The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-02-14
Y. NJ. c. A.
A BUSINESS ASSET
FORMER Y. M. c. A. YOUNG MEN
WHO HAVE GAINED PLACES OF
PROMINENCE AND LEADERSHIP
LOCAL ORGANIZATION OR.
GANIzED THlRTY-oNE YEARS.


T~hirty-one years ago in a little room
on Front street, the Fargo Y. M. G. A.
opened it's first club rooms and during
the past twenty-six years this little as
ISOLATION has grown with the town IN
til today it Is named among the first
of the community's assets in all local
booster and public literature. Today
one out of every sixteen persons in
Fargo is a member of the "Y," and it
would be hard to estimate the several
thousand men and boys who have gone
in and out its doors, and who have felt
it's influence. Today, it deserves the
very best support the citizens of this
community can give 1t, for the best
product in any city is it's young men
and boys and the city's future leader
ship must be drawn from the ranks of
clean, masculine, forceful young men.
The ~" will always be a permanent
factor helping produce just this kind of
young e
Most any of Fargo's older citizens
can name young men who have grown
up in the ''Y'' and who today are
among the leading and best citizens.
Three such who were boys in the old
Y are today members of it's board Of
directors. The first, president, t. e.
YerXa (who is still living and now a
resident Of California; still shows a
live interest in the growth Of the as
ISOLATION as does VIM. H. White and S.
S. Lyon who were officers of the board
Of directors with Mr.. Yerxa, as are
many others of the old and prominent
residents. The board Of directors at
present comprise:
Fl. F. Emery, president.
Robt. McCulIoch, vice president.
H. S. Loomis, treasurer. ..
II II An1yA. -N11rIiar nrNT
Members-George, Sweet1and, H. H.
WheeIock, Frank CLANCY, Stewart Will
son. H. P. Beckwith and H. T. Alsop.
An eX-high school boy of 1909 in
tracing the members of the first Y. M.
C. A. boys cabinet has presented the
following remarkable study:
The president Of a leading Ontario
university writes the father of the
| chairman Of this unusual group, and in
part says, Your son is the leading
christian influence in our freshman
department and is destined in the COM
ing two years to become the dominant
! christian leader of this school. I can
| not account for his remarkable execu-
tive ability and ideals for clean sport
unless it comes from his experience
and the training acquired in the Fargo
Y. M. c. A. This letter was shown to
several persons around the "Y'' and the
| story can be corroborated.
Another one of these young men is
today the executive leader of the Far
COS great missionary conference,
Another is captain of one of our local
college football teams and the most
prominent leader in one of .Fargo's
smaller churches. Another is presi-
dent and leader of the largest young
mems Bible class in North Dakota and
a prominent factor in student Y. M. G,
A. and college athletics. Another
with -four other men managed that
great federated fraternity conference
held in Chicago during. the holidays
and at which not a drop of intoxicants
was permitted at any of their ban
quets or conferences.
The same young ma is q leading
factor for all that is christian and
right in one Of the great universities
of the west. Another lisa prominent
leader of the right sort at Princeton
university. Two more stand high in
two Of Fargo's colleges, while the last
two are christian men and are now
living in the west. -'@ e.
1t means everything to a boy of to-
day to get right ideals and with this to
get training in how to express such
ideals in life. Y. NJ, G. A. habits make
! men.