Norwich bulletin., 1912-09-23
SIX TEAMS CHOSEN
 FOR MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN Seniors and Juniors Will Work to Boost Y. M. c. A. Membership. :.

Saturday noon there was a meeting of the membership committee of the |. M. c. A. in the Association building, and the session was devoted to dis cussien of plans for the membership campaign in October. Six teams were selected for the contest. There will be four teams In the senior brigade and they will be headed by John Mckinley, Irwin c. Elmer, Weston Pullen and Noah Lucas The two junior teams will be headed by Benjamin Bruce and Robert s Fletcher In the senior bri- gade there will be about 50 members and in the junior 25 members. There are two classes of men which 1t is pro- posed to interest in the association those who will make use of the bene
 fits of the association and those who by their membership will endorse the work of the association. Campaign buttons with the words One of 1,0O0' will be issued to the team members.
 The campaign starts with a rally for the teams at the Association building on October at 6.30 in the evening, when the members of the Ladies Aux Hilary will serve supper. w. Seymour Lacy, secretary of the Bridgeport as= sociation, who spoke here three years ago, will be- the speaker of the evening The week will be devoted to a con- stant search for new members, and the campaign will close with another rally on October II at the same hour. It is proposed to get the classes going as soon as possible, in order to have this influence in gaining new members. The membership committee planning the campaign is composed of John McKin- ley, L. 0. Smith and Eugene Saunders
 Q,,e+ rJ., so1 xxyi1l ho hnld f1y1 October z, when a general invitation will be issued to -the shop employees of the city to attend. Later there will bt special sociais for employees of the in dividual shops. It is planned to hold intershop contests, and tug-of-wal teams, indoor baseball and basketball teams. etc, will be formed to furnish rivalry between the shops.
 The official opening of the boys de partment comes on Saturday. Sept. 2S and the exercises will last from 7.S0 tC | 9.30 o'clock in the evening. The pro gramme will open with a basketba game between the West Chelsea ana Broadway school teams, and othel
 games and class drills will be given II
 the gymnasium They will theI adjourn to the hall, where Pitt Parkel I will entertain the boys with his talk ol fCOQIe861OuS OI a. CdI uu0nlSt, llluoLd dl 1 ing his talk with crayon drawings. MT Parker will also speak at the Y. M. c A. on the following afternoon, Sept 29 During the week which follows ther' ! will be special nights for the boys o l the Broadway, West Chelsea ant Greeneyille schools, in accordance witt
 a custom which has been followed il past years.
 Later in the season it is proposed t l have social for all the boys of tn l junior department, when they vii elect cabinet of about a dozen boys At this time there will be a stray vote for president of the United State and a vote will also be taken to de termine whether Connecticut is to hay woman suffrage
 l Some new apparatus, including dumb bells, medicine ball and new ma was received at the Y. M. SC. A. las l week. The old mats are being cleane | and repaired, preparatory to the open ing of the classes.