Paweł Sapieha (1860-1934) resigned - Paderewska became the relatively new society's president. She continued in the position until 1926, although she last visited Poland in 1924. Paderewska also supported the Polish YWCA, and was an honorary member of Polish Women's Alliance of America.
LDS goes head to head with a fraternity at NDSU to see who can collect the most pop-tabs; the society that collects the lesser amount has to cook dinner for the other society. The society holds one mandatory philanthropy event for its members each month. Some of the philanthropy events they participate in include volunteering at nursing homes, helping out at the YWCA and volunteering at a food bank.
While at the YWCA, Roberts helped organize women in the sale of war bonds through the Liberty Loan program. She also served on the New York State Board of Social Welfare, a position that she was appointed to by Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Her health education led her to serve on the boards of New York Tuberculosis and Health Association and the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses.
She was part of a network of Southern black women at universities who were also involved with the YWCA and the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACW), including Juliette Derricotte, Jennie B. Moton, Margaret Murray Washington, and Nettie Langston Napier.Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign Against Lynching (Columbia University Press 1993): 317, note 66. Audrey Thomas McCluskey and Elaine M. Smith, eds.
Andresen began her work with the YWCA in Detroit and also became the director of Camp Talahi. During the rest of the year she did a lot of inner-city work in Detroit. In 1942 she purchased a large farm house on 82 acres near South Lyon, Michigan; this would become known as Pinebrook. It was transformed into both a summer camp and a hostel for international travelers year around.
Recently Lockyer co-chaired the YWCA "Transitionelle" Campaign raising funds for the establishment of the Jean Irving Centre for Women and Children in Moncton. He is a past Chair of the 3Plus Economic Development Corporation for the Greater Moncton area (Dieppe-Moncton-Riverview). He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Greater Moncton Romeo LeBlanc International Airport. He remains involved with various community organizations.
In 2005, she received the UCP of Pittsburgh's Gertrude Labowitz Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2007, Bender received the ACHIEVA's Sattler Humanitarian Award. In 2008, Bender was selected by the YWCA of Greater Pittsburgh as a Tribute to Women Awardee in the Entrepreneur category for her work in empowering women and girls to reach their personal and professional goals. She was also honored with the Diamond Award from the Pittsburgh Business Times.
She continued her philanthropic activity by sponsoring reading circles and supporting missionary work. She was the founding president of the Mother's Union of South Australia and actively supported the YWCA in Adelaide. She and her husband held a convention at which a constitution for a united Australia was first discussed. In 1896 she laid a foundation stone for a new junior branch of the YMCA in Adelaide, the Our Boys Institute.
Dixon has been active in a variety of civic activities: the Urban League, Boys and Girls Club of New Orleans, and YWCA. She belongs to New Orleans' Second Baptist Church. In 2009 Dixon was chosen to head Beacon of Hope, a New Orleans non-profit and charitable organization."Irma Muse Dixon named to head Beacon of Hope Resource Center", in Louisiana Weekly, 2009 March 17 (accessed 2009 June 08).
Young Women's Christian Association, also known as the Elkhart Y.W.C.A. and Lexington House, is a historic YWCA located at Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana. It was built in 1919, and is a three-story, brick building on a raised basement and Bungalow / American Craftsman style design elements. It measures approximately 40 feet wide and 150 feet deep. It has a flat roof and arched openings on the first floor.
In 1994 Lewis was added to the Nova Scotia Black Cultural Centre Wall of Honour. In 1995, she was recipient of the United Nations Global Citizenship Award. In 1998 she received the Progress Club of Halifax Woman of Excellence award for Public Affairs and Communication. In 2002, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada. That year she also received the YWCA volunteer award, and the Queen’s Jubilee Medal.
In 1996 she won the YWCA Woman of Achievement Award, and in 1998 she was awarded the Ohio's Federation of Indian Association's Outstanding Community Service Award. She was given the Ohio Civil Rights Commission's Outstanding Leader Award, and in 2001 she also won the Women of Courage Award. In 2003, she won the Most Distinguished Physician Community Service Award from the National Association of American Physicians of Indian Origin.
Davisville is a heritage-listed former YWCA women's home, residence and commune and now residence and bed and breakfast at 63-67 Falls Road, Wentworth Falls, City of Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia. It was built from 1888 to 1920 by David Davis, Sydney builder. It is also known as Rennie House. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
The property was put up for sale in 2004 and purchased by Imagine Schools LLC and occupied by their charter school. It was later occupied by the Horizon Christian Academy. The property was purchased on February 26, 2019 by Wallen Baptist Church of Fort Wayne, Indiana as a place of worship, to be restored and honored for its place in the history of Fort Wayne. Church moving to ex-YWCA site.
Over its lifetime, PUC has met in four locations. Services moved from Walteria Park to the Torrance Seventh Day Adventist Church in May 1957 and continued at that location until 1961, with church school held on that premises and at nearby YWCA buildings. Pacific Unitarian Church registered as a nonprofit corporation in California on 29 January 1959. In 1961, PUC rented quarters at Miraleste School on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
In 2000 YMCA–YWCA 5th Women of Distinction Awards announced Sue Richards as the recipient of the Arts and Culture Award. In 2003 she was the Honorary Chair for the Women of Distinction Awards. In late 2007, Richards stated that due to personal health concerns, she would not be publishing the 2008 edition of the Breast of Canada calendar. By early 2008, Richards publicly announced she was suffering from Parkinson's disease.
The Lyric Stage Company of Boston is the oldest professional theatre company in Boston. Founded in 1974, the Lyric Stage Company is a non-profit organization located at 140 Clarendon Street in the YWCA building. It has been under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Spiro Veloudos since 1998. The theatre produces about seven plays and musicals each season and is especially well known for its productions of Stephen Sondheim musicals.
Her first TV movie (with Donald Martin) won two Geminis (for best supporting actors). She was a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe, has been named a Woman of Distinction by the YWCA, and given an Alumni Jubilee Award by the University of Manitoba where she received an honorary doctorate (D. Litt) in May 2003. In 2003, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honor.
She spoke at the dedication of the swimming pool in Val Verde in 1939. In 1957, she was won the Old Charter Distillery Company's annual award for contributions to the Val Verde community. Portwig, not herself a mother but an involved aunt, took interest in supports for mothers and children in the African-American community in Los Angeles. She was active in the YWCA and the Girl Scouts.
During the New Deal in the 1930s, the construction of public pools expanded reasons and some opportunities for all ethnic and racial groups to learn how to swim. Nevertheless, Blacks were prohibited from "Whites only" facilities.Thurman Alums As a result, several communities with large numbers of African American citizens supported their own water sport recreation centers. One of the most visible in southeastern Michigan was the Lucy Thurman YWCA.
She was an active member of the Daughters of Hawaii, and a director of the YWCA in Honolulu. The Haili Church in Hilo was the recipient of a pipe organ through her generosity. When Honolulu police officer William Kama was killed in the line of duty in 1928, leaving behind a widow and small children, Emma and Princess Abigail Campbell Kawānanakoa paid off the mortgage on the Kama house.
Ruth Hayward (born July 29, 1934), is an engineer, sculptor, and philanthropist. She is also known for her sculptures of public figures in San Diego. A lifelong resident of San Diego, in 1987 she was honored with a Tribute to Women & Industry (TWIN) award by the YWCA for her work as an engineer at General Dynamics/Electronics and as a volunteer at Rachel's Women's Center for the homeless.
She is an unpaid ambassador to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America and she has served the community through leadership on the Board of Directors for the Sustainable Furnishings Council (2012-2015); Do Something Board of Directors (2003-2005); Boston Symphony Orchestra Board of Overseers (1995-2004); and YWCA Board of Directors in New York/Austin/Boston (1988-1999). She is also a licensed Realtor affiliated with Sothebys International Realty.
Shumiatcher has received many honours and awards in recognition of her philanthropy and support of the Regina arts community. In 1996 she was named a Woman of Distinction by the Regina YWCA, and in 1999 she was named Citizen of the Year by B'nai Brith Canada. She received the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, the province's highest award, in 2001. She received the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2003.
The choir was fully integrated, during the time when segregation was legal, and included African-American girls from the beginning. The choir was first called the City Girls' Choir, and was incorporated in 1965 as the Texas Girls' Choir. It was the first girl's choir in the United States to be incorporated. The choir first performed in the Fort Worth downtown YWCA and later at the First Baptist Church.
Gymnastics in Australia is thought to have originated in the early 20th century by eastern European immigrants. It wasn't until after World War I when Australia was in the Great Depression that people started turning to organisations like the YWCA for support. From these community-based groups, the sport started to flourish. Around the same time, gymnastics was included in the school curriculum at Geelong Grammar, Wesley College and Carey Grammar.
Laing was given "the first French government bursary ever awarded to a student at the University of Manitoba" and went to study in Le Sorbonne, France. After her return, she became a French teacher at the University of Manitoba. She was head of the local YWCA and various councils, and served on several community boards such as the Canadian Radio and Television Commission. She was also a UNESCO General Assembly delegate.
Gill was born in Lower Hutt in 1951 and studied at Victoria University of Wellington. She began her career working for the aid agency Council of Organisations for Relief Services Overseas (CORSO) and traveled to visit CORSO projects in India, Sri Lanka and Nepal. She was also on the board of the Wellington YWCA. In 1985, Sir Roy McKenzie appointed her the executive officer of his foundation, the Roy McKenzie Foundation.
Jamieson arrived in Calgary in 1903 when her husband, Reuben Rupert Jamieson, became the area general superintendent for the Canadian Pacific Railway. They prospered in Calgary and after his retirement, he became the 19th mayor of Calgary. After the death of her husband, Alice continued to be active in the community. She was involved in organizations such as the Calgary Council of Women and the YWCA of Calgary.
The business was a great success and Joseph Osterman retired by 1842, selling the business to Osterman's brother, Isadore Dyer. The Ostermans built the first two story residence in Galveston, which later in 1921, became the headquarters of the YWCA. Osterman shared her recipe for dried meat biscuits with local businessman, Gail Borden, a friend of the family. Borden's experiments to "perfect the biscuit" were financed by Joseph Osterman.
The Romanesque Revival style was popular in Iowa in the 19th century, which is reflected in the 1894 section. In the early 20th century they generally employed the Neoclassical and Commercial styles, and the 1916 wing reflects the Commercial style. YMCA remained here until 1969, when they opened a new joint facility with the YWCA on Dodge Street. This building became the Iowa Inn, which rented rooms to low-income people.
Cooper taught school in McCord from 1919 to 1925, when she married Ed Cooper. Cooper was president of the Regina YWCA from 1941 to 1943 and president of the Regina Council of Women from 1946 to 1948. In 1945, she was named to the Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board and, in 1951, to the Saskatchewan Public Service Commission. After the death of her first husband, she married Wilfred Hunt in 1967.
Admiral Gjeddes Gård (No. 10) on the other side of the street was built in the 1730s and is now used as an event venue. Other listed buildings in the street include No. 6, No. 8 (1730s), No. 11, No. 13 and No. 15 (1829). Completed in 1920 to design by Arthur Wittmaack and Vilhelm Hvalsøe, the building at No. 19 is the former headquarters of Danish YWCA.
The International Institute was established in 1919 by a group of women. The organization was first the YWCA but then later was changed to the Department of Immigration and Foreign Communities. The International Institute in Gary became an independent group in 1934. The International Institute was added to Gary because there was an increase in immigration after the steel mill was built due to the increase in job availability.
Marsh attended private schools as a child. In the years following the end of World War I she studied as a design major in the School of Art at Cooper Union and later studied tapestry, weaving, and occupational therapy at the one of the schools run by the YWCA of New York. Having completed those studies she worked for the next four years, until 1925, as an instructor of occupational therapy.
The SUCCESS Simon K.Y. Lee Seniors Care Home in Chinatown, Vancouver The first organization to provide social services to the Hong Kong immigrants of the mid-20th century was the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) or the "Pender Y," located in Chinatown at the intersection of Dunlevy Street and Pender Street. The Pender Y initially provided adequate services but became overwhelmed. Prior to the founding of Chinese-established groups it established a job skills program, distributed information about essential services in Cantonese and English, and provided counseling. Hong Kong immigrants were attracted to the YWCA because they had patronized the YWCAs that had been established in Hong Kong.Guo, "SUCCESS: A Chinese Voluntary Association in Vancouver," p. 103. In 1973 the organization S.U.C.C.E.S.S., a loose acronym for the United Chinese Community Enrichment Services Society, was founded to provide social services for Chinese,Guo, Shibao, " An interpretive study of a voluntary organization serving Chinese immigrants in Vancouver, Canada," p. ii.
In 2013, Williams was elected as one of two permanent YWCA – Pagedale Policy Council Parent Representatives to act as a link between the people making and carrying out decisions, and the people Head Start/Early Head Start serve sitting on three committees; she also served as chairman of the Evaluation Committee. On May 5, 2014, Williams received a Head Start Volunteer Award Certificate for outstanding service at the YWCA-Pagedale Center. On May 14, 2014, Williams graduated from a 12-week Step Up To Leadership Course facilitated by the Community Action Agency of Saint Louis County, Inc (CAASTLC) and later partnered with a classmate to create an introductory 6 week book club reading room for children between the ages of 5 and 14 to increase literacy, and instill a love for reading by bringing books to life through the art of acting and dancing at "R.A.A.," a local St. Louis non- profit organization.
History of Cray Mansion , Mankato YWCA, Accessed August 12, 2009. The house is approximately .Dan Linehan, Cray buyer, city at odds over rules, Mankato Free Press, February 16, 2008, Accessed August 12, 2009. Built adjacent to the equally lavish Renesselaer D. Hubbard House, for several years the two owners engaged in a game of one-upmanship in upgrading their properties; the battle appeared to end when Cray added a top-floor ballroom.
In Chicago, Margaret Holmes participated in the NAACP and the YWCA. Through her civic work relating to civil rights, Holmes collaborated with national NAACP leaders Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, and Dr. Joel Elias Spingarn. For more than thirty years, from 1922 to 1953, Margaret Holmes was active in Chicago's Theta Omega alumnae chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha. She served as the vice-president and president of the chapter.
It was given the property, including the buildings and about of meadows and forest, on condition that the property should always by used for educational purposes. The original trustees included Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Robert Frost. The school gave various adult education courses over the next fifteen years. For example, in the summer of 1934 Grace Coyle organized a two-week group work institute for forty YWCA and settlement house workers at Fletcher Farm.
Under such circumstances, Chan did not take her education seriously until the fifth grade when her teacher invited Chan and other students into her home. The newfound interest in biology led Chan to work in a Medical laboratory at San Francisco's Chinese hospital during middle school and high school. As a freshman in college, she worked with low-income students on behalf of YWCA USA at the Settlement house in New York's Bowery.
When it was housed in a department store it offered rest and reading rooms. When it moved to larger facilities it expanded to a cafeteria, reading rooms, parlor, shower and bath, laundry, arts and crafts, and a gymnasium. It also provided a lecture series on various women's topics. The Lend-A-Hand Club was the city's main woman's service facility and usurped any potential for the YWCA to establish itself in Davenport.
In 1977, she was posthumously inducted into the YWCA Hall of Fame and in 1983, Breaux was inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame. On 25 July 1991 she was entered in the Oklahoma Bandmasters Association Hall of Fame. The Oklahoma City/County Historical Society made a posthumous presentation of its Pathmaker Award to Zelia Breaux at its luncheon on September 9, 2017.Oklahoma City/County Historical Society-28th Annual Pathmaker Awards Luncheon.
Upon arrival she took a job at Havergal College, an elite Anglican girls' school. H. P. Plumptre became an important figure in the local Anglican church, rising to become rector of St. James Cathedral. Adelaide Plumptre became a committed activist in an array of different causes. She was active in the YWCA, a founding member of Girl Guides of Canada, and active in the women's movement and the Canadian Council of Women.
Davis was born in New York. After college, she worked at the Village Voice and then went into the non-profit world, working at the YWCA of the City of New York, WNYC-TV, The Village Centers for Care, and Bronx AIDS Services. Davis received her PhD in Anthropology at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Davis is the co-editor of Feminist Anthropology, the first journal from the Association of Feminist Anthropology (AFA).
Marian Tinker was selected as its first director. She had gone to High School in Manchester, Massachusetts, before completing her studies at Arnold College in New Haven, Connecticut and the University of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg. As a social worker, she was experienced at working with young women in various organizations like the YWCA and Girl Scouts, as well as several schools. Camp TERA began on June 10, 1933 with 17 young women from New York.
Minnie Buck taught briefly before she married in 1884 and moved to Winnipeg."Biography of Campbell, Minnie Julia Beatrice, 1862-1952" Manitobia: Digital Resources on Manitoba History. In 1906 she was the editor of the women's edition of the Winnipeg Telegram newspaper, and raised funds for a YWCA in that city. She led the local chapter of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE), and served on the organization's provincial board for Manitoba.
In 2017, Olewiler became a recipient of the 2017 YWCA Women of Distinction Award in the category of Education, Training & Development for her position as the first female professor at Queens and her work with the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University. This award acknowledged Olewiler’s influential work in the school, particularly at the School of Public Policy, and the impacts she was able to make provincially as well as nationally.
Dove served on the Chicago mayor, Edward Joseph Kelly's, "Committee on venereal control" and served as the medical director of the South Parkway YWCA. She wrote health-related columns for the Chicago Defender. In 1933, Dove filed a patent for medicine that was meant "for the treatment and relief of common female ailments." Dove became involved in the community of Chicago and headed a professional women's society which networked with local business owners.
Archery became part of the women's physical education curriculum during the 1880s. The largest area to adopt this sport in the curriculum was in Victoria at schools like MLC Kew, which borrowed heavily from a British sporting tradition. In 1932, the Australian branch National Council of the YWCA sent questionnaires to individual branches asking the branches what sports they preferred to participate in. Archery was one of the sports women indicated interest in.
After a period as secretary for the YWCA in Kristiansand she became a farmer's wife in 1935. Haga was a member of Brunlanes municipal council from 1959 to 1965. She has been a member of the school board from 1940 to 1954 (chairing it the last four years) and the county school board from 1968 to 1975 (chairing it the last three years). She was elected to the Parliament of Norway from Vestfold in 1965.
In 2009, it consolidated its operations with the all- volunteer City-Wide Dialogues on Boston's Racial and Ethnic Diversity, and has expanded the breadth and scope of that program's community and youth/police interracial dialogues efforts, adding leadership development, and community action planning and implementation components to its curricula. In 2012, YWCA Boston rebranded to YW Boston to better reflect the fact that it now a secular organization and serves people of all genders.
The Hudson–Evans House was built circa 1872/73 for Philo Wright, a Detroit-based ship owner.Hudson–Evans House from the city of Detroit In 1882, the house was given as a wedding present to Grace Whitney Evans, daughter of the lumber baron David Whitney Jr. (builder of the David Whitney House). Grace Evans was active in numerous charitable activities, and later became the first president of the Detroit YWCA. Between 1894 and 1904 Mrs.
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century. New York: Routledge, 2013. Crane has also been an honored educator for the National Society for Photographic Education (1993); a distinguished artist at the Union League Club in Chicago, Illinois (2006); and a distinguished artist at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (2006). Her awards also include the YWCA Outstanding Achievement Award (1987) and the Ruth Horwich Award to a Famous Chicago Artist (Chicago, Illinois, 2009).
Rockness, 86. Trotter became active in the Welbeck Street YWCA and served as secretary, "a voluntary position usually filled by women like herself from wealthy families."Rockness, 89. She did a considerable amount of teaching and (unusually for respectable young women of the period) fearlessly canvassed the streets alone at night near Victoria Station for prostitutes who might be persuaded to train for an employable skill or to simply spend a night in a hostel.
Living in Columbus, Ohio, and working as a secretary at the YWCA brought her face-to-face with the effects of segregation and tokenism. After she and her husband Cookie Hamilton returned to live in Atlanta in 1941, she took two graduate courses at Atlanta University, one taught by family friend W. E. B. Dubois, and the other taught by former Director for Research at the National Urban League, Ira De Augustine Reid.
Friends House is on the north side of the street between Endsleigh Gardens and the Euston Road.Ordnance Survey map, Digimap. Retrieved 12 March 2018. A 1953 Ordnance Survey map shows on the south side the Endsleigh Hotel on the corner with Gordon Street, a YWCA hostel and the Caledonian Christian Club between Taviton Street and Endsleigh Street, and the Cora Hotel at the east end on the corner with Upper Woburn Place.
Simultaneously, she attended courses at the University of Chicago in social work. Under the auspices of the National Board of the YWCA, Lucke founded the Detroit International Institute in 1919. The organization aimed to provide social services to the half-million recent immigrants in the Detroit metropolitan area. Lucke served as the director for the first five years of the Institute's history, hiring staff speaking the 27 different languages necessary to communicate with their clients.
Until then, London had had almost a separate organisation, but there was now one YWCA organisation. Beneath this there were separate staffs and Presidents for London, England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, "Foreign" and Colonial and Missionary. This organisation distributed Christian texts and literature, but it also interviewed young women in an effort to improve living conditions. In 1884 they were working amongst Scottish fisherwomen, publishing their own magazine and operating a ladies' restaurant in London.
Seeking a higher salary, she again moved north in 1910, this time to White Plains, New York, but again found the snow was not for her. She returned to Florida to teach in St. Augustine. She moved north once more when she became a private secretary (for the local YWCA, and then an Episcopal church) in La Crosse, Wisconsin. She would soon return to Florida for good, but this time not as a teacher.
She spoke alongside A. Philip Randolph, who lead the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and ILGWU Vice President Julius Hochman at St. Luke's in Harlem. Randolph endorsed Pinkney as an organizer for the ILGWU, calling her "a capable young woman". Pinkney worked beyond the garment district and was active in both the Harlem and Brooklyn communities. Pinkney attended the 1930 YWCA national convention, where she was selected to represent the Industrial Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.
NASA - Langley Center Director Lesa B. Roe Roe in totality served 32 years at NASA, managed the employment of over 17,000 employees with a budget of 19.6 billion. She received her bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida, and her master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Central Florida. Roe has received many awards, including the NASA Exceptional Service Medal and YWCA Women of Distinction in Space and Technology honor.
From January to February 2006, Seoul YWCA conducted a research to study variety shows that air from 6PM to 8PM. The research concluded that "variety shows star the same celebrities and air similar content." The article listed celebrities who frequent those shows, of which Joo was one of them. He appeared in television shows of three major broadcasting networks of Korea during the same time slot on January 6 and January 29.
She was named a YWCA Women of Distinction in 2003 and was made an Honorary Alumnae of the University of Victoria in 2003. She received the Senate Medal for Canada 150 in 2017. As President of York University, Marsden founded the university's Culture and Communications program (joint with Ryerson University) and she led a major building campaign. One outcome of the building campaign was the construction of the university's first green building: for computer engineering.
His approach was adopted by jurisdictions across the United States and he became a frequent lecturer for the National District Attorney's Association. In 1989, Gwinn created the San Diego Task Force Against Domestic Violence with Ashley Walker, the founder of Battered Women's Services at the YWCA of San Diego County.Gwinn, C. O'Dell, A. (1993). "Stopping the Violence: The Role of the Police Officer and the Prosecutor", 20 Western State University Law Review 1501.
Huffer was born and raised in the middle class community of Elgin, Illinois — a suburb of Chicago. As a child, Huffer was active in YWCA, Camp Fire Girls, and did volunteering at nursing homes around the community. Huffer has a twin sister, along with an older and younger brother. They, like Huffer, all work for nonprofit organizations and she credits their upbringing and childhood as a major driving force for employment in the nonprofit sector.
The society often worked with branches of the YWCA and local bishops in the locations that they sought to place women. The leadership of the society later encountered organisational difficulties and folded in 1884. Hubbard later sought to unify societies that were working interdependently to promote emigration. She published a book titled The United Englishwomen's Emigration Register and founded the United Englishwomen's Emigration Association to try to unify the women's emigration movement.
Whang was born in Korea and was educated in missionary schools there. She came to America for college. On her way back to Korea in 1922, she stopped in Hawaii, and was offered a job at the YWCA International Institute. While there, she started the HyungJay Club, where young Korean-American women could learn about traditional Korean culture, and the Mother's club, where elderly Korean women could become more familiar with American culture.
The YWCA was a center of intellectual life in the Mill Creek Valley neighborhood. The Fisk Jubilee Singers performed at Wheatley in 1916, and W.E.B. Du Bois gave a lecture in 1922. Maya Angelou, Mary McLeod Bethune and Butterfly McQueen all visited or stayed in the YWCA's hotel rooms. The building was constructed in 1927 for the St. Louis Women's Christian Association, also known as the Women's Christian Home, which was first organized in 1868.
For example, Samuel Small helped found the York Collegiate Institute that is now the York College of Pennsylvania. A.B. Farquhar is known as one of York's leading businessmen in the Industrial Revolution and philanthropist. He also made contact with the Confederates early in the Civil War and learned information that would help the Union. Josephine N. McClelland was known for being a local teacher that helped found the YWCA and was a prominent suffragette.
She set up a home for them in Tottenham. In time this moved to Hastings, where Soltau also created a branch of the YWCA, a holiday home and she delivered evangelistic services at the Railway Mission Hall. She led the newly created China Inland Mission's ladies' council at James Hudson Taylor's invitation. In 1889 she set up a training facility for women who wanted to be missionaries for the China Inland Mission.
Stevenson was a hockey blue and was active in several campus groups, including the Students' Representative Council and the Science Club. She became President of the Committee of Melbourne University Women, and graduated in 1925 with a Diploma of Education. Stevenson began her working career with the YWCA in 1926. A strong advocate for continuing education, during her first two years with the association she organised night classes for workers in Sydney.
A number were built by the builder John Money, who himself leased 26 Farndon Road. The Alexandra Residential Club has a building on the northern corner of Farndon Road at 133 Woodstock Road that provides affordable accommodation for about 100 young women studying or working in Oxford. It was opened by Princess Alexandra in 1971, hence the name. It has been run by the YWCA and more recently the Ealing Family Housing Association.
Featured on Steve O's Best of Jackass DVD. The band has worked with legendary producers: Michael Wagener, Michael Patterson, and Dale Oliver The band has also been involved in Shadow's motivational tour, called the Today I Won't Be Afraid Tour. This tour, based around the eponymous song, has been involved with numerous charities. These have included such groups as the YWCA, D.A.R.E., Deanna Farve's HOPE Foundation, Soles for Souls and the Tennessee Breast Cancer Coalition.
She was a committee chair for a YWCA-USO unit in Los Angeles. In 1959, she served on the Los Angeles County grand jury. Portwig was active in the Val Verde community, "among the pioneers who worked hard for the development of Val Verde as a vacation paradise", recalled one neighbor there. She worked with young women at Los Angeles High School, and took groups of girls camping at her mountain cabin in Val Verde.
Opposed to this were the inner mission, the YMCA/YWCA, and missionary societies with a pietistic leadership. This conflict marred church life in the country well into the 1960s. At the start of the 20th century, two Lutheran free churches were founded, based on the same confessions as the national church and using the same liturgy and hymnal, but structurally and financially independent. Earlier, Roman Catholic priests and nuns had established missions and founded hospitals.
In 2015 King received an Outstanding Woman of the Year Award presented by the YWCA. In 2016, she was honored as a Virginia Woman in History by the Library of Virginia. In 2017 King was named "Person of the Year" by the Richmond Times-Dispatch for her work as founder of the Latin Ballet of Virginia. Also in 2017, she was recognized by Style Weekly Women in the Arts for her contributions.
Alice Hale Hill, Representative Women of Colorado, 1914. She was "a force" in charitable and social works, a charter member of several organizations, president of the YWCA, and hostess during her husband’s political career. He married Alice Hale of Providence, Rhode Island, on July 26, 1860 (she was born January 19, 1840, and died July 19, 1908). Alice's father was Isaac Hale, born in the town of Newbury County of Essex, Massachusetts on Sept.
Adams devoted much of her post-war life to community service. She served on the Board of Directors of Dayton Power and Light, the Dayton Metro Housing Authority, the Dayton Opera Company, the Board of Governors of the American Red Cross, and the Board of Trustees of Sinclair Community College. She volunteered for United Way, the United Negro College Fund, the Urban League, and the YWCA. She also co- directed the Black Leadership Development Program.
During this time, America experienced the Great Awakening. People became aware of the disadvantaged and realized the cause for movement against slavery. In 1851, the first YMCA in the United States was started, followed seven years later by the first YWCA. During the American Civil War, women volunteered their time to sew supplies for the soldiers and the "Angel of the Battlefield" Clara Barton and a team of volunteers began providing aid to servicemen.
Phyllis Georgie Haslam (24 May 1913 — 23 August 1991) was an Indian-Canadian swimmer and social worker. During the 1930s, Haslam swam on multiple university swim teams and won two medals at the 1934 British Empire Games. After completing her studies, Haslam held executive positions for the YWCA in Canada and Trinidad from the mid 1930s to early 1950s. From 1953 to 1978, Haslam was executive director of the Elizabeth Fry Society's Toronto branch.
Kittiwake remained a pillar of the Newfoundland and Labrador dance community in the coming decades. In 2003, Rimsay received a YWCA Woman of Distinction Award in recognition of her contributions to Kittiwake and to the local arts community in general. In January 2007, Rimsay stepped down as Kittiwake's artistic director and moved to Toronto, where she became outreach administrator with the National Ballet School. Martin Vallée succeeded Rimsay in 2007 and remains Kittiwake's artistic director.
Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women (BLSYW), established in 2009, initially occupied the third floor of Western but moved into its own building in the former Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA downtown center at the northeast corner of Park Avenue and West Franklin Street in the following year. The people of Western High School opposed the idea of BLSYW being housed in that building. The current principal of Western High School is Michelle White.
The Senate District 18 comprises: Litchfield and Wards 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 in the city of Manchester. In addition to her elected positions Senator DeVries also serves on the board of directors of the Heritage United Way, and the Manchester YWCA. She is past president of the Manchester Area League of Women Voters, a member of the Crystal Lake Preservation Association and a member of the Pine Island Pond Environmental Society.
However, the main campus was not ready for classes. Instead, during the first year, classes were held in various locations throughout Rockford, including Harlem High School, the Rockford YWCA, the National Guard Armory, and the Naval Reserve Armory. By Fall 1966, classes moved to three small wooden buildings at the current main campus location . The buildings, referred to as "temp building" on campus, remained active in a variety of capacities for 37 years.
The resolution passed by the Rhode Island House of Representatives recognizing March 8, 2007, as "Women's History Day" specifically mentioned Ahearn's accomplishment in becoming the state's first woman legislator "just two short years after women gained the right to vote". In 2011, the YWCA of Rhode Island created the Isabelle Ahearn O’Neill Award in her memory to honor the state's women leaders. In 2014, she was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame.
Sou'wester Yearbook, 1910 After graduating in 1910 with a B.A., she taught English for two years in Texas. Throughout the 1910s Graham worked as a secretary for the YWCA's Southwestern Field, which spanned Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico.Shirley Kreasan Krieg, The History of Zeta Tau Alpha, 1898-1928 Vol. 1 In 1921 she moved to New York City and later directed YWCA camps including Camp Quannacut (Pine Bush, NY) and Camp Winnecunnet (Martha's Vineyard, MA).
It began awarding Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Arts, and Bachelor of Instruction degrees during this period. The YMCA and YWCA established organizations on campus, and a school newspaper, the Progressive Educator (later known as the Pioneer Educator) was launched in 1886. The 32-year presidency of James T. Cooter, which began in 1891, saw the school transition to a junior college. An industrial department was established, and a farm was purchased in 1900.
It closed in May 2017. Open again now (December 2017) Totterdown has a growing number of popular restaurants. The Thali Cafe chain is known for its eco-friendly food and take-away scheme using tiffins, winning an Observer Food Monthly award for "Best UK Cheap Eats" in 2010. Banco Lounge, part of the Bristol-based Loungers chain, is a smart cafe bar based in the old YWCA building on Wells Road, opened in July 2006.
Owunna's work has been exhibited in the United States, Canada, and Belgium, and has received numerous awards and recommendations including the YWCA Racial Justice Award for Creativity and Innovation. In addition to the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council grant mentioned above, he has also received grants from the Fine Foundation, the Pittsburgh Endowment, and the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust Fund. In 2018 he was awarded a Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace from Middlebury College.
After just over a decade at the Cleveland chapter, Wing moved to New York where she became general secretary and held a spot on the board of trustees. She returned to Cleveland in 1918 to take a spot as general secretary back at the Cleveland Metropolitan YWCA. She used this position as general secretary to push for proportional representation in Cleveland city government, and sat on the charter review which resulted in increased proportional representation.
The project had three successive editors: A. C. Dixon, Louis Meyer, and Reuben Archer Torrey. The essays were written by sixty-four different authors, representing most of the major Protestant Christian denominations. It was mailed free of charge to ministers, missionaries, professors of theology, YMCA and YWCA secretaries, Sunday school superintendents, and other Protestant religious workers in the United States and other English-speaking countries. Over three million volumes (250,000 sets) were sent out.
Beyond campus, Perry taught a course in "household accounting" to the members of the Home Improvement Association of Champaign, and at the YWCA in Decatur. In 1919, Perry taught in Chicago. In 1920 she became a professor of economics at Hunter College in New York. Later in life, she attended law school at the University of Chicago, earned a Juris Doctor degree, and was a member of the Illinois State Bar Association.
Those children that remained in Neenah were either founders or major contributors to the YWCA, the Boys' Brigade, Theda Clark Hospital, the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, the Emergency Society, Oak Hill Cemetery, the First Presbyterian Church and the Visiting Nurse Association. More than 100 years since his death, Babcock's Bible study class - which was composed entirely of women - still meets at the First Presbyterian Church of Neenah and is known today as the Friends Class.
In 1990 Alexander became special assistant to the chief executive officer of the YWCA. Alexander then worked as Chancellor to the New York City Board of Education Office in 2000–2001. Dr. Alexander taught at Walter State Community College from 2001-2005 and Lane College from 2005–2007. Alexander served on the Olympic and Pan-American Sports Advisory Council, the United States Olympic Committee Board of Directors, and was president of the Arthur Ashe Foundation.
Public schools are operated by the Baltimore City Public School System. This includes the Baltimore School for the Arts on Cathedral Avenue. In 2010 Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women (BLSYW), a charter secondary school for girls, moved into its permanent campus, the former headquarters of the Greater Baltimore Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in Mount Vernon. The BLSYW was the first newly established public school in that area in three decades.
The franchise was still a drain on the Auditorium and was folded by the NHL in 1935. In 1936, the Auditorium went into receivership and was controlled by the Royal Securities Corporation until 1945, when Gorman returned and purchased the building and the Senators. Gorman would remain an owner until he died in 1962. The arena was demolished in 1967 and replaced at that location by the YMCA-YWCA building (180 Argyle Avenue).
On April 24, 1965, The Rolling Stones performed one show at the Auditorium, by then owned by the YM-YWCA, attended by "3,400 screaming teenagers." The band did not perform again in Ottawa until 40 years later on August 28, 2005 at Frank Clair Stadium. The Auditorium was also the site of dance performances. On April 23, 1924 actress Louise Brooks appeared as one of the dancers of the Denishawn Dance Company at the Auditorium.
She worked as a history teacher at Booker T. Washington High School in Rocky Mount for nearly 30 years, from 1926 until 1952. Brown was a charter member of Chi Omega chapter in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, in 1925, when she also served as president of the chapter. She was also a founding member of Rocky Mount's YWCA. Brown promoted community learning about Negro History by developing local exhibits, which she arranged annually.
Deng Yuzhi (, September 1900–1 October 1996) also known as Cora Deng, was a Chinese social and Christian activist, and a feminist. Born in Hubei, she promoted women's education and rights, and defied the traditional woman's role in Chinese society. A Protestant by birth, she was an active and leading member of the Chinese Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). She established night schools for the women workers of industrial establishments, and fought for their rights.
In 1937, she was vice-president of the World YWCA. She attended International Council of Women meetings in Calcutta (1936) and Edinburgh (1938). She led one of the planning committees and was a delegate to the World Missionary Conference at Tambaram in 1938. Hensman was a justice of the peace in Madras, and a Member of Parliament, representing Madras State in the Rajya Sabha, and as a member of the Indian National Congress.
Gong Zhenzhou provided his daughters a good education in spite of the family's lack of money. After graduating from St. Mary's Hall, Shanghai, Gong Peng and Gong Pusheng both studied at Yenching University, a leading Christian university. The two sisters were active in the anti-Japanese December 9th Movement of 1935, which centered at Yenching. At that time neither of them were Communists, and came from Christian households and worked in the YWCA.
When Maud Russell came to China they worked together in Beijing in 1919 and became close friends. Haass told Russell about the National Christian Council (NCC), which was helping arrange for Chinese and foreign Christians in Shanghai to work on World Student Christian Federation (WSCF) industrial reform. In 1920–21 Haass was acting head of the Social Science department of Princeton-in-Peking. Haass worked with Agatha Harrison in the YWCA Industrial Department.
The ballet will help raise public awareness on the devastating impact of domestic violence. The creation of the ballet was supported in part by: The Government of Canada, Status of Women Canada, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and The Canada Council of the Arts. In 2012, the Transition House Association of Nova Scotia, the World YWCA, Family SOS, Silent Witness Nova Scotia, and Leave Out Violence partnered together to host Ghosts of Violence in Halifax.
Admission to the Portland Y was opened to women in 1874, and the membership expanded. By 1909, the downtown Portland Y occupied an eight-story building shared by the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). The structure included a large auditorium, classrooms, gymnasiums, a swimming pool, and 200 dormitory rooms for single adults. Although the downtown Y was open to Sellwood residents, it was about away by streetcar, which not everyone could afford.
The Queen Anne Style brick residence was designed by Frank Thayer for Lorin P. Cray, a civic leader, judge and philanthropist. Built in 1897 at a cost of $13,000, the house is constructed of buff brick, red brick, pink granite and Kasota limestone. It features towers, porch, columns, side balcony and stained, etched and beveled glass windows typical of the period. The property once included a carriage house, which was demolished to make room for a YWCA annex.
Brian Ojanpa, Hubbard House to show off , Mankato Free Press, May 27, 2009, Accessed August 12, 2009. Both houses are listed on the NRHP. Cray was an important donor to what became the Mankato YWCA; when he and his wife died in 1927, the house and furnishings were willed to the organization along with an endowment for the upkeep of the building. The organization moved into the structure on November 12, 1927, using it initially as a communal house.
Bolling said he grew up near lumbering operations and was always around trees. Reportedly he enjoyed whittling which would have provided him significant experience with carving various kinds of wood. His carving seems to have been an enjoyable and somewhat profitable hobby, but he viewed himself as a porter or messenger by occupation. His hobby seems to have taken a serious turn about the time he produced some early figures for a group exhibition sponsored by the YWCA.
The 1917 Noah Webster Memorial Library building is a historic library building at 7 North Main Street in West Hartford, Connecticut. Built to a design by the Hartford firm Davis & Brooks, it is a prominent local example of Colonial Revival architecture. It housed the town library (founded in 1897) between 1917 and 1937, and later served as a YMCA/YWCA hall and a senior center. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
During 1919 and 1920 Stamp served as the director of recreation for female workers at the Industrial Service Center of the YWCA in New Orleans while finishing her studies at Newcomb College. In 1921, Stamp graduated from with a degree in sociology. After graduation, Stamp accepted a position with the Red Cross as a field representative in the South. Soon after, University of Maryland president Albert F. Woods offered her the position of Dean of Women, which she accepted.
Logie was born in Invercargill in 1969. She graduated from the University of Otago with a BA in politics and served as Women's Coordinator for the New Zealand Union of Students' Associations from 1993 to 1996. She lived and worked in Japan as an Assistant Language Teacher on the JET Programme. She has previously worked for Women's Refuge, the Hutt Valley Youth Health Service, the New Zealand YWCA and the New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities.
"Philipps House," Art UK – Your Paintings, accessed 22 June 2013."Philipps House (Dinton House)," The DiCamillo Companion, accessed 22 June 2013. Philipps and his wife, who had no children, annually hosted the pupils from the village school for a tea party at Philipps House with sports and fireworks. In 1936, Philipps leased the house to the YWCA and moved to nearby Hyde's House, a former rectory which he had bought in 1924 and where he lived until his death.
Elizabeth Ann or Anne Plankinton (July 27, 1853 – 1923) was an American philanthropist in the early 20th century, the daughter of Milwaukee businessman John Plankinton. She was also known as "Miss Lizzie" and the people of Milwaukee called Plankinton the "municipal patroness" because of her generosity. One of her gifts was a large monetary donation that built the first YWCA in Milwaukee. She also purchased an elaborate large scale pipe organ for the newly constructed city auditorium.
In 2009, Fato was inducted into the YWCA-NYC Academy of Women Leaders. She was named one of Ethisphere Magazine's "Attorneys Who Matter" in 2015 and 2017. In 2017, the New York County Lawyers Association honored her as one of its Outstanding Women in the Legal Profession. In 2018 and 2019 she was named by the National Association of Corporate Directors' NACD Directorship magazine as one of the Directorship 100, which recognizes the most influential people in corporate boardrooms.
He joined Andrew McClelland in a business that year. He opened a new business, Charles H. Stickney Co. Investment Bankers, in 1892, which handled mortgage loans and bonds secured on Pueblo properties with corresponding bank First National Bank of Boston. In 1905 it added insurance and other services. He was active in the community, serving on the boards of the YWCA and the McLelland Library, and helping the First Congregational Church of South Pueblo build its church.
Members were women who served with the YMCA, YWCA, Red Cross, Salvation Army, Jewish Welfare and other agencies. Among the roles they played in France were army nurses, Signal Corps girls, canteen workers, librarians and entertainers. Their activities after the war included visiting soldiers in the hospital, supplying them with flowers, books and phonographs as well as arranging occasional entertainment activities.Preuss, Arthur A Dictionary of Secret and other Societies St. Louis: B. Herder Book Co. 1924 p.
An early electric chair. Richeson was executed in an electric chair on May 21, 1912. Avis Linnell's death on October 14, 1911 at the YWCA in Boston was initially thought to be of natural causes due to what Dr. George Burgess Mcgrath, the Medical Examiner of Boston, described as Dr. Timothy D. Lehane, the coroner's physician's, incompetence. Mcgrath said, The cyanide was purchased October 10, but Avis' death was not until Saturday, October 14, four days later.
The first formal training program for practical nurses was developed at the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in New York City in 1892. The following year this became the Ballard School of Practical Nursing (after Lucinda Ballard, an early benefactor) and was a three-month-long course of study concerned with the care of infants, children and the elderly and disabled. The curriculum included instruction in cooking and nutrition as well as basic science and nursing.
George Carleton met Harriet Lang Boutelle, who had come to Canton as a YWCA secretary.Harriet Lang Boutelle 1908 They married on June 26, 1918 in Chelsea, Massachusetts.Report of Birth of Children Born to American Parents, American Consular Service; 1919, 1928 Carleton Lacy's son, Creighton Boutelle "Corky" Lacy, was a long-time professor of World Christianity at the Duke Divinity School. Born in Kuling on May 31, 1919, Creighton Lacy grew up in Shanghai and attended Shanghai American School.
In 1983, Clark developed the Young Adult Program at the Center for Youth Resources to help teenagers and young mothers develop needed skills to get jobs and raise families. Working with the Land of Lakes Girl Scouts, she developed a teen outreach program to mentor young girls. As a Program Coordinator at the YWCA, she developed and led a teen pregnancy prevention program. In 1990, Clark was a founding member of Central Minnesota's Habitat for Humanity.
During her tenure, she helped found the first kindergarten in Munda. In 1980, when women began discussing the idea of establishing a National Council of Women, Aqorau became involved in the organisation and was elected as the inaugural president in 1983. She served in the post for three years, while simultaneously acting as coordinator of the YWCA Training Centre. She ran for provincial office on the Western Provincial Government Area Council and in 1997 contested in the national elections.
Ruth Logan Roberts began her work as a suffragist around 1913 in Tuskegee. She continued her activism after her move to New York City, notably serving on a number of boards and actively advocating for women's suffrage and against racial discrimination. Roberts was a member of the boards of directors of national and local YWCA as well as board of the Katy Ferguson Home for Unmarried Mothers. She also served on the New York State Board of Social Welfare.
Mid-1800s drawing of Harvey Cedars Hotel (picture was framed, and there is glare off the glass) It served as the Harvey Cedars Hotel until around the 1910s when it went out of business. In the early 1920s the property was purchased by the Philadelphia YWCA and turned into Camp Whelen, a Christian summer camp for young girls. Camp Whelen survived until the Depression. After shutting down due to declining attendance, the hotel was abandoned for about 10 years.
Shaw taught physical education in the Sumter Public Schools from 1925 to 1939 and directed a summer camp for girls from 1929 to 1950. Shaw became increasingly involved in service to her community and joined the Red Cross, the YWCA, and the Salvation Army, among others. Shaw was also a charter member of the local Junior Welfare League. In 1950, she was elected to the Sumter City Council, becoming the first woman to serve in that body.
With its role set as an "International YMCA", it will further be distinguished with the Chinese YMCA of Hong Kong and the YWCA of Hong Kong due to different target groups of serving. This serves as a clarification of the differences of itself and the Chinese YMCA of Hong Kong. Its founding director was Mr. Charles Montague Ede, and its general secretary was Mr. John Livingstone McPherson from 1905 to 1935. The recent general secretary is Mr. Peter Ho.
John Fitzgerald Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia 2007 - Page 204 "Ma's wife Huo Qingtang founded the Hong Kong branch of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in 1918, and two years later was elected founding .." Chinese YMCA of Hong Kong is different from YMCA of Hong Kong. They are two independent organisations in Hong Kong, both traced back to the same YMCA in England but founded differently and provide different directions of service.
Edith Carr (February 5, 1856 - December 11, 1919) was an American-Canadian China-painter and founder of the YWCA in Victoria, British Columbia. Most notably, she was the elder sister of Canadian artist Emily Carr. While Edith's artistry never received the same level of recognition as her sister, she won several awards for her donations to non-profit religious organizations. Carr raised the funds she would later donate by selling her painted ceramic pieces at Christmas bazaars.
She was active in the NAACP, the YWCA, and the National Council of Negro Women. Published works by Jackson included The Development of Negro Children in Reference to Education (1923, her master's thesis) and Librarians' Role in Creating Racial Understanding (1944). In 1971, Jackson received the Berkeley Citation award. She gave an oral history interview for the Bancroft Library in 1984 and 1985, for their series of interviews on early black alumni of the University of California.
Bervie Church Bervie contains many prominent community groups: Bervie Church Bervie Church is part of Arbuthnott, Bervie and Kinneff Church. It is on the main street in close proximity to the school. The parish also owns the Church Centre (formerly the manse) next to the church, and the Herd Centre (formerly YWCA Hall) at the bottom of Town Head. In 2010, the Rev. Dennis Rose became the minister, and he served the congregation until June 2016.
The YWCA Building at 1040 Richards Street, Honolulu, Hawaii, popularly called the Richards Street Y, is now officially named Laniākea, which means 'open skies' or 'wide horizons' in the Hawaiian language. It was designed by San Francisco architect Julia Morgan, who considered it one of her favorites. The building consists of two large units which are connected by a two-story loggia. The main building is three stories high and faces Richards St. with a frontage of 165 feet.
In 1908 she became the first black national secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). She married sociologist George Edmund Haynes in 1910 and had a son, George Jr., in 1912. She volunteered at what would become the United States Women's Bureau and became a domestic service secretary for the United States Employment Service. In 1919, with Elizabeth Carter and Mary Church Terrell, she petitioned the International Congress of Working Women to offer programs relevant to black women.
MacArthur Park Restaurant - a former YWCA "Hostess House" designed by Julia Morgan in 1918. The post hospital on Willow Road in Menlo Park later became the site of a Veterans Administration hospital. It is now also the location of Stanford University's Arbor Free Clinic.Early History page , Menlo Park History web site, undated Two popular restaurants, MacArthur Park (which once housed Palo Alto's community center) and the Oasis Beer Garden (now closed) are both located in former Camp Fremont buildings.
Laura Rademaker, "Gender, Race, and Twentieth-Century Dissenting Traditions" in Mark P. Hutchinson, ed., The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume V: The Twentieth Century: Themes and Variations in a Global Context (Oxford University Press 2018): 427. Mohini Maya Das, "The Meaning of the Federation Conference to Orientals" The Student World (July 1922): 95-96. Maya Das was critical of white Westerners working in India, including the YWCA, by the time she spoke in Beijing in 1922.
She has been a YWCA Woman of the Year in 1994 and, in 2000, received a Wired Woman of the Year award from the Wired Women's Society. The academic world, through Ryerson University, McMaster University, Montréal, University of Waterloo and Ottawa Universities, has recognized her contributions through the award of honorary doctorates. She has also been a member of the Board of Trustees of Thunderbird University in Arizona. Micheline Bouchard is the widow of fellow engineer Jean-Paul Sardin.
Asilomar State Beach, officially Asilomar State Beach and Conference Grounds State Park, is a state park unit of California, USA. It provides public access to rocky coast and dune habitat on the Monterey Peninsula. The property includes the Asilomar Conference Grounds, a conference center built by the YWCA in 1913 that is now a National Historic Landmark. The site is located in Pacific Grove and offers overnight lodging and views of the forest, surf and sand.
Outside of sport he was president of the YWCA and the YMCA in England, a director of Barclays Bank and Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1907, 1908 and 1909. He was Honorary Colonel of the Tay Division Submarine Miners a Volunteer unit of the Royal Engineers based in Dundee.Burke's. He was appointed a Knight of the Thistle in 1914. This gave him the Post Nominal Letters "KT" for Life.
Frances Harriet Williams (1898–1992) was an American activist and civil servant. She was born in 1898 in Danville, Kentucky to Frank L. Williams and Fannie (Miller) Williams but grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1919 and earned a master's degree in political science from the University of Chicago in 1931. Between 1935 and 1940 she worked as the interracial education secretary for the YWCA of the United States.
Rockefeller's parents were Laurance Rockefeller (1910–2004) and Mary French (1910–1997). He has three sisters, Marion, Laura, and Lucy, and is a fourth generation member of the Rockefeller family. His patrilineal great-grandfather was Standard Oil's co-founder John D. Rockefeller and his matrilineal great- grandfather was Frederick H. Billings, a president of Northern Pacific Railway. Both of his grandmothers, Mary Billings French and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, were important to the early development of YWCA USA.
Young People's Coalition organizer Jim Heaphy said, "We get calls on drug abuse, general rap problems, parents, jobs, suicides, draft and legal information, all kinds of different things. We refer a lot of callers to other agencies." The Young People's Coalition also operated a drop-in center at the YMCA in Royal Oak, a coffee house in the YWCA in Ecorse, Michigan, and an anonymous drug analysis program. A free clinic at Center House opened in July, 1971.
Their efforts led to the establishment of the Joint Committee on National Recovery (JCNR), a group of 26 national groups, including the YWCA, National Urban League (NUL), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Davis became Executive Secretary of the JCNR, a position he held until 1936, serving as a legislative lobbyist. The committee lobbied for fair inclusion of African Americans in government-sponsored programs. It publicized incidents and patterns of racial discrimination.
Wider Opportunities for Women partnered with the YWCA National Capital Area, and the Community Services Agency of the Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL- CIO to create the Washington Area Women in the Trades (WAWIT) Program in 2007. WAWIT provides skill training and pre-vocational and pre-apprenticeship training at no cost in non-traditional construction trade careers for women. This program is an example of WOW's dedication to placing women in high paying jobs to provide for their families.
After selling a cattle ranch in South Dakota in 1960, Haines gave his shoe business to 28 key employees. He also gave substantial gifts to farmers of his land, boy and girl scouts, YMCA, YWCA, his church, and York Hospital. Upon dying, Haines gave the Haines Shoe House to his employees. The house has since had a series of owners and is currently a museum and an ice cream and gift shop open from March to October.
CATCO (formerly known as Contemporary American Theatre Company) is a regional professional theatre company in Columbus, Ohio. Operating under an Actors' Equity SPT 3+ contract, it produces a five- to six-show season that commonly runs from October through June and consists of contemporary, classic, and new works. In January 1985, founding artistic director Geoffrey Nelson financed a production of Bill C. Davis's Mass Appeal at the YWCA under the company name Columbus Theatre Project.Grossberg, Michael.
Along with teaching and her medical practice, Phillips was also made the unofficial physician for the YWCA, in which she helped Chinese women medically and socially. While in Peking, Phillips adopted a two year old European boy, whom she called Clifford. He was sent to England at the age of 16 to continue his education. He remained in the UK, serving in the RAF during World War II and did not meet his mother until it ended.
Addy sang in concerts, on radio, and at benefits for the YWCA and other organizations, in Australia and New Zealand in the 1930s. She was involved in the centenary celebrations in South Australia in 1936. Her programs were mainly Bengali songs, including works by Rabindranath Tagore, but she sometimes included British folk songs, African-American spirituals, Italian arias, and German lieder. She also gave short talks during her programs, about Gandhi, Tagore, and other Indian topics.
Checha Davies (often cited as Mrs. E. V. Davies) (1898–1979) was an Indian- born Singaporean social worker and women's rights activist. In her younger days, she was an educator but after her move to Singapore she was active in church work and social service organisations, serving as president of the YWCA on two separate occasions. Davies was instrumental in the committee which drafted the rules for the Singapore Council of Women and served on its executive committee.
Sagavoll folkehøgskole, Sagavoll Folk High School, is a Christian folk high school in Norway. It is situated in Gvarv, a small town in the municipality of Sauherad in the county of Telemark. The school was founded in 1893 in Notodden by Asbjørn Knutsen, but later moved to its current location in Gvarv. It is an independent foundation, and is run by a board consisting of representatives from KRIK, Normisjon and KFUK-KFUM (the Norwegian YMCA/YWCA).
This led to the invention of basketball and volleyball in the late 19th century. Also, the YMCA had a female counterpart, the YWCA. The social gospel movement, “found sports to be a useful tool to draw inner-city youth to their churches, which often housed gymnasiums.” The social gospel movement lead to the creation of settlement houses, where middle-class men and women would study the social problems of the neighbourhood and attempt to fix them.
Everett's wife served as the director of a nearby girl's vacation camp (future YWCA camp), Camp Miramichee. Scouts came to camp as individuals and were then were sorted into "tribes" and assigned a stone lodge to live in. Activities included hiking, baseball, volleyball, tennis, swimming, canoeing, observation, and Scout drills. During World War II the Chickasaw Council moved their summer camp program to Camp Currier in Eudora, Mississippi due to the declining attendance and increased costs.
Eva Catherine Ault (October 11, 1891 - 1984) was a Canadian woman ice hockey player. Known as "Queen of the Ice", Ault is credited with helping to popularize women's ice hockey during the early 20th century. She was born in Aultsville, Ontario, grew up in Finch, Ontario and later moved to Ottawa with her family. She joined the Ottawa Alerts, a team formed in 1915; its members came from the Ottawa Ladies' College and the local YWCA.
She established majors in English, Music, and Food Science at Doshisha after 1930. She retired from the post in 1933. "Miss Matsuda's long unbroken devotion to the college, and her noble upright personality, combined with her scholarly mind, have added one more gem to the crown of Christian womanhood", commented fellow educator Kawai Michi on the occasion of Matsuda's retirement. Matsuda served on the national committee of the YWCA in Japan, with Tsuda, Kawai, Kei Okami, and Tomo Inouye.
Aged fifteen she returned home from education to the family home which she inherited in 1883. In 1880 she took a leading role in the YWCA and she would host tea on Sundays for the young women. She inherited a fortune from her parents and that enable her to concentrate on her interest in temperance. In 1876 she joined the British Women's Temperance Association and served as the secretary of the newly formed branch in Alloa.
August 22, 2006. Renovations also removed a mezzanine that the YWCA had added to the upper portion of the main floor. Other renovations included new heating, cooling, and ventilation systems, upgrades for technology, all while retaining the historical look and feel of the original 1912 building. On September 12, 2008, the building was re-dedicated exactly 96 years after the original dedication in a ceremony featuring sitting Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
In 1923, she was re-elected again for the top post of the Women's Auxiliary. The following decade, she supervised the Youth's Conservation Council and School's education department. Very active in clubs and organizations, DeBaptiste was president of the District Teacher's Association of Chicago and the Mother's Union. She was involved with the NAACP, the Urban League, the YWCA and the World's Fellowship of Faiths, as well as serving as president of the exclusive Old Settler's Club in 1943.
Colin swaps his single bed for a fancy old double wrought iron bed which he finds in a scrapyard with Tom. Nancy meets Colin at the scrapyard. Nancy is an inexperienced and shy young woman who has arrived to London from out of town, and is searching for the YWCA. She stops by a clothing store and is won over by the flattery of the clerk, until she overhears him repeating the same words to every female customer.
In 1987, Nguyen was crowned "Miss Asia," in 1996, she was named "YWCA Woman of the year," in 2000, she was designated one of the country's "25 Most Influential Vietnamese-Americans in 25 years," and in 2011, she was honored by the California State Legislature as Woman of the Year for her philanthropic work. Nguyen has a non-profit foundation called "Love Across the Ocean", which benefits underprivileged school children in Vietnam and assists refugees in Southern California.
Despite being told to consider a career as a hairdresser, by a neighbor at the local YWCA, Esther had her mind set on medicine. After graduating from high school, Harrison had sights set on attending Yale University, although the school was not coed in 1943. She graduated from Boston University in 1947 with a B.A. in chemistry. She was rejected from Boston University's medical school due to the limited availability of two seats for African American students.
N.C.F.C. explains new family and children laws countrywide, Channel 5 Belize, 30 July 1998. Retrieved 25 November 2017. Middleton was later president of YWCA Belize from 2002 to 2009, as well as a board member of Wesley College. She was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1976, and a Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (DCMG) in 1998, for "services to education and the community".
Meyer was credited by her teammate, Thelma Payne, in sparking her interest in diving when she witnessed Meyer perform at the Portland YWCA. Meyer was also the first pupil of Jack Cody to win a national title. Cody, who went on to train several Olympic swimmers and divers, is in the International Swimming Hall of Fame as a coach. In 1922, DeWitt Harry for The Oregonian called Meyer the "grittiest and most daring amateur woman divers".
The 1933 Commission on Student Volunteer Movement Policy, among other suggestions which were disturbing to the SVM leadership, had advocated the establishment of a Student Christian Movement in America which would unite YMCA, YWCA and SVM into one body. This idea was considerably ahead of its time in the United States, although an experimental body of this type had been established in Canada in 1988 and was already the mode of operation in Great Britain. There was, however, a growing conviction that the Volunteer Movement should cooperate very closely with the National Intercollegiate Christian Council (YMCA and YWCA), as well as with denominational bodies, while still maintaining its organizational autonomy. At a consultation at Oberlin College in 1936, measures were taken to consolidate cooperation with the National Intercollegiate Christian Council, including the radical decree that individual SVM members and regional Student Volunteer groups should incorporate all their activities into the NICC work in their locality. In 1939, the National Intercollegiate Christian Council for the first time officially provided for the inclusion of the SVM General Secretary as a member of its Administrative Committee.
Throughout the 1930s, Hedgeman remained active in protest activities, her militancy resulting in a forced resignation from the directorship of the black branch of the Brooklyn YWCA. In 1944, she became the executive secretary of the National Council for a Permanent Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC). In 1946, Hedgeman served as assistant dean of women at Howard University. In 1954, she became the first African American woman to hold a mayoral cabinet position in the history of New York City.
In 1904, Portland officials were preparing for the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition. Among their concerns was a possible influx of non-resident criminals to the city. Officials feared some would target young women and girls, and lure or coerce them into sexual activity, including prostitution. As part of the exposition preparations, women's groups, including the Travelers Aid Society, the YWCA, and many local secular and religious organizations, made plans to prevent the sexual exploitation of young women during the fair.
Mary Nevan Gannon was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1867. With some prior experience in an architect's office, she entered the New York School of Applied Design for Women in 1892 as part of its first class. Her future partner Alice J. Hands was one of her classmates. Even less is known about Hands than about Gannon, apart from the fact that she had been studying at the New York City YWCA for a couple of years before entering NYSAD.
Cecelia Cabaniss Saunders (1879 – February 23, 1966) sometimes written as Cecilia Cabaniss Saunders, was an African-American civil rights leader, and executive director of the Harlem, New York YWCA. She is best known for working against racial discrimination in wartime employment during World War II,Cecilia Cabaniss Saunders Papers, 1941-1945, New York Public Library."Social Work Agencies Here are Gratified that F. E. P. C. Is Cracking Down on War Plants" New York Age (June 27, 1942): 3. via Newspapers.
She lectured throughout Europe and established the first World Fellowship Committee of the YWCA. On June 12, 1932, in the dining hall at Lincoln Academy, Kings Mountain, North Carolina, Bailey married Howard W. Thurman (1900–1981), a minister, who would become a social critic, writer and dean of several prominent US universities."Nuptial Set for Thurman-Bailey" New York Amsterdam News (May 25, 1932): 4."Y. W. C. A. Secretary Pretty Bride of Howard Thurneau" Chicago Defender (July 2, 1932): 6.
She worked in the Women's Auxiliary of the Salvation Army, the Wayne County War Preparedness Board, served on the Metropolitan Detroit YWCA board of directors, and was a delegate for Michigan at the Illiteracy Conference of Northern and Western States. In 1920, the Women's World Congress approached her, asking her to run for the president of the United States, which she did not do. In 1922 she considered a run for Congress, which she decided against. She died in 1962.
Baeta established a private practice upon her return to the Gold Coast in 1950. She led a public relations initiative to establish a national YWCA for the colony and a documentary film was produced as part of the drive to educate the public about the organisation. Baeta married Fred Jiagge on 10 January 1953. She gave up the Bar and became a magistrate for the Bench in June 1953. In 1954, she began regularly attending the conferences of the World Council of Churches.
Engstrom was prominent in a number of educational, professional, and civic organizations. He was active in the Princeton chapters of the American Red Cross, Sigma Xi, the Rotary Club and the YMCA-YWCA. He was also a member of Westerly Road Church where he served many years as the president of the board of trustees. Engstrom was an active Christian leader, writing for Campus Crusade for Christ: > There is one fundamental concept I have learned very clearly from my > business experience.
At about the same time Eugen Neuhaus, a German painter, arrived in Pacific Grove with his new bride. Charles B. Judson was an artist of aristocratic lineage who painted in Pacific Grove over a long period of time beginning in 1907; Judson's murals decorate the halls of the California Academy of Sciences. The Asilomar Conference Grounds are located at the western edge of Pacific Grove. Asilomar opened in 1913 as a YWCA summer retreat it now belongs to the California State Park System.
The library was housed in the YMCA Building, a part of Cocoa House, a community center that also contained a bank, post office, store, theatre, dormitories, and Hershey Trust Company offices. Point was made, however, to manage the library through a joint committee of the YWCA and YMCA, enabling resources to be available to both men and women. Librarian Ella F. Kegerreis reported that from February 1912 to January 1913, the library held 338 books and served 256 patrons.Hershey Press 20 Jun.
Dorothy Chacko was honoured with the Smith College Medal by her alma mater, Smith College, in 1970 and she was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Delaware County, Pennsylvania in 1996. The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1972. The Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania awarded her the Take the Lead Honour and the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, the YWCA, and the Pennsylvania Medical Society also honoured her on different occasions.
The festival continued at the Boston YWCA five more times. From 1951 onward, it was held in a variety of town and cities near Boston, visiting Worcester several times, and once each in Exeter, New Hampshire, Manchester, New Hampshire, North Kingston, Rhode Island, Brockton, Massachusetts and Lowell, Massachusetts. It was held in Natick High School from 1967 to 1970, then returned to Natick in 1974 and remained there through 2006. Since 2007, the site is in Mansfield High and Middle Schools.
On June 13, 2000, Grafton was the recipient of the 2000 YWCA of Lexington Smith-Breckinridge Distinguished Woman of Achievement Award. In 2004, she received the Ross Macdonald Literary Award, which is given to "a California writer whose work raises the standard of literary excellence." In 2008, Grafton was awarded the Cartier Dagger by the British Crime Writers' Association, honoring a lifetime's achievement in the field. Grafton received the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 2009.
She married George E. Mason, a former assistant attorney general. She was the first Hispanic woman to serve on the board of directors for Lansing Community College. She received the Diana L. Gorham Lifetime Achievement Award from the Lansing YWCA, the Cesar Chavez Community Service Award, the Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things Award from the National Women's History Project's Michigan chapter and the Regional Mujer Award from the National Hispana Leadership Institute. In 2000, she was named Hispanic Woman of the Year.
They did return occasionally and in 1905-6 Emily was the vice president of the Scottish branch of the Zenana Bible and Medical Missionary Society. She was very interested in the YWCA but her life can be partly judged by her 1944 book My Adopted Country, 1889–1944 which was published in India at Lucknow. However she worked in Britain too. During World War one she, and the YMCA, created 300 centres that could be exploited by WAACs and other war workers.
In addition to honoring women who have made a significant contribution to their community, the award dinners are one of the most important fundraising events for Canadian YWCAs. In the early 20th Century, the YWCA created a living space for young single women who had moved to the city to find work. In Toronto, the building was called the "Ontario House". The housing was created over concerns for the safety of women living by themselves, with board being of reasonable cost.
She was also a leading figure in YWCA already from her early twenties. She had undergone a Christian awakening while living in Rosendal, and was in 1897 selected as a teacher for a Norwegian Missionary Society program in colonial South Africa, but she was prevented by illness. From 1917 to 1939 she served as the national secretary of children's work in the Norwegian Missionary Society. During her tenure, the number of local missionary associations for children rose from about 300 to 1,100.
The Canadian Women in Communications Association named her Woman of the Year in 1995. In 2000, Ryerson University awarded her an honorary doctorate in engineering. In 2001, she received the Woman of Distinction designation from the YWCA, and in 2005, Stephenson was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Canadian Information Productivity Awards for her contribution in building a competitive telecommunications industry in Canada. In 2012, she was inducted into the London and District Business Hall of Fame in London, Ontario.
After three years, she moved to the Foxborough State Hospital in Massachusetts. Her weekends and vacations were spent at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital (now the Massachusetts Mental Health Center), where she came into contact with Elmer Southard, a leading child psychiatrist. Among her colleagues were Karl Menninger, Harry Solomon, and Lawson Lowrey, leaders in the field of psychiatry. Kenworthy moved to New York in 1919 to educate physical education teachers at the Central School of Hygiene of the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA).
As publicity director for a New York YWCA, soon after she graduated from college Santry promoted welfare workers' efforts on radio, becoming "one of the first to use radio to publicize a 'worthy cause.'" During one span, she set a record by interviewing 165 people in 165 days. From 1925 to 1931, Santry worked for the Hearst newspaper chain. She wrote for the women's department of The Washington Post and was director of radio programs for the New York Evening Journal.
In 1937, she was promoted to head the Industrial Programs of the YWCA. Her work entailed investigating working and educational conditions, submitting reports for action and providing support for labor unions. She continued to travel with her job and the couple also traveled to visit Sherwood's artist and writer friends all over the world. On one of these trips, taken in 1941 after the death of her mother, the couple were en route to Valparaiso, Chile aboard the SS Santa Lucia.
McBride works with a variety of charities. She has served as a spokeswoman for the National Domestic Violence Hotline as well as for the National Network to End Domestic Violence and national spokeswoman for the Tulsa Domestic Violence and Intervention Services. Every year since 1995, she has hosted Middle Tennessee's YWCA, "Celebrity Auction", and it has raised nearly $400,000 so far. In 2004, she worked with "Kids Wish Network" to fulfill the wish of a young girl dying from muscular dystrophy.
She was known to be a disciplinarian and perfectionist, excelling in every aspect of home-making. James owes every skill and craft that he possesses today, to her. Losing her when he was 21 was a turning point of his life. He studied first at YWCA Primary School (Presently BHEL Matriculation Higher Secondary School) and later at Bishop Heber Higher Secondary School (Teppakulam) and then graduated in English literature from Bishop Heber College, Trichy, though his desire was to pursue a science degree.
The survey was sponsored not only by the Urban League, but also the Women's Trade Union League and the YWCA. Her New Day for the Colored Woman in Industry in NY City, co-authored with Jessie Clark, was published in 1919.Margaret Busby (ed.), "Elise Johnson McDougald", in Daughters of Africa, Cape, 1992, p. 179. Her work as Executive Secretary for the Trade Union Committee for Organizing Negro Workers brought her into contact with other political organizers such as W.E.B. Du Bois.
The society often worked with branches of the YWCA in the locations that they sought to place women. Hubbard later realized that there were several different societies working interdependently to promote emigration and decided to try to unify them. She then published a book titled The United Englishwomen's Emigration Register and founded the United Englishwomen's Emigration Association to try to unify the women's emigration movement. In 1884 Caroline Blanchard also began the Colonial Emigration Society to focus on promoting emigration.
At this time she was also involved in the campaign for the women's suffrage, but on the suffragist side, regarding Millicent Fawcett as her leader rather than Sylvia Pankhurst, for whom however, she had a high regard. During the First World War she was involved in YWCA work to provide hostels and canteens for the women munition workers and for members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in France. She received the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) for this work in 1918.
Adelaide worked with Lady Aberdeen to found the National Council of Women of Canada, the Victorian Order of Nurses and the National Association of the YWCA. By Oct of 1902, the Ministry of Education was about to make domestic science a regular part of the curriculum in Ontario schools but Adelaide already had her sights on the next step. She wanted Domestic Science to be offered at the university level. She also knew she needed a wealthy patron to finance the project.
From 1996 to 1998 she served as the Executive Director of A Woman's Fund, a domestic violence shelter, and from 1999 to 2002 she worked for the University YMCA and the University YWCA first as Development Officer and then as Executive Director.Illinois House Democrats Naomi Jakobsson Homepage As of 2002 Jakobsson served on the board of the Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society, as the Urbana Human Relations Commissioner, and on the board of the Champaign County Habitat for Humanity.
She served as General Secretary of the Rockhampton, Queensland, branch of the YWCA from 1929 to 1931.Gillison, Royal Australian Air Force, pp. 99–100 In 1932 she took up a position as a training and research officer at Berlei, and from 1935 to 1939 represented the company in London as a senior executive. Stevenson had returned to Australia and was based in Sydney, supervising Berlei's product research and the training of sales staff, at the outbreak of World War II.
Maryann Krieglstein (born July 11, 1944), is an American academic social worker and Human Services Professor Emeritus at the College of DuPage. She previously served as the Coordinator of Sexual Assault Services for the YWCA of DuPage and the Coordinator of the Human Services program at the College of DuPage. Her research on domestic violence and heterosexism in Social Work has been published in the American Journal of Community Psychology and the Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment.
Because of the family's poverty, from the age eight, she worked to earn money to go to school. When her mother died in 1890, she moved to Copenhagen and began working with prostitutes for the Young Women's Christian Association (. Wanting to work as a missionary, Nielsen was referred to the Danish Missionary Society (DMS) by the YWCA board. The DMS had never sent women to the mission field and initially refused to send Nielsen, requiring her to complete her education.
" Patricia E. Williams is the co-founder, associate producer, general manager, & occasional stage manager of M Ensemble. Williams is an active member of the Screen Actors Guild and Actor's Equity. Williams holds full-time positions in addition to leading M Ensemble, include being director of the after school program at The YWCA of Greater Miami. According to her bio on the M Ensemble website, "her appearances include the M Ensemble productions; Black Spirit Ritual, Hansel and Gretel, and El Hall Malik Shabazz.
Colton worked with young women all her life and was particularly concerned for the welfare of girls with no family home. In 1884 she co-founded a club with a Christian focus for working girls which in December that year became a branch of the Young Women's Christian Association. Colton remained president of the YWCA for the remainder of her life opening city residential premises and suburban branches and successfully extending religious meetings, clubs and classes to supplement work of the churches.
Margaret E. Kuhn was born in Buffalo, New York, and spent her childhood in Cleveland, Ohio as well as Memphis, Tennessee. Her parents wanted to avoid raising her in the South due to the racial segregation that was occurring at that time. She majored in English at the Flora Stone Mather College of Case Western Reserve University. Kuhn's interest in social activism began to spark in the 1930s and 1940s, when she taught at the Young Women's Christian Association YWCA.
Tiger is promoted at work and continues to date the optometrist. Luther becomes more aggressive in his pursuit of Tiger, ultimately stalking her at work and breaking into her room at the YWCA. After catching Luther in her room one night, Tiger and Luther discuss their life philosophies; Luther sadly acknowledges that he and Janice are incompatible and agrees to leave her alone. The next day, Luther phones Janice's office in his "Mad Bomber of London" persona, threatening to blow up the building.
Benešová was very popular with the young women at YWCA, who formed an inner group called the "Božena Benešová girls." (A decade later, when she was gravely ill, it was to these same Božena Benešová girls that she dictated the final chapter of her final work Don Pablo, Don Pedro and Věra Lukášová.) From 1932 onward Benešová was a regular member of the Czech Academy of Arts and Sciences.Members of the Czech Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1890–1952, p. 39.
The first branch opened in 1925 as the Phyllis Wheatley Branch of the YWCA to serve African- Americans. In 1925, Sallie May Dooley died and left $500,000 to the City to construct a public library in memory of her husband, Major James H. Dooley. The Dooley Library (at the same location as the current Main library) opened in 1930 and the contents of the original library were moved in. In 1947, RPL Board opened all branches of the library system to blacks.
Club members created a wide variety of organizations aimed to improve the lives of African Americans in the east bay. Hettie B. Tilghman, Willa Henry, Melba Stafford and Delilah Beasley were very community oriented and in 1920 they created the Linden Center Young Women's Christian Association. The Linden Center YWCA offered vocational training as well as cultural programs. Despite the creation of independent organizations that grew out of the Fannie Jackson Coppin club, it remained intact and lasted well into the 1960s.
While at Oberlin, she had participated in community groups and campus literary clubs, and had a passion for working with children.Virginia Proctor Powell Florence: A Remarkable Oberlin Alumna Librarian. (2005). Library Perspectives, (32), 5 Powell Florence thought the combination of her experience working with children at the YWCA and her degree in English literature would be more than adequate qualifications for her to become a teacher. Unfortunately, the Pittsburgh school system did not see her qualifications in the same light.
Gage opted to resign from the Navy and use her veterans' benefit to attend university. Gage applied to the Ontario Veterinary College and was placed on a waiting list, which might mean her entry to university was delayed for two years. She returned to Oshawa and after doing a few temporary jobs, was hired at the YWCA. After working there for a year, she decided to enroll in early 1947 at the Ontario College of Art to study sculpting and graduated in 1951.
From 2007-2010, she served as President of the Board of Directors for the YWCA. In 2013, Zanish-Belcher was named Special Collections and University Archivist at Wake Forest University where she works today. She has written several books and articles over her career as well as giving lectures and presentations to groups and organizations across the country. At one presentation at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, she explored access to public records and how it has decreased through budget cuts and censorship.
Williams nephew John Williams married the only child of his lifelong London friend, Matthew Hodder, founder of British publisher Hodder & Stoughton. When George Hitchcock died in 1863, Williams became the sole owner of the firm. In 1868, Williams offered to contribute towards the election expenses of Charles Reed (British politician). When Williams died on 6 November 1905 at the Victoria and Albert Hotel, Torquay, England, he was president for societies including Band of Hope, London City Mission, Railway Mission and YWCA.
Rousso's main work focuses on three themes: psychotherapy, disabled women and fine art. After graduation from college she worked at the Office of Economic Opportunity in Washington, D.C. which helped trigger her interest in working with people. In the 1980s Rousso began the Networking Project for Disabled Women and Girls at the New York City YWCA. Later that decade she would publish Disabled, Female, and Proud: Stories of Ten Women with Disabilities and make the film Positive Images: Portraits of Women with Disabilities.
These schools provided impetus for organizing labor into political stream. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Deng took the initiative to organize and convince women workers of YWCA Shanghai to work in the war front, tending the sick and wounded soldiers. She also created "refugee camps and welfare stations for the families of soldiers", and helped soldiers write letters to their families. She convinced the then Kuomintang (KMT) government to honour the compensation rights due to the families of soldiers.
While her love of Native American artifacts was her passion, as a philanthropist Maie also played an active part in giving back to her community. She and other members of the Phoenix Women's Club worked to raise money for a library to be built in their city. In 1908 the Carnegie Library opened. Maie and other members of the Bartlett family also donated 6.5 acres that would be the home of the Civic Center House as well as the YWCA gymnasium.
Born to Reverend Dr. George M. Plaskett of St. Croix, Virgin Islands and Carrie Davenport of Montclair, New Jersey, Plaskett grew up in a religious household. The Plaskett family belonged to the Church of the Epiphany in Orange, New Jersey, where her father George Plaskett was the rector for 40 years. The Plaskett's were a middle-class family that were deeply involved with the community. Alongside being a scholar, Plaskett was also a member of her local YWCA in Orange, New Jersey.
In 1930 Haass was replaced as head of the Industrial Department by Deng Yuzhi (Cora Deng), who had completed a year of study at the LSE. In the 1930s Haass hired left-wing Chinese as YWCA staff workers, saying they were the "people of the future". In 1935–36 Haass took over most of the duties of general secretary while Ding Shuching was on furlough. Haass returned to the US in 1936 to study at Columbia University for a year.
Russell arrived in China in 1917. Upon arrival, she studied the language in Nanjing, and was subsequently appointed by the YWCA at a post in Changsha in Hunan. She worked in Changsha from 1919 to 1924, and later from 1928 to 1930, and again in 1932 to 1933. When Changsha was invaded by the revolutionary army of Chiang Kai- shek in 1930, Russell refused to leave the city and was mistakenly thought to have perished; a memorial service was held for her.
By living frugally he was free to follow his heart and choose subjects he cared about. He kept his rent low by living in a janitor's closet at the University YWCA, and he found free meals at Les Amis, a cafe that treated him as its artist-in-residence. He survived on wedding and passport work plus his income from the Texas Observer, which paid him $5 a picture. In 1980 Pogue had his first real photography show at Brazos Books.
She authored, co-authored or edited over 17 books, including: Feminist Interpretation of the Bible (1985), Inheriting our Mothers' Garden: Feminist Theology in Third World Perspective (1988), Church in the Round: Feminist Interpretation of the Church (1993), and Dictionary of Feminist Theologies (1996). She has been described as a "prominent matriarch of contemporary feminist bible criticism." She was also active in the ecumenical movement, and worked closely with the National Council of Churches, the World Council of Churches, and the YWCA.
During his service, he was responsible for the design and construction of many buildings of the new university, including the Science Building. For his contributions, he received an honorary Doctor of Science by the University of Hong Kong in 1975 and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the Chinese University in 1978. His other works included So Uk Estate, Choi Hung Estate, Kwun Lung Lau, Kowloon Methodist Church, No. 1 Hysan Avenue, Waterloo Road YWCA Building and the Garden Hotel in Guangzhou.
These colleges formed the federation which was created between 1919 and 1922. In 1923 the Anglican Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG) founded the College of the Ascension initially for the training of women missionaries, and in 1926 the Young Women's Christian Association established the YWCA College. In 1925 Fircroft produced a rural offshoot, Avoncroft, on a site in the Worcestershire countryside, about 12 miles from Selly Oak. Crowther Hall was created in 1969 by the Church Missionary Society.
She was a member of the YWCA and the Berkeley Women's Civic Club, and was director of the Oakland junior branch of the NAACP from 1928 to 1929. She supervised the Division on Negro Affairs of California's National Youth Administration during the Depression.Olen Cole Jr., "Black Youth in the National Youth Administration in California, 1935 to 1943" Southern California Quarterly 73(4)(Winter 1991): 385-402. DOI: 10.2307/41171597Lena M. Wysinger, "Activities Among Negroes" Oakland Tribune (October 30, 1938): 20.
Matthews found he had more time for his voluntary activities and served on the National Council and National Executive Committee of the YMCA from 1968 to 1971. He was also Chairman of the Finance Committee of the YWCA Birmingham Area from 1965 to 1972. Although giving up Parliamentary ambitions, he remained involved in the Conservative Party and served as Deputy Chairman, then Chairman of the West Midlands Conservative Council. Later in the 1970s, Matthews retired to Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire.
Margaret Wrong was the oldest child of historian George MacKinnon Wrong and Sophia Hume Blake, the daughter of Edward Blake, Premier of Ontario. The historians Edward Murray Wrong and Humphrey Hume Wrong were younger brothers. In 1911 Wrong and her brother Murray travelled to England to attend Oxford University. After three years studying at Somerville College she returned to Toronto, where she was a YWCA secretary and then a MA history studenty and part-time instructor at the University of Toronto.
There, he was presented with the gift of a government scholarship for high school students. The Prince dedicated the Prince of Wales Promenade on the river bank, where he was presented with an honorary membership in the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects. To mark the 90th anniversary of the YWCA, the Prince dedicated an arch re-built from the stones of its original building. It is situated outside the entrance off 25th Street, adjacent to the Community Service Village in the downtown core.
In addition to her work with Clark College, Dove also held many other leadership positions. In 1949, Dove served as Program Director at the Goodwill center in Memphis, Tennessee. Dove also served as the President of the Atlanta Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority between 1962 and 1963 and the President of the Atlanta Pan- Hellenic Council from 1961 until 1966. Dove also served as a Consultant for the Adult Education Committee of the Phyllis Wheatley Branch of YWCA from 1960 until 1976.
After graduating from Boston Normal School, Fauset was a public school teacher from 1914 to 1918 before taking a position as a field secretary for the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) where she worked on programs aimed at black youth and working girls throughout the United States. In this position, she also began to speak out about the concerns of black community and race relations in general. She later became actively involved in several different organizations geared towards the advancement for African Americans rights.
After she earned her Master's degree in social work, she worked with Hispanic, African American, and Chinese adolescents and kids in the Oakland Recreation Department. She worked with young married couples in the YWCA USA in Richmond, California, as well as in low-income housing projects with African Americans. Chan was the first Chinese social worker at Donaldina Cameron House and continued her work with the organization for 18 years. Chan taught social work at the City College of San Francisco and the San Francisco State University.
The chapel was built in 1851 as a Presbyterian church in the Greek Revival style. During the Civil War, the building briefly served as a Confederate hospital for wounded soldiers, and later in the century was temporarily divided into classrooms when the main building of the nearby Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College burned in 1887. Around 1900, the church was renovated in a Gothic style. The building was sold to the college in 1921, where it became the YMCA/YWCA center for a few years.
A native of Lebanon, Missouri, Wagoner was a 1948 graduate of Bolivar High School. She started to play softball in Phillipsburg on the boy's softball team in grade school and later joined the girls' softball team at Bolivar, playing also for the YWCA team of Springfield during two summers. Wagoner read about the AAGPBL in Life magazine when she was 12 years old. I told my parents that someday I'd like to play in that league (if I was good enough), she recalled in an interview.
She entered Teachers College, for studies in kindergarten-primary education. Brady was active in a number of organizations at UCLA, including Beta Phi Alpha, the YWCA, and the Prytanean Society, of which she was president. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1928, and two years later, on May 15, 1930, received a Master of Arts from the school's Berkeley campus. That same year she began her Ph.D., also at Berkeley, and graduated in 1935, with the thesis The Legends of Ermanaric.
Some years even fielded girls baseball team before softball became recognized as its own sport. The yearbooks of those early years noted games often against St. Andrew's Priory, YWCA, Palama, Normal School (later merged with University of Hawaii's College of Education), and even College of Hawaii (now known as University of Hawaii). McKinley was a founding member of the Interscholastic League of Honolulu in 1909 alongside Punahou and Kamehameha. In 1970, McKinley left the ILH with 4 other Honolulu area public schools to join the OIA.
Notably, in 1918 she was elected as chairman of the Housing Committee of the War Work Council. The committee was organized during World War I with the objective of providing improved living conditions for working women. For example, she worked closely with the architect who was tasked with designing a house in Charleston, South Caroline to house women working in a naval uniform factory. Rockefeller was director of the YWCA operated and owned, Grace Doge Hotel in Washington D.C. which was constructed in October 1921.
Ella Barrier was hired in 1875 to teach in the segregated schools of Washington D. C.. She stayed in Washington for more than forty years, working as a teacher, school principal, and clubwoman. Barrier helped develop the Washington branch of the YWCA. In 1891 she taught in Toronto, as part of a teacher exchange project.Vivian M. May, "Historicizing Intersectionality Through a Critical Lens: Returning to the Work of Anna Julia Cooper" in Carol Faulkner, ed., Interconnections: Gender and Race in American History (Boydell & Brewer 2014): 27.
Sue Bailey Thurman (née, Sue Elvie Bailey; August 26, 1903 – December 25, 1996) was an American author, lecturer, historian and civil rights activist. She was the first non-white student to earn a bachelor's degree in music from Oberlin College, Ohio. She briefly taught at the Hampton Institute in Virginia, before becoming involved in international work with the YWCA in 1930. During a six-month trip through Asia in the mid 1930s, Thurman became the first African-American woman to have an audience with Mahatma Gandhi.
John P. Jefferson House, also known as the Jefferson Tea House and YWCA Residence, is a historic home located at Warren, Warren County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1890, and is a three-story, stone and shingled dwelling in a Richardsonian Romanesque style. It features a steep hipped roof, four tall chimney stacks, a semi-circular turret, porch supported by massive stone columns, and bay windows. Note: This includes The Jefferson House is currently occupied by the administrative offices of the Northern Pennsylvania Regional College.
Don and Barbara Sullivan began living there with their children in 1985, when they bought the residence. Jim Osterfoss bought it in 1997, restored it, and turned it into the B&B; that it now is. The stone carriage house, originally a stable for four horses, was later used as an automobile garage and during the YWCA years as an entertainment center. The original stone smokehouse also still stands, making a total of three buildings on the property, though the carriage and main houses are now connected.
In 1916, the E.I. DuPont Nemours company announced that it would develop a large black powder and shell-loading plant facility six miles northeast of Williamsburg in York County. The plant as built was large enough to have ten thousand employees. The new plant and the new town for the workers and families were named Penniman. At its peak, Penniman had housing for 15,000, and included dormitories, a store, a post office, bank, police station, church, YWCA, YMCA, Mess Halls canteen, and a hospital.
Reichley holds a Juris Doctorate from Dickinson Law School and Bachelor of Arts Degree in Government and Law from Lafayette College. Reichley has served many posts in his community as president of the Allentown YMCA/YWCA, the Emmaus Kiwanis and on the board of the Lehigh Valley Crime Victims’ Council. He has also been an instructor at the Allentown Police Academy, Northampton County Community College, and DeSales University and even taught fellow prosecutors at meetings of the Pennsylvania District Attorneys’ Association and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.
It aimed for political and social reform, including a greater acceptance of women who respond with violence toward their attackers. Co-founders of the newspaper include linguist Julia Penelope, journalist Martha Stoddard, and poets Linnea Johnson and Judith Sornberger. The paper printed writing by Helen Longino, Sonia Johnson, Moira Ferguson, Carol Lee Sanchez, Barbara A. Baier, Lin Quenzer, and many other feminist writers, particularly of Nebraska and the Midwest region. It printed dispatches from the Lincoln Legion of Lesbians, Queer Nation Nebraska, the YWCA and other organizations.
Lilias Folan (born 1936) began to practice yoga as exercise in 1964, and was soon teaching at the YWCA in Stamford, Connecticut. She studied asanas under the yoga masters T. K. V. Desikachar, B. K. S. Iyengar, and Angela Farmer, and gained wider knowledge of yoga under the Sivananda Yoga masters Swami Vishnudevananda and Swami Satchidananda. She joined the Connecticut ashram of the Divine Life Society led by Swami Chidananda. In the 1980s she met Swami Muktananda, creator of Siddha Yoga, who told her to teach meditation.
She attended classes at the University of Colorado from the fall of 1912 to the summer of 1915. Reba had taken extra time to finish her degree because she left Colorado, which may have been because of another hurricane in Galveston in August 1915. This was right before her final semester at CU. She finished her degree through correspondence in 1916. During her time in Colorado she joined Kappa Kappa Gamma and became active in the YWCA as she missed her friends in Texas.
She attended Miss Beret's School for Ladies in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and went on to earn her A.B. at Vassar College in 1907; She then taught history until 1914 when she became the YWCA industrial secretary in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. In this capacity she traveled through the south in order to organize women workers in industry. After earning an A.M. in economics at Columbia University in 1927 she decided to organize the Southern Summer School for Women Workers. Leonard recruited a faculty from women's colleges.
350x350px The YWCA's purpose to facilitate fellowship between all females was complicated by the religious requirements for membership in the organization and the barriers between different races caused further issues. This often led to segregated branches in larger cities for African-American women and Asian-American women. By 1920's, the Portland YWCA had a separate branch for African Americans located on the corner of North Williams and Tillamook Streets. The goal of the branch was to build pride among the women in the surrounding neighborhood.
She returned to Columbia and taught until 1946. Simultaneously from 1937, she served on the national board of the American Council of Nationalities Service and was affiliated as an education consultant and social welfare advisor to the United Nations from its founding in 1945. In 1946, Lucke took a sabbatical from Columbia at the request of the YWCA to found a graduate program for social work in India. At the time, there was one school of social work in India, located in Madras (now known as Chennai).
From 1997-1999, he served as an aide to Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA), assisting him with business and labor community issues. In 1999, former Governor Gray Davis appointed Nazarian as Special Assistant to the California Trade and Commerce Agency. During his tenure at the agency, he helped establish the Division of Science, Technology and Innovation, which focused on creating and maintaining technology-based jobs in California. Nazarian has served on the boards of several community-based organizations including the East Valley YMCA and the YWCA.
The movement also called on governments to ensure that the female condom is marketed to women in local communities and promoted as an effective method to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. The World YWCA held the first international conference on Women and HIV and AIDS. The International Women's Summit on HIV and AIDS featured speakers from UNAIDS, YWCAs and other global leaders. The Positive Women's Forum, held on the first day, was organised by and for HIV-positive women; over 300 women attended.
She was initiated at the Rho Chapter at Columbia University, and served as national president of the sorority from 1947 to 1956. In 1950 Height moved to the Training Services department where she focused primarily on professional training for YWCA staff. She spent the fall of 1952 in India as a visiting professor at the Delhi School of Social Work, then returned to her training work in New York City. Height participated in the Liberia Watch Program and worked within the ranks of leadership in 1955.
LA's Promise connects students and families in the LA's Promise Neighborhood to resources which range from tutoring, health screenings, legal services and employment support through their Online Directory. Some noted partners LA's Promise has collaborated with are American Heart Association, Amgen-Bruce Wallace Biotech Program, Bresee Foundation, Brotherhood Crusade, California African American Museum, City Year, First Robotics, Girl Scouts of the USA, Operation HOPE, Inc., Run with US, Sound Body Sound Mind, St. Johns Well Child & Family Center, Teach for America, Youth Orchestra Los Angeles, and YWCA.
Merritt is known for making several contributions to the District of Columbia school system: she raised kindergarten teachers' salaries; she started the first summer school at Stevens School; she organized democratization and observational programs to improve teaching; she introduced silent reading; and she innovated field trips around the city. She was a member of the Executive Committee of the District of Columbia branch of the NAACP, a member of the executive board of the Southwest Settlement Society, and financial chairman at the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA.
At this time her interests were mainly in evangelical work, and she attended a training school for missionaries in London as a preparation for missionary work in the East. Part of the course consisted of slum visiting, which brought her into contact with the slums of Shoreditch and the evils of sweated labour. As a young woman she had met in America the Hon. Emily Kinnaird, of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), and it was through her that Edith first developed an interest in that organisation.
Adelaide is credited as a co-founder of the Women's Institutes, the National Council of Women, the Victorian Order of Nurses and the YWCA in Canada. She was a major force behind the formation of three faculties of Household Science. All of these organizations are in existence today. The Victorian Order of Nurses is Canada's largest, not-for-profit homecare organization. With a staff of more than 7000 and supported by more than 14 000 volunteers, it is a daily presence in the lives of many Canadians.
Netball SA was originally known as South Australia’s Women’s Basketball Association (SAWBA) and was formed in 1928. Records from newspaper clippings show that the first State A1 Premiers were the YWCA. The year was 1922, four years before the first recorded interstate match and six years prior to the first official All Australia Carnival. The first recorded Interstate Carnival was held in Sydney and NSW was the winner. It was after this carnival that a move to form the All Australia Women’s Basketball Association was made.
Enrollment dropped, however, throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, from an all-time high of nearly 5,000 studentsto 2,737 students and 120 faculty members by 1973. The YMCA and YWCA buildings provided dormitories for students. At one time it was the largest private junior college in the United States, and in 1974, still ranked among the top ten. On August 6, 1974, the University of Houston acquired the assets of South Texas Junior College and opened the University of Houston–Downtown College as a institution.
Landsberg is the recipient of two National Newspaper Awards, the YWCA Women of Distinction Award, the Dodi Robb Award from MediaWatch, the Robertine Barry Prize for journalism from the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, the Florence Bird Award from the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, several honorary degrees, and the Canadian Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the 1929 Persons Case and Democratic Development, an award acknowledging contributions to equality for women which have resulted in positive change.
In 2011, she received the Outstanding Alumna Award from the George Herbert Walker School of Business & Technology at Webster University. In 2014, Mazzarella was recognized by the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis as one of its distinguished women in leadership. In 2015, she earned the Women in Industry Trailblazer Award from the National Association of Electrical Distributors and was recognized as a Leader of Distinction by the YWCA of Metro St. Louis. In 2019, she was honored as a Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame Laureate.
Heather was interested in history and became one of the founding members of the Canberra and District Historical Society. She was an active member of the community and was involved in the scouting movement, the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) (President of the board from 1955-1960), the Business and Professional Women's Club, and the Country Women's Association. She was a charter member and later president of the Soroptomists International of Canberra. In 1997, she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM).
Hilliard began her career in Canada by setting up a general practice in the Physicians and Surgeons Building in Toronto and joined the obstetrical staff at Women's College Hospital. Dr. Jane Sproule-Manson gave her office space amidst her practice on the fourth floor of the building. Hilliard was the first doctor assigned to the Children's Aid Society, on whose behalf she lectured to church and school groups on health subjects. She also later acted as medical examiner to the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA).
Griffin served as an executive of the Red Cross and for the YWCA, and helped establish the first pre-school program on the island. Her work with these organizations led to the development between 1966 and 1972 of the Montserrat Consumers Association, with the goals of increasing education about consumer goods. The organization addressed such things as nutrition and quality of goods, publishing a periodical known as Consumer Concern. When her husband died in 1976, Griffin moved to England to be near her son.
Dubiel became a 3M Canadian National Fellow for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in 2008. The award citation noted her exceptional ability to instill mathematical confidence in entering students, her creative use of cartoons and fairy-tale stories to foster students' mathematical imagination, and her work publicizing mathematics and numeracy to the public. She was the 2011 recipient of the Adrien Pouliot Award of the Canadian Mathematical Society for her contributions to mathematics education in Canada. She also won a 2011 YWCA Women of Distinction award.
Robinson was inducted into the Ohio Broadcasters Hall of Fame and the Cleveland Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame. She is an eight-time recipient of the Lower Great Lakes Emmy Award and received the 2014 Edward R. Murrow Award, together with co-anchor Denise Dufala, for breaking news coverage in reporting on the Ariel Castro kidnappings in Cleveland. She also received the 2008 Kent State University Diversity in Media Distinguished Leadership Award and the 2011 Woman of Achievement Award from the YWCA of Greater Cleveland.
30+ states passed laws requiring Americanization programs; in hundreds of cities the chamber of commerce organized classes in English language and American civics; many factories cooperated. Over 3000 school boards, especially in the Northeast and Midwest, operated after-school and Saturday classes. Labor unions, especially the coal miners, (United Mine Workers of America) helped their members take out citizenship papers. In the cities, the YMCA and YWCA were especially active, as were organization of descendants of the founding generation such as the Daughters of the American Revolution.
During the next 25 years, the college purchased 12 surrounding homes and the former YWCA facility at Genesee and Franklin Streets to form a makeshift campus and slowly progressed towards financial stability. By 1988 its enrollment had grown from a low of 40 to 114, and income exceeded expenses. In 1991, Shimer received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities with the help of NEH chair and core- curriculum advocate Lynne Cheney; the grant revitalized the school's fundraising, helping it raise $2 million.
Main entrance to Harrison Hall During the 46 years that Harrison Hall functioned as a women's residence hall, the lobby was often the focal point of "manless weddings". Sullivan, Charles. 2002. Archival Odyssey No. 7—Manless Weddings and Womanless Weddings, pg 6, In: In Touch with Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Retrieved 2014-01-30 These were major social events on campus and were elaborate affairs, usually sponsored by student organizations, such as the YWCA. The "weddings" were attended by faculty, students, and out- of-town guests.
Her cousin, Jomo Kenyatta, was the first elected president in Kenya. In 1952, she founded Maendeleo Ya Wanawake, a women's NGO that advocates for women's rights and gender equity in Kenya. In 1958, she was nominated to the Legislative Council in Kenya, the first woman to serve in the parliament of the country; she served until 1962. She later served as President of the YWCA in Kenya, as a home economics lecturer at Jeanes School (The Kenya School of Government) and as a director at Skyline Advertising.
Wells's open endorsement of polyamorous love at the end of In the Days of the Comet caused some scandal. Various organisations dedicated to preserving public morals, including the YWCA, Salvation Army and ‘Anti-Vice and White Slavery’ campaigners, spoke out against the book, as did several influential reviewers: ‘socialistic mens' wives, we gather,’ said the Times Literary Supplement, ‘are, no less than their goods, to be held in common.’Mackenzie, Norman and Jeanne (1973), The Time Traveller: the Life of H.G. Wells London. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, p. 211.
Checha George was born in 1898 in Kerala, India to T. D. George, a Methodist lay preacher. Receiving her education during the British rule of India, she attended school in Madras, studying economics and English History and earning her bachelor's and master's degrees. George also earned a medal for playing tennis and continued to play even after her marriage and move to Singapore, wearing her sari on the courts. She joined the YWCA Association in 1916, adopting their mission to improve education opportunities for women and girls.
To reach her own donation goal, Davies sold her house The building was completed, allowing the YWCA to generate income for other projects from the rent. For this and other services to the community, on National Day in 1970, Davies was awarded the Bintang Bakti Masyarakat (Public Service Star). Davies died on 2 September 1979 at the Tan Tock Seng Hospital after a brief illness. She was posthumously inducted in 2014 into the Singapore Women's Hall of Fame in their inaugural group of women.
Although Powell Florence is recognized for her place in the history of librarianship, her first few jobs did not lead her in that direction. Upon graduating from Oberlin, Powell Florence moved to St. Paul, Minnesota to work for the YWCA as a secretary in the Girl Reserves of the Colored Girls Work Section. After only a year, Powell Florence decided St. Paul was not for her and she returned to Pittsburgh. Upon her return to Pittsburgh, Powell Florence realized that she wanted to become a teacher.
The school's application was submitted to the Harrisburg School Board in September 1997. In January 1998, the Harrisburg School Board granted the Sylvan Heights Science Charter School a provisional charter. The school's first Board of Trustees had YWCA President Sheila Dow-Ford serving as President of the school. Five parents were appointed as members: Taja Barber, Julia Hoskins, Deidre Lenker, Fredrika McKain and Pamela Roberts; educators: Stinson Stroup, Cheryl Harmon, Louise Kunkel; business person: John Zarbus; and community activists: James Everett and David Wise.
In 1869, Witt purchased for $5,000 ($ in dollars) a house and lot at 16 Walnut Street, and donated these to the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) as a boarding home for single, unwed mothers. The boarding home moved in 1908 to the corner of Prospect Avenue and E. 18th Street, and was named the Stillman Witt Boarding Home in Witt's honor. In 1884, Witt's estate built a hotel named The Stillman at Euclid Avenue and E. 21st Street. Fire destroyed its upper floors in 1885.
The group was founded in 1915, as an alternative to the burgeoning Girl Guides movement, which the founders felt was too British or American and too authoritarian. Initial support was provided by the YWCA, along with the Anglican, Baptist, Presbyterian, and Methodist churches. A uniform to be worn by the members, consisting of a white and blue middy blouse, was modelled on a style of shirt that was popular at that time. By the end of its first decade, 75,000 girls had received CGIT training.
After World War I, the Sayres moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Francis accepted a position on the Harvard Law School faculty. There, she worked in the interests of the Democratic Party, the League of Nations, and the League of Women Voters. She was also involved with the YWCA, serving on its national board. At the time of Woodrow Wilson's death in 1924, the couple was living in Siam (now Thailand) where Francis was working as an advisor on international law at the Royal Court of Siam.
In the early 1980s she was National Executive Director of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) as well as being active in the Women's Electoral Lobby (WEL). In 1986 she became the first General Manager of the newly formed Ministry of Consumer Affairs where she strove to move consumer affairs closer to the community and have government recognise the work of the Citizens Advice Bureaus. She also worked to improve Standards for the consumer and addressed the International Organization for Standardization in Toronto in 1987.
Taylor was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and educated at McMaster University (received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1960) and the Osgoode Hall Law School. He practiced as a lawyer in Barrie, taught business law at Georgian College for ten years, and was named a Queen's Counsel in 1977. As of 2005, he is director of the United Appeal in Barrie, director of the Barrie YM-YWCA and campaign chairman for the Canadian Cancer Society. He also plays with the Barrie Oldtimers Hockey Team.
Haass took over most of the duties of general secretary while Ding was on furlough. Ding returned, exhausted, early in 1936, after saying she planned to resign, but agreed to stay on while another Chinese secretary was made ready for the job. Ding was invited to serve as a permanent representative of Asia on the YWCA World Council. Before she could take this position she was hospitalized with sepsis caused by a serious tooth infection, and died after a short interval in Shanghai on 27 July 1936.
Reckitt moved to Portland, Maine, after graduating from Boston University, being familiar with the state from summer vacations in her youth. She took her first job as a part-time instructor of marine biology at Southern Maine Technical College. From 1970 to 1979 she was the swimming director at the Portland YWCA. Reckitt helped establish the Family Crisis Shelter in Portland, Maine, which was formalized as Family Crisis Services in 1977. She served as executive director of Family Crisis Services from 1979 to 1984.
After her marriage, Garland settled into life as a housewife and mother. With support from her mother-in- law she also became active in local voluntary organisations. As she was a keen writer, Garland was often asked to act as club reporter. In 1943 she was on the publicity committee for the local YWCA when the reporter due to cover a tea held in honour of the first black staff worker at the association became lost on the way and only arrived after the event had finished.
Addie Waites Hunton (June 11, 1866 – June 22, 1943) was an African American suffragist, race and gender activist, writer, political organizer, and educator. In 1889, Hunton became the first black woman to graduate from Spencerian College of Commerce. She worked for the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), served as the national organizer for the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) from 1906 to 1910, and served in the U.S. Army during World War I. Hunton was a regular participant in the work of the Equal Suffrage League.
Hunton is well known for her social welfare efforts among the black community. Furthermore, she recruited a number of other black women to work for the YWCA, such as Eva del Vakia Bowles and Elizabeth Ross Haynes. From 1909 to 1910, Hunton moved with her children to Europe. Her husband was suffering from health issues and remained at home in the U.S.. While in Europe, Hunton lived in Switzerland and then moved to Strasbourg, Germany, where she studied part-time at Kaiser Wilhelm University.
When Hunton and her children moved back to America, she continued to work with the YWCA and also began to take courses at the College of the City of New York. At this time, her husband William was in a critical state with tuberculosis. The Hunton family then moved to Saranac Lake, New York, where they stayed until his death in 1916. In 1917, the U.S. entered World War I. Hunton quickly became involved through YMCA, and in June 1918, she set sail for France.
In 1922, Boutte was one of the sixteen women who founded the NAACP fundraising effort the Anti-Lynching Crusaders, in Newark, New Jersey, with Mary Burnett Talbert as director."Work of Women" NAACP Annual Report for 1922 (1923): 55-56. In 1927 she was on the committee of the Emma Ransom House at the 137th Street YWCA."First Year's Operation of Emma Ransom House, Y. W. C. A. Hotel, Connected with 137th Street Branch, Shows Fine Results" The New York Age (February 12, 1927): 1.
Phillis Wheatley, also spelled Phyllis and Wheatly (c. 1753 – December 5, 1784) was the first African-American author of a published book of poetry.Gates, Henry Louis, Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers, Basic Civitas Books, 2010, p. 5.For example, in the name of the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA in Washington, D.C., where "Phyllis" is etched into the name over its front door (as can be seen in photos and corresponding text for that building's National Register nomination).
In Kaufman received a silver cup from the Emperor of Japan in recognition of her contributions to the YWCA of Japan and efforts to support refugees following an earthquake in 1923. During the Golden Jubilee celebration of the "Y" in Japan, a special ceremony was held for the unveiling of a bust of Kaufman. In 1941 Kaufman was appointed by the world's Y.W.C.A. executive committee to make a survey of the British West Indies. In 1965 she received an International Cooperation Year medal from Cardinal Leger at a ceremony in Montreal.
Travelers Aid was one of the original "United Service Organizations" (USO) that provided assistance to traveling service men and women, operating 175 troop transit lounges. Today, Travelers Aid responds to the specific needs of the community. Although each member agency shares the original service of assisting stranded travelers, many Travelers Aid agencies provide shelter for the homeless, transitional housing, job training, counseling, local transportation assistance, and other programs. Similar organizations were founded in other countries; in Great Britain and many other countries spelled as "Travellers' Aid Society", and originally closely associated with the YWCA.
In 1888 Stowe attended an international suffragette conference in Washington, D.C., United States. Fired with determination to bring new life to the movement, she founded the Dominion Women's Enfranchisement Association (DWEA) in 1889. The DWEA was among a number of Women's organizations founded around this time and run by exceptionally capable women, others being the Women's Art Association of Canada, National Council of Women of Canada, Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE), the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), Girls' Friendly Society of Canada, Women's Institutes and Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
YWCA serves more than 2 million women, girls, and their families in the United States. It is also part of an international movement serving 25 million worldwide in 120 countries. Each year, YWCAs help more than 535,000 women with safety services, which include sexual assault programs, domestic violence services such as emergency shelter, crisis hotlines, counseling and court assistance, and other community safety programs. We also help more than 122,000 women with economic empowerment programs, and more than 160,000 individuals participate each year in racial justice education and training programs.
Although the house and estate became the property of the National Trust, the property was handed over on the condition that it would continue to be leased to the YWCA, on a peppercorn rent, for as long as they had purposeful use for it. During their occupation the house was predominantly used as an artists' retreat, providing residential art courses for keen amateur and semi-professional painters. Philipps House was much loved by many creative people during this era. The interior spaces were converted into artist studios with bedrooms available for paying guests.
Her charitable interests extended to providing holiday camp lodgings for some 50 boys from the capital to spend their summers near the shores of Guldborgsund while she made another building available to the writer Aage Falk Hansen for housing those in need. She adapted the main building on the Flintingegård estate for elderly women from Copenhagen to spend a few weeks in the country, inviting them in groups of 10 at a time. In 1919, she bought the old school in Toreby so that it could be used by the YMCA and YWCA.
In 1934, the Butts formed the H. E. Butt Foundation, one of the first charitable organizations in Texas. The foundation focused on funding public school programs, establishing libraries and constructing recreational facilities. Mary Butt served as its president.State of Texas Senate Resolution 530 (honoring the contributions of Mary Elizabeth Holdsworth Butt) March 23, 1995 In 1940, the Butt family moved to Corpus Christi, Texas where she organized the local branches of the YWCA; the Nueces County home for the aged; the Nueces County Tuberculosis Hospital; and the local branch of the American Cancer Society.
While living in Augusta, Laney joined the Niagara Movement, founded in 1905. Later in 1918 she helped to found the local chapter of the successor civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She was also active in other organizations to promote the welfare of blacks and black women: the Interracial Commission, and the National Association of Colored Women. She also helped to integrate the community work engaged in by the YMCA and YWCA (which had separate organizations for white and black residents, respectively).
Plankinton followed in her father's footsteps as a humanitarian and was affectionately called "Miss Lizzie" by the citizens of Milwaukee. She continued the tradition of philanthropy and historical records show that Miss Plankinton gave many gifts to the citizens of Milwaukee for their benefit. Out of respect, she was referred to as the "municipal patroness" because of her spirit of giving. One of her public gifts was a $100,000 donation (equivalent to $ million in ) in 1892 that ultimately built in 1899 the first YWCA hotel of the city (pictured) for affordable housing for working women.
The league was founded in 1943 by a group of artists meeting weekly at the studio of Robert Stapp who decided to form a working group of painters to foster and stimulate fine arts and crafts in the Sabine area. Notable founding members included Will-Amelia Sterns Price and Tom Tierney. By 1944, the group moved to the YWCA and held its first art exhibition. It continued to hold annual membership exhibitions, traveling exhibitions, workshops, lectures, and summer art colonies taught by such accomplished national artists as Frederic Taubes and Jacob Getlar Smith.
Morgan made many architectural contributions to the women's college Mills College in the East Bay foothills of Oakland, California. Like her work for the YWCA, they were done in the hopes of advancing opportunities for women. Mills president Susan Mills became interested in Morgan in 1904 because she wished to further the career of a female architect and because Morgan, just beginning her career, charged less than her male counterparts. Morgan designed six buildings for the Mills campus, including El Campanil, believed to be the first bell tower on a United States college campus.
Turner taught at the YWCA for seventeen years, starting with a newly created class on costume design. Beginning in 1906 she summered at the artists' colony in Cragsmoor, New York, to which she was introduced by Charles Courtney Curran; she continued there with few interruptions until 1941. In her early years there she rented space, but in 1910 she built a home and studio called Takusan. Her sister Lettie died in 1920; in 1926 she returned to New Orleans and resettled there, traveling north only for her summer sojourns.
Seven founding members of Theatre in the Round Players (TRP) decided to continue to work together, when their previous theater - the Circle Theater - closed in 1951. They were joined by Frederick Hilgendorf, a high- school teacher and community theatre director from Wisconsin, and on January 15, 1953 their first production opened in the YWCA at 12th and Nicollet in downtown Minneapolis - called Life with Father. They started out by selling inexpensive annual subscriptions to members, to create a budget for that year's production. That practice was copied by many other community theaters around the country.
In addition, the rising student generation was demanding more say in the operations and policy of the Movement. Despite organizational changes, a student writing after the 1924 convention in Indianapolis complained about the restraining hand of the "Big Four" (Speer, Mott, Eddy and Wilder) and insisted that the new numerical majority of students in committees meant little because the adults still had the power.T.T. Brumbaugh, "Convention Mistakes", SVM Archives, Series V, Fifth Council, 1924. Another continuing problem was the relationship of the Student Volunteer Movement to YMCA and YWCA.
Isabel Crook was born on December 15, 1915, in Chengdu, Sichuan, to Canadian missionaries Homer and Muriel Brown. Homer Brown was the Dean of the Education Faculty at West China Union University, and Muriel set up Montessori Schools in China and served on the board of the YWCA. When Crook was young, she became interested in anthropology and the many ethnic minorities in China. At the age of 23, Crook graduated from the University of Toronto and began carrying out field research in Li County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province.
According to a background article prepared by Unicameral Update, Nantkes became a fan of politics as a teenager, following the historic race for Governor pitting two women, Republican Kay Orr against Democrat Helen Boosalis. Due to term limits, she did not seek re-election to the Legislature in 2015, and was succeeded by Adam Morfeld. Conrad's affiliations in the community include the Lincoln YWCA Board of Directors; Community Development Taskforce, Nebraska Bar Association, Lincoln Bar Association, and the Volunteer Lawyers Project. She was married in 2008 and is now Danielle Conrad.
In 1996, received the Breakthrough Award presented by the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity (CAAWS). In 1998, inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame. In 1999, received one of the YWCA Women of Distinction awards In 2002, the Canadian Paraplegic Association (CPA) awarded her the Female Athlete of Year award. At the 2010 Winter Olympics, she was presented with the Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award, which is awarded to one male and female athlete with a disability, for overcoming adversities.
Senator and former Wyoming Governor Francis E. Warren and his second wife, Clara LaBarron Morgan, bought the house in April 1910, and their dining room received such guests as Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. The Senator died in 1929, and Clara gave the mansion to the YWCA. The house and its dependencies compose one of the few residences from the 1800s left standing in Cheyenne. In 1960 the outer stone, which had been predicted back in 1880 to be too soft, began to crumble and the exterior was covered in stucco.
The 1929 Chatham Cup was the seventh annual nationwide knockout football competition in New Zealand. The competition was run on a regional basis, with six regional associations (Auckland, Wellington, Poverty Bay, Manawatu, Canterbury, and Otago) each holding separate qualifying rounds. Teams taking part in the final rounds are known to have included Wellington YWCA (who beat Petone and Institute to reach the last eightPapers Past — NZ Truth — 8 August 1929 — Y.M.C.A. For Final), Tramways (Auckland), Poverty Bay Thistle (Gisborne), St. Andrews (Manawatu), and Seacliff. Canterbury entrants included Riccarton, Western, Thistle, and Rangers.
Merle Aqorau, MBE (born 1939) is a Solomon Islander and social worker who was instrumental in the development of the women's movement in the Solomon Islands. Engaged as a social welfare officer, she established women's clubs in various locations throughout Melanesia, founded a YWCA training centre to assist young women in continuing their education and worked as the regional secretary of the United Church Women's Fellowship (UCWF). Her pioneering service to women in the Solomon Islands was recognised, when she was awarded an MBE in the Order of the British Empire in 2016.
After 20 years of directing the YWCA in Munda, she retired from the organisation in 1998 and turned her focus to her church work helping organize the centennial celebrations of the establishment of the Methodist Church in the Solomon Islands. In 2000, she was among the delegates to attend the Peace Talks aboard HMAS Tobruk during the ethnic crisis of 1998–2003. Her work as a pioneering worker for women was recognised in 2016, when she was honoured with an MBE in the Order of the British Empire.
Helen Charlotte Eliza "Evelyn" Johnson (September 22, 1856 - June 12, 1937) was a First Nations poet, the sister of E. Pauline Johnson. The daughter of Chief George Henry Martin Johnson and Emily Susanna Howells, she was educated at Hellmuth Ladies' College in London, Ontario. She worked in the office for the Waterous Engine Works until her mother's death in 1898, when she moved to the United States. She was matron for the Resident House at the YWCA in Troy, New York and then was assistant at the Presbyterian Convalescent Home in White Plains.
She majored in history but then her family returned to Shanghai abruptly, before she finished her degree, in 1924. Back in China, she majored in psychology and while there she participated in foiling an anti-foreigner uprising at her school and worked in a hospital. She had an arranged marriage to P.T. Chen, a Chinese banker, and had two children, William Kuo Wei Chen and Doreen Kuo Feng Chen. In the meantime she devoted her time to local child and women's advocacy institutions as well as at the YWCA.
Soon thereafter, daycare was held in the parsonage during the church services. Then in the early 1990s, the church's sexton was given the opportunity to live in part of the parsonage, as the front area was turned into offices. These offices were, in turn, rented out to various organizations, such as Esperanza Nueva Iglesia and the YWCA of East Hartford. The parsonage has also been the site of a few community service projects, including the rebuilding of the front steps and railings in a Boy Scout Eagle Project in 2004.
Rouda's philanthropic efforts have focused on homelessness, food security, arts and education, and the empowerment of women and girls. She was the founder of Make Room Columbus, Central Ohio's first shelter for homeless families. She also founded the Columbus Ohio Cattlebaron's Ball for the American Cancer Society; served on the board of Central Ohio's YWCA and its capital campaign committee; and served on the first board for The Wexner Center for the Arts. She served two terms on the board of directors for the Mid-Ohio Food Bank.
" The women who called for the walkout contended "that Chicanas had no business holding the conference at the YWCA because it was run by gavachas." Many of the women who attended the conference "were not involved with the planning of the conference because the women running it wanted no suggestions or criticism from anyone." Also, many of the women did not like the workshops because "nothing was being accomplished, and most were getting off the subjects." Anna NietoGomez categorized the walkout as "a conflict between Chicana feminists and loyalists.
The first building selected for the Museum was the historic Barnes-Armstrong Mansion at the foot of Cherry Street in Sunset Park. However, in 1910 a controversial decision was made to demolish the Mansion for safety reasons, and the Museum’s artifacts were temporarily placed in the Old Court House. Although many artifacts were lost or destroyed in the move, the Museum was reopened in 1928 in the old YWCA building under the name Temple of Fine Arts and History. It was meant to be a sanctuary of art for the Evansville community.
Donald Cleland was one of the founding members of the Australian Liberal Party. Rachel Cleland contributed to organisations such as the Red Cross, Girl Guides Association of Papua New Guinea, Country Women's Association, and Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) as well as the integral role she played in establishing pre-schools throughout Papua New Guinea. Sir Donald died in 1975, two weeks before Papua New Guinea's independence ceremonies. Rachel stayed for many years, her book Papua New Guinea: Pathways to Independence being published in 1983,Perth: Artlook Books, 1983.
The historian Joan B. Huffman describes this event as "life- altering" for Victoria, as she increased her visits to the island and later moved there in 1891. On Tiree, Victoria championed social and religious organisations such as the YWCA, and organised soup kitchens. She also oversaw training for both men and women; the former learned crafts such as woodcarving while female residents were trained in needlework and lace-making. Lady Victoria promoted Tiree under the pseudonym 'Hebridean', sending details on the plight of islanders in regular letters to the British press.
After graduating from college, Biskupski opened her own private-investigation firm, and later went to work for the auto-insurance industry. Biskupski decided to get involved in politics after a 1995 controversy erupted at East High School (Salt Lake City), when the Board of the Salt Lake City School District and the Utah State Legislature tried to eliminate a gay/straight student alliance club. In 1997, Biskupski was elected to the Executive Committee for the Salt Lake County Democratic party as well as the Board of Directors for the YWCA of Salt Lake City.
Stokes began her career in 1935, as director of the information desk at YWCA. She worked there until 1941, when she was offered the position of associate director of the Baptist Educational Center, a school that provided training programs for ministers and the parishes of 157 churches. The school trained over 500 Baptists—who were mostly black—across Harlem every week. During this period of time, she also acted as president of the New York State Christian Youth Conference, and became secretary of the Youth Movement in 1941.
Eira "Babs" Friesen started the Y-Neighbours, an early at-home mothers' support and social program in Winnipeg, based in YWCA locations. In 1973 she also helped found the YWCA's Women's Resource Centre in 1973, before there were other options for women in western Canada. She volunteered at the women's centre full-time for over 28 years. In 1985 she was part of Canada's delegation at the Third World Conference on Women in Nairobi, and again in 1995, when the Fourth World Conference on Women was held in Beijing.
Within this, they helped establish the St. Paul Resettlement Committee, which managed temporary housing, food, and adjustment to Minnesota's winter climate for evacuees. Following the end of the war, the Tanbaras decided to stay in St. Paul, where Ruth attended the University of Minnesota, earning her master's degree in Home Economics in 1953. During and after the war, Ruth Nomura Tanbara worked for the St. Paul YWCA for thirty years as a secretary originally, before she transitioned to teaching adult education including classes on flower arrangement and Japanese cooking.
Julie Green is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories in the 2015 election. She represents the electoral district of Yellowknife Centre. Prior to her election to the legislature, Green worked for the YWCA in Yellowknife, as a journalist for CFYK-TV (CBC North), and served on the boards of the local United Way and the Yellowknife Housing Authority. She was also an LGBT rights activist with the local LGBT group Out North, and is the first out lesbian to serve in the territorial legislature.
The university was started as Harrisburg Polytechnic Institute to address the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania region's need for educational opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math careers. Before creation of Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, Harrisburg was the largest state capital in the country without a four-year university. The institute received $12 million in state capital funding in 2003 for the construction and related services of the institute from then Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell. The YWCA building at 215 Market Street was the first home for the University.
In 2003 she also received a Mothers and Shakers award from Redbook Magazine. From 2006 to 2009 Averitt was a driving force behind the GRACE Study, the first HIV treatment study in the US to successfully enroll a majority of women. The GRACE Study helped show that HIV positive women and people of color will participate in clinical studies and that they experience different barriers to treatment than men. In July 2007, Averitt received a Women Leading Global Change Award from the World YWCA for her leadership in the HIV and AIDS pandemic.
Phelps was featured on the Oak Ridge Associated Universities STEM stories program, partnering with nearby schools in Tennessee. Phelps received the 2017 YWCA Knoxville Tribute to Women Award in the category Technology, Research, and Innovation. This award recognizes "local women who lead their fields in technology and excel in community service". In 2019, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) featured Phelps in the Periodic Table of Younger Chemists in recognition of "her outstanding commitment to research and public engagement, as well as being an important advocate for diversity".
A mycologist at the Cawthorn Institute in Nelson, she was the first female fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Other students who distinguishing themselves included Elsie Mary Griffin, MA (1906), subsequently a key figure in the YWCA in both New Zealand and Australia. Writing to Thomas in 1912, Griffin observed that while he might think her 'a horrid "suffragette"' indulging in 'all kinds of bold & "unwomanly" things', she found her 'scientific training of immense value' in her work.Thomas Papers, letter from E M Griffin to A P W Thomas, 14 June 1912.
They developed programs featuring well-known speakers, vocational classes through the YWCA and the Urban League. In 1926, the committee oversaw the purchase the Arthur A. Schomburg collection to incorporate into The Division of Negro Literature and History, later becoming the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, at the library. The collection included "over 5,000 volume[s], 3,000 manuscripts, 2,000 etchings and portraits and several thousand pamphlets" showcasing the history and culture of African Americans. The grant also made possible the hiring of Schomburg to head the collection.
Born on 29 May 1912 in Slöta Församling, Falköping Municipality, Ingrid Persson was the daughter of the estate owner John Persson and Hildegard Andersson. After matriculating from high school in Gothenburg in 1930, she passed a preparatory examination in theology and went on to study at Uppsala University where she graduated as Cand.theol. in 1936. On graduating, Persson took up employment in various occupations including teacher and later scouting secretary for the YWCA in Stockholm. In 1939, she served as youth secretary in the Diocese of Härnösand, coordinating 129 associations.
She had difficulty finding work in the field of speech and turned to working volunteer positions. In 1963, John F. Kennedy appointed her husband Leslie Shaw to be the first African American postmaster (working in Los Angeles), and at that time Ann Shaw began serving as the YWCA president. In 1965, after the Watts riots she helped lead a committee to ease tensions in the local Los Angeles schools. In response to her experience working in schools after the riots, she was aspired to take more classes in the field of social work.

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