THE
the communities served by each YMCA – cheered the idea, there were questions to answer, minds to convince. Would one Y lose its identity to the other? And a potentially big hurdle: Who would lead the merged organization? "Fred and I knew and understood that in order
Bill Breider, CEO and president of YMCA of the
Fox Cities, jumps into the spirit of living out the organization's 125-year-old mission.
for us to be successful, the two of us really needed to agree on an organizational plan," Breider says. The merger would become a transitional point in a
long history of the Y organization in the Fox Cities – one that stretches back 125 years.
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Photographs by Shane Van Boxtel, Image Studios
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