Hall of Fame '87 inductees
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Wilhelmina M. Aveling
When Wilhelmina Aveling began her twenty-eight year career, the first woman to serve on the Metropolitan staff of the Chicago YMCA, the involvement of women and girls in the YMCA was minimal.
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Ray E. Johns
Ray Johns began his YMCA career with the Michigan YMCA and served as the Hi-Y Secretary in Chicago. During WWII he provided leadership to the newly-organized USO.
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Harold A. Wagner
Harold Wagner started his career as the Boys’ Work Director at the Long Beach (CA) YMCA in 1919. For ten years, beginning in 1926, he served in several capacities with the YMCA in Los Angeles.
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Forrest E. Wharry
Forrest Wharry began his affiliation as a fourteen year-old member of the Peoria (IL) YMCA Board of Directors. After graduating from college he worked in the public accounting field in Peoria before his appointment as Metropolitan Business Secretary of the YMCA of Greater St. Louis in 1939.
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