Monos, Louis

Louis Monos – (1976)

 

Louis (Lou) Monos is a most remarkable man. For 45 years he taught swimming to over 100,000 persons, as the YMCA physical and aquatic director in Lorain.

He has always been a friend, a counselor who cared about the people he worked with. Lou has always enjoyed seeing youngsters coming up in life and becoming good Christians, teaching them the right attitude and the discipline they needed to become community leaders.

Throughout his high school years, Lou was always involved in sports. He has taught wrestling, judo, basketball and all physical education sports. In 1959 he brought the first Ohio-West Virginia basketball championship to Lorain and in 1961 the first wrestling championship.

He served three years as the DeMolay sports commissioner for Lorain County in basketball and softball. At the present time he is serving as League Commissioner of the Koinonia Church League athletic events.

He organized the Lorain Senior Fellowship Club, the Young People’s Athletic Program at the Hungarian Reform Church and other sports events for the DeMolay.

Lou holds many awards and titles for his work with children and adult physical education programs. In 1954 he was awarded a special Boy Scout Award for teaching Scouts to swim for over a quarter of a century. In 1959 he received the ‘Hats Off’ award and for many years held the outstanding swimming program award for the YMCA’s progressive swim methods in the Ohio-West Virginia area.