Clarence Moser
Item Information
- Title:
- Clarence Moser
- Description:
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This black and white photograph is a portrait of Clarence G. Moser sitting side-angle to the camera. The small depth of field leaves his face in crisp focus while everything else is softly blurred. In the bottom right corner he signed, “Cordially yours, Clarence G. Moser ‘Red’.”
- Date:
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[1944?–1970?]
- Format:
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Photographs
- Location:
- Springfield College Archives and Special Collections
- Collection (local):
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College Archives Digital Collections
- Series:
- Faculty Files
- Subjects:
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Springfield College--Faculty
International Young Men's Christian Association
Young Men's Christian Association of North America
Moser, Clarence G.
YMCA
YMCA Hall of Fame
Portrait photographs
- Places:
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Massachusetts > Hampden (county) > Springfield
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Link to Item:
- http://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15370coll2/id/2548
- Terms of Use:
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Text and images are owned, held, or licensed by Springfield College and are available for personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that ownership is properly cited. A credit line is required and should read: Courtesy of Springfield College, Babson Library, Archives and Special Collections. Any commercial use without written permission from Springfield College is strictly prohibited. Other individuals or entities other than, and in addition to, Springfield College may also own copyrights and other propriety rights. The publishing, exhibiting, or broadcasting party assumes all responsibility for clearing reproduction rights and for any infringement of United States copyright law.
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- Publisher:
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Springfield College
- Language:
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English
- Notes:
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Moser spent the first twenty years of his career, beginning in 1924, working with youth at the Evanston (IL) YMCA. In 1945, he became the Director of Youth Programs at the Central Atlantic Area YMCA, where he was eventually promoted to Associate Executive of the Central Area Council. After retiring in 1968, Moser became an adjunct professor at Springfield College and actively involved himself with the Head Start Program, 4-H Foundation, and Parent-Youth Clinics. Inducted into the YMCA Hall of Fame in 1995-1996, he was a nationally-known author whose work included "Sharing Your Values With Boys" (1941?), "Group Leader’s Training Course: For Class or Correspondence" (1948), "Developing a Boy’s Work Policy" (1950), the pamphlet "Handbook for Hi-Y Officers" (1950), "Y.M.C.A Boys’ Work and the Family" (1951), and "A Working Paper on Recruiting the Volunteer Group Leader" (undated). In his 1953 book, "Understanding Boys" (New York, Association Press), Moser draws on his long and successful experience in YMCA work to help parents understand the problems boys face during puberty. A review in the Journal of Social Hygiene described the text as “a veritable encyclopedia for parents, teachers, religious leaders, club leaders and others responsible for or concerned with influencing a boy's development from infancy through adolescence. While the book is not primarily in the social hygiene field, it is noteworthy here for its very sound treatment of sex education, masturbation, the boy's need for understanding and accepting his sex role, and his attitudes at different ages toward girls. Much sound interpretation and advice about these and related aspects of a boy's development are well integrated in a mass of other material." During the 1962 Sputnik crisis, Moser wrote an article titled “Fitness for Living,” published in the October issue of "Y Work With Youth", in which he expressed concern about young America’s “softness” vis-a-vis Soviet children.
- Identifier:
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moser-clarence-signed-portrait