The Bucyrus Area YMCA

Volunteering at the Y

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Wanted:  Volunteers!! Wanted:  Officials!!
Children need adults who care!  Working with young people in YMCA programs is a truly special experience. They need caring adults to give them a helping hand. Without volunteers, our programs cannot function properly.  Please help us by volunteering your time as either a coach or an assistant coach.  Call the YMCA at 562-6218 for more information. The rewards are priceless and the friendships are endless!

 

 The YMCA is always in need of competent and assertive officials for our programs.  Anyone interested in officiating youth or adult sports, please call the YMCA at 562-6218 for more information.                 
The Franklin “Skinny” Myers YMCA Spirit Award

Franklin “Skinny” Myers was a long time active member and volunteer for the Bucyrus Area YMCA.  He participated in many of the activities at the YMCA, and he was well known for his coaching in youth sports, service on the YMCA’s Board of Trustees and as chairman of the physical education committee.

Shortly after Skinny’s death in 1988, his family asked that memorial funds be directed to the Bucyrus YMCA to be utilized for youth memberships and in recognizing participants who appreciate the opportunity to learn, to play, and to have a good time with others in a Christian atmosphere.  Therefore, the Bucyrus YMCA developed the Franklin “Skinny” Myers Spirit Award. 

The Spirit Award is the YMCA’s effort to recognize youth and adult participants or leaders who exemplify the YMCA’s ideals of fun and sportsmanship for everyone.

 

2007 award winner Thad Wilson 

receives his plaque from Margaret Myers.

 

To see the list of past Spirit Award 

winners, click here.

 

 

 

 
The Role of the Volunteer in the YMCA

(Taken from the “Introduction to Service for YMCA Board Members”, as presented to our Board by Walt Griese of the Mid-America Field Office on May 23, 2000)

There would be no YMCA without the volunteer. In every community one can find leadership and ability ‘going to seed’ because no one has harnessed this ability to a job. The true test of the YMCA is to discover ability in others and put it to use. Our strong foundation of volunteerism runs deep in the many different communities and municipalities served by YMCAs across the country.

The Y's concern for leadership development encourages youth and adults to acquire the skills necessary to carry on the program services of the association. The YMCA's continued strength depends on its volunteers, because they form a unique bond with the Y staff.

 Harnessing the leadership ability of the volunteer ... in youth programs, outreach services, the camps, the gyms, the pools, and in response to each neighborhood's needs and priorities  ... is good YMCA business.

 The volunteer brings:

...  representation of his own groups;

...  representation of the community as he understands it;

...  his knowledge of the needs and interests of youth in the community;

...  his ability to commend the association to his groups and to the community; and his desire that it shall be worthy of commendation;

...  his special abilities in relation to the enterprises of the association.

 These things are not more or less valuable than similar contributions of professionals. They are somewhat different in kind. They do not represent an extension of the executive director's personality or responsibility; they belong to the volunteer in his/her own right. They should be seen as volunteer specialization.