The Morgan name was always going to come off the YMCA in west Tacoma. A new aquatic facility is rising out of the grounds of the current fitness center, and the YMCA of Pierce and Kitsap Counties said the building under construction would have a different name.
But the organization has rolled out the updated moniker without waiting for its new aquatic center to open later this year. In March, I noticed references to the Pearl Street Family YMCA popping up in the local YMCA’s communications and website.
It seems like a small change, but for some, it’s not. John Morgan is the name of a man who a former camper at YMCA Camp Seymour says failed in his responsibility to stop repeated sexual abuse at the camp in the 1970s…