Features
Sports
Medford,
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SECTION B
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY. JUNE 24, 1962
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First aid courses at the safety school Included instruction on many different situations
concerned with the water. One of these was a lift and carry method of an injured person.
The victim of this practice session was Janet Miller, Ashland. Robert Bennett, instructor,
watches the students who are lifting the victim,
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Firsl aid was one subiect taught at the aquatic school. Classes were available
both standard and advanced students, according to their proficiency in first aid. The class
was taught by Robert Bennett, assistant professor of physical education at Southern Ore
gon college. Shown demonstrating the standard method ot artificial respiration are Janet
Miller, Ashland, Bonnie Knapp, and Merrill Haggard. Merrill is serving as the victim,
as Janet tries to revive him. Bennett supervises. This portion of the course took place
at Twin Plunges in Ashland.
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The American Red Cross Youth Aquatic school was not all fun. Included were writ
ten tests on subjects covered in the school. Students were required to pass these tests as
well as their practical work to graduate from school. Shown taking the test on boating are
Bill Dames Medford, and Diana Wales, Klamath Falls. Granville Thomas, instructor,
supervises the testing.
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Youth Aquatic
School Teaches
Safety in Water
Water education was the purpose of the American Red
Cross Youth Aquatic school recently at Southern Oregon col
lege. Because of the dangers of water, it is felt that com
munities will benefit by having young people trained in
water safety by specialists. In that way, each graduate
of the safety school may go home to help train others in
water safety.
The school was open to boys and girls between IS and 17
years old, whose applications were approved. Registration
was limited to 40 students, half of whom were from Jackson
county, and half from Klamath county.
Qualified for Status
On completing the course, the students were qualified
to go forward to instructor's status after reaching 18 years
of age. They also had beginning training to serve in camps,
playgrounds, swimming pools, and other community recrea
tional areas.
Among subjects taught were junior life saving, senior
life saving, water safety aid (instructor's assistant), basic
canoeing, basic boating, and first aid.
Several instructors were available for the classes. Mrs.
Roy Wilkes, water safety chairman for the Jackson county
chapter of the American Red Cross, was director of the
school. Mrs. Wilkes has attended National Aquatic schools in
1959 and 1961. She is the women's program director for
the Medford YMCA, and will direct the YMCA camp this
year.
Other Instructors Are Noted
Southern Oregon college
Ruth Bebber and Robert
Other instructors Include two
physical education instructors, Dr.
Bennett.
Miss Bebber is the director of the (women's physical ed
ucation department at SOC. She is a water instructor
trainer, and held that position at the 1959 American Red
Cross National Aquatic school at Tulequoia.
Bennett is an. assistant professor of physical education
at SOC. He served as a water safety and first aid instructor.
Lawrence Jones', who holds his canoeing and WSI in
structorships, has conducted Klamath county's swim pro
gram at Crescent lake for the past two years. He has been a
staff member at the Malin pool in Klamath county for three
years, and is a student at the University of Puget Sound.
Serves As Water Front Director
Mrs. Lowell Jones is small craft chairman for Klamath
county. She has served as water front director of the Girl
Scout camp for Klamath county girls for the past seven years.
Also contributing his services to this 1962 school was
Granville Thomas, San Francisco. Thomas is a retired
member of the physical education department of the Uni
versity of California. He founded the water safety aide pro
gram, and is director of small craft training in the San
Francisco chapter of the American Red Cross. He has been
a Red Cross volunteer for 35 years, and is now the area
instructor.
In their week of instruction the water school students
were required to work hard. They studied from books, took
written tests, and also participated in field practice work
at Emigrant lake and the Twin Plunges swimming pools.
They were graded on their work as if for an academic class.
Lived In Dormitories
While attending the school the teenagers lived In dormi
tory facilities at Southern Oregon college. Their basic fee
provided room, board, tuition, books, and transportation. All
instructors donated their time to the project.
Through this program students are given the opportunity
to further develop their skills in the water. The more people
who take these courses, the safer Oregon waterways will be,
and a good place to start is with the teenage population,
the Red Cross believes.
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Both junior and senior lifcsaving courses were offered during the school by qualified
water safety instructors. Various methods of live saving were taught for diffrent situations.
Among these was the "head carry" method. It was demonstrated by Linda Kirkpatrick,
Malin, and Don Braymall.
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Classes In canoeing are imperative in a water safety course, because they teach young
people the frailties of canoes and how to handle them. Not only are they taught th
correct way to use a canoe when it is floating, but also how to right an overturned
vessel. Merrill Haggard and Tom Reid, Ashland, demonstrate one method of getting a
swamped canoe afioat again.
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and Tom. Reid demonstrate another method of righting an Overturn
od canoe. Here they stand in shallow water while dumping the water from the cano.
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Practicing proper me'odj of rowboating on Emigrant lake are Marion Roberts. Klamath
Two more girls from the school are in in nacKgrounn. i nrp ims iviif in
available, it is isf know proper methods of rowing, and alo of righting, the boat.
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safety mhool, sponsored by the American Red Cross, dunwaling Is the art of taking a canoe in
nf paddles This Is an alternative mrthnH to silting in the rnnoe and paddling with the hands. It
ill to practice gunwaling, and many of the students took wet spills while attempting to learn tt.
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