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WHOSE STORY WILL INSPIRE YOU TODAY?

An African American scholar known for his work overseas who also served 50 years on his local board. A longtime leader in camping and million-dollar donor. A one-time program counselor who has gone on to spend 60 years (and counting) as a champion for multicultural leadership development. A war veteran who survived horrible wounds to become an author who was “as much a prophet as he was a scientist.”

These are but a few of the remarkable men and women enshrined here in the National YMCA Hall of Fame.

We invite you to spend time with them, online or on the campus of Springfield College. Imagine their impact on the Movement of their time and how their work has contributed to the YMCA of today. Consider too the path of their life’s journey as you travel along your own, and as you strive to carry on the social contributions – and the spirit – that define the YMCA.

WELCOME

MEET OUR HEROES. DISCOVER THEIR LEGACY.

2007 INDUCTEE
Rizek Abusharr
2016 INDUCTEE
Jesse Alexander
2013 INDUCTEE
Paul W. Alexander (1888-1967)
1994 INDUCTEE
Paul B. Anderson
1995 INDUCTEE
Earl P. Armstrong (1916-2009)
2002 INDUCTEE
Lloyd C. Arnold
1987 INDUCTEE
Wilhelmina M. Aveling
2004 INDUCTEE
Richard R. Bailey
2002 INDUCTEE
Eugene E. Barnett (1888-1970)
2013 INDUCTEE
William M. Barnhardt
1996 INDUCTEE
Ernest M. Best (d. 1963)
2019 INDUCTEE
Bea Betterton-Halk
2013 INDUCTEE
Anthony Bowen (1805-1872)
1999 INDUCTEE
Jacob T. Bowne (1847-1925)
2004 INDUCTEE
Harry H. Brace (1937-1999)
2010 INDUCTEE
Cephas Brainerd (1831-1910)
1994 INDUCTEE
Earl W. Brandenburg
2023 INDUCTEE
Elwood Brown
2010 INDUCTEE
Ellen Brown (1843-1922)
2010 INDUCTEE
Isaac Eddy Brown (1849-1917)
2003 INDUCTEE
David Halbe Brown (1936-2012)
1991 INDUCTEE
Harry A. Brunger (1919-2011)
2016 INDUCTEE
Harry Crowe Buck (1884-1943)
2004 INDUCTEE
James F. Bunting (1906-1989)
2023 INDUCTEE
Michael Bussey
1994 INDUCTEE
Thomas S. Caldwell
2007 INDUCTEE
William E. Cameron
1992 INDUCTEE
Clifford M. Carey
2013 INDUCTEE
John Casey (1938-2017)
1990 INDUCTEE
Erie D. Chapman (d. 1995)
2006 INDUCTEE
Everett Christmas
1999 INDUCTEE
Max Clowers
1993 INDUCTEE
Winifred J. Colton (1918-2013)
1990 INDUCTEE
John W. Copeland
2023 INDUCTEE
George Corsan
1995 INDUCTEE
Solon B. Cousins (1925-1996)
2023 INDUCTEE
Carolyn Creager
1997 INDUCTEE
John E. Danielson
1999 INDUCTEE
John deBarbadillo (1925-1996)
2019 INDUCTEE
Dr. Hedley S. Dimock (1891-1958)
1997 INDUCTEE
Laurence L. Doggett (d. 1957)
1992 INDUCTEE
Clifton M. Drury
2010 INDUCTEE
Sumner F. Dudley (1854-1897)
1989 INDUCTEE
John H. Dunderdale
2019 INDUCTEE
Jean Ann Durades
2010 INDUCTEE
Clement Duran (1902-1983)
1998 INDUCTEE
Robert R. Dye (1921-2002)
2010 INDUCTEE
Charles Eastman (1858-1939)
2010 INDUCTEE
G. Sherwood Eddy (1871-1963)
1997 INDUCTEE
Samuel A. Edgar
2016 INDUCTEE
Dr. David Epperson (1935-2011)
2013 INDUCTEE
Joe Friday (1888-1955)
1988 INDUCTEE
Harold T. Friermood (1902-1999)
2023 INDUCTEE
James Garland Stooke
1988 INDUCTEE
H. Harper Glezen
2016 INDUCTEE
Dr. Lawrence A. Golding (1926-2018)
2013 INDUCTEE
Hugo Grassi (1895-1985)
1990 INDUCTEE
Francis E. Gray (1896-1995)
1997 INDUCTEE
Paul M. Grist (1898-1982)
1992 INDUCTEE
Luther H. Gulick (1865-1918)
1992 INDUCTEE
Lawrence K. Hall (1886-1979)
2001 INDUCTEE
Thomas B. Hargrave, Jr. (1927-2017)
2007 INDUCTEE
Dr. Archibald C. Harte (d. 1946)
2002 INDUCTEE
Ted W. Hawkins (1925-2014)
1989 INDUCTEE
Donald S. Hayward (1911-2001)
1998 INDUCTEE
Violet P. Henry (1929-1982)
2002 INDUCTEE
Robert B. Hoffman
2013 INDUCTEE
Dr. C. Howard Hopkins (1905-2000)
1989 INDUCTEE
Fred Y. Hoshiyama (1914-2015)
1989 INDUCTEE
William A. Howes (1918-1988)
2023 INDUCTEE
Addie Hunton
1992 INDUCTEE
William A. Hunton (1863-1916)
1991 INDUCTEE
Charles W. Jacobson
2010 INDUCTEE
Asa Kent Jennings (1877-1933)
1987 INDUCTEE
Ray E. Johns
2003 INDUCTEE
Prescott K. Johnson (1930-2021)
2006 INDUCTEE
Julius Jones (1935-2018)
2023 INDUCTEE
Norman Joyner
2016 INDUCTEE
Richard C. Kautz (1916-2003)
2019 INDUCTEE
Harold Keltner (1893-1986)
2003 INDUCTEE
John W. Kessler (1919-2001)
2007 INDUCTEE
Frank C. Kiehne (1925-2014)
2016 INDUCTEE
Ron Kinnamon (1937-2015)
1996 INDUCTEE
J. Robert Knight
1995 INDUCTEE
G. Gary Kuenzli
1991 INDUCTEE
Howard H. Kustermann
1994 INDUCTEE
Henry J. D. Labatte
2010 INDUCTEE
William Chauncey Langdon (1831-1895)
1985 INDUCTEE
Herbert P. Lansdale, Jr. (1898-1988)
2000 INDUCTEE
Bev R. Laws (1926-2015)
1997 INDUCTEE
John A. Ledlie
2019 INDUCTEE
Dr. William K. Lee
2010 INDUCTEE
William E. Lewis (1839-1890)
1985 INDUCTEE
Paul M. Limbert (1897-1998)
1992 INDUCTEE
John F. Long
2023 INDUCTEE
Marvin Ludwig
2013 INDUCTEE
Armin F. Luehrs (Whitey) (1924-2019)
2016 INDUCTEE
Adrian Lyon (1869-1950)
2004 INDUCTEE
Richard W. MacMorran (1913-1998)
1991 INDUCTEE
Leo B. Marsh (1903-1979)
2016 INDUCTEE
Robert K. Masuda
1995 INDUCTEE
Meredith Mathews (1919-1992)
1996 INDUCTEE
William A. McAllister
1991 INDUCTEE
Robert R. McBurney (1837-1898)
2013 INDUCTEE
Quentin R. Mease (1908-2009)
2023 INDUCTEE
David Mercer
2019 INDUCTEE
Harold Mezile
1998 INDUCTEE
Colin S. Moffat (1914-1975)
2010 INDUCTEE
Dwight Moody (1837-1899)
2006 INDUCTEE
Adrian B. Moody (1935-2015)
2000 INDUCTEE
Jesse Moorland (1863-1940)
2001 INDUCTEE
William G. Morgan (1870-1942)
2006 INDUCTEE
Richard C. Morse (1841-1926)
1996 INDUCTEE
Clarence Moser (d. 1981)
1990 INDUCTEE
John R. Mott (1865-1955)
2007 INDUCTEE
Dr. Clayton R. Myers
1998 INDUCTEE
James A. Naismith (1861-1939)
2023 INDUCTEE
Richard Newcomb Jones
1986 INDUCTEE
Joel E. Nystrom
2000 INDUCTEE
John O’Melia (1923-2011)
2023 INDUCTEE
Owen Pence
2006 INDUCTEE
William V. Phillips
2016 INDUCTEE
Peter Post
2016 INDUCTEE
Jerry Prado-Shaw
2023 INDUCTEE
Jim Raines
2010 INDUCTEE
David Allen Reed (1850-1932)
2003 INDUCTEE
Dunbar Reed (1915-1983)
2023 INDUCTEE
José Rendón
2000 INDUCTEE
Edgar M. Robinson (1867-1951)
2010 INDUCTEE
John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874-1960)
1988 INDUCTEE
Rix G. Rogers (d. 1998)
1989 INDUCTEE
John O. Root (d. 2005)
2019 INDUCTEE
Barbara Roper
2010 INDUCTEE
Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932)
2023 INDUCTEE
Jane Seaver Kirk
1991 INDUCTEE
C. Edward Singer
2010 INDUCTEE
William S. Sloane (1873-1922)
2001 INDUCTEE
Harold C. Smith (1934-2017)
1997 INDUCTEE
Roy Sorenson (1900-1966)
1986 INDUCTEE
J. Edward Sproul
2013 INDUCTEE
James M. Stokes (1842-1918)
2013 INDUCTEE
Tracy Strong (1887-1968)
2010 INDUCTEE
George H. Stuart (1816-1890)
2013 INDUCTEE
Captain Thomas V. Sullivan (1800-1859)
1993 INDUCTEE
Dr. Channing H. Tobias (1882-1961)
1993 INDUCTEE
Edmund R. Tomb
1995 INDUCTEE
Leslie J. Tompkins
1994 INDUCTEE
Daniel P. Tyler
1999 INDUCTEE
Yoritada Wada (1916-1997)
1987 INDUCTEE
Harold A. Wagner (1900-1989)