The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-27
PENROSE TAKES INTEREST
is ASSISTING MOVEMENT lNAU-
GURATED FOR Y. M. c. A.
BUILDING.
College President Hopes All Friends OF
Whitman Will Contribute Lib
orally to the Fund.

The lively interest President S. B. L.
Penrose of Whitman college is taking
in the movement to get a building for
The prospective Young Mems Christian
Association here has excited comment
in view of the fact that the financial
needs of the college are constantly re-
quiring attention. 1t would naturally
be supposed that President Penrose
would wish all the money possible to
be diverted into the college treasury,
but he evidently takes a broader view
of the subject, as the following state
ment, given to the Evening Statesman
by request, indicates:
1.-THE Young Mems Christian associa-
ton is not outside of the field in,
which Whitman college is interested
nor is it in any way antagonistic to it.
Rather each is an educational institu-
tion working for the good of the COM
munity in different ways. AS one of
the state directors of the Young Mems
Christian association of Washington l
am especially interested in the success
of the movement now on foot to es
tablish a strong association in Walla
Walla and believe that such a move
ment will mean a great deal for the
moral and spiritual good of the town.
No one enterprise with which I am ia
miiiar would probably mean as much
as it does at the present time. The I'M
dertaking has started most auspicious-
ly with Mrs. Reynolds splendid gift,
and the success thus far is promising
well for the completion of the work.
l have already subscribed as largely
as 1 could afford to do and 1 shall
watch with the greatest solicitude the
progress of the canvass for funds. I
am glad of every dollar which is given
the Young Mems Christian Association
and l hope that ali the friends of Whit
man college will respond generously to
the plea which will be made to them
for aid in establishing the association
"A NOSE important thing for the
moral life of the town is to provide a
suitable recreation and amusement
place for young men. At the present
time there is no place where a young
man who does not have a home of his
own can go for a pleasant evening
with his companions except amid sur
roundings which will be dangerous OF
positively injurious. If the associa-
ton building is completed, the fine
gymnasium will afford opportunity fol
regular exercise basketball, haniball
etc. Evening classes of various sorts
will be organized where a young mar
who wishes to improve himself will be
able to study along lines of practioa
value to him, and a reading room ant
library will offer opportunity for
quiet evening, if desired. Moreover
the influences radiating from the build
ing will be those which make for {
better and more wholesome life so tina
the fathers and mothers of this towr
and of the adjoining towns will fee
that in it they have a strong ally fol
the Strengthening and improvement O
their sons. The side of the worl
which appeals to me most is not tina
such building and enterprise is need
ed for the glory of Walla walla in com
parlson with other towns but rathe
That it is needed for the welfare of tn,
young men in our stores and on on
streets for whom at the present tim,
pracucaily nothing is done. AS frient
OF young men hope that the work will
speedily be brought to a happy con
clusion."
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