South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-03
\. NJ. {. A. ISSUES
ANNUAL REPORT
All Departments Show Vast
Amount of Work Accom-
pIiShed in All Lines.

Reports Of the various secretaries
OF the Y. NJ. C. A. during the past
year were given out as follows:
Social Department.
Twenty-Five group socials held
during the fall with total attend
ance Of $500.
Eight popular lectures were CON
Quoted with a total attendance OF
500.
Men on committees, 125. Twenty
four banquets and dinners held dur
ing the year.
Boys Division.
Bows enrolled in Bible study, S93.
with Is organized classes. They held
43s sessions and had a total attend
ance OF 1864. During the year a.
boys made decisions for the Chris
tan life Ind at least 10 have joined
church. Five classes were taught by
high school boys. Sixty-one per-
sonal interviews with boys and
% with parents were made. Forty
( seve- Bible classes were held at
Camp Eberhart during the summer
with an attendance of 2.62G.
Eleven hikes were conducted.
Eight department sOcials were held
with a total attendance of $40. Moth
ers and sons banquet held with Z2O
present. Father and sons banquet
with ESQ and high school stag night
with 2O4 present. Eight school So
Gals were conducted with a total OF
$50 attendance.
Seven hundred boys held member
ships during the year and at least
600 boys partoOk Of the activities
Of the association. Membership re-
ceipts showed a gain Of S40O over
last year and "a boys were helped
TO pay their mem berships by men OF
the city.
The newsboys' club met &c consec-
ntive Sundays and had speakers at
each meeting.
The Sunday school league enrolled
200 boys from seven Sunday schools.
Thirty-eight boy scouts met week
" all winter with a total of 15l.
Nearly 300 new books were added
to the library and more than 1000
books were charged out on cards.
An electrical club met with 10 ses-
sions with u boys; a metal club,
10 sessions with Is boys; seven edu-
cational talks, total attendance of
$50.
one hundred and fifty boys did
constructive work on the efficiency
test. II winning their medals.
Il ffrrrF M
at Corey. Mich. during the summer.
Forty-one boys won brown honors
and Il green honors. Twenty
learned TO swim.
Gross receipts for the year were
S2.37s or 1920 more than the pre-
ceding summer More than $1,000
has been expended during the year
on improvements. one hundred old
campers attended the annual camp
reunion. The stock plan raised $50
during the year
Physical Department.
One tennis handicap tournament
was conducted with IS entries:
Clauer tennis tournament with Is
entries and one doubles tournament
with nine teams Two matched ten
mis- games with NOtre Dame and two
with Gary.
Eighteen gymnasium classes were
held each week with . periods.
Two games of indoor baseball each
week during the fall by the Manu-
facturers' Indoor baseball league
composed Of four teams Two games
Of basket ball each week by the
Commercial basket ball league with
six teams. Organization Of a Sun
day School Athletic league with 16
teams. An eight team bowling league
organized in the Sunday school
league. Locker rooms made larger
and association furnished with hand
ball courts especially Tor wrestling.
etc.
Mems Division.
Two educational talks were con-
Quoted with an attendance of Ito.
Three classes were conducted out
side the building with an attendance
OF 500.
Glasses were taught in arithmetic.
penmanship and business CORE
spondence, bookkeeping and ac-
counting. shorthand and typewrit-
ing. employed boys mechanical
drawing. show card writing. physics
and chemistry. electricity machine
shop practice. English for coming
Americans music, algebra and ge-
ometry and boys summer school
Reading rooms OF the association
are supplied with - leading period
icals. Eight meetings were held in
the interest Of the foreign work. at
tended by 500 men.