Hall of Fame '95 inductees

Earl Armstrong began his fifty-two year affiliation with the YMCA in 1940 as the Boys’ Work Secretary in Louisville. He established and ran Camp Piomingo for seven years and later became the association-wide Program and then Associate General Secretary. In 1953, he moved to the Central Atlantic Staff as Associate Secretary and camp director, eventually assuming regional portfolios for Personnel and Camping.

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Solon Cousins began working with the YMCA in 1954 as the Director of Personnel and Planning of the Chicago YMCA. Twelve years later he moved to the YMCA of Greater Boston as the Executive Director. His $2.5 million capital campaign helped build a new facility, expand four older branches and purchase a camp.

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Gary Kuenzilli joined the YMCA as a nine year old, and spent all 33 years of his professional career in the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles. He was hired in 1960 as a program director in the San Fernando Valley and eight years later was the founding Executive Director of the Torrence-South Bay Branch.

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Meredith Mathews began his YMCA career in Ohio, first in Columbus and later in Youngstown. He moved to Oklahoma as Program Director of the YMCA in Lawton and then as the Executive Director of the USO-YMCA in McAlester.

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Leslie Tompkins joined the Yonkers YMCA as a teenager and became employed working with the “boot blacks” and “newsboys”, the school dropouts of the 1900s. He graduated from Springfield College in 1918, shortly before entering the Army. After his military service, he joined the Maine State YMCA Committee where he helped to found the Maine State YMCA Camp.

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