Records of YMCA international work in Greece 1903-1988

National War Work Council, Y.M.C.A. of the United States

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Trench and Camp newspaper was published by the National War Work Council of the YMCA, in partnership with various city newspapers, for soldiers during World War I. The weekly paper was printed in different editions for each of the thirty-two cantonments, with about half the material supplied weekly from a central editorial office in New York, and half by local reporters. Its purpose was “to print the news, to inform, to stimulate, and to help relieve the tedium and monotony of camp ...

Young Men's Christian Associations of North America. International Committee

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Amoss, Ulius Louis, 1895-1961

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Ulius "Pete" Louis Amoss (1895-1961) was an American businessman who dedicated his life to espionage. During World War II, Amoss served as a director in the United States Office of Strategic Services, for which he was awarded the Legion of Merit. After he was discharged in 1946, Amoss formed the International Services of Information Foundation (ISI), a non-profit intelligence service whose purpose was to collect and disseminate information from foreign countries. Amoss edited three ISI publicati...

Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados.

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YMCA of the USA. International Division.

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From the 1880s on, the YMCAs of the United States and Canada helped YMCAs in Europe in a variety of ways, with the majority of the work coming as a response to World War I. The region of Austria, Hungary and Switzerland was not the scene of extensive or prolonged assistance. However, as an aftermath of World War I, through funds provided from the Student Friendship Fund, the International Committee, under the direction of John R. Mott, purchased a building in Vienna. This building was held by th...

International Committee of YMCAs. World Service.

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In the late 1940s, in order to begin the work in the Belgian Congo, the Danish YMCA promised an experienced secretary and committed to the supporting funds necessary for a five year period of establishment. This early dedication by the Danish YMCA encouraged the Belgian National Council to also step in and commit for later financial support. In 1949, the Danish YMCA confirmed that Mr. I. Grube Overgaard would be the chosen secretary and sent him to Belgium and to the Congo for preli...

Lansdale, Herbert Parker 1898-1988.

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Herbert Parker Lansdale, Jr. was born in 1898 in Baltimore, Maryland. His father, Herbert Parker Lansdale, Sr. was the general secretary of the Rochester, New York YMCA from 1911 until his retirement in 1929. Lansdale, Jr. spent the majority of his professional career working with the YMCA, holding positions at YMCAs in Worcester, Mass; Salonika, Greece; and Rochester, New York. He served as executive secretary of the International Committeee of YMCAs of the United States and Canada from 1952 to...

Metaxas, Ioannis, 1871-1941

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Wishard, Luther D. (Luther Deloraine), 1854-1925

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Creighton, David C.

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