North American Fellowship of YMCA Retirees
Geographic Scope of the Chapters
CHAPTER
NAME
GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE
AREA
YEAR
FOUNDED

Allen-Stone
merged with Hawaii
Washington, Oregon, Idaho,
Montana, Alaska
Hawaii
1940
2009
Earl W. Brandenburg
Wisconsin
1982
Central Atlantic
Eastern Pennsylvania
Southern New Jersey
Delaware (formerly Delaware
Valley)
1960
William S. Chambers
Ohio and West Virginia
1963
Grand Canyon
Arizona, Utah
Southwest New Mexico
1987
James Lee Ellenwood
Western, Central and Northeast
New York
1971
Greater Ozark
Missouri, Northern Arkansas
Kansas from Wichita eastward
1976
Ralph W. Harbinson
Western Pennsylvania
1961
Lincoln E. Buell
Hoosier Chapter

Hoosier-Buell
Indiana and Michigan
1939
1959

1999
D. Willard Lyon
Southern California except
Marston Chapter Area
Las Vegas and
Southern tip of Nevada
1938
George W. Marston
All of San Diego County
in Southern California
South of Santa Ana
to border with Mexico
1961
McBurney-Morse
Northern New Jersey
New York City, Long Island
Lower Hudson Counties
Fairfield County in Connecticut
1930
Henry J McCoy
First NAFYR Chapter
Northern California
south to a line from Carmel
eastward to State Line
All of Nevada except for Los
Vegas and /southern tip
1928
L Wilbur Messer
Illinois
1931
John R. Mott
Iowa and
Eastern Nebraska from Highway 81
1977
New England
formerly
George W. Mahaffy
New England States
1930
Sam Schreiner
formerly
Southwest Chapter
Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas
except for small northern tip
Western Louisiana, Southeast
corner of New Mexico
1973
Upper Midwest
Minnesota
North Dakota and South Dakota
1970
W.D. Weatherford
formerly
Fletcher S. Brockman,
Blake W. Godfrey,
Mississippi merged
1953
North and South Carolina
Virginia, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Georgia,
Louisiana
Alabama, Mississippi
Florida west of Tallahassee
1959
Robert Weidensall
Wyomng, Colorado
Northern half of New Mexico
Kansas west of Wichita
Nebraska west of Highway 81
1952
C.B. Willis
Ben W. Barber merged
with Willis in 1970
Florida
except for the panhandle
1936