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attended these classes. This is another CYO feafire service offered te the community free of charge and regardless of race, color or creed. THE CENTERS In addition to the service rendered the 257 parochial units, the CYO operates three strategically located youth centers in Yonkers, Manhattan, and Staten Island. Truly these ere streamlined boys’ and girls’ clubs, open every day, and serving the recreational needs of their respective communi- ties. Each hes its own particular features: Yonkers, a regulation swimming pool, gymnasium and auditorium; Manhattan, the last word in boxing and game room equipment, and en outstanding community program for the children of New York's lower west side; Staten Island, the hub of the island's leisure time life, where children and adults of all age groups are offorded a diversified and well-rounded program of arts, crafts, sewing, cooking, bowling, dances, educational features end every known form of athletics. Ht is noteworthy that there was an average daily attendance of 1,100 boys end girls, young men and women, at the three centers in 1948. CAMPING Childhood memories are perhaps one of the few things in life that ere everlasting, and particularly to those youngsters who have had the oppor- tunity of @ vacation at camp. In 1948 twelve hundred boys and girls — of all races and creeds — were afforded two-week vacations at the CYO camps in Pookstil!. | The county directors in Yonkers, Staten Island, and Poughkeepsie, con- ducted day camp programs for 878 boys and girls, These youngsters attended the big league baseball games, swam at neighboring beaches and outdoor swimming pools, participated in educational tours around New York, and attended radio broadcasts and television shows. “Aan hour like the present s0 fall of possibility for vost beneficient progress.” HIS HOLINESS POPE PIUS XII