| However, today women can be full members of our movement
(and indeed many women are among its members and family participation is
encouraged in numerous activities). This is a very important selling point
in many communities. Since 1995 local affiliated clubs wishing to emphasize
this openness can choose to call themselves "Y's Men and Women's Clubs"
or "Y Service Clubs". Members are known as Y's Men or Y's Women. |
| Today Y's Men International has almost 1,500 clubs with
around 28,000 members in 69 countries on all continents. |
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| Our Motto |
| "To acknowledge the duty that accompanies every right" |
| This motto was adopted by Y's Men because of the tendency
of most people to insist upon full enjoyment of all rights while remaining
oblivious to the corresponding duties giving validity to such rights. |
| Just as the green light giving right of way to traffic on
one street must have a corresponding red light to warn traffic on the cross-street
of its duty to stop, so every right we enjoy is founded upon a corresponding
duty. |
| Our motto is a constant challenge to us to pay less heed
to our rights, and more to the discovery and discharge of their corresponding
duties - to transfer the emphasis from rights to duties. |
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| Our Vision |
| Y's Men International will be recognised globally as a service
organisation promoting cultural awareness leading to brotherhood and world
peace. |
| ... or, paraphrased for a local club: |
| The Y's Men's Club of ............. will be recognized in
............ as a Service Club promoting cultural awareness leading to brotherhood
and world peace. |
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| Our Mission |
| As Y's Men International is a worldwide fellowship of persons
of all faiths working constructively together, based on the teachings of
Jesus Christ, in partnership with and supporting the YMCA, its mission is
to strive through active service to develop, encourage and provide leadership
to build a better world for all humankind. |
| Our Emblem |
| The Y's Men emblem consists first of a red triangle,
the symbol long employed by the YMCA to denote its three-fold programme
of spirit, mind and body building. |
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| In the upper border of the triangle appears
the word INTERNATIONAL, indicative of the scope of our purposes |
| Within the triangle a golden star sheds rays
of light on the name, "Y'S MEN'S CLUB". |
| This star symbolises the Star of Bethlehem.
Just as that star served as a guide to the Wise Men of the East, so shall
this golden star, which also represents the ideals of our club, serve as
a constant guide to the Y's Men of today and lead them to a true realisation
of the nobility of unselfish service. |
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Father of Y’s dom |
: |
Paul William Alexander |
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Y’s Men International was started in the year |
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1922 (America) |
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Founder’s Day |
: |
8th December |
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Wife of PaulWilliam Alexander |
: |
Lorraine |
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First Y’s Men’s club started in India |
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1940 Madras (1934 Lahore) |
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Indians who became International President |
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Dr.PatricSukumaran, Trivandrum 1986-87 Jacob Cherian, Tiruvalla
2003-04 |
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First Y’s Mens club outside American continent |
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Shanghai, China 1924 |
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First Y.M.C.A organised in the year |
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1844, London |
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“Y’s Mens World”, the official Magazine
was 1st published in the year |
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1936 |
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Judge Paul William Alexander died in the year |
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1967 |
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What is YEEP |
: |
Youth Education Exchange Programme. (16 to 18 years old
children of Y’s Men are provided an opportunity to study in a foreign
country for one year, hosted by a Y’s Man family and lives as a member
of that family. |
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What is STEP |
: |
Short Term Youth Exchange Programme. (14 to 21 Years old
children/grandchildren of Y’s Men are provided opportunity to stay
with a foreign Y’s Man’s family 2 to 11 weeks. |
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Highest honour of Y’s dom |
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BALLANTYNE AWARD |
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Elmer Crowe Award |
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Was the gift of MARCIA (Wife of Elmer Crowe) to commemorate
the memory of her husband, who was a devoted Y’s Man.Given to outstanding
District Governors. |
