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 Sterling Wilder & David Mosley!  The old Hunton Branch located at 9th & Jackson Sts!  Hunton Y, ideas!  Edward Bondurant, board of management article!  These ladies were needed to go into the community and solicit memberships!  Membership Drive Committee, Jeannette and Alma Irvines Mom???  The Hunton YMCA Choir!  Students from Dunbar, looking at the Hunton Branch YMCA construction at 12th and Taylor Sts!  New officers at the Hunton YMCA, names in the caption under picture!  Calvin Hubbard with the day camp boys on the bleachers in the rear of the YMCA!  Mr. Stroud, Mr. Edley, leaders of the pack!  The Hunton YMCA Basketball team! I see John Organ, James Dean?.....need help???  Sunday morning worship services!  Meeting at Mr Mitchell's house on Monroe St!  Ladies/wives of the YMCA!  Another outdoor gathering/program on back of the YMCA!  Exercising/gymnastics, on the mats at the YMCA!  Martial Arts demonstration with "Teeny" Williams!  Another Board meeting with Bill Gordon, M.W. Thornhill Jr.......  One of many fundraising dinners at the YMCA! I think I see Charlie Elliott, Calesta Saunders.....and "Puny" Pannell, waiting on his t-bone!  After the White kids finished, the Black kids could attend Camp Bibee, at Buggs Island Lake! I went a few times in the early 60's.....I think my parents could then have peace and quiet for two weeks? Click the picture and read the names of who went!  To Camp Bibee again! I think I see....Mr. Cardwell, Mr. Pullen, Richard Hicks? Who do you see?  One more time! I see.....Ricky Boulware, Mr. Edley,......who do you see??  Dining at Camp Bibee! I see William Wooten, Mike Miller, James Harris, James Hunter, Reggie Williams, Paul Bevley, Teddy Rucker, Lorenzo Cook, William Moore?? who do you see?  Archery at Camp Bibee! I see Kevin Edwards, Charles Douglas,  Swimming at Camp Bibee! Who do you see?? CLICK HERE FOR THE OFFICIAL CAMP BIBEE THEME SONG! I CAN REMEMBER SINGING THIS SONG ON THE BUS TO CAMP! >>>>>>>>BELOW ARE THE SIGNED DOCUMENTS FOR THE HUNTON BRANCH YMCA TO BE ON THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HISTORIC RESOURCES! THIS WOULD BE GREAT! SUCH MEMORIES…..GOOD LUCK!!
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 My days at the Hunton YMCA! This is what I remember! The kids nowadays don’t know what it means to have a place to go to after school and have a good time. We would go there, shoot pool, play cards, play ball, and do things to keep out of trouble! Drugs were un-heard of back then! When summertime came, that meant day-camp. Mr. Edley, Mr. Walker, Mr. Daniels and others would teach us things like arts and craft. We wove key chains, and made baskets out of popsickle sticks. I still have my popsickle stick basket, somewhere! There were sleep-overs where we spent the night at the Y! We rode ponys and played ball on the back field.
We all would form a line and walk to the Jefferson pool in Dearington, which was located at the end of York St. When an intergration issue closed the pools to everybody, we went to Camp Kum-Ba-Yah in Boonsboro by bus! Phil Spinner produced a video about the Jefferson Park pool! (click here) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq3S8fOuXi0 Melvin Penn taught us wrestling. We lifted weights in the rec-room! Then came the big event of the early 60’s! Camp Bibee was located on Buggs Island Lake in Mecklenburg county. The bus left for a two-week stay in the wilderness, with nothing but your store credit card. There was horse-back riding, archery, target practice with REAL guns! Sterling Daniels, Ronnie Haskins, Bip Daniels and others were our leaders and guides! Charles Douglas taught us archery. James Hunter took us horseback riding! There were races, ball playing, and who could forget the trading post! There was swimming. boating, and just plain fun! I got home-sick a lot, but there was always parents visitation day! Pranks were harmless….especially when some fellow camper got the idea to get up in the middle of the night to smear toothpaste on everyone sleeping! To this day no-one ever knew the identity of the “Toothpaste Kid!” Camp Bibee was fun and looked forward to every summer by all and only one serious accident ever occured! After every game, win or lose, there was a dance at the Y! 35cents got you in to the latest music played from upstairs in the office to a speaker downstairs. Sometimes the record would skip for a long time(we would put a nickel on the arm of the record-player!), or the music would stop completely till the stack of records on the changer was reset to play again….maybe we will hear the other side of the song this time! For some reason there were a lot of slow records, and the lights kept going out?? There was no need for police, the fights and altercations were few! The staff at the Y could handle any security…if any! You did NOT want to get banned from the Y! Its a shame that back then if you danced with someone elses girl you might get a black eye….today you might get shot and killed….this needs to be stopped!
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