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This year, Harvard has to be considered the underdog for a number of reasons. First, Dillon is not your friendly YMCA pool, although it looks like one. The partisan Tiger crowd tomorrow will be loud. And vulgar. And drunk...
...Manager for Human Services Jill Herold said $15,000 will pay half the salary of a psychiatric social worker. The state's mental health agency has agreed to pay the other half. The remaining $5000 will be used to reserve beds for the needy at Cambridge's YWCA and YMCA, Herold said...
...YMCA officials bristle at owners' charges. Since its establishment in the U.S. in 1851, they contend, the Y has been dedicated to the spiritual, mental and physical health of the entire community. If fancy facilities bring in more wealthy members, well and good. Their dues help support activities for the less privileged. Notes Celeste Wroblewski, spokeswoman for YMCA of the U.S.A., the Chicago headquarters of the more than 2,000 branch organization: "Collectively, Ys are the nation's largest provider of child care; 71% of the youngsters come from families with incomes of less than...
...YMCA officials dismiss charges that they are crowding private gyms. Commercial operators, says John Ouellet, president of the Los Angeles YMCA, would no doubt prefer the Y to "put up a building as dilapidated as the one we tore down." When private clubs fail, he contends, the reason is often poor management, not competition from a well-equipped Y. If anyone is encroaching, say YMCA officials, it is the private operators. The Y has been touting fitness for more than a century. Declares Thomas Hargrave Jr., president of the Washington YMCA: "We started the health-and-fitness business...
...Walter J. Sullivan is working out at the YMCA before hitting the campaign trail. After an early start, Sullivan spends all day and most of the night at wakes, receptions and parties as he has been doing for his 36 years on the council...