Evening star., 1927-10-30
"Y WILL OBSERVE
75TH ANNIVERSARY
President May Attend EIab-
crate Ceremonies at Audi
torium Next Sunday.

The seventy-fifth anniversary of
Young Mems Christian Association
will be celebrated with elaborate cere
monies in the Washington Auditorium
next Sunday afternoon at O'Clock
according to an announcement by
William Knowles Cooper, general
secretary.
President and Mrs. Coolidge have
expressed interest in the observance
and they expect to attend the eXer'
cises, to WHICH 5000 persons have been
invited. Others who will take part In
the celebration include members OF
the Cabinet. foreign diplomats. JUS
tices of the United States supreme
Court and many other public and
private officials.
Charles +. Taft. I'd. son of Chief
Justice Taft and active in y. NJ. G.. A.
circles Of Ohio, will deliver tho prin-
cipal address. He will be introduced
by Hugh a. Thrift, president of the
local Y. NJ. c. A.
Special Musical Program.
There will be special musical pro
gram, with the Inter-High School
Festival Orchestra and the Y. NJ. c. A.
Glee Club taking a leading part. The
music will begin at $3.50 o'clock with
preliminary organ and orchestral Sc
lections. The formal program will
open at o'clock with congregational
singing, followed by responsive read
ing and prayer by Rev. Frederick
Brown Harris, president of the Wash
ington Federation of Churches.
Seats have been reserved in blocks
| for large delegations from "a organi-
1, s,n4 tod ~
the work Of the Y. NJ. G. A. Some of
these groups will wear distinctive cos
tunes Among these will be repre-
sentative units from Walter Reed
Hospital, Gallaudet College and the
Old-Timers Club, the latter composed
of men who have been members OF the
'Y" for 10 years or more.
Arrangements for the celebration,
scheduled to be the most pretentious
ever held by the local organization, are
in charge of a special committee,
| headed by George Otis Smith, director
of the United States Geological Survey
and formerly president of the Wash
ington association. a post he held IA
years. Other members Of the commit.
tee are George A. Lewis. Clarence l..
Harding, DR.. Everett M. Ellison, John
B. Larner and William II. Hill.
Will Complete Plans Thursday.
The committee will complete final
plans at a meeting Thursday at
O'Clock in the Y. M. c. A. headquar-
ters, 1876 G. street.
The Washington Y. NJ G. A. was or
ganiZed June 8, 1852, at a meeting of
young men in the Old Masonic Hall, at
Tenth and E streets. The call for the
meeting was issued by three young
church workers, William Chauncey
Langdon and Thomas Duncan, teach
ers in the Sunday School of Trinity
| Episcopal Church, and William J.
Rhees, roommate of Duncan. At an
adjourned meeting a month later A.
| II. Lawrence was elected president,
| Rhees was made recording secretary.
Langdon, corresponding secretary, and
| M. II. Miller treasurer. This was the
| sixth association in the country.
The organization progressed and
frequently changed it's headquarters
during the yea. The first perma.
| nent home was on the third floor of a
| building on the east side of Seventh
street. near E. Six years later the
association moved to the Parker
Building, on Pennsylvania avenue, be-
tween Sixth and Seventh streets. In
1869 Lincoln Hall, at Ninth and D
streets, was occupied. and in 1881 the
| headquarters was removed to S04 f
street, and year later to the Cham
berlain Club House. 1409-11 New York
avenue. The club house was de.
| stroyed by fire in 1895 and three
years later the property of the old