- Date Of Birth: February 2, 1928
- Date Of Death: November 23, 2010
- State: Connecticut
Herbert Greenleaf Mayo, 82, of Haddam, husband of the late Madelyn (Luce) Mayo, passed away on Tuesday, November 23rd at Middlesex Hospital. Born in Lewiston, ME, he was the son of the late Dwight and Marion (Griffith) Mayo. Herbert grew up in Lewiston, ME and moved to CT in 1957 where he was Boys Work Secretary at the New Britain YMCA for eight years accomplishing an expanded outdoor facility. In 1965, he became Director of Northern Middlesex YMCA working for twenty-six years retiring in 1991. Within in these twenty-six years, Herbert pioneered programs for women and incorporated the first woman on the Board of Directors, opened shelters for teens, instituted the first state funded daycare, opened a halfway house for former CVH patients, started other innovative programs, NYPUM, enlarged Ingersoll Day Camp to serve over two hundred youths, and updated present YMCA facilities through a multi-million dollar expansion. He was also a member of T.O.P.S.
