In 1985 Mike Kalist became Director of the agency. He had participated in CYC sports as a youth back in the 1950’s, during the years that the first young adult ministry program and Catholic Committees on Boy Scouts and Girls Scouts were formed. Back in...
With Monsignor Meyer stepping aside it was, of course, necessary to find yet one more leader to assume the role of Director of the CYC. The St. Louis Cardinal Archbishop John Joseph Carberry did not have to look very far. Sitting in his office as...
With the appointment of Father Louis F. Meyer to the post of Executive Director, the CYC changed directors but not direction. Msgr. Meyer had been an important part of the CYC leadership structure, as the assistant director for over a dozen years when he was...
Dozens perhaps hundreds or even thousands of dedicated men and women can, no doubt, be given some of the credit for the success of the CYC. However in the eyes of this writer, no two people are more responsible for the good works of the...
During the next several years Fr. Maxwell with the support of the parish priests began what would become an organization that 65 years later could claim to have reached over two million young people through its efforts for youth. During the period between 1941 and...