Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-25
VOICE APPROVAL OF YEARS WORK ANNUAL MEETING
OF AUGUSTA YOUNG MEMS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION

Unanimous endorsements of the
work Of the local staff of the Angus
ia Y. M. c. A. was registered on
Monday evening at the annual meet
ing of the organization which was
held In the assembly hall at the ''Y"
building. In addition, the meeting
authorized the sending of telegram
to be signed by Milton 0. Dean as
president of the Augusta Associa-
Smith, who Is now in Sussex. N. B..
his nephew and the illness Of his sis
ter, which read assfollows:
Meeting members Augusta Y. M.
c. A. tonight voted unaniomus COM
mendation your work past year. Our
sincere sympathy goes to you in
your hour of trial and hope for sis
ter's speed recovery"
In addition to the vote of commen-
dalton and thanks to General Secre-
tary Thomas S, Smith, Women's
Secretary Ethelle Garside. Boys
Work Secretary Raymond S. Grant
and Physical Director Hoyt H. Ma
ham, the members gave vote of
thanks to President Milton O. Dean
for his earnest and fruitful efforts on
behalf of the Y. M. c. A. during the
past year.
Name Board of Directors
The nominating committee through
tits chairman. W., D. Hutchins re-
ported the following names as mem
hers of the board of directors for
the coming year: Lewis A. Burleigh,
J,.
Co. Francis H. Farnum, Robert
Stanley Manning. Blaine Owen, D.
Saunders Patterson, Everett S. Per-
kins, Willard Purinton, DR.. Warren
B. Sanborn, Blaine S. Viles. Ralph R.
Weber and Harris S. Woodman.
This report was accepted by the
meeting and thes men were unani-
mously accepted as members of the
board.
President Milton o. Dean, acting
as chairman after a vote of the meet
ing named the following ladies as an
auxiliary woman's board to have
oversight of the affairs of the wom-
ems department of the local y. Nj. c.
A: Mrs. Horace Sturgis. Miss Effie
Libby, Miss Ruth Anderson, Miss
Ethel Leavitt, Miss Dorothy Harris,
Miss Adeline Johnson, Mrs. Forrest
C. Tyson, Mrs. Thomas Brady. Mrs.
w. Tudor Gardiner, Mrs. William
Mcdonald, Mrs. Norman Bassett and
Mrs. Charles T. Penney.
Amendments to Constitution
At this meeting several amend
sociation were taken up. and adopted
nv nf fhncn
of the amendments changed the
wording of the bylaws so that the
word person was inserted in the
place of men and boys" "boys," or
male members" thus giving the wo-
men and girls equal rights with the
men and boys. The minimum vot-
ing age of members was also
changed from eighteen years to six
teen years.
One of the principal changes was
that in the number of members of the
board OF directors. The amended
Section 1 of Article ~ reads as fol-
lows: THE officers of the association
shall be a board of 10 directors, not
less than 3 of whom shall be church
members and not more than six of
whom shall be members of the same
denomination, a president. vice presi-
dent, clerk and treasurer" The date
of the annual meeting was also
changed from the second Monday of
January to the first Monday of May in
each year. A change in the number
of the nominating committee which is
appointed at the regular meeting of
the board of directors preceding the
annual meeting provides for FIVE mem
bers instead of three. and at least
~ g. h.
bers of the board of directors. The
quorum of the meeting of the board of
directors has also been raised from
four to five members.
Increase Committee Personnel
To the IL standing committees hith-
erto authorized by the bylaws there
has been added house committee
which shall be responsible for the
care of the buildings of the associa-
ton
The executive committee of the as
sociation. which now consists of the
chairmen of the finance, religious
work, boys work, physical and social
work committee. and which previously
has been given the duty of considering
and maturing plans for the general
work of the association, comforting
with other committees when necessary,
has been changed so that the commit
tee now consists of the president,
treasurer, chairman Of the finance
committee and the clerk. and "the eX
ecutive committee shall have charge of
the administration of the association
in the intervals between board Meet
ings. and shall consider and mature
plans for the general work of the as
ISOLATION, comforting with the other
committees when necessary"
Committee Reports
Most interesting and highly pleasing
reports of the activities of the various
departments and divisions of depart
ments for the past year were presented
by members of the "Y" and these were
summed up by the chairman of the
committee within whose scope the ac-
tivities were.
The reports of the physical depart
ment programs were given by several
members and were summarized by DR..
Warren B. Sanborn, chairman of the
physical department committee. Those
reporting for this department were:
Comparative report, Ralph Weber;
boys and mems classes, Melvin Now
err: basketball, Lewis Mcdonald:
Dippy- Drome, Fred Warren: swim
ming, Theodore Lishness.
Robert Williamson Is chairman of
the boys department committee, the
reports for which were given as fol-
lows: Boys camp, Carleton Bagley;
Mother and Son and Father and Son
Banauets, Enrol Ridgwe11: Sunday aft
ernoon meetings and boys conference.
Robert Leadbetter; Y. NJ. C. A. court.
Fred Warren; club work., Theodore
McAllister; FIJI Y Club, Melvin Mower;
summary boys department report,
Robert Williamson. ......s
Women and Girls Departments:
Mrs. Horace Sturgis. chairman;