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...about 4,000 Harvard students participated in the “Diploma Riots,” protesting in the streets of Cambridge because President Nathan M. Pusey made English the official language on Harvard diplomas. Students were furious that they would be getting a “YMCA Certificate,” according to The Crimson. Pusey could not be persuaded, so the diplomas remained in English...
...community when she caught the eye of Chiang Kai-shek. He was then chairman of the Supreme National Defense Council. Neither minded that he already had a childhood bride and a son tucked away in the provinces. In 1927, Mei-ling and Chiang were married in Shanghai by a YMCA functionary, and in the years that followed, Madame Chiang became her husband's interpreter, confidante and chief propagandist. Not only did she try to save his soul (by converting him from paganism to Christianity), she also helped save his life. In 1936, on an inspection tour in Xi'an, Chiang...
...Through the YMCA, the Boys and Girls Club and Junior Achievement, we offer not only fun and games, but a structured, supportive learning environment,” he added...
...King sits in a circle at the YMCA in Duluth, Minn., cutting out pictures of girls from teen magazines. At his side is his daughter Katie, 10. The two meet once a week with eight other pairs of fathers and daughters at a Dads and Daughters workshop, a program designed to help fathers and their daughters do something they don't do often enough: spend concentrated time together. This night, the dads and their daughters are talking about messages the media send to girls about how their bodies should look. The week before, a guest speaker talked about domestic violence...
Keith, self-proclaimed “public citizen” and senior vice president for development and communications at the YMCA of Honolulu, took a circuitous route to Penguin Putnam, beginning in mid-September 1997 at a meeting of the Honolulu Rotary Club. Keith was in a rut with his writing. After attending the Maui Writers’ Conference two weeks earlier, he worried that his chances of publishing anything were slim, because he had no “special hook or angle.” Bowing his head at the beginning of the meeting, though, Keith heard his fellow...