RECORDS, 1853-1979
334 FOLDERS, 1 OVERSIZE SCRAPBOOK
WESTERN HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS
Related collections:
sl 602 sl 602 YMCA BOOK COLLECTION, 1898-1957
sl 697 YMCA, Pine Street Branch Newsletters, 1924-1948
sl 801 sl 801 YMCA INDIAN GUIDES
For a list of the images in this collection click here and go to the WHMC photograph database
John D. Mohl donated the records of the Young Men's Christian Association, St. Louis Chapter, to the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri-St. Louis on June 16, 1987.
In 1844, twenty-three year old dry goods clerk George Williams founded the Young Men's Christian Association in London, England. Williams began the association, intended as a prayer and Bible study group, with eleven other live-in clerks at the Hitchcock and Rodgers Shop. Like many of his contemporaries, Williams had been drawn to London by the city's commercial and manufacturing boom during the 19th-century industrial revolution. He soon saw the less attractive side of urban industrialization. Williams regarded prostitution, drunkeness, inadequate housing, gambling, and radical politics as threats to the moral character of his fellow Christians. The YMCA promoted Christian principles and mphasized developing a healthy body, spirit, and mind.
The world alliance of YMCAs formed in 1855 with the avowed aim of "uniting young men who have accepted Jesus Christ as God and Savior...and who wished to extend his kingdom amongst men." That kingdom would not include women until somewhat later. By the time he died in November 1905, George Williams had been knighted by Queen Victoria.
The St. Louis chapter of the YMCA held its first meeting at the Second Baptist Church in St. Louis on October 20, 1853. Twenty three people from a variety of Christian denominations attended the gathering. The group adopted a constitution and by-laws at its next meeting and elected officers at its third. By then, membership had increased to one hundred. The St. Louis chapter's first officers included president E. W. Bratchford; vice presidents E. A. Corbett, H. Christopher, Samuel Cupples, Jr., William Dowall, J. B. Evans, S. B. Johnson, the Reverend J. G. White, H. W. Rice, W. E. Sell and C. C. Selter; recording secretary John L. Dunnica; corresponding secretary, Henry Hitchcock; and treasurer, Isaac Wyman. George Sluter served as librarian.
The chapter held its first public meeting on November 13, 1853 in a suite of three rooms at the Mercantile Library in downtown St. Louis. Two hundred and ninety-eight new members attended, representing 12 different Christian denominations. The chapter held its next public meeting at the Second Presbyterian Church in St. Louis on November 20, 1853. Ministers from eight different denominations participated in the ceremony. The principal speaker, the Reverend T. M. Cunningham, outlined the association's mission. Programs designed to improve the mental, social, and spiritual well-being of St. Louis' young men were to include science and Bible classes, lectures, discussion groups and prayer meetings. Cunningham encouraged members to seek out new arrivals to the city and to take them to the YMCA, where they might be helped to find lodging and employment.
In June 1854, the St. Louis group sent a delegate to the YMCA's International Confederacy and on February 16, 1855 it incorporated under the General Assembly of Missouri. F.A. Corbett served as president, A.A. Mellier as secretary, and Walter Sell as treasurer. Nine months later, on October 27, 1855, the association adopted a constitution and by-laws. During the Civil War, the Y identified itself with the United States Christian Commission. In time of war, the Y mobilized to support the armed services. Bedside and barracks visitations and open air Bible readings were only a part of the YMCA's efforts; during Second World War, YMCA aviation classes trained U.S. soldiers. By 1866, the St. Louis Y numbered 150 members. In 1870, the YMCA began a self-supporting German branch, and seven years later started a sixteen member branch for Colored Men.
Initially, the YMCA limited its goals to promotion of young mens' spiritual development through an organization of lay volunteers. In keeping with the group's intention to develop the whole man and to reach out to all of society, later objectives expanded to include members' mental, social, physical, recreational and vocational needs. These concerns would direct the organization's activities in the years to come.
In 1881, the St. Louis YMCA opened its first Medical Mission. By December of that year,1200 people had received free treatment. The following year, the organization completed construction of a small, 25-bed hospital. The St. Louis Y built its first gymnasium in 1886. In 1890, the St. Louis YMCA established a Board of Education, naming C.P. Curd as its director. By 1900, the Board's faculty, now numbering twenty-seven, taught thirty-one classes. YMCA education program expanded with the growth and new mobility of the American population. In the following decade, YMCA recreation, "Americanization," and English language classes were extended to serve St. Louis' expanding immigrant population.
With the foundation of the organization's first Railroad Branch in 1880, the YMCA applied its ideals of Christian fellowship to the needs of a mobile, industrial society. Established first in the East St. Louis rail hub, then at St. Louis' Union Station, Railroad Branches aimed to aid potential members arriving in the city by train. They also represented a new cooperative venture for the YMCA and evidenced the close ties between the association and the St. Louis business community. YMCA personnel staffed and managed these facilities and railroad companies supplied the necessary funding. After 1883, YMCA Ladies' Auxiliaries assisted in running rail branches.
Economic depression during the 1890s spelled hard times for the YMCA. By 1893, its Branch for Colored Men folded and even its prosperous German Branch was in trouble. One member remarked that the Colored Branch "was not supported by the Colored people of the city," but this judgement proved premature. Within five years, a number of prominent black citizens had raised $3500, purchased a house, and reorganized their group as the Afro-American Christian Home Association. Within twenty years, the renamed Negro Branch would initiate a $100,000 building project.
Natural disasters worsened Y's already shaky position. The tornado of 1896 damaged the YMCA's 11th and Locust Street headquarters and destroyed the organization's South St. Louis and East side Railroad Branches. Still, the association looked to the future. Financed by a $5000 bequest from the estate of Sarah Collier, the YMCA purchased a lot on Grand and Franklin Avenues in 1894. Two years later, the group began construction on a new central branch. The new headquarters on the Grand site was completed in 1898. Despite extraordinary expenses, the organization emerged from the 1890s free of debt.
Administrative restructuring complemented the ongoing building campaign. During the 1890s, the association adopted a Metropolitan Plan. According to the plan, a single Board of Directors oversaw operations of all the city's branches. Boards of Managers in each local branch saw to each facilities' day to day operation and advised the central board at monthly meetings. The Metropolitan Plan persisted until 1953.
To meet the expected flood of visitors to the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, fair administrators provided space for a YMCA tent. At these quarters, from a "tabernacle" near the fair's Morocco Building, and in a summer-long series of open-air Bible meetings, YMCA volunteers provided fairgoers with lodging and religious instruction. In the process, the association gained wide exposure. The organization's commitment to public service and its campaign to "develop the whole man" outlasted the exhibition. Camp Ozark, the association's first summer camp for boys, opened in 1905. In 1912, the YMCA sponsored garden plots for city boys and in 1915, founded its first Hi-Y clubs for high school students. During these same years, the association's citizenship, religion, and English language classes addressed the needs of the city's fast-expanding immigrant population.
American involvement in World War I presented the organization with a formidable, but not unfamiliar challenge. As it had during the Civil War, the YMCA moved to support the U.S. armed forces. YMCA volunteers visited the wounded in hospitals. Overseas Service Branches looked after soldiers' physical and spiritual needs. Disease, daily bombardments, and the adverse conditions on the Western Front failed to discourage Y preachers from holding Bible meetings.
Director of the YMCA's Boys' Work program, Harold S. Keltner's, solution to the problem of family dissolution was to promote father and son activities through the Y Indian Guide program. Founded in 1926, Kelter's plan harnessed a respectful, if sanitized depiction of the American Indian to its promotion of father and son togetherness. Like the organization's physical fitness, youth, and job training programs, it continued to grow. As many as 75 "tribes" made up the St. Louis Guide confederation. During the early 1970s, the formation of Y Indian Princess groups broadened membership to include daughters as well.
The Stock Market crash of 1929 posed additional challenges. The YMCA's great task, remarked President of the Board L. Ray Carter, was to "maintain normal living in abnormal times." YMCA job training and employment bureau programs, vocational guidance and counseling services, and recreational activities offered many men hope during the Great Depression. The organization offered free tuition and membership to those unable to pay. Youth programs addressed the needs of St. Louis' children.
YMCA programs were somewhat at odds with the prevailing mood. Although the organization supported a number of charitable activities. The Pine Street Branch dispensed direct relief to St. Louis' Black community, for instance. Its main focus, even during the Depression's leanest years, remained character building. Substantial amounts of money went into the continuing expansion of the YMCA's physical plant and education programs. Construction began on a new building on the city's South Side. In 1935,the association, with support from local industries, opened its Day Cooperative College, a division of the Federal Relief Administration's Jefferson College. Participating students alternated six week school terms with salaried jobs at local businesses.
American involvement in World War II marshalled the country's industrial, and civilian resources to state service. The YMCA, with its extensive educational, recreational, and lodging facilities represented an invaluable addition to the Allied War effort. As in the Civil War and the First World War, YMCA administrators moved to support U.S. armed forces. Association Branches provided lodging, recreation, and entertainment to troops in transit. The St. Louis YMCA's Jefferson College, in association with the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Authority, trained both military pilots and civilian men and women for technical jobs in war industry. Each Saturday evening,the St.Louis Y offered soldiers the chance to socialize at USO dances.
YMCA volunteers were no less active on the war front. In cooperation with the International Red Cross, YMCA efforts monitored conditions in prisoner of war camps, and, with supplies of food, medicine,and books, attempted to relieve hardship of prisoners themselves.
After World War II, the organization turned to the problems of postwar readjustment. In 1944, the St. Louis Y formed a committee to map out the agency's response to the problem of returning veterans. Having seen good return on the Y's wartime and Depression era counseling efforts, the committee recommended continuing the association's vocational guidance and job placement programs and appropriated $17,500 support. Four full-time staff members addressed veteran concerns. Counselors modified job training, educational, and vocational programs to meet postwar conditions. Throughout the 1950s the YMCA provided recreational and educational services for member families which grew into the curriculum offered by the YMCA in the 1990s.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The St. Louis Young Mens' Christian Association Papers, document the organization's growth and activities as a Christian fellowship association and its subsequent expansion to include job training, counseling, and physical fitness programs between its founding in 1853 and 1979. The collection is divided into ten series: 1. Administration; 2. Branch Operations, 1879-1973; 3.
Correspondence, 1927-1983; 4. Finances and Fundraising; 5. Newsclippings, 1935-1979; 6. Press Releases, 1965-1967; 7. Publications and Literature, 1881-1976); 8. Reports, 1879-1976; 9. Scrapbooks (1878-1969); and Photographs.
The Administration and Branch Operations series document the purpose, planning, structure, and ongoing expansion of the St. Louis YMCA on both the city-wide and branch levels. Series 1 contains general histories documenting the association's founding in 1853 and its subsequent expansion to include Americanization and physical fitness classes, railroad branches, lodging facilities, and job training and counseling programs. Other histories and chronologies focus on particular branches and operations within the St. Louis Y's administrative structure. Like the Administration Series, Series 2, Branch Operations contains chronologies, correspondence, and membership and subscribers lists. This series, however, centers on operations at the local branch level. Brief histories of particular branches and programs, brochures and publications concerning the Boys' Program and Colored Mens' Branch fill out this series.
Letters and correspondence created by YMCA executives and general secretaries make up the bulk of Series 3. Included here are letters and reports documenting the association's War Work and Job Training programs for women defense workers, counseling, Prisoner of War Relief efforts, and USO services during World War II.
The Finances and Fundraising series includes correspondence, publicity materials, and publications from the YMCA's building, development, and capital funds campaigns. The news releases, newsletters, bequests, endowment and subscribers lists included in Series 4 document the associations' financial dealings from 1878 through 1979.
Materials contained in Series 5, Press Releases, report YMCA fundraising and building fund drives. Also included are instructions for the YMCA publicity photographers who recorded staged events in support of fundraising appeals. Series 6, Publications and Literature includes a number of early YMCA newsletters and periodicals. Issues of the newsletter Christian Manhood published in 1903 and 1904 record the association's activities during the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis.
Series 8 contains eleven reports created between 1878 and 1979. The "Interracial Study Committee Report" and "Juvenile Delinquency Report" (1937) record the YMCA's responses to prevailing social conditions. Other documents outline the association's operations, activities, and plans for future expansion.
The scrapbooks included in Series 9 contain fundraising campaign notices, mimeographed newsletters and prayer meeting scripts, YMCA-produced brochures, invoices, and photographs. The scrapbooks have been microfilmed.
The photographs in Series 10 document the entire range of YMCA activities, facilities, and administration between 1853 and 1979. Included in the Photographs Series are numerous shots of fundraising campaign dinners, building dedications, and other official gatherings, photographs taken at athletic events and YMCA Immigrant and Americanization classes, general secretary's and executive staff members' portraits, publicity stills, and photographs recording conventions and special programs.
SERIES DESCRIPTION
Series 1, Administration. Folders 1-56.
The Administration series includes correspondence, programs, and membership lists. General histories and chronologies document the organization's founding in 1853 and its expansion during the late 19th and 20th centuries. Other histories focus on a specific branch or operation within the St. Louis YMCA's administrative structure. Included are treatments on Jefferson College, a cooperative venture involving the YMCA and the Federal Relief Administration (1929-1970), brief histories of the Colored Mens' YMCA branch, and correspondence and publications pertinent to the organization's activities during World War I and II. The series also contains the association's internal study, "The Status of Womens' participation in the YMCA" (1929).
Series 2, Branch Operations, 1879-1973. Folders 57-70.
The Branch Operations Series' correspondence, programs, and publications document the association's Anniversary celebrations (1929-1954), building dedications, and internal operations. Lists of YMCA members, benefactors, and subscribers to its numerous building and fundraising drives, brief histories, chronologies, and correspondence and publications concerning the Boys' Program and Colored Mens' Branch fill out the series.
Subseries A, Northside Branch
Contains correspondence, histories, chronologies, membership programs, and operations studies created by officers and secretaries at the Northside Branch.
Subseries B, Other Branches
Includes material concerning the Carondolet, Central, Page Park, Webster Groves, Downtown, and Colored Mens' Branches. Correspondence, histories, and operations studies concerning the YMCA's Railroad Branches (1879-1970) complete this series.
Series 3, Correspondence. Folders 71-75.
The Correspondence series documents YMCA activities and operations between 1927 and 1983. Series III Contains general correspondence (1927-1983), letters and reports created by YMCA Public Relations secretaries. Of particular interest is correspondence concerning the association's activities during World War II. Included here are letters and reports documenting the YMCA's War Work, Job Training programs for women defense workers, Counseling, Prisoner of War relief, and USO services. Arranged chronologically.
Series 4, Finances and Fundraising. Folders 76-102
The Finances and Fundraising Series includes correspondence, publicity, and publications from the YMCA's ongoing building, development, and capital funds campaigns. News releases, newsletters, bequest, endowment, and subscribers' lists produced by association officers, secretaries, and branch managers document the St. Louis YMCA's financial dealings from 1878 through 1979. Arranged chronologically and topically.
Series 5, Newsclippings, 1935-1979. Folders 103-162
Included in Series 5 are newsclippings and tearsheets from St. Louis newspapers. Arranged chronologically.
Series 6, Press Releases, 1965-1967. Folders 163-167.
For the most part, The press releases contained in Series 6 report YMCA fundraising efforts. Also included are tightly-scripted instructions for YMCA publicity photographers, an interview with radio and television personality Art Linkletter,and announcements naming the men and women who chaired YMCA building and fundraising drives. Arranged chronologically.
Series 7, Publications and Literature, 1881-1976. Folders 168-177.
Includes the St. Louis YMCA publication "Christian Manhood," 1903-1912, the newsletters "Current Events,"1920-1927, "Downtown Men,"1946-1956, and "Downtown Triangle," 1930-1932, as well as a number of other publications. Issues of "Christian Manhood" published in 1904 record the YMCA's activities at the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition that year. Also contained in the Publications series is the manuscript for Adele Starbird's The Story the YMCA of St. Louis and St. Louis County, published in 1953 in conjunction with the YMCA Centennial.
Series 8, Reports, 1879-1976, Folders 188-191.
Includes eleven reports created between 1879 and 1976. The "Interracial Study Committee Report" (1954) and "Juvenile Delinquency Report" (1937) record YMCA responses to social problems. Other documents outline the association's operations, activities, and plans for future expansion. Also contained in the series are: a "Compilation of Statistics" from 1952, "The Eighteenth Plenary Meeting of the International Committee of the YMCAs of the United States and Canada," "The Business Community Looks at the St. Louis Metropolitan YMCA," and "Attitudes of Civic Progress Executives Toward the YMCA of Greater St. Louis."
Arranged alphabetically.
Series 9, Scrapbooks, 1878-1969
Includes scrapbooks containing YMCA handbills, flyers, meeting notices, artifacts, photographs, and mimeographed newsletters. Fundraising campaign notices, invoices for bible purchases, loose and mounted newsclippings, and prayer meeting notices make up the bulk of the material preserved in early scrapbooks. Books compiled after 1920 contain newsclippings, memos, and YMCA produced brochures. Arranged chronologically.
Series 10, Photographs, Folders 199-334.
The photographs in Series 10 document the entire range of YMCA activities, facilities, and administration. YMCA photographers recorded the association's administrative and social meetings, classes, group activities, and athletic events. The quality of these images ranges from poorly-focused snapshots to slick, professionally-produced portraits and public relations stills. Included in the series are numerous shots of campaign dinners and other official gatherings, photographs taken at athletic events and classes, general secretaries and executive staff members' portraits, and photographs recording YMCA conventions and special programs. Photographs of Americanization and immigrant English classes are of particular interest. Arranged topically and alphabetically.
Series 11, Oversize Scrapbook
Spirit of St. Louis, 1930s
FOLDER LIST
Series 1, Administration, Folders 1-56
BOX 1
1. Address: Reverend T.M. Cunningham, November 20, 1853
2. Anniversary Celebrations, 1893-1968
3. Anniversary, 100th, 1953
4. Anniversaries, 125th, 1978
5. Anniversary, National 125th, 1978
6. Annual Dinner Meetings, 1946-1969
7. Annual Reports 1854-1856
8. Annual Reports, 1877, 1888
9. Annual Report, 1889
10. Annual Reports, 1890-1891
11. Annual Reports, 1892, 1893
12. Annual Reports, 1900-1908
13. Annual Reports, 1940-1977
14. Board Members' Conference, October 3-4, 1958
15. Board Members' Conference, October 9-10, 1959
16. Board Members' Conference, September 29-30, 1961
17. Board Members' Conference, September 28-29, 1962
18. Board Members' Conference, April 24, 1968
19. Board Members' Conference, October 10-11, 1969
BOX 2
20. Building Contracts and Deeds of Sale, 1892-1951
21. Conferences and Conventions, 1877-1959
22. Constitution and Articles of Incorporation, 1876-1919
23. Historical Sketches, 1912-1965
24. History, Chronologies, 1944-1978
25. History: St. Louis Story: The First Hundred Years of the YMCA, 1953
26. Industrial Commission, 1914-1919
27. Jefferson College, History, 1929-1959
28. Jefferson College, Transcript Requests, 1959-1961
29. Jefferson College, Transcript Requests, 1962-1979
30. Proclamation of "YMCA Week," 1966
31. Status of Womens' Participation in YMCA, 1929
32. War Work Committee and National War Work Council,
33. Northside Branch, Anniversaries, 1929-1954
34. WWII Programs, 1941
35. Building, Abstract of Title, 7 November 1887
36. Building Dedications, 1919,1936
37. Building Fundraising, 1916-1935
38. Building Studies, 1942, 1949
39. Building Subscribers, c. 1918
40. Northside Branch, Community Boys' Program Report, 12 December 1949
BOX 3
41. Correspondence, 1913-1916
42. Development Proposals, 1951-1967
43. Histories, 1937-1964
44. Membership, Program, and Operation Study, March 1949
45. Newsclippings, 1924-1975
46. Northside Branch, Open House Day, 1939-1954
47. Personnel--Batty, John T., January-March 1974
48. Personnel--Hawkins, J. Clinton, 1947-1966
49. Personnel, Northside--Lance, Robert S., 1978
50. Personnel--Mocker, John F., 1938-1957
51. Personnel--Peters, Frank E., 1919-1965
52. Personnel--Read, P.L.
53. Personnel--Schwartz, Carl S., 1960-1970
54. Personnel--Vickroy, T.S., 1956-1972
55. Programs and Conferences, 1879-1952
56. YMCA Retirement fund Inc. 1922
Series 2, Branch Operations, 1879-1973. Folders 57-70.
57. Carondolet Branch, 25th Anniversary, 11/8/50
58. St. Louis Central Branch YMCA, 1885-1917
59. Central Branch Meeting Minutes, 1910-1915
BOX 4
60. Colored Branch, YMCA, 1913-1919
61. Downtown YMCA, 1885-1973
62. Nor-Wel-Jen Community Branch YMCA, 1952-1953
63. Page Park Branch, 1962
64. Pine Street Branch, 1947-1960
65. Railroad Branch Annual Reports, 1883-1902
66. Railroad Branch, East St. Louis, 1881-1882
67. Railroad Branch, Helen Miller Gould's Gift, 1895-1913
68. Railroad Branch, St. Louis, 1879-1970
69. St. Louis County, 1944
70. South Side Branch, 1890, 1935
71. Correspondence: General, 1927-1983
72. Correspondence: Public Relations Secretary, 1942
73. Correspondence: Public Relations Secretary, Jan.-March 1943
74A. Correspondence: Public Relations Secretary, April-May 1943
74B. Correspondence: Public Relations Secretary, June-August 1943
75. Correspondence: Public Relations Secretary, September 1943
BOX 5
76. Requests and Endorsements, 1879-1891
77. Capital Funds Drive Study, 1951-1952
78. Community Fund Publicity Reports, 1927
79. "A Development Program--and Why?" 1923
80. Financial Development Meetings, 1970-1973
81. Financial and Statistical Reports, 1913, 1920
82. New Century Youth Fund, 1947
83. Path of Progress Capital Campaign, Campaign Materials, January-June 30, 1979
84. Path of Progress Capital Campaign, Campaign Materials, January-June 30, 1979
85. Path of Progress Capital Campaign, Director's Report, July 13, 1979
86. Path of Progress Capital Campaign, Kirkwood Branch Flip Chart, 1979
87. Path of Progress Capital Campaign, Mid-County Branch Flip Chart, 1979
88. Path of Progress Capital Funds Campaign: Newsclippings and Ads, 1978-1979
89. Path of Progress Capital Funds Campaign: Newsletters, 1979
90. Path of Progress Capital Funds Campaign: News Releases, 1979
91. Path of Progress Capital Funds Campaign: News Releases, March-June 1979
92. Path of Progress Capital Campaign, North City Branch Flip Chart, 1979
BOX 6
93. Path of Progress Capital Campaign, Northwest County Branch Flip Chart, 1979
94. Path of Progress Capital Campaign, North County Flip Chart, 1979
95. Path of Progress Campaign, Recognition Plaques, 1979
96. Path of Progress Capital Campaign, St, Charles Branch Flip Chart, 1979
97. Path of Progress Capital Campaign, South County Branch Flip Chart, 1979
98. Path of Progress Capital Campaign, South Side Branch Flip Chart, 1979
99. Path of Progress Capital Campaign, Washington University Branch Flip Chart, 1979
100. Path of Progress Capital Campaign, Webster Groves Flip Chart, 1979
101. Three Million Dollar Development Fund Campaign Division and Team Organization, May 13-23, 1924
102. Three Million Dollar Development Fund Campaign, 1924-1938
103. Newsclippings, 1935-1978
104. Newsclippings, November 1969-February 1970
105. Newsclippings, March-April 1970
106. Newsclippings, May-August 1970
107. Newsclippings, September-August 1970
BOX 7
108. Newsclippings, November-December 1970
109. Newsclipping, 1973
110. Newsclipping, January 1974
111. Newsclipping, February 1974
112. Newsclipping, March 1974
113. Newsclippings, April 1974
114. Newsclippings, May 1974
115. Newsclippings, June 1974
116. Newsclippings, July 1974
117. Newsclippings, September 1974
118. Newsclippings, September 1974
119. Newsclippings, October 1974
120. Newsclippings, December 1920
121. Newsclippings, January 1975
BOX 8
122. Newsclippings, February 1975
123. Newsclippings, March 1975
124. Newsclippings, April 1975
125. Newsclippings, May 1975
126. Newsclippings, June 1975
127. Newsclippings, July 1975
128. Newsclipping, August 1975
129. Newsclipping, September 1975
130. Newsclipping, October 1975
131. Newsclippings, November 1975
132. Newsclippings, December 1975
133. Newsclippings, January 1976
134. Newsclippings, February 1976
135. Newsclipping, March 1976
136. Newsclippings, April 1976
137. Newsclippings, 1976
138. Newsclippings, June 1976
139. Newsclippings, July 1976
140. Newsclippings, August-September 1976
BOX 9
141. Newsclippings, October-December 1976
142. Newsclippings, January-March 1977
143. Newsclippings, April-May 1977
144. Newsclippings, June 1977
145. Newsclippings, July-August 1977
146. Newsclippings, September-October 1977
147. Newsclippings, November-December 1977
148. Newsclippings, January-February 1978
149. Newsclippings, March-April 1978
150. Newsclippings, May-June 1978
151. Newsclippings, July-December 1978
BOX 10
Series 5, Newsclippings, 1935-1979, cont'd.
152. January-March 1979
153. April 1979
154. May-June 1979
155. November 1979-September 1981
156. October 1981-January 1982
157. February-June 1982
158. July-December 1982
159. January-March 1983
160. May-July 1983
161. August-September 1983
162. October-December 1983
BOX 11
Series 6, Press Releases, 1965-1967
163. October 1965
164. October-November 1965
165. December 1965-January 1966
166. February-March 1966
167. April-May 1966, 1967
168. Brochures
169. Camp Pioneer Pamphlet, 1959
Series 7, Publications and Literature, 1881-1976
170. Christian Manhood, 1903-1904
171. Christian Manhood, 1905-1906
172. Christian Manhood, 1907-1908
173. Christian Manhood, 1909-1910
174. Christian Manhood, 1911-1912
175. Current Events, published by North Side Branch of St. Louis YMCA, 1920-1927
176. "Downtown Men," March 1946-March 1956 and "The Triad," April 1954
177. Downtown Triangle (oversize), 1930-1932
BOX 12
Series 7, Publications and Literature, 1881-1976, cont'd
178. Leadership Forums, 1951-1953
179. The Bulletin, 1881
180. Monthly Bulletin, published by the St. Louis YMCA, 1885-1890
181. Northmen, published monthly by the St. Louis Northside Branch, 1898, 1938-1951
182. North Side YMCA Survey, April 1911
183. Old Guard News, 1941
184. The Red Triangle, Weekly Bulletin of Union Station Railroad Branch, 1919
185. St. Louis Men, Weekly Bulletin of the Central Branch of YMCA, 1918
186. The Story of the YMCA of St. Louis and St. Louis County, 1853-1953 by Adele Starbird, 1953
187. YMCA Memo, For Boards, Committees and Friends of the St. Louis County YMCA, 1953-1954 Series 8, Reports, 1879-1976
188. Attitudes of Civic Progress Executives Toward the YMCA of Greater St. Louis, November 1976
189. The Business Community Looks at the St. Louis Metropolitan YMCA, November 1962
190. Compilation of Statistics, 1952
191. Eighteenth Plenary Meeting of the International Committee of the YMCAs of the US and Canada, Sept. 20-22, 1963
BOX 13
192. Interracial Study Committee Report, October 1954
193. Juvenile Delinquency Report, 1937
194. Organized Committees, Clubs, Classes and Other Activities St. Louis YMCA, 1929
195. A Plan For Community Service of the Young Men's Christian Association of St. Louis and St. Louis County by Roy
Sorenson, National Council, YMCA and H. B. Rogers, West Central Area Council, YMCA, January 1946
196. President's Cabinet, Meeting Report, October 11, 1969
197. Programs, Goals and Priorities for the YMCA of St. Louis and St. Louis County, 1959
198. Special Report to the Workings of the St. Louis YMCA, 1879
Series 9, Scrapbooks, 1878-1983
a. History Scrapbooks, 1878-1953
1. Early History Scrapbook, 1878-1909
2. Founders' Week Scrapbook, October 13-20, 1853-1953
3. Missouri, 1918-1920
b. Campaign Scrapbooks, November 1965-March 1966
1. Campaign Scrapbook, 1965
2. Campaign Scrapbook, 1966
c. Newsclippings Scrapbooks, 1927-1968
1. Loose Newsclippings, 1927-1958
2. Scrapbook, 1940
3. Scrapbook, 1942
4. Scrapbook, 1943
5. Scrapbook, January-December 1965
6. Scrapbook, January 1966-December 1966
7. Scrapbook, January 1967-December 1967
(does not include February or August)
8. Scrapbook, January-March 1968
BOX 14
Series 10, Photographs, Folders 199-334.
199. 12319-12330 Anniversary Celebrations
200. 12341-12356 Annual Dinner
201. 12331-12340 Annual Dinner Campaign, 1954
202. 12357-12366 Annual Dinner Campaign, 1956
203. 12367-12377 Annual Dinner Campaign, 1958
204. 12378-12392 Annual Dinner Campaign, 1959
205. 12393-12414 Annual Dinner Campaign, 1960
206. 12415-12429 Annual Dinner Campaign, 1961
207. 12430-12443 Annual Dinner Campaign, 1962
208. 12444-12451 Annual Dinners Campaign, 1963
209. 12452-12470 Annual Dinners Campaign, 1964
210. 12471-12498 Annual Dinners Campaign, 1966
211. 12499-12519 Annual Dinners Campaign, 1960s
212. 12520-12536 Annual Dinners Campaign, 1970s
213. 12583-12594 Annual Dinners Campaign, 1978-1979
214. 12595-12618 Annual Dinners Campaign, 1980
215. 12619-12628 Annual Meeting
216. 12629-12633 Annual Meetings, 1950s
217. 12634-12635 Annual Dinner, Northside Y and Volunteer Student, 1916-1953
218. 12636-12745 Annual Dinners (Lamplighters), 1972-75
BOX 15
219. 12746-12846 Annual Dinners (Lamplighters)
220. 12847-12898 Annual Dinners Service, 1988
221. 12899-12915 Annual Service Awards Dinner, 1950s-1970s
222. 12916-12923 Athletics-Baseball, 1920s-1950s
223. 12924-12938 Athletics-Basketball, c. 1950-1978
224. 12939-13004 Athletics-Gymnastics, 1954-1970
225. 13005-13009 Athletics-Handball, 1944-1946
226. 13010-13062 Industrial Athletic Association, 1920s-1960s
227. 13063 Karate and Judo, 1967
228. 13084-13086 Swimming (Handicapped), 1980
229. 13087-13118 Swimming, 1930s-1979
230. 13119-13206 Swimming, 1950s-1970s
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231. 13207-13211 Swimmers' Wedding, c. 1979
232. 13212-13222 Table Tennis
233. 13223-13251 Various Sports, 1920s-1970s
234. 13252-13257 Volleyball, 1920s-1950s
235. 13258-13266 Weight Training, 1957-1970
236. 13267-13282 Wrestling, 1928-1939
237. 13283 General Secretaries and Executives' Staff, 1901-1930
238. 13287-13291 Fifty Year Awards, 1952-1966
239. 13292-13334 Metro Board Members
240. 13335 Metro Board Members
241. 13343-13367 Northside "Y" Board, 1917-1970
242. 13568-13380 Board Members Installation, 1957
243. 13381-13390 Portraits of Chairmen and Board Members, 1942-1960s
244. 13391-13403 Board Members, Past Presidents, 1877
245. 13404-13414 Board Members, Past Presidents, 1940-1973
246. 13415-13417 Board Members, Presidents (Nationwide), 1953-1954
247. 13418-13433 Board Member Trout Lodge, 1957
248. 13433-13452 Board Members Trout Lodge, 1958
249. 13453-13466 Board Members, Trout Lodge, 1959
250. 13467-13481 Board Members, Trout Lodge, 1959
251. 13482-13491 Board Members, Trout Lodge, 1959
252. 13492-13494 Board Members, Youth Services Awards, 1958
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253. 13495-13505 Buildings, 1886-1940
254. 13506-13526 Building Exterior, 1853-1960s
255. 13527-13555 Building Interior, 1900s-1960s
256. 13556-13566 Northside "Y" Youth Lobby, 1960s
257. 13567-13569 Peters Youth Lobby Dedication, 1959
258. 13570-13612 Capital/Development Campaigns, 1965-1970
259. 13613-13639 Capital/Development Campaigns, October 3, 1978-February 12, 1979
260. 13640 Capital/Development Campaigns
261. 13711-13762 Capital/Development Campaigns, 1979-1980
262. 13763-13784 Classes, Exercise, 1894, 1930s-1960s
263. 13785-13800 Classes Exercise, 1970-1979
264. 13801-13813 Classes Exercise (Kindergym)
265. 13814-13823 Senior Campaign Fitness, 1977-1979
266. 13824-13836 Immigrant Classes: Albanian, Bohemian, Polish and Ukrainian, 1915-1924
267. 13825 Classes
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268. 13861-13867 Immigrant Classes: Greek, c. 1920
269. 13867-13884 Immigrant: Individuals and Group, 1901-1915
270. 13885-13899 Immigrants: Italian, 1914-1920
271. 13900-13917 Romanian, Hungarian and Croatians
272. 13918-13940 Classes: Immigrant
273. 13941-13947 Clubs
274. 13948-13987 Conventions
275. 13988-13960 Conventions
276. 13961-13974 Conventions
277. 13975-14012 Mark Twain Branch
278. 14013-14018 Programs: Acid Rescue
279. 14019-14022 Programs: Back A Boy
280. 14023-14026 Programs: Boys Work
281. 14027-14049 Programs: Day Camps
282. 14050-14053 Programs: Club 44
283. 14054-14080 Programs: Employment in Central City
284. 14081-14106 Programs: Hi-Y (High School Youth)
285. 14082-14113 Programs: Hi-Y (High School Youth)
286. 14114-14137 Programs: Indian Guides
287. 14138-14150 Programs: Indian Guides
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288. 14151-14193 Programs: Indian Guides
289. 14194-14225 Programs: Indian Guides
290. 14226-14229 Programs: Indian Guides
291. 14230-14267 Programs: Indian Guides
292. 14268-14291 Programs: Outreach
293. 14292-14328 Programs: Outreach (Youthmobile)
294. 14329-14341 Programs: USO at the Y
295. 14342-14355 Summer Programs
296. 14356-14379 Programs: Youth and Government
297. 14380-14432 Programs: Youth and Government
298. 14433-14450 Programs: Youth and Government
299. 14451-14461 Programs: Old Community
300. 14462-14492 Programs: Outreach
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301. 14493-14524 Staff
302. 14525-14553 Programs: Youth and Government
303. 14554-14574 Programs: Youth and Government
304. 14575-14615 Programs: Youth and Government
305. 14616-14625 Special Events: Dedications
306. 14617-14620 Special Events: Flood Relief
307. 14621-14628 Special Events: Founder Day, 1953
308. 14629-14642 Special Events: Mississippi River Road Run
309. 14643-14647 Special Events: Motorcross
310. 14648-14662 Special Events: Open House
311. 14663-14674 Special Events: Run
312. 14675-14697 Special Events: Run to the Arch
313. 14698-14701 Special Events: Teen Town
314. 14702-14726 Special Events: Theatrical Productions
315. 14727-14738 Special Events: Miscellaneous
316. 14739-14753 Special Events: Miscellaneous
317. 14754-14771 Special Events: Miscellaneous
318. 14772-14778 World Service: WWI
319. 14779-14796 World Service
320. 14797-14815 Unidentified
321. 14816-14824 Human Interest (Miscellaneous Shots of Children)
322. 14825-14839 Human Interest (Miscellaneous Shots of Children)
323. 14840-14853 Human Interest (Miscellaneous Shots of People)
324. 14854-14857 Math Baseball
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Spirit of St. louis, 1930s
INDEX
Acid Rescue, f. 112, 113, 116, 119, 120, 124, 125, 128, 278
Afro-Americans--Social Conditions, f. 25, 153
Afro-Americans--World War II, f. 73-74
Albanians, f. 266
American Red Cross, f. 73
Americanization Classes, f. 26
Anheuser-Busch Charitable Trust, f. 90, 152
Babcock, David, f. 83
Banks, J. B., f. 105
Baseball--World Series, f. 74-75
Batty, John, f. 47, 110
Becker, H. W., f. 23
Boeger, Louis, f. 36-39, 41
Bohemians, f, 266
Boys Clubs, f. 58
Branch For Colored Men (YMCA), f. 25, 153
Bubinger, O. L., f. 41
The Bulletin, f. 179
Calloway, DeVerne, f. 105
Camp Lakewood, f. 114-115, 120
Camp Pioneer, f. 169
Camp Taconic, f. 23, 74
Capital Development, f. 258-261
Carondolet Branch (YMCA), f. 57, 74, 82-83,89-91, 104, 106, 108- 165, 112, 114,
115, 116, 120, 121
Central Branch (YMCA), f. 58-59, 108-165
Christian Manhood, f. 170-174
Christian Orphan Home, f. 73
Church Federation of St. Louis, f. 175
Citizenship, f. 26
City North Branch (YMCA), f. 83, 85, 89-92
Civic Progress, f. 188
Croatians, f. 21
Cunningham, Rev. Tim, f. 1
Cupples, Samuel, f. 23-25
Current Events (Northside YMCA), f. 175
Dickmann, Bernard, f. 34
Downtown Branch (YMCA), f. 82, 83, 85, 89-91, 102-103, 105,108-165, 109,110,
119, 170, 177
Downtown Men (YMCA), f. 176
Downtown Men, f. 71
Downtown Triangle, f. 177
Drug Counseling Center, f. 112-113, 116, 119, 120, 124
Edgar, Sam, f. 88, 90, 91, 113, 149, 157
Education, f. 59
Emerson Electric, f. 88
Equal Rights Amendment, f. 113
Ferguson Branch (YMCA), f. 69, 108-165
German Branch (YMCA), f. 20-25, 34-43, 173
German Protestant Orphans Home, f. 73
Gould, Helen Miller, f. 20
Gould, Helen Miller, f. 67, 79, 172-3
Greater St. Louis War Chest, f. 75
Greeks, f. 268
GSO (Girls Service), f. 73, 74
Hawkins, J. Clinton, f. 48
Henger, Rosa, f. 20
History Of The Railroad YMCA In St. Louis, f. 68
Hitchcock, Henry, f. 23-25
Hungarians, f. 271
Immigrants, f. 26
Integration, f. 192
Interracial Study Committee, f. 192
Italians, f. 270
Japanese Americans, f. 74
Jefferson Barracks, f. 153
Jefferson College, f. 20, 27-29, 73-74, 75
Jones, George, f. 23
Junior Kindergarten, f. 114
Juvenile Delinquency, f. 193
Juvenile Delinquency, f. 193
Keltner, H. S., f. 23, 24
Kirkwood Branch (YMCA) f. 69, 83, 85, 86, 89, 91, 104-105, 107,108-165
Linkletter, Art, f. 164
Literacy Program, f. 165
Louisiana Purchase Exposition 1904, f. 170
Mallinkrodt Trust Fund, f. 88
McBurney, William J., f. 23
McCallister, Rev, Raymond, f. 73
Mid-County Branch (YMCA), f.83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 108, 112, 116-120, 124, 163
Missouri Athletic Club, f. 59
Missouri War Chest, f. 74
Mocker, John Fred, f. 38, 41, 50
Monsanto Fund, f. 90, 152, 154
Monsanto YMCA, f. 156 SEE ALSO: Page Park YMCA
Monthly Bulletin, f. 179-180
Monthly Bulletin, f. 180
Moody, Dwight L., f. 43, 55
Naturalization, f. 26
Negro Soldiers, World War II, f. 33
North County Branch (YMCA), f.83, 85-92, 110, 118-120, 122, 123, 124
North Side Branch (YMCA), f.34-56, 73, 79, 82, 102, 105, 106, 107,108-165
Northmen, f. 181
Northwest County Branch,83,85,89,91,93,106,112,115,117,119, 120
Old Guard News, f. 183
Page Park Branch (YMCA), f. 62, 104-108, 112, 118-120, 122
Parker, Nat, f. 23
Path Of Progress Campaign (YMCA), f. 77, 83-100, 163-167
People's School, f. 119
PET Inc., f. 91
Peters, Frank H., f. 36-38, 39, 51
Pine Street Branch (YMCA), f. 64, 78, 82, 102, 108-165
Polish, f. 266
Premer, George V., f. 73
Prisoners of War, f. 73-75
Railroad Branch (YMCA), f. 20, 23-25, 65-68, 79, 102, 170-173
Railroad Branch - East St. Louis, f. 59
Railroad Ladies Union (YMCA), f. 62
Ralston Purina Trust Fund, f. 88-91
Read, P. L., f. 52
The Red Triangle, f. 184
Religion, f. 59
Ritenour Branch (YMCA), f. 69, 108-165, 115, 163
Romanians, f. 271
Rutledge, William A., f. 23, 103
Schwarz, Carl G., f. 53
Shomaker, richard, f. 83
South County Branch (YMCA), f. 83, 85, 89-90, 97, 110, 112-114,116, 118, 120,
123, 124
South Side Branch (YMCA), f. 70, 82, 83, 89, 98, 102, 108-165, 114,115, 119, 120, 121, 123, 163, 172
Sports, f. 222-235, 263-264
Sprowles, Fred J., f. 113
St. Louis Men, f. 185
St. Charles County Branch (YMCA), f. 85, 89, 90, 96, 108-165, 112,118-120, 122,
123, 124
Starbird, Adele, f. 186
Stark, Lloyd C., f. 34
The Story of the YMCA of St. Louis and St. Louis and St. Louis County, f. 186
Stradal, Walter J., f. 72-75
Sunnen, Joe, f. 120
Three Million Dollar Development Campaign Fund (YMCA), f. 79, 101
Tornado of 1896, f. 25
The Triad (YMCA), f. 176
Trout Lodge (YMCA), f. 14-19, 81
Ukrainians, f. 266
United Way, f. 59
USO, f. 23, 73-75
Vaughn, Dr. Arthur N., f. 110
Vernon, Robert R., f. 77, 103
Vickroy, T. S., f. 54
War Bond Drive, f. 74
War Manpower Commission, f. 75
War Prisoners' Aid Committee, f. 72-75
Washington University Campus YMCA-YWCA, f. 83, 85, 88, 89, 99, 108,114, 122, 163
Webster Groves Branch (YMCA), f.69, 73-75, 83-85, 89, 91, 100, 103,108-165
West County Branch (YMCA), f. 83, 85, 89, 90, 108, 113-120, 123
Wood, Leonard, f. 23, 25
World War I, f. 26, 185
World War II, f. 73-75
World War II Pre-Conditioning Course, f. 73-74
YMCA Memo, f. 187
Young Men's Christian Association, f. 1-334
Youth Crisis Centers, f. 112, 113, 116, 117
YWCA, f. 173
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