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[1] James I. Clark, 100 Years of Service to Youth: A History of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee, WI: The Association, 1958), 3; Mary Beth Murphy, “YMCA Still Dedicated, Viable after 125 Years,” Milwaukee Sentinel, May 28, 1983, Part 1, 3, 6.

[2] Clark, 100 Years of Service to Youth, 3.

[3] Clark, <

[1] Sarah E. Chinn, Inventing Modern Adolescence (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009), 13-28.

[2] David Nasaw, Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993), 1-9.

[3] Ernest Allyn Smith, American Youth Culture: Group Life in Teenage Society (New York, NY:

[1] Tina Daniell, “In the Business of Helping Women,” The Milwaukee Journal, February 16, 1987, 5C; “YWCA Story,” 2, Box 1, Folder 2, Young Women’s Christian Association Records, 1892-1961, Milwaukee Mss BH, Archives Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries (hereafter YWCA records).

[2] Larry Widen, Vintage Milwaukee Postcards (Milwaukee: Apple Core Publishing Group, 1995), 153; “YWCA Story,”