Records of YMCA international work in Austria, Hungary, and Switzerland, 1900-1987.

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Records of YMCA international work in Austria, Hungary, and Switzerland, 1900-1987.

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Includes correspondence, reports, and printed material, primarily concerning the YMCA in Vienna, Austria, but also including some information about YMCA work in Budapest, Hungary and in Switzerland. As significant portion of the records consist of correspondence and documents concerning the purchase, with funds raised by John R. Mott, of a building in Vienna to be used as a student hostel. Also documented is Mott's decision to sell the property owing to his conviction it was not being managed in accordance with its original purpose. Material for Switzerland primarily consists of correspondence with the World Alliance of YMCAs, which is headquartered in Geneva, but also includes some with the National Council of YMCAs of Switzerland.

.9 cubic feet (4 boxes).

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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

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Mott, John R. (John Raleigh), 1865-1955

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John Raleigh Mott was born on May 25, 1865 in Livingston Manor, New York to John Stitt and Elmira Dodge Mott. John R. was the third of four children, having two older and one younger sister. The family soon moved to Postville, Iowa, where the elder Mott prospered as a retail lumber and hardware merchant and became mayor. In this conservative, ethnically diverse environment, young Mott grew to mid-adolescence in a home warmed by Methodist "holiness," which faith he confessed...

World Alliance of YMCAs

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The YMCA, established at Oberlin College in 1881, and the YWCA, established in 1894, were voluntary associations of students dedicated to social and religious work for the purpose of building Christian character in their members. Oberlin College provided on-campus quarters for both organizations, whose staffs were paid out of an annual grant from the College. Under the presidency of William E. Stevenson (1946-59), the relationship of the YMCA and YWCAs to the larger religious life of the College...

YMCA of the USA

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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...