Hall of Fame '90 inductees
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Erie D. Chapman
Erie D. Chapman held various program and camping positions from 1922 to1941with YMCAs in Elyria, Cleveland, and East Cleveland, Ohio. During the World War II era, he was the General Director of the Lockport (NY) YMCA.
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John W. Copeland
After graduating from Oberlin College in 1937, Copeland began his forty-two year YMCA career as a Physical Education Director in the Dayton (OH) Association. After just five years, he moved to the East Madison YMCA in Seattle (WA) as Executive Director.
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Francis E. Gray
Francis E. Gray served the YMCA for over seventy-one years, beginning in 1917. After graduating from Oberlin College, he served with the YMCA Red Triangle during World War I.
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John R. Mott
Described as “one of the most nobly useful men in the world” by President Woodrow Wilson, John R. Mott began his association with the YMCA as a leader of the Student YMCA at Cornell University. Beginning in 1888, he served a twenty-seven year tenure as National Secretary of the Student YMCAs.
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Sir George Williams
Raised in the rural countryside of England, George Williams was drawn to London as a young man during the Industrial Revolution. He worked long hours in a city store, living in small, crowded rooms in the same building.
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