A YMCA campaign “to teach every man and boy in North America” to swim, led to George Corsan's revolutionary group swimming lessons in Detroit, Michigan, in 1909.18 Using his new methods, he taught 800 boys to swim in 4 weeks in Newark, New Jersey. In 1922, the National YMCA Swimmi...
to manage a fitness center it plans to open in January 2007. According to John Harris, director of the Boll Family YMCA in Detroit, Michigan, the new center will be open to the public with paid membership. Harris has not...
For Vincent Wade, a Detroit resident who also grew up within the YMCA, it was where he stayed when his parents were working. "She didn’t have nowhere to take us a lot of times when she had to work and my dad had to work, so she brought us to the YMCA. She worked ...
Reports on the Detroit, Michigan-based nonprofit organization Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Detroit's planned fund-raising campaign as of April 10, 2000. Details of the fund-raising campaign; Projects to b...