YMCA of the USA (Corporate Name)

Letter from A. Ripley, Assoc. Dir., Communications, YMCA of the USA 8-13-82 (YMCA of the USA; corporate name of the staff of the national office)

Phone call to YMCA Archives, 10/31/88 (Young Men's Christian Associations of the United States and British Provinces was the earliest name of YMCA of the USA; it had at least 3 name changes before it assumed its current name YMCA of the USA)

The IV Olympiad, 1999: CIP galley (North American YMCA [no publs. in LC database] was created by United States and Canada in middle 1850s to help spread YMCA's work in South and Central America, Asia, and Oceania)

Phone call to YMCA of the USA Archives, Dec. 10, 1998 (North American YMCA was never an official name, but was term used for the administrative body representing the YMCAs of the United States and of Canada; this administrative body was in existence from 1912 to the 1970s, and was instrumental in promoting Olympic level international games in all parts of the world)