Charles S. Ward, who has been for more than thirty-six years connected with the Y. M. C. A., and for twenty-one years a secretary of the International Committee of that organization, has resigned, and retired March Ist. The reason Mr. Ward gives for his retirement is that the work is too strenuous. He is the inventor and developer of the intensive drive, and his plan was used in all the Liberty Loan and Red Cross drives during the war. He has been personally responsible for raising for Y. M. C. A., by voluntary contributions the sum of $548,000,000. He will now for a time be engaged in the Methodist Centenary movement as its campaign director. Mr. Ward's home is at 3 Ash St., Flushing, N. Y.
Secretary, Rev. Myron W. Adams, Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga.