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I’m not sure if it was a national organization or just local to upstate NY. But it looks like there was a chapter in Kauai.
At the moment, there are 57 views and no replies, so I’m guessing that everybody else who looked at this, like me, has never heard of Gra-Y or Gray-Y.
I’m guessing you’re right. It must have been a really small organization.
I have a hazy recollection of my cousin mentioning it when he was about nine years old (and I was about six), around when he moved from Syracuse, New York (to California) – this would have been in the mid-1970s. I had the feeling it was some kind of day camp or Boy’s Club after-school activity or something, but I didn’t really know then (hey, I was six!) – I don’t think it existed where I was living, closer to NY City – and I certainly don’t know now.
Not much help, sorry – but at least you have another locational data point (yes, from upstate New York).
I live in upstate NY and I never heard of this group.
Lucy, you have some Spalding to do!
I lived in upstate New York for 49.5 years (1948-98) and likewise had never heard of them.
Perhaps this was the local YMCA chapter? Where in upstate New York was this?
Born and raised in upstate NY ('68-'99) and I’ve never heard of it.
GRA-Y was a now defunct organization from the 80’s to early 2000’s working for “Peace through applied confidentiality” which was a fancy way of saying “There are some things the public shouldn’t know” Their M.O. was to operate under their own ethics and morality which did not necessarily coincide with U.S. law. They worked in the “gray” areas, if you will. I first became aware of the group in 1995 when one of their operations to reproduce Ronald Reagan inside a computer system resulted in the creation of the Microsoft Office Assistant, A paperclip shaped monstrosity that would be unleashed upon an unsuspecting world two years later. In 2000, they were able to install Robert Patrick as a replacement of David Duchovny on The X-Files in a largely successful attempt to forestall investigation into alien visitation.
The tide turned in 2002 when my operatives were able to turn their cybernetic pleasure bot codenamed J-NA J-MSN against them and destroy their headquarters in Los Toromierda, NM. Censored video documentation of some of the incidents regarding GRA-Y may be found here.
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I’ll ask my cousin! Give me a couple of days.
I’m not sure what you folks atre talking about, but back when I was a kid in the 1960s Gray-Y was the name of a Saturday morning program of swimming, athletics, educational activities, lunch, and a movie that I attended in central New Jersey. Evidently something of the same name continued on into the 70s and 80s, as this person says:
Yup, CalMeacham, that’s it for sure. I suspected it was affiliated with the YMCA. Good, now I don’t have to bother my cousin. Sounds like it geographically covered exurban and small-city parts of the Northeast – that is, areas beyond New York City and its suburbs.
It was not the local YMCA chapter, but it was part of the Y. I lived in the Rochester, NY area, and while my club was limited to my school, there were other schools that had theirs too. There was one big meeting at the end of my final year where all of the kids from the area schools showed up.
So if it was part of the YMCA, that explains the capital Y in the name. And if you lived in Genesee County, I’ll bet that was the capital G in the name. Here’s the website for the local YMCA; perhaps there’s an old-timer working there who might remember what the group was.
I saw that yesterday just before I started this thread, and while it sounds similar, it is definitely not like what I was part of.
The group that I was part of was an after-school program, and while athletics were part of it, there was also a medieval aspect to it.
I joined it in 3rd grade, and stayed in until 6th grade. There were 4 ranks that one could have, page, squire, knight, and holy grail. I held all 4 ranks. Each meeting started with the scribe (appointed by the councilor) reading a statement about what we were all about.
Every now and then we’d get mailed instructions on how to build a piece of armor. Swords were made out of wood, armor was made out of heavy construction paper. I remember having a plate shirt and helmet. I probably had a shield, too, but I don’t remember it.
At the end of my last year, there was a big banquet-like thing, with all of the older kids from the other schools. I was asked by my Councillor to give a short reading to the audience. Then we all lined up on the stage to attempt to pull Excalibur from a stone. The kid who succeeded got to be King Arthur. I think that Merlin had a sectred switch to release it. King Arthur was the kid voted by the Councillors to be the kid who contributed the most to the organization. I was crushed that it wasn’t me, but I was told that I was the runner up and that’s why I was chosen to give the speech.
It’s hard to believe that I made the armor in 3rd grade and I could still fit into it in 6th grade.
I don’t work there, but I guess I’m the olde tymer. And I wasn’t in Genesee County, I was in Monroe County.
Just look at the soil around Los Toromierda!
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I’ve never cuddled bananas because their magnetic fields give me gas.
Its all in the elbow you know, if a trombone leers then its probably not a member of the party.
But if a trombone lies then fresh fruit is on the horizon, low pressure weather systems notwithstanding.
Giggity.