Friday, May 18 is Outdoor Movie Night at the Y showing The Muppets!  Movie begins at dusk.

DID YOU KNOW? 

• In 2008, the Princeton YMCA celebrated a century of helping develop strong kids, strong families and strong communities in the Princeton area.
• Princeton University became the “parent of the intercollegiate YMCA” when the first YMCA college structure, Murray Hall, was built in 1879.
• In 1908, the student YMCA at Princeton University founded the Town Club for boys under 16 years old.
• The Dorothea House was used as early as 1938 as one of the first Princeton YMCA buildings.
• The YMCA/YWCA building in Princeton opened in 1958 at its present location. The pool opened the following year.
• The Princeton YMCA offers over 15 specialty summer camps.
• Nationally, YMCA day camps serve 500,000 children each summer.
• The Princeton YMCA provides 6,000 sessions of swimming lessons annually.
• YMCAs are collectively the nation’s largest provider of child care programs – serving over half a million children.
• Nationally, the Ys have more than 600,000 volunteers.
• In 1994, the YUSA launched a character development thrust focusing on the core values of caring, honesty, respect and responsibility.
• In 1961, President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps, which was patterned after the YMCA program of World Service Workers.
• The 1919 YMCA Swimming and Lifesaving Manual was one of the earliest works on the subject.
• Father’s Day, an idea of protestant ministers at the YMCA in Spokane, WA, was first observed on June 19, 1910.
• The first group swim lessons were taught in 1907 at the Detroit YMCA.
• YMCA instructor William Morgan invented volleyball in 1895.
• Using peach baskets tacked to a gym wall, Dr. James Naismith, invented basketball at a Massachusetts YMCA in 1891.
• The nation’s oldest continuously operating camp is a YMCA camp – the first at Orange Lake, New Jersey in 1885 with seven boys and one leader.  
• YMCAs are at the heart of community life in 10,000 communities across the nation.

Princeton Family YMCA
59 Paul Robeson Place
Princeton, NJ 08540
phone: 609–497–YMCA (9622)
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Our Mission
The Princeton Family YMCA is a charitable, not-for-profit community organization dedicated to enriching the spirit, mind and body and improving the quality of life. We create and deliver values-based programs that draw their inspiration from our Judeo-Christian heritage. We serve people of all ages, races and creeds, with an emphasis on families and youth.

Membership Hours
M–F 6:00am–10:30pm
Sat 7:00am–8:00pm
Sun 11:00am–8:00pm
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