Collection of ten Lancaster Y.M.C.A ribbons awarded to Robert C. Myers for athletic achievement when he was a boy in Lancaster City. There are 6 blue and 4 red ribbons with paper tag on reverse noting the name, class, event and award.
Newspaper article "Flashback" notes, "...in his wrestling & gym careers at the YMCA, he won a total of 34 ribbons in 1940 in the 85-pound class and won 34 in 1941 at 95. In the Interclass gym meets he won 25 firsts and 9 seconds."
Sports-type patch of red and green silk machine stitching on white wool felt in a triangular shape. Within a white lifeguard lifesaver with green trim is "SENIOR LIFE SAVER Y.M.C.A." in red. Inside lifesaver is a green cross. Outside border is red.
Myers must have been a swimming pool lifeguard for Y.M.C.A. in his Senior High years.
Sports letter patch from J.P. McCaskey High School for 1943. Blue and white chenille on felt with a plasticized linen backing. Myers graduated from McCaskey this year and was on the wrestling team.
St. James Episcopal Church, organized 1744. Present structure begun 1820, enlarged in 1870s and 1880s. Photo used as frontispiece, Klein and Diller, History of St. James. Corner of East Orange and North Duke Streets.