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Will Go To Argentina

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Parent Issue
Day
31
Month
July
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Charles Ewald Goes as Foreign Secretary Y. M. C. A. 

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WILL TAKE A BRIDE

Miss Agnes McDonald of Hill Street to Accompany -- to be Married August 5th

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Charles Ewald has accepted the position of foreign secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at Buenos Ayres, Argentina. Mr. Ewald is well qualified to hold a position of so great importance in the Y. M. C. A. work. He is a graduate of the University in the class of '01. For the past two year he has held the position of secretary in the University Y. M. C. A. In this period the membership of the association has increased from two hundred and twenty-five to over five hundred. Every department of the work has been strengthened proportionally. The annual budget has increased from $1,800 to $4,000. Several hundred dollars have been expended on improvements for their buildings and several more in the acquiring of personal property. 

 

The Y. M. C. A. to which Mr. Ewald goes has been organized for four years and has a membership of five hundred. The city has a population of nearly a million and is very cosmopolitan. Nearly half of the people are foreigners, among whom there are twenty thousand English speaking people. Spanish is the language chiefly spoken. The foreign element has been drawn there largely for commercial purposes, as Argentina is the most prosperous and liberal country of South America. It is only within recent years that the country has been developed. 

 

Mr. Ewald's work will be in the nature of building up the association work among foreigners. For the first two years it will be chiefly among the English speaking inhabitants, until he has mastered the language thoroughly. 

 

The international committee of the Y. M. C. A. sends Mr. Ewald out. Their headquarters are at New York. Already they have thirty secretaries in foreign fields and several more will be added this fall. 

 

Mr. Ewald will leave the first of September to attend the international convention of secretaries at Princeton. The 22d he will sail from New York for Buenos Ayres, the journey consuming about two weeks. Mr. Ewald does not go alone, but will be accompanied by his wife, as he is to be married the 5th of August to Miss Agnes R. McDonald, of Hill Street. Miss McDonald has been in a training school for missionaries in Chicago the past year and will be of great assistance to Mr. Ewald in his work.