Biography of: Don McClanen, Paul Benedum, and Branch
Rickey; Fellowship of Christian Atheletes founders
Author: Brent Vartenisian
Timeline
Leadership Style
Political Philosophy
Timeline
- 1954-started by founders Don McClanen, Paul Benedum, and Branch Rickey
- 1956- 1st National Camp, 256 athletes and coaches attended
- 1959-Magazine published for the FCA
- 1960-2nd campsite in Wisconsin
- 1964-Adult Chapter began
- 1966- a program called the Huddle began
- 1967-8 National Camps held with 4,700 people attending
- 1969-FCA holds 16 Camps this is a record
- 1977-National Golf Association started
- 1979-Headquarters Built
- 1984-4,400 Huddles started and 220 FCA employees all over the Country
- 1993-Camps exceeds 10,000
- 1996-video released, 40 years of camps
- 1998-The home office plan to double in size
Leadership Style
I decided to pick the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and use its founders as my social movement figures. The FCA was not started my just one person so I am going to look at their accomplishments and wants for this movement a little more than I am going to focus on their life. I think they would rather have their message out than their background.
The leadership style of these men who started the FCA was Democratic. They shared the reasonability for the success and the failure for this group. The reason that they had to have a Democratic leadership style is because they were trying to make this a movement that would spread throughout the country. One thing that is on the side of the founders of the FCA was that its organization was one started on a very positive aspect. The FCA was founded to help athletes learn the Bible and to get to know Christ better. The leadership style of the founders is evident in the way they used people to help them spread the word and focus of God.
Political Philosophy
The FCA is an organization that three men started because of their own beliefs and wants out of the sport world. They did not just want to reach the professional athlete they want to get to all the children around to the Country. They wanted to get these people involved in church and reading the scriptures. They had a dream of making these athletes not only better at their sport or job but also better as people. The FCA was started in 1954 by Don McClanen, Paul Benedum and Branch Rickey but it is kept alive my millions of people like you and I.
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