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Until she came to Harvard four years ago, the Leverett House resident had never played for a school affiliated team. The only organized soccer in Atlanta. Mayer's hometown, was the YMCA league which Mayec and a group of her friends joined when they were nine. The situation was far from ideal; the coaches were usually fathers of the players, and everyone was restricted to playing only one half...
...raze it and put up an office building. There was no longer any need for a station that could support crowds of 175,000, as it had during World War II, or a staff of 5,000 to operate the city within the station: bowling alley, mortuary, bakery, butchery, YMCA hotel, ice house, resident doctor, liquor store, Turkish baths, first-class restaurant, basketball court, swimming pool, nursery, police station and silver-monogramming shop...
...Whittemore, a professional square dance caller, won a three-bed-room condominium worth $70,000 Wednesday night in a fundraising lottery run by the Cambridge YMCA. Although he doesn't usually buy lottery tickets, Whittemore said he made an exeption this time "because it looked like good odds...
Ever since the late 19th century--when the railroads supported the YMCA hostels where their employees bunked down--corporate philanthropy has been closely linked to the self-interest of the company making the donation. "A corporation has to justify giving the money; it has to consider what purpose is served," Stephenson explains. Generally, that means corporate giving falls into three categories: manpower, research and community relations--a triangle of corporate gift-giving...
Secondly, I have to take back a prediction I made last month. I had no way of knowing immigration restrictions from Canada would be tightened and the University of Maine would be forced to field a team comprised of former peewee skaters from the Orono YMCA and rejects from Sid Watson's squad down at Bowdoin. Maine won't make the playoffs...