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Updated: May 25, 2025
Bok decided to test it out; he called together twenty of his neighbors, put the suggestion before them and asked for two thousand dollars as a start, so that a paid secretary might be engaged, since the men themselves were too busy to attend to the details of the work. The amount was immediately subscribed, and in 1913 The Merion Civic Association applied for a charter and began its existence.
When The Merion Civic Association was conceived, the spirit of local pride was seemingly not present in the community. As a matter of fact, it was there as it is in practically every neighborhood; it was simply dormant; it had to be awakened, and its value brought vividly to the community consciousness.
And that we'll excuse to any man leading out such a fresh young beauty of a Bright Eyes like the stars of a winter's night in the frosty season over Columkill, or where you will, so that's in Ireland, to be sure of the likeness to her. 'Her mother was half English. 'Of course she was. And what was my observation about the coupling? Dan Merion would make her Irish all over.
"If so," said he, "let me hear you translate the two lines on the title-page." "Are you a Welshman?" said I. "I am!" he replied. "Good!" said I, and I translated into English the two lines which were a couplet by Edmund Price, an old archdeacon of Merion, celebrated in his day for wit and poetry.
Although only "gleaners" in most of the campaigns that is, working only in the last three days after the regular committees had scoured the neighborhood these Merion Boy Scouts sold over one million four hundred thousand dollars in Liberty Bonds, and raised enough money in the Y. M. C. A. campaign to erect one of the largest huts in France for the army boys, and a Y. M. C. A. gymnasium at the League Island Navy Yard accommodating two thousand sailor-boys.
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