Connie Alexander (sportscaster)
Connie Alexander may refer to * Connie Alexander (youth hostelling) Edith Constance Alexander (27 November 1897 – 9 November 1979) was a pioneer of Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales), youth hostelling in the United Kingdom. She was a founder member of the Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales), Y ... (1897–1979), British pioneer of youth hostelling * Constantine Alexander (born 1950), British judoka {{hndis, Alexander, Connie ...
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Connie Alexander (youth Hostelling)
Edith Constance Alexander (27 November 1897 – 9 November 1979) was a pioneer of Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales), youth hostelling in the United Kingdom. She was a founder member of the Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales), Youth Hostels Association in the UK and their first warden. Life Connie, as she was known, was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire in 1897 but by her teenage years was living in Liverpool. An active member of the Liverpool Ramblers Federation and Thomas Arthur Leonard#Holiday Fellowship, Holiday Fellowship, she was also involved with the League of Welldoers. In 1929 Connie was one of seven members of the Holiday Fellowship who went on a fact-finding expedition to Germany to investigate the work of the German Youth Hostel Association. From that trip, came the interest to found a youth hostelling movement in Britain. During 1930 the Merseyside group of the newly formed Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales) (YHA) looked for premi ...
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