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STORIED HISTORY Highlights in the history of YMCA and its growth in Hawaii:

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JUNE 6, 1844

DEC. 9, 1851

Twenty-two-year-old George Williams organized the first Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) in London.

Sea captain and missionary Thomas Valentine Sullivan and six colleagues founded first U.S. YMCA in Boston.

Photos courtesy YMCA unless otherwise credited.

APRIL 30, 1869

YMCA of Honolulu is founded.

Businessman Peter Cushman Jones is one of three founders.

All in the ohana The community gives back to rejuvenate the 150-year-old YMCA of Honolulu

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Ruth Fujimoto participates in the Total Body Conditioning program at the Nuuanu YMCA.

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t was a sunny, windy Tuesday in early March. At Honolulu’s Nuuanu YMCA, morning preschool had just let out, and two little boys and a girl in a yellow dress ran through the airy central courtyard, crossing paths with limber kupuna leaving exercise class.

Generations intersected throughout the building. In a day-lit studio, a class of 20- to 70-somethings did aerobics with hand weights. In a fitVideo is available ness room, peoat staradvertiser. ple of college com. through retirement age worked out on machines, while in an adjacent, glass-walled nursery, Y staffers baby-sat infants and toddlers; a mom on a treadmill could check on her child with a glance.

Everyone looked focused, relaxed and very much at home. Asked what she liked about the Y, “I feel very comfortable here,” said Florani Camacho, 19, a Kalihi native who recently joined the Y to stay in shape after completing her National Guard basic training. “You get to do what you want to do without anyone Continued on Page 4

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Clockwise from top left, young boys from the Kalihi YMCA play on the beach in the 1950s; kids from the Central YMCA fish at Ala Moana Beach Park in 1997; In the mid50s, early youth classes at the Kaimuki branch included hula instruction; Bea Piliwale works out at the Waipahu YMCA in 2012.

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MARCH 16, 1877

First Chinese YMCA organized in Honolulu.

Its first building was dedicated in 1878 on Nuuanu Avenue.

1881

Boston YMCA staffer Robert J. Roberts coins the term “body building” and develops exercise classes that led to today’s fitness workouts.

APRIL 21, 1883

First YMCA of Honolulu building.

As early as 1918, the Nuuanu Y was hailed as one of the most ethnically diverse YMCAs in the U.S.” Michael Broderick CEO and president, YMCA of Honolulu ———

Left, Elijah Cammack, 3, and Kai Kenny, 4, have fun on the mats under the supervision of Y staffers in the Childwatch program, which provides up to 2-1/2 hours of child care to Y members. Inset, Elijah Taylor, 2, finds a ball.

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FEB. 8, 1885

First Japanese YMCA organized in Honolulu.

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1889

YMCA’s red “Mind, Spirit, Body” equilateral triangle symbol is introduced by Honolulu-born Dr. Luther Halsey Gulick.

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1895

YMCA invents the game of basketball. Dr. Luther Gulick, who was born on Oahu to missionary parents and was now the head of the physical education department at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Mass., gave YMCA instructor James Naismith a challenge to create an indoor game that could be played during the winter between football and baseball seasons. Naismith hung peach baskets to the bottom of a second-level running track and taught the men his new game: basketball.

YMCA invents the game of volleyball.

1907

YMCA of Honolulu takes over the “Boys Brigade.” The program and activities served “street urchins” — underserved boys living in rural Oahu which had been run as a small independent Y program.

James Naismith

SAVE THE DATES Camp Erdman Family Day 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday Camp tours, kids’ activities and a historic camp exhibit, free admission. 69-385 Farrington Highway, Waialua 150th Anniversary Community Birthday Celebration 9 a.m.-1 p.m. April 27 Special activities and historic exhibits, free admission. At six YMCA of Honolulu branches: Kaimuki-Waialae, Kalihi.

Leeward, Mililani, Nuuanu and Windward 150th anniversary Ho’olaulea dinner 5-9 p.m. Nov. 9 Ko’olau Ballrooms and Conference Center For more information, go to ymcahonolulu.org.

YMCA staffers wave goodbye to their students and parents who are part of the PALS part-time preschool enrichment class for children 3 to 4 years old.

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Continued from Page 2 judging,” Camacho said, praising the encouraging staff and the wide selection of activities.

A smiling Blaise Desaubies sat at a courtyard with his daughter Claudia, 3, whom he had picked up from preschool and was eating a large cookie.

“We enjoy Claudia’s multicultural class — she understands different ethnicities,” he said, noting that he and his wife like being part of the Y’s family-friendly community. “I have not experienced that sense of com-

munity otherwise than here,” said the father of three, an American who was raised in France. Both he and his wife serve in the U.S. military; the family has been posted in five countries.

The multifaceted cultural, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, as well as widespread age range, of its 100,000 yearly users are the pride of the YMCA of Honolulu, which celebrates its 150th anniversary this year, said Michael Broderick, the nonprofit association’s CEO and president.

“As early as 1918, the Nuuanu Y

was hailed as one of the most ethnically diverse YMCAs in the U.S.,” Broderick said, “and I’m absolutely confident that in year 2019 our nine Y’s across the island are the most ethnically diverse across the nation.”

Helping young people grow into healthy, supportive community members was the founding purpose of the organization, and members such as Nainoa Heaston, 25, fulfill that mission by giving back in turn. Like many island youngsters, Heaston took summer day camps at the Nuuanu Y during elementary. In high school he

participated in the Kaimuki Y’s teen program. “I was surrounded by these caring people at the Y, and the feeling you get when someone helps you, that’s what I wanted to contribute,” Heaston said.

As an undergrad at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Heaston worked part time at the on-campus Atherton Y, doing college-prep outreach with high school students who are now graduating from college. One of his Continued on Page 6

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YMCA of Honolulu Archives

Congratulations & Mahalo to the YMCA for 150 Years!

YMCA of Honolulu Founding Members: (L to R) Frank C. Atherton , Dr. Iga Mori, Dr. William D. Westervelt, Dr. Singman Rhee, and Chung Kun Ai

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Thanks to your vision of unifying all Hawaii’s ethnic YMCA associations, our youth, kupuna and families have been welcomed and strengthened

by YMCA of Honolulu programs. Many of us have our own stories of growing up with the Y or have counted on the YMCA for afterschool care for our children. Thank you from the 400 team members of the City Mill Ohana.

Nuuanu YMCA, 1963

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1914

Korean YMCA and Filipino YMCA are organized.

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NOV. 25, 1917

Army and Navy YMCA opened on Hotel Street. The facility housed 25,000 Army and Navy servicemen during World War I. Nine years later the aging wooden structure was demolished to make way for the five-story concrete and stucco building that currently stands.

The facility was renamed the Armed Services YMCA in the early 1940s and served as an R&R hub for U.S. military personnel during World War II. Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, it was owned by the Hemmeter Corp. and the BIGI Corp. of Japan before the state purchased it for $22.5 million in 2000 to house the Hawaii State Art Museum and various state offices.

Continued from Page 4 happiest memories is leading a volunteer trip to Molokai “and teaching college students to be servants by working in loi, restoring boardwalk in the nature preserves, planting native plants. It was just so cool to help students learn who they are,” said Heaston, who went on to earn a Master of Science degree in social work from UH-Manoa. Just promoted to social services director of a nursing facility in Kalihi, he continues to volunteer as well as work out at the Y.

I was surrounded by these caring people at the Y, and the feeling you get when someone helps you, that’s what I wanted to contribute.”

Nainoa Heaston, YMCA member who attended summer day camps at the Nuuanu Y as a child ———

▼▼▼ This month, to commemorate its sesquicentennial, the YMCA of Honolulu is going public with a capital campaign to position the continuation of its threefold mission of fostering healthy living, youth development and social responsibility into the future.

The capital campaign, Broderick explained, seeks support above and beyond the Y’s annual operating budget, which was $28.2 million in 2018, of which approximately 88 percent went directly for operating programs and more than $1 million to funding outreach and community programs and providing financial assistance for those who couldn’t otherwise afford memberships and youth programs. To date, the campaign has reached 52 percent of its $15 million goal, with money allocated to three projects: >> Renovating the cabins at Camp Erdman in Mokuleia, where 15,000 children and their families enjoy outdoor experiences each year. >> Adding a permanent building with meeting rooms and basketball courts at the YMCA Waianae Youth Continued on Page 8

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Children from the YMCA’s PALS part-time preschool enrichment class for children leave with their parents or caregivers after their morning class.

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APRIL 1918

Nuuanu Y established.

After years of discussion, separate Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Filipino YMCAs on Oahu agreed to join together to form Hawaii’s first formally interracial YMCA — where all would be welcomed.

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Participants in the Y Summer School at Nuuanu Y in 1925.

The first Tri-Hi-Y Club for girls was organized in 1948 and met at the 10th Avenue building. The Hi-Lighters gathered every three months for dinner from the 1940s to the 1990s.

OCTOBER 1918

First Hi-Y Club in Honolulu is formed at McKinley High School. The high school volunteer clubs engaged students in community service and social activities. Additional Hi-Y clubs formed at Punahou and Kamehameha Schools and in rural Oahu. By 1964, the YMCA of Honolulu had the third largest Hi-Y program in the U.S. with 277 clubs.

FOR MORE INFORMATION YMCA of Honolulu branches 531-9622, ymcahonolulu.org Atherton 1810 University Ave.; 946-0253 Camp H.R. Erdman 669-385 Farrington Highway, Waialua; 637-4615 Central 401 Atkinson Drive; 941-3344 Kaimuki-Waialae 4835 Kilauea Ave.; 737-5544 Kalihi 1335 Kalihi St.; 848-2494 Leeward 94-440 Mokuola St., Waipahu; 671-6495 Mililani 95-1190 Hikikaulia St., Mililani; 625-1040 Nuuanu 1441 Pali Highway; 536-3556 Windward 1200 Kailua Road, Kailua; 261-0808 Waianae Youth Center 86-071 Leihoku St., Waianae; 969-2287 BRUCE ASATO / BASATO@STARADVERTISER.COM

Blaise Desaubies and his daughter, Claudia, 3, wait for their order at the Subway restaurant in the YMCA courtyard.

Continued from Page 6 Center, which since 2003 has operated out of a trailer, helping teens stop substance abuse. >> Reconfiguring the Nuuanu Y physical space to accommodate the needs of a growing and changing urban population.

Broderick, 62, a former Honolulu Family Court judge, said the programs serving lower-income residents, particularly at-risk youth, are dear to his heart. “I wanted to prevent people from ending up in places like Family Court. I saw so much suffering,” he said. “Because we have so

many youth leadership and drug-treatment programs (a total of 25 islandwide), the Y has helped keep kids out of detention.”

The Nuuanu Y is a hub, Broderick said, in a downtown community with “very low socioeconomic populations” including new immigrants from China and the South Pacific islands, and homeless children, for whom the Y conducts summer learning programs in partnership with neighboring Central Middle School. “Our capital campaign is intended to support those who need our help the most.”

Meanwhile, Y branches island-

wide keep expanding and improving their health and fitness offerings, said Michael Doss, vice president and COO, who oversees physical wellness programs and maintenance of exercise equipment and works out almost every day at the Nuuanu Y. “People know me, so they’re not shy about coming up and saying treadmill 31 is acting up,” he said. He makes such spot fixes while ensuring that new strength/resistance and cardio equipment is rotated in every three years.

Doss, 58, also oversees the Y’s 9-year-old, evidence-based chronic disease prevention program, in

which it partners with and collects data for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; its growing diabetes prevention program is covered by Medicare and many local insurers and employers. Next on the list is high blood pressure.

“Almost every day, somebody tells me a story about how the Y changed their life,” said Broderick, who also works out at the Y. What’s crucial, he said, is to get the message out to an ever-changing population that the Y is there to help. Attesting to good institutional design, every generation produces new champions like Heaston who spread the word.

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1920

Hawaii swimmers Duke Kahanamoku, Bill Harris, Warren and Pua Kealoha, and F. Kahele all medaled at the Olympic Games in Belgium.

Many of these swimmers trained at YMCA pools and in Y gyms. Duke Kahanamoku used the Central YMCA pool for occasional practice.

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Duke Kahanamoku, center in the front row, was on swim relay team for the Central Y. They established Y world record that stood for decades.

1922

University YMCA/Atherton YMCA is organized. The group soon became one of the largest and most active on campus with 115 male student members out of the 290 total enrolled male students in the university. Programs included Bible study and discussion groups, business meetings and University Night for high school students.

UH Y delegates traveled to Pacific Grove, Calif., for a student conference in 1926.

Growth in giving Students in YMCA’s teen volunteer program learn from hands-on experiences

By Nancy Arcayna

Special to the Star-Advertiser

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reaking stereotypes and stigmas are among the biggest takeaways that Chloe Kelly has gained since embarking on the Houseless Initiative, a project through the YMCA’s teen volunteer program.

“It may sound cliche, but I’ve learned not to judge a book by its cover,” said the Mililani High School senior.

The teens are not just delivering food to the homeless community.

They have taken the time to get to know these individuals over the past year, she explained.

“People think because they are homeless that they don’t work or that they do drugs,” Kelly said. “The people we meet do have jobs; they just don’t make enough to have a house.”

Once a week, teen volunteers pack 50 nutritional sack lunches, which include a sandwich, a bag of chips, an apple or orange and water or juice, to deliver to the homeless in the Wahiawa community.

Grant money was received for the Houseless Initiative launch, but Kelly says it’s now fully funded by monthly baby-sitting nights that the teens host.

The teen programs are designed to DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARADVERTISER.COM provide hands-on learning experiences that encourage the youth to YMCA teen volunteers Lexi Saki, left, Shelby Seu and Chloe Kelly prepare snacks that will be put into become changemakers and leaders sack lunches for homeless people in Wahiawa as Paul Matsumoto assists.

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1924

Rural Branch established as the YMCA Oahu County Association to manage Y boys’ clubs in Haleiwa and other areas outside of Honolulu.

Without buildings and equipment, the clubs still managed to follow the same program as did the city Ys. Activities included camping, hobby shows and sports events including the Rural Oahu Y Roundup track meet held in Honolulu.

The Ewa District YMCA Roundup at Waipahu Park, in April 1943.

A Camp Erdman leader with youth at Camp Mokuleia in the 1920s when army tents were used to camp in on 10 acres of land leased to the YMCA by Walter F. Dillingham for $1 a year.

1926

Camp Mokuleia opened. It would later become Camp Erdman.

in the community.

Kelly also serves as the youth governor, elected by her peers through the YMCA Youth and Government program, formerly known as the It may sound cliche but I’ve learned not to judge a book First Model Constitution. The proby its cover. ... The people we meet do have jobs, gram offers middle and high school students a hands-on approach to rethey just don’t make enough to have a house.” searching and addressing community issues through the legislative Chloe Kelly, teen volunteer with YMCA’s Houseless Initiative process. Students learn parliamen——— tary procedures by electing their junior at Mililani High School. “We deown governor, speaker of the House lative session. bate about things that we care about.

“We write newsletters, research and Senate president. The teens bills and focus on the issues that are You feel safe. It’s not scary even draft, debate and vote on their own bills and resolutions in a mock legis- important to us,” said Krysta Reese, a though there’s a lot of hot topics.”

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▼▼▼ Joie Agoo, a junior at Mililani High School, affectionately spoke about one of her favorite initiatives, the YMCA’s Hiroshima exchange program.

“Let’s Get Together” was started in 1961 between Honolulu Hi-Y (boys) and Tri-Hi-Y (girls) clubs and the Hiroshima YMCA. It’s the longest-running international student exchange program in the nation.

“Even though we are oceans apart, we have so much in common.

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DEC. 7, 1941

Hung Wai Ching speaks to Farrington High School sponsored by Kalihi Y.

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Pearl Harbor bombed by the Japanese, launching America into World War II. Families whose homes were destroyed by antiaircraft fire took shelter at the Nuuanu Y’s facilities.

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YMCA staff worked secretly in U.S. internment camps holding 110,000 Japanese-Americans, organizing clubs and activities for the children. During this time, Hung Wai Ching, director of Atherton Y and World War II Morale Commitee Speaker worked to minimize the internment of local Japanese and to improve relationships between the Japanese community and the military.

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Emmaleilikolani Higa, left, Jade McMillan-Chau, Krysta Reese and Lori Takushi are volunteers in the YMCA Teen Program. The Mililani High School students prepare sandwiches that will be given to homeless people in Wahiawa.

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the cultural exchange trip to Japan last year.

“We got to experience new things It’s an exchange of culture and together,” Agoo said. friendship that keeps developing,” When the students come to Hawaii Agoo said. She first went to stay with a host family when she was in eighth from Hiroshima, the girls and other participants take them to places like grade. the USS Arizona Memorial and Poly“I was the youngest person going nesian Cultural Center. from Hawaii. I was scared. It was my “ ‘One of the things that we do at first time out of the country,” she the Y is teach leadership skills to the said. teens to get them out of their comfort Agoo, Kelly and Reese all went on

zone,” Bryan Murphy, YMCA teen director, said.

“We want to create civic-minded individuals so that they think about and look at issues from both sides of the spectrum. They are learning to stand up for what they believe in, and that’s the intrinsic benefit of the programs.”

Depending on the time of year and what projects are being handled, the teens may volunteer for up to 20 hours each week.

▼▼▼ Longtime volunteer Jimmy Tomita had similar experiences through the YMCA teen programs. He joined his first club in 1953 when he was a senior at Saint Louis High School.

He worked on community service projects such as beach cleanups, but he admits he originally joined, along with his buddies, for the social aspects.

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MAY 22, 1943

Kaimuki YMCA branch opened.

MARCH 1946

Kalihi branch was established and initially operated its Hi-Y youth clubs out of the Nuuanu branch.

Kamehameha Hi-Y Club holds a meeting at the Kalihi Y.

Kaimuki Japanese Language School on 10th Avenue became the Kaimuki branch’s first headquarters in 1943. Taichi Matsuno, a Kaimuki Y executive, leads a ukulele class.

The first Hi-Y Club was formed in October 1918 at McKinley High School. The YMCA of Honolulu had the third-largest Hi-Y program in the United States with 277 clubs by 1964.

“We met kids from other schools and had socials with the girls club,” he said. Among the events he remembers fondly are the moonlight picnics. “Ala Moana Beach Park was a popular place to have them. Of course, we had adult advisers to keep us on the right path.”

The advisers played a personal role in helping Tomita learn about banking, college and how to stay out of trouble, he explained.

He went into military service for four years and returned to the island to pursue his college degree.

“This one girl struck my fancy. I wanted to make the grade with her,” he said. Since she worked at the YMCA, he decided to volunteer as an adviser to impress her. Although he planned for it to be short term, he continued gaining certifications and is still volunteering for the youth swim team today.

“There were times that I considered leaving the Y, but something else would come up,” he said.

“It was great working with these kids. You’d get to know them really well,” he said. “The experience was invaluable. I got more out of it than I put into it.”

And he got the girl. He married Doris Sugimoto, and they have been together for 59 years. (She started as a volunteer adviser, became a youth director and went up the ranks to eventually become executive director and chief operating officer. She retired in 2005.)

“Now the thought of leaving the Y never crosses my mind,” Tomita said. “It makes me feel like I’m doing something, that I’m making a difference.”-

Some Hi-Y Club memorabilia were collected in a scrapbook.

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YMCA teen programs originated from Hi-Y Clubs in the 1950s and ’60s that turned into social clubs in the 1970s to the ’80s. A photo, above, from 1962 shows Honolulu teens in a Hi-Y Club, who visited Hiroshima in 1962 in an YMCA exchange program, dancing hula.

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FEB 11, 1947

Wahiawa branch inaugurated. The Rural YMCA branch, which once covered all of Oahu outside of Honolulu, had new branches grow as off-shoots such as the Wahiawa branch.

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The Wahiawa Language School became the YMCA’s Rural Branch from 1947 to 1960.

1948

At least 17 Nuuanu Y weightlifters won medals at the National Amateur Athletic Union meets, the Pan American games and the Olympic Games.

Olympic weightlifter Harold Sakata won a silver medal and Richard Tom won bronze.

Members of the Hawaii weightlifting team defeated the National and World Championship York Barbell team for the National and U.S. Olympic team title.

National Champions pictured in New York in June 1952.

Divine beginnings YMCA started with a focus on Christian evangelism but later embraced athletics

By Bob Sigall

Special to the Star-Advertiser

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hen most people think of the YMCA, they think of an athletics-based organization that does other good things, too. But in fact, the organization, when it was opened in Hawaii in 1869, felt that our climate was too warm for serious exercise, according to the Hawaii newspaper The Friend.

Instead, the YMCA here focused on Christian evangelism. It held Bible classes, prayer meetings and helped provide respectable Christian lodging and employment.

The Hawaii YMCA was founded in 1869 by Peter Cushman Jones, Thomas Rain Walker and Sanford Ballard Dole. Dole would later be governor of Hawaii. Jones would become president of C. Brewer and founder of the Bank of Hawaii.

It wasn’t until the 1880s that the YMCA in Hawaii and the United States embraced athletics. And amazingly, it was the work of a local man from Honolulu. His name was Luther Halsey Gulick Jr., and he was the son of missionaries.

His father, Luther Gulick Sr., founded Kawaiahao Seminary in 1865. It joined with Mills School in 1908 to become Mid-Pacific Institute.

PHOTOS COURTESY YMCA To those who felt the “Y” should focus on religious and educational Luther Halsey Gulick Jr., inset, graduated from Oahu College (now Punahou School) and became a physiwork, Gulick argued that the “body is cal-education instructor in Springfield, Mass., for the YMCA. Gulick’s student and YMCA instructor James the temple of God, and its care and Naismith invented basketball. Pictured above is the 1914 Central Y basketball team.

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1950

YMCA of Honolulu, Adventure Guides Program started for boys 6 to 9 and their fathers. The program, which continues today, allows fathers (or mothers or guardians) to have the opportunity to “guide” their sons (or daughters) in exploring the outdoors and teaching them the ways of the land.

A West Oahu Mililani father and son in the branch’s Adventure Guide Program.

SEPTEMBER 1950

Windward YMCA started in Kailua

development are not inconsistent for Christians.”

Gulick Jr. graduated from Oahu College (Punahou School) and became a physical-education instructor at the (The) body is the temple of God, and its care and International YMCA Training School in development are not inconsistent for Christians.”

Springfield, Mass.

He presented his ideas for the Luther Gulick Sr., founder of Kawaiahao Seminary, “unity of body, mind and spirit” to arguing for physical education at the YMCA the International Young Men’s Chris——— tian Association convention in 1889.

He developed an equilateral triangle By 1891, Gulick was the head of the calisthenics, and asked his instructors showing that all three are necessary physical education department at the to develop indoor games that were for a whole person. They embraced his idea, and the triangle is now part school. During that winter he noticed “interesting, easy to learn, easy to play in winter and by artificial light.” that YMCA staffers were bored with of the YMCA’s symbol worldwide.

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The “Camp in the Woods” at Kalama near Kailua Coconut Grove was gifted to the YMCA in 1934 by the Castle and Westervelt families and Col. John H. Soper, which included the log cabin.

YMCA instructor James Naismith came up with a game “as free from roughness as possible, adaptable to large and small groups of men, and give all-around development.” His idea? Basketball. And it spread like wildfire through YMCAs across the country.

Initially the size of each team was determined by the size of the gym’s floor space. By 1898 it became standardized at five players on the floor at any one time, the Philadelphia Times reported.

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Ford Konno, Nuuanu Y Olympic swimmer, broke local and national records. He went to the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games and the 1956 Melbourne, Australia, Olympic Games, winning a total of two gold medals and two silver medals.

1961

First “Let’s Get Together” exchange visit of Hiroshima YMCA and YMCA of Honolulu Teens. The exchange program started between Honolulu Hi-Y and Tri-Hi-Y clubs and the Hiroshima YMCA when Hiroshima became the sister city of Honolulu.

Honolulu Mayor Neal Blaisdell with first Hiroshima exchange students.

Continued from Page 15 A referee and umpire watched to see if a player kicked the ball or ran with it. Tripping, kicking or roughness was not allowed.

The two halves began with a jump ball of the two tallest players. The “forward” then took the ball down the court by “dribbling.” Guards spread their arms to block throws.

The games is quick, fast and furious, the Times said.

The first game of basketball in Hawaii was played in 1895 at the YMCA here, just four years after its invention.

In 1895 another instructor, William Morgan, came up with volleyball, which he called “mintonette,” in that it reminded him of badminton.

Morgan thought basketball was too strenuous and didn’t hold the interest of some players. He took an old basketball bladder, and he and friend, John Lynch, started knocking it back and forth, trying to keep it in the air.

He asked the sporting goods company Spalding to make a special ball, and the early players batted it over a 6-1/2-foot net. Over time the net was raised to 8 feet for men and 7 feet 4 inches for women.

Initially the ball could be hit many times on one side before being hit over the net, but that was soon reduced to a maximum of three.

Gulick invited Morgan to demonstrate the game at his gym in Springfield. Dr. Alfred Halstead of the college faculty suggested a better name that was more descriptive, and the crowd embraced “volley ball.”

So, a local boy, Luther Gulick, and two YMCA men who worked with him gave us both basketball and volleyball.

Honolulu Advertiser writer E. Fullard-Leo said in 1960, “Basketball is perhaps the only real American game in that it was not borrowed in whole or part from a foreign country.”

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Above, Analia Hermosillo, 12, runs to catch a basketball during a game of “poison” at the Nuuanu YMCA. The first game of basketball in Hawaii was played in 1895 at the YMCA. That same year another of Gulick’s students and YMCA instructor, William Morgan, came up with volleyball, originally called mintonette. Pictured at left are the 1913 Central Y volleyball champions.

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A counselor talked with a teen as part of Kalihi at Risk Teen Outreach in the 1960s.

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Leeward YMCA established.

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The Nuuanu YMCA began offering hula instruction with the leadership of kumu hula Carolee Nishi. Fifty years later, “Auntie Carolee” continues to lead the Nuuanu Y’s Hawaiian Studies program.

YMCA of Honolulu Afterschool Care Programs for “Latch-Key” Children began.

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Melting pool Once separated by race, the Nuuanu YMCA brought four cultures together

By Bob Sigall

Special to the Star-Advertiser

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ost of us have driven past the Nuuanu YMCA at Vineyard Boulevard and Pali Highway, but you might not know it was originally across the street from its current location, in the parking lot where Longs and Safeway are today. And it was a historic first in the world.

This particular YMCA was groundbreaking in bringing together Chinese, Korean, Filipino and Japanese ethnicities to associate in friendship.

Before that they had separate, racial YMCAs. You might think this happened in the 1960s, when the civil rights era was strong, but in actuality it happened over 100 years ago, back in 1918!

The idea began with YMCA General Secretary Lloyd Killam, according to Gwenfread E. Allen’s book “The Y.M.C.A. in Hawaii, 1869-1969.” One Friday evening in 1916, as he was driving an old open Model T Ford, from one ethnic Y to another, the skies opened up. “Soon the streets were filled with water from curb to curb, and I was thoroughly soaked.

“It suddenly occurred to me, why not put the four racial Y’s into one building?”

Despite substantial differences in language, education and social standing, they found a way to come together. Japan occupied Korea then,

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The YMCA summer program for kids offers swim instruction. Nuuanu YMCA swim instructors, above, teach keiki how to swim. Pictured at right is the 1924 Nuuanu YMCA swim team.

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YMCA of Honolulu – International and World Alliance. The YMCA of the USA names the YMCA of Honolulu as its official liaison to the YMCAs in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Tahiti and Samoa.

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YMCA leaders and villagers in Western Samoa in 1996.

1989

Launch of A+ AfterSchool Care Program.

FALL 1989

New Mililani YMCA branch building dedicated.

Launch of YMCA Annual Healthy Kids Day.

and we could not afford the uniforms.

That day she took me to the Nuuanu YMCA and signed me up.�

Former police commissioner Roland Sagum said he was raised in the worst part of Honolulu. “The building I lived in was a den of gamblers and thieves.� He joined the Nuuanu YMCA, and “from that day my life changed. Without the YMCA I don’t know where I might have gone — the reformatory, probably, and then perhaps the penitentiary. “My desire to live right and serve my fellow man was given to me by the Nuuanu YMCA. Any success I have I owe to it.�

Continued from Page 18 which many thought would be a stumbling block, but somehow members were able to get past that.

C.K. Ai, creator of City Mill, was one of the Nuuanu YMCA’s founders, as was Dr. Syngman Rhee, former president of Korea. Businessman Frank Atherton, Dr. William Westervelt of the Hawaiian Historical Society and Dr. Iga Mori, vice president of the Pan Pacific Union.

The spirit of Hawaii, they believed, and the spirit of the YMCA both favored interracial friendships. That was one of its founding principles. Training the next generation on their duties as American citizens was another.

They felt the all-around, well-developed young man had four sides to his life: intellectual, physical, social and religious.

They wanted to build a community with young men of good character, rather than hoodlums; interracial friendship rather than racial strife; and spiritual-minded citizens interested in the social welfare of all.

In 1917 the decision to unite moved forward, former YMCA President Don Anderson told me. “Prior to this there was only one place it the entire world where different races shared one YMCA, and that was Kansas City (Mo.).�

Initially, Hawaiians and Caucasians tended to go to the Central YMCA at Hotel and Alakea streets, but over time, members went to the Y that was most convenient to them.

The Hawaii experiment came to be seen as the association world’s most notable achievement in racial integration.

Possible names considered were the Interracial YMCA and the Oriental YMCA, but as it opened at the entrance to Nuuanu Valley, the name came into focus as the Nuuanu YMCA. The new YMCA opened in 1918

A child navigates an obstacle course.

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â–źâ–źâ–ź The Nuuanu YMCA was also the site of another “first.â€? The first time karate was demonstrated outside of Japan was there in 1927.

YMCA Friendship Games are held In that year the elder statesman of at Kapiolani Park. A group from Okinawan karate, Kentsu Yabu, Nuuanu YMCA kicks a football stopped in Hawaii. Over 700 people while hanging onto each other. attended a demonstration of this martial art at the Nuuanu YMCA, according to newspaper reports.

In 1963 Fort Street was expanded and named Pali Highway. The 45-year-old, termite-eaten, woodframed YMCA buildings were in the STAR-ADVERTISER / 1998

and within six years had a gymnasium and pool. From the beginning it was a beehive of activity, with club meetings, night school, social events and sports activities including volleyball, basketball, indoor baseball, swimming and tennis.

Social activities centered around the cafeteria. Committee and club meetings were often held at meal hours.

Courses were offered in English, math, spelling, bookkeeping, typewriting and business letters.

An average of 400 people used the facilities each day, it was reported in 1923, and the number was increasing.

It was hard to find rooms for all the activities members wanted to engage in.

Many prominent Hawaii leaders acknowledged their debt to the Nuuanu YMCA in shaping their lives, including Sen. Daniel Inouye, Sen. Hiram Fong, Chinn Ho and the Rev. Abraham Akaka.

Anderson remembers sitting in Inouye’s Washington, D.C., office, and he said, “Don, I really wanted to join the Boy Scouts, but my mother told me that we were a very poor family

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Jason Casem, member of the Camp Branch staff, with kids in Ormoc Tent City, Philippines. Casem was a member of a 1993 Young Adult Camp which joined with young adults from partner YMCAs in Hiroshima, Japan and Cebu City.

1993

International Programs Pioneered. The program, which partners three YMCAs: Cebu of the Philippines, Hiroshima of Japan and the YMCA of Honolulu, was designed to strengthen friendship between young adults of the three countries while working on projects for small villages in need in rural areas of the Philippines.

way and were torn down. It moved across the street into a sparkling new, $1.6 million three-story building.

The new YMCA had a 75-by-42-foot swimming pool, a gymnasium, classrooms, dormitories, social spaces, locker rooms, tennis courts, a cafeteria and a snack shop.

Honolulu resident Linda Sakuma remembers Carl Stewart, a tall man who taught ballroom dancing at the Y. “He must have (tried) to teach half the high school kids in town to dance and be civilized at social events.

“Girls lined up on one side of the room, boys on the other. We were

2010

The Y revitalizes its brand, officially referring to itself by its most familiar name – the Y – for the first time.

My desire to live right and serve my fellow man was given to me by the Nuuanu YMCA. Any success I have I owe to it.”

Roland Sagum, Former police commissioner ———

2010

Launch of YMCA chronic disease prevention and management programs. The programs address diabetes prevention, childhood obesity, arthritis and Parkinson’s disease.

“There were live bands, and kids from various high schools would gather, dance and make friends. One of my favorite bands was the Cadientes from, I believe, Kaimuki High School. It was a great time!”

Manoa resident Hank Chapin remembers a local guy with impressive gray hair always yakking away in pidgin in the locker room at the Nuuanu Y. “Since the Y would wash our gym clothes, his outfit never changed and, frankly, like all of us, he looked a bit raggedy. Clean, yes, but the clothes

Former Waipahu High School stufrom many different schools, and that dent Ronnie Belasco said he rememwas the online dating of our day. I bers going to Saturday night dances at wonder how many of those budding the Nuuanu YMCA in the late 1960s. romances ever ended in marriage?”

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Launch of anti-hunger food program. When school is out of session, YMCA of Honolulu offered free meals in communities where 50 percent or more of the school-age population is on the free- and reducedlunch program.

2014

Launch of YMCA Togetherhood. Y members get the chance to benefit the communities in which they live.

Local projects have included the restoration of the Ulupo Heiau and Loi, Kamamalu Park cleanups and the Windward Houseless Care Program.

Continued from Page 21 became tattered and faded after frequent trips to the Y’s washing machine.

“One day I was watching TV, and a local politician came on speaking perfect English and dressed very neatly.

He looked distinguished with carefully coiffed white hair — rather familiar. After a minute of thought, I suddenly realized that the handsome politician and the raggedy pidgin speaker were one and the same person: state Senate leader Dickie Wong.

“Many adroit local politicians are fluent in pidgin and standard English, and speak and dress appropriately depending on circumstances. It’s a talent.” ▼▼▼ “I came to the Honolulu Y as its new president in 1989,” former YMCA President Don Anderson continued.

“I stayed in the Nuuanu YMCA dormitory several nights without announcing who I was.

“I met a young, mentally challenged man who lived at the Y. It gave him his own place to live apart from his parents and also an independent life. He had friends there, participated in programs and even ate there. I was impressed by the caring nature of every staff member and thought, man, this is really a special place they have here.

“During my tenure I would see Gov. Linda Lingle in the pool and Gov. Neil Abercrombie in the weight room. Neil donated his famous yellow Checker cab to the Y as a fundraiser.

“The Nuuanu YMCA is the most complete Y I have ever seen,” Anderson said. “It does everything. There is a dormitory, a gym, a pool, a weight room, a cafeteria, huge teen programs, all kinds of classes, community meeting rooms and extensive programs for children. The Nuuanu Y does it all.”

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Before 1918, Honolulu YMCAs had segregated locations for Chinese, Korean, Filipino and Japanese members. Nuuanu YMCA members, above, attend a Korean father-and-son banquet in 1927.

A page from the Honolulu Star-Bulletin from July 16, 1938, reports on the opening of the new Nuuanu YMCA building.

APRIL 1, 2019

Planned launch of new swim program.

AUG. 4-8, 2019

Celebrations around the world planned for the 175th anniversary of the institution.

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