Friday, August 15, 2008

Glen had a plaque made for my dad's grave stone



Perhaps it's because it's Olympic swimming week, but two new folks have contacted me this week after googling "Glen Hummer" and coming across this blog. My mind has also gone back this week to those swimming days, with special pride in the two Olympians, Dilley and Vogel, who we were fortunate to know and blessed to swim along with the tutelage of that great coach, teacher, mentor and man, Glen "Butch" Hummer. Their Emails are reproduced below. Click also on Pam (Rudig) Rhoades'(Jerry Rudig's daughter) 2 comments in the post "Click here, yes, right here on this blue print, for link to You Tube video of "Back in Da Day" :

--- On Wed, 8/13/08, RICHARD RHOADES wrote:

From: RICHARD RHOADES
Subject:
To: swimjfd@yahoo.com
Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 5:44 PM

Hi,

My name is Pam (Rudig) Rhoades. I am the daughter of Jerald Rudig. I have some pictures of my dad and I believe I may have one of his brother Don. II will check to see if I have one of my dad with Glen. If I do I will have them scanned and I will email them to you. I think this is a wonderful sight. I stayed in touch with Glen after my dad passed away in 1977. Glen had a plaque made for my dad's grave stone (Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery) in memory of his participation in the 1936 Olympic Trials. I am attaching a picture of that plaque.

Thanks,
Pam (Rudig) Rhoades

From: Jenny Blatz
Subject: Glen Hummer
To: swimjfd@yahoo.com
Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 12:39 PM

I came across your blog http://hummeralums.blogspot.com/ by searching "Glen
Hummer" in Google.

Though I am not an alum, I am a member of his family. Glen was my Great Uncle
on my mother's side of the family. Fannie Hummer (Harris) was my
mother's grandmother, I believe. Though I was young when my uncle Glen was
alive, I do have some memories of him. When I was a child, I enjoyed swimming a
lot. Uncle Glen used to call me "The Little Swimmer." In fact, he
would send me post cards addressed to "The Little Swimmer" from around
the world while he was traveling. The funny thing about that is I have several
siblings (5 in fact) and many cousins. I was the only person he would send the
post cards to. From what I remember he was a sweet man. Very funny and everyone
loved him. I can remember going to visit him when he lived in Illinois. We would
visit his sister Dot and her husband Len as well.

I was overjoyed to see this blogsite. Who knew that my Uncle Glen had such
fans? It warms my heart. I really enjoyed seeing everyone's photos and
reading the stories. Thanks for making my day.

Sincerely,
Jennifer Blatz
Great Niece of Glenn Hummer
Los Angeles, CA
Formerly of Wabash, Indiana
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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.