Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Click here, yes, right here on this blue print, for link to You Tube video of "Back in Da Day"

Dan Akely, HY Director, has posted this vid of 8mm shots by Steve Doerscher back in da day to You Tube. It depicts swimming at Ole Lake Claire and the return of the victorious HY National Champions to Huntington from York, PA in 1968.
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi,

My dad was Jerry Rudig. Jerry was the first world class swimmer to come out of the Huntington YMCA. He was always very proud of the accomplisments he achieved under the direction of Coach Hummer. They stayed in touch until my dad's death. I know my dad would be so pleaded at the events that are held in Coach Hummer's memory and he would be thrilled about the new Y.

August 14, 2008 at 8:00 PM
Anonymous said...

Hi Again,

I accidently hit anonymous. My name is Pam and I am Jerry Rudig's daughter. We lived much of my childhood in Illinois. Several times different teams heading for meets would make our house a stop for rest and food on there journey west. When we moved to Fort Wayne dad always made our home a place where Huntington's team could come and rest between long breaks between heats. I remember Coach Hummer well. When I was about five we were visiting my grandparents in Huntington. As was the custom dad always checked in with Coach Hummer. We met him at the Big Blue. Dad was not a very happy camper, as no matter how hard he tried he just could not teach me to swim. He was telling this to Coach Hummer and Coach Hummer said "Throw her in. She will either sink or swim." I did get thrown in, but lucky for me my aunt came to my rescue. This is a very nice sight and I am glad I stumbled on to it.

August 15, 2008 at 9:03 AM
Anonymous said...

Thanks for visiting here, Pam. Glad you like the site. I have had not only yours, but two other "new" contacts this week as a result of the blog. I figure it could either be the full moon or the Olympics. I know my thoughts have again turned towards swimming and memories of the Huntington Y days and of the two Olympic medal winners I was graced to know on our team, courtesy of that great coach, teacher, mentor and friend, Glen "Butch" Hummer.

August 15, 2008 at 10:46 PM
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November 20, 2009 at 2:49 PM

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Welcome

Hello fellow Hummer alumni. We each have memories of the huge influence Glen S. Hummer had on us all. The Huntington YMCA is still conducting a continuing funding campaign for the marvelous new facility which replaces the one we all swam in and more since the team began in 1933. This space is for us to meet and/or meet up again. There were 250 at the reunion on June 16, 2007, coinciding with the newly reestablished Huntington Mile at ole Lake Clare in which many of us swam again. All are invited and welcomed to submit reminiscences here (click on "comments" in the section below.) See some of you, again we hope, at the 2010 Glen S. Hummer Huntington Masters Mile. And visit us on facebook too at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#%21/group.php?gid=100802262318&ref=ts



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Huntington YMCA Building Program

Note: To donate to the fund-raising campaign for the new YMCA (and its Hummer Pool) contact:

Dan Akeley, Executive Director, Huntington YMCA, 607 Warren St., Huntington, IN 46750, 260-356-4200, ymcadan@kconline.com

From The Herald Press12/18/06

Goal: $8 million; In hand: $5.4 million; Yet to raise: $2.6 million

It will take $8 million to build a new YMCA, and that's the amount the Y's fund-raising committee has set as its goal. With the $2 million gift from Parkview Huntington Hospital - seven acres of land worth $450,000 and a pledge of $1.55 million in cash from the hospital's Community Benefit dollars - the capital campaign committee now has $5.4 million in hand, said Dan Akeley, the YMCA's executive director.

That $5.4 million, which includes pledges that will be paid over the next five years, came in as the result of a campaign that began in May as YMCA volunteers contacted potential major donors, Akeley said. That leaves the YMCA with $2.6 million yet to raise. Some of that will come from additional major donors, Akeley said, but the Y hopes to raise $250,000 from people throughout Huntington County who are everyday users (or former users) of the facility. An effort to reach those people will begin in late January and continue until June, Akeley said. YMCA volunteers will begin with personal contacts and later use phone calls and letters to solicit donations.

From The Herald Press, 12/18/06

The inside story: Nearly double the usable space

By CINDY KLEPPER, City Editor

The new Parkview Huntington YMCA will encompass about 52,000 square feet, all on one floor, with two pools, two basketball floors, and an elevated walking track. By comparison, the current facility has about 30,000 square feet of usable space on three levels, one pool, one basketball court, and no dedicated place to walk - although it does have numerous nooks and crannies that may have had a function when the Warren street building opened in 1930, but now serve no useful purpose.

The new building was designed by Moake Park Group, a Fort Wayne-based architectural firm whose work can be seen in the Parkview Huntington Hospital building as well as the Jorgensen Family YMCA in Allen County. Moake Park's design for the Huntington YMCA was intended for a 14-acre site north of Huntington that the YMCA board originally planned to purchase, said Dan Akeley, the Y's executive director. The building and parking areas would have occupied only seven acres of that site, Akeley said, and can be moved to the Parkview site practically unchanged. "The floor plans will basically be the same," Akeley said. "It worked for both sites." The remainder of the original 14-acre site would have held a soccer field, two retention ponds, and a fitness trail. At the new site, retention ponds are already in place outside the YMCA's seven acres. Although there's no room for a soccer field, there's a possibility of additional property being made available for soccer sometime in the future. In addition to surveying members about what they wanted in a new facility, YMCA board members checked out features of other recently built YMCAs.

"We learned a lesson from the Jorgensen YMCA," Akeley said. "They have one pool, and if someone has an accident in the pool, they have to shut down the whole thing." The Huntington Y board decided to go with two pools, side by side. "If somebody has an accident, we can just shut the one pool down," Akeley said. The smaller pool will have a "zero," or sloped, entry making it accessible to people in wheelchairs and others with limited mobility. It's water will be warm enough to be comfortable for swimming and aerobics classes. The second pool will be large enough to be used by swim teams and can also be used to host meets. The gym's two basketball courts can be separated by a curtain. A fitness center will include both free weights and cardio equipment, and an adjacent aerobics/dance area will feature floating floors. A walking track, one-tenth of a mile long, will be suspended around the perimeter of the gym, fitness center, and aerobics/dance area. An expanded child watch area will be located next to two preschool rooms.