Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-03-13 | Page 32 | L. C. Miller New Y. M. C. A. President

I' 4 John Dorn Is Vice-President, Harry Shearman Treasurer, ..;;' Oscar Cox Secretary. mv HEAD PROMINENT 'k IN WORK YEARS AGO jjtj ; Takes Hold When Association Has Reached Important Lo-cal Lo-cal Standing. Lee Charles Miller has bceu elected i . ; r:: president of tlio Young Glen's Chris-:X Chris-:X tian association. The election took :,i ulaee Saturday afternoon. Mr. Miller's ..'i't name headed the list of now 'officers 1 for the association and the officials ';LX bad been detcnninccl upon by a uonu-o-'.i Bating committee named two weeks ago. s hi4. The other officers elected, for the year I arc .John Dcrn, vice president: W. II. j fT Shearman, treasurer; Oscar L. Cox, sec-'' sec-'' rotary. 1 Just, tweutv years ago the first post "m card was mailed to various bait Lak-. Lak-. ' ! org calling a meeting cf all interested in the establishment of a local 1 M. , I zfi ; ; j L. O. MILLER. . v Ji C. A. The card was signed by 0. H. I ? Parsons. K. J. Caskev. Frank Pierce . ;; and Jj. C. Miller. Mr. Caskev and Mr. j;1 Parsons moved awav from . Salt Lake. A Mr. Pierce is temporarily in Ynshing- ' A -ton. D. C as assistant secretary of the S interior, but. served as tho association s i h prcf-idcnt. Now, after all Ibo years ot 1 -work for the movement, and after scry. m ing on the board of directors. Mr. Mil- ; I lcr. who was one of the originators, is i I selected for the presidency. ;; Succoeds W. V. Slice. 11 ' Mr. Miller succeeds Windsor V. Rice, !' who for four years has been president I Ji' of the local association and "who re- ! k signs at this time, owing to his con- , !j -remplated absence in Europe and Asia, ' ;! and also because if was his conviction U 'that the honors of tho association should "'ii not be held too long by a single indi- '' virtual. Frank B. Stephens was his : predecessor, having been piestdent for : - an equal number of years, and finally .ii' resigning, as did Mr. Eice, 3gainst tho 'i- protest of his associates, becauscie be-A be-A lioved that; the best interests of the association as-sociation were promoted by changes in j Responsibility.. Although. . hii .did.-jioL i ; cign tho original call as did Mr. Miller, ; ' Mr. Stephens was also a. charter mem- ' ;t .l)er of tho association, having been pres- , 5 enfc at the first meeting. , j Mr. Miller takes up the leadership o- 'ifi tho association with exceptional facili- 1j lies for' making it successful. Not only JI! las ho .been a. member since the asso-i-iation began, but has for years been j'iil a member of it-s'bonnl of directors. For t : rhc past year he has been chairman of ihc association physical department ; , committee, and has become closely iden- -Ji'( ii tied with the -association basketball i teams and general gymnasium work, ne- .Ji -oming well acquainted aud very popu- ' lar with a large proportion of the-mem- s bcrship; :m Statement of Policy. if "When asked last evening for a slalc- :. njLcut of liis policy, as Jiead of tJLie local ' ij association, Mr. "Miller said:' jjjl ' feel very strongly the policy and Q )rinciplo of operating the Y. M. C..A. 'in in' Salt Lake City. .as .everywhere, for !! the benefit of. the boysand young men i y of our community.-without questioning i'i 1 leir religious .affiliations or. iucliua- 'icj lions. "What' we Avant i$ strong mou '.','1 in the co.mmiuaity, of high integrity and j Vf -tin6 purpose, .and to tho upbuilding of , i'! vucli character and such men we hope '"JI -to devoto the institution. It has'becu j'i! one of the policies of tho Y. M. C. A. iiit io build up all sides of the man tho ,! j physical, the mental, the religious Mid if. the moral. I am in thorough accord -with' the present and pasi policy of tho li V. M. C. A., and hope to build upon tho if 3 good -work of my predecessor, Windsor !3 V. Eice." ,;J During the iucumbeni'v of Frank B. Stephens as president of tho associa- ,il lion, it first took real form as a mod- li orn institution, and the following ud- .!l3 minifikratiou of W. V. Eice saw tlic as- lf Fociat ion well started, and uuder his oxecutivo mauagomeut the period has 3 bceu a truly successful one and he has left tho associatiou with a membership