YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit, Metropolitan Offices records, 1877-2012

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YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit, Metropolitan Offices records, 1877-2012

11 linear feet (in 13 boxes) — 21 oversize volumes — 1 oversize folder — 1.1 GB (online)

Branch of the YMCA; Annual reports, clippings, correspondence, financial records, minutes of meetings, photographs, press releases, published materials, rosters, and scrapbooks; also includes collected branch records for the Railroad branch, 1877-1890, and the Downtown branch, 1890-1909; and publication, Detroit Young Men, 1911-1922.

The records of the Metropolitan Offices of the YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit consist of annual reports, correspondence, financial materials, minutes (Secretary's records), photographs, published brochures and pamphlets, and scrapbooks. The materials document, somewhat unevenly, the efforts of the YMCA to tend to the spiritual, physical, and social needs of the young men in Detroit. The strengths of this record group are in its minutes (Secretary's records) and photographs, each of which provides detailed and telling insight into the development of Detroit and the YMCA from the nineteenth century to 2006. The scrapbooks created by the YMCA, 1936-1973, are also of interest in that they accurately reflect all newspaper coverage of YMCA events and activities for this decade.

The records have been arranged in four series: Administration, Secretary's Records, Visual Materials, and Scrapbooks.

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Administration

The Administration series consists of three subseries: A.G. Studer and R. Elliott files; R. Adelberg files; and Topical files.

Topical

The Topical files concerns anniversary celebrations and annual reports from 1990 through the second decade of the twenty-first century. The subseries includes some materials from the service of Robert Davis, secretary in the 1970s, John Copeland, Executive Director of the St. Antoine Branch in the 1950s and Vice-President of Public Relations and Urban Affairs in the 1970s, and Reid S. Thebault, CEO in the 1990s through 2003; and a history entitled YMCA in America, 1851-2001. Also included in this subseries is the history and land acquisition file for the Wayne-Westland branch, which closed in 2003. A history of the branch is included as well as a small number of photos. This subseries also includes press releases, clippings, brochures and pamphlets, board and committee rosters, reports from Camps Ohiyesa and Nissokone, and files relating to the Dearborn, Wayne-Westland, and Greater Warren Family YMCAs.