Adelaide - Clubs, Societies and Associations
Young Men's Christian Association
The inaugural meeting of the Adelaide branch of the London Young Men's Christian
Association is reported in the Register,
19 May 1853, page 3c; also see
23 November 1853, page 3f and
Adelaide Times,
28 June 1853, page 2d.
The first meeting of the "newly-formed" Young Men's Christian Association is
reported on
20 May 1858, page 2f.
A history of the YMCA is in the Register,
19 May 1903, page 5b, 18 July 1914, page 17c.
"YMCA Foundation Recalled" is in The News,
28 February 1929, page 18d.
A critical letter is in the Observer, 28 May 1853, page 2f.
"Young Men's societies are discussed in the Register,
11 February 1863, page 2h,
11 April 1864, page 2f,
The first meeting of the Adelaide Young Men's Society is reported in the Register on
2 May 1876, page 6f.
"Our Young Men's Associations" is in the Register,
17 and 20 August 1883, pages 4e and 6d,
"The Young Men's Societies' Union" is in the Register,
6 December 1883, page 4e.
"YMCA Foundation Recalled" is in The News, 28 February 1929, page 18d.
For information on the Association see Express,
15 october 1872, page 2c,
Chronicle,
7 December 1878, page 1of,
22 March 1879, page 10d,
10 May 1879, page 9f,
30 August 1879, page 1a (supp.),
Register,
12 and 29 November 1878, pages 1g (supp.) and 5f,,
30 November 1878, page 1f (supp.),
16 December 1878, page 4d,
17 January 1879, page 6e,
Observer,
3 May 1879, page 7c,
Express,
23 and 27 August 1879, pages 3b and 3b,
Register,
9 and 16 April 1880, pages 5f and 6d,
8 April 1881 (supp.), page 1f,
3 April 1883, page 6a,
2 November 1883, pages 4f-5g (laying foundation stone),
6 December 1883, page 4e,
16 April 1884, page 6e,
19 July 1884, pages 4g-6d,
21 and 22 July 1884, pages 7b and 4f-5g,
28 April 1886, page 6d,
22 and 26 May 1886, pages 5a-6b and 7f.
"A Split With the YMCA" is in the Register, 7 October 1884, page 6f.
"Mr A. Walker and the Register" is in the Register, 13 May 1885, page 5d.
"YMCA and the City Corporation" is in the Express, 9 January 1885, page 2c.
"YMCA Defalcations" is in the Express,
17 April 1886, page 3d; also see
28 April 1886, page 6f.
Observer, 12 June 1886, page 31c.
Information on its cricket club is in the Express,
3 August 1886, page 2c,
on a musical society on
30 March 1892, page 4f.
A proposed amalgamation with the YWCA is discussed in the Express,
1 February 1893, page 3f,
Advertiser,
15 and 20 February 1893, pages 4f and 3f.
"The YMCA Gymnasium" is in the Register, 28 March 1895, page 7d.
Sketches are in the Pictorial Australian in
July 1884, page 112;
photographs are in the Chronicle,
23 May 1903, pages 42-43
1 October 1904, page 29,
5 March 1910, page 31.
Also see Advertiser,
4 April 1894, page 4g,
21 May 1896, page 4f,
8 and 9 May 1900, pages 4e and 6e,
17 June 1904, page 4d,
Express,
21 May 1897, page 2f,
Register,
19, 20 and 21 April 1900, pages 4f, 4e and 4d,
17 June 1904, page 4c (jubilee),
16 May 1905, page 4d,
28 October 1905, page 6d,
24 April 1906, page 4d,
5 June 1907, page 8d,
Observer,
8 June 1907, page 41d,
Advertiser,
4 June 1907, page 6c.
Express,
3 May 1910, page 1f,
Register,
1 May 1908, page 3f,
12 and 22 October 1909, pages 6g and 8a,
1 November 1909, page 7d,
26 April 1911, page 6c,
27 June 1912, page 6d,
7 May 1913, page 12c,
Advertiser,
14 May 1913, page 14d,
13 August 1913, page 15c,
Express,
8 July 1914, page 2c,
Register,
17 and 18 July 1914, pages 8c and 17c.
Biographical details of J.J. Virgo are in the Register,
16 January 1894, page 5b,
of Arnold E. Davey on
18 April 1902, page 5c.
"The Yatman Mission" is in the Observer, 26 August 1899, page 45c.
Information on C.H. Paterson is in the Register,
9 January 1901, page 5a,
on the association's secretary, H.A. Wheeler, in the Observer,
27 April 1901, pages 15b-29d,
24 August 1901, page 33a,
of its president, A.E. Davey on
10 May 1902, page 25c,
of Edwin A. Osborne on
5 December 1905, page 5b.
"Young Women at Work" is in the Register, 17 July 1902, page 6f.
A poem about the association is in the Register, 8 August 1906, page 7f.
Photographs of a fete at Norwood Oval is in the Observer,
5 March 1910, page 32,
its premises on South Terrace and Carrington Street in the Chronicle,
2 June 1913, page 30; also see
26 July 1913, pages 30-31.
Information on the YMCA is in the Register, 26 April 1911, page 6c.
"The YMCA and the Public" is in the Register, 27 and 28 June 1912, pages 6d and 7e.
"What the YMCA Means" is in the Observer,
6 July 1912, page 53c; also see
Register, 7 May 1913, page 12c.
"YMCA and the Troops" is in the Advertiser,
22 February 1915, page 6c-g,
Register,
22 February 1915, page 6b. Also see
5 June 1916, page 6f,
22 June 1916, page 6a,
11 December 1916, page 9b,
29 August 1917, page 6b.
"Why the YMCA Succeeds" is in the Express, 5 October 1915, page 1g.
"YMCA New Home" is in the Register, 23 November 1916, page 6g.
"Some YMCA War Figures" is in the Advertiser, 8 July 1918, page 4e.
"The YWCA at Work" is in the Register, 24 October 1918, page 5b.
"YMCA and Returned Soldiers" is in the Register,
13 and 14 May 1920, pages 10d and 9d; also see
3 July 1922, pages 7b-8f.
Biographical details of John T. Masey, secretary, are in the Register, 1 March 1921, page 8c.
A photograph of YMCA harriers is in The Critic, 9 November 1921, page 22.
A jubilee celebration is reported in the Register,
7 April 1921, page 9f,
Observer,
20 October 1928, page 50a.
A history of the Adelaide branch is in the Advertiser,
3 July 1922, page 7c and
a jubilee of the association on
16 January 1929, page 17a.
Also see Observer,
20 October 1928, page 50a.
"YMCA Enterprise" is in the Observer, 8 July 1922, page 45a.
"Building Better Boys" is in The News,
25 June 1925, page 6f; also see
11 August 1925, page 12a.
"Early Days Recalled" is in the Observer,
20 October 1928, page 50a.
"History of the Movement" is in the Advertiser,
8 May 1929, page 14a; also see
7 and 11 June 1929, pages 19a and 15g.
Photographs of cricket teams are in the Observer,
7 April 1928, page 38,
of a "team in Sydney" in the Chronicle,
8 May 1930, page 37,
of a camp at Clarendon on
18 January 1934, page 27.
