The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-01-09
YMcA Report Shows Hundreds Of
Youths Reached By Varied Program

boys which form the program of
the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation have reached hundreds Of
youths in Pascagoula and the vi
entity during the past Id months,
according to a resume of the past
months released this week by A.
p. May, YMCA director.
During the past year and a half
the YMCA has sponsored club
meetings, soft ball games, model
airplane contests, sail boat races,
basketball and day camp activi-
ties. The total program is a va
ried one and reaches young peo-
pie of diversified interests.
There are five Hi-Y clubs, three
in the senior high school and two
in the Junior high school with an
enrolment of $50 boys. These
clubs meet every week and the
programs are both serious and So
cial, always with the objective of
development of the mind, body
and spirit OF the individual, Mr..
May pointed out.
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The membership in these clubs
is made up from boys of school
age regardless Of religious, social
or financial standing.
In a speech before the Board
of Directors recently, officers of
one of the clubs spoke ON what
the organization has meant to
them.
THE Hi-Y has meant so much
to us that although we are going
to graduate this year and will
no longer be able to benefit from
the programs we certainly hope
that those coming along behind
us will have the same opportun-
ity which we have enjoyed" they
said.
During the winter months of
1946-47 with the cooperation of
the Federal Housing Administra-
ton the YMCA provided a basket
ball program four nights a week
which gave enjoyment to hun
dreds of boys and girls both from
the standpoint of participants and
spectators. Over 100 games were
played between teams which
made up a league and teams
brought in from neighboring
places. All these games ere
free to spectators.
Airplane Club
For the past two summers the
YMcA has put on a program
of junior soft ball. There were
eight teams in the league and each
was composed of a maximum Of
10 boys. During the summer of
l947 there were 70 games played.
The boys taking part in this pro-
gram were drawn from all parts
of town and the only require
ments was that they could not
be past their 10th birthday.
The YN1CA Model Airplane
Club is the outgrowth of interest
shown in a model plane contest,
Mr.. May said, and is in a large
measure stimulated by the inter
est of H. M. Seay who gives his
time and knowledge to those boys
who enjoy this activity. This club
has learned not only how to make
and fly model airplanes but the
"why" of flying. Some Of the
boys who have captured trophies
in contests in this region are Au-
brey Simmons, second place, Class
B free-flight, Pascagoula; Charles
Myles. first place, Glass 3 free
flight, Mobile; Joe Krebs, Jr., first
place, Glass vi speed control
line, Jackson; Eugene Stuart,
third place, class A free flight,
New Orleans; Charles Myles, first
place, Glass c free flight and third
place Glass A free flight; G. G..
Pickle, first place, Glass A free
flight: Jack Hicks, second place,
Glass B free flight; Charles Gull
pepper. third place, Glass c free
flight, Gulfport.
The YMCA summer camp pro-
vided camping experience to 1877
boys and girls from seven to IL
years old during the past two
summers.
IN addition to planned activi-
ties" Mr.. Nav said, the building
is used by other groups and the
ping pong tables r in use night
and day by those boys and girls
who drop in for a few minutes of
fun and relaxation. An average
Of so or so boys and girls per day
use the facilities of the build
ing and the program as a whole is
meeting a need in the community.
The boy who is busy doing some
thing constructive is not going to