The White Falcon - 20.08.1976, Blaðsíða 3

August 20, 1976
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Swim and have fun and stay fit
Twelve year-old Kim Swasey has visit-
ed the Base Pool and swum half a mile
(880 yards) almost every day for the
past nine months. This week she reached
her goal of accumulating 50 miles.
She was participating in the Red
Cross "Swim and Stay Fit" Program. The
program is a fitness program for people
of all ages. Individuals must swim in
segments of 440 yards (a quarter mile)
or more during each visit to the pool.
Thirty-two laps of the pool is one mile.
"I like to swim and I did it to enjoy
myself swimming," Kim explained. As
well as swimming 50 miles for fitness,
Kim is a teaching aide for the Red Cross
swimming program at the Base Pool.
dependable and I feel confident
she's assisting the children," com-
mented Betty Kennedy, the head instruc-
tor of the 75 three to 13 year-olds
learning to swim.
The Red Cross Water Safety Courses
teach a person how to be safe, have fun
in the water and how to save his or her
own life or another's in case of an ac-
cident. Swimming instruction—from be-
ginner through advanced swimmer level—
is offered.
"Swimming is good exercise and fun.
The better a person learns how to swim
the more he can enjoy it," remarked Mrs.
Kennedy.
Swimming can improve circulation and
control of body movements, promote
deeper breathing, strengthen abdominal
muscles, develop or maintain organic
strength and vigor, increase movement
within the joints and release tension.
It provides skills that will always
be retained, gives a feeling of accom-
plishment, encourages students to learn
skills in other activities and brings
new social contacts.
The swimming classes meet on Saturday
from 9 to 10 a.m. and Monday from 5 to 6
TWELVE YEAR-OLD Kim Swasey receives her "Swim and Stay Fit" pin and patch from
swimming instructor Betty Kennedy.
p.m. There is a sign-up sheet for new
students at the desk in the pool area.
The chart for the Swim for Fitness
Program is also in the pool area. Any
person possessing reasonable swimming
ability is eligible to enroll and par-
ticipate in the fitness program. Any
stroke or combination of strokes may be
used. The aim is to swim the required
distance.
Servicemen’s Opportunity Colleges
a chance for an education
Members of the military have enormous
opportunities available in obtaining an
education while in uniform. Classes are
available in every conceivable field to
fulfill a person's education goals.
Many of these courses are provided by
the Servicemen's Opportunity Colleges
(SOC). These are a network of junior,
community and four-year colleges that
have pledged themselves to providing
academic opportunities to persons in the
military.
Nearly 400 such colleges and univer-
sities have met the criteria to be
designated as institutions of the SOC.
Many of these schools are currently of-
fering off-duty courses on military
bases around the world. For information
on SOC colleges in Keflavik, contact the
Navy Campus for Achievement Office
(NCFA) at 7795.
The SOC network enables service per-
sons to take college level work and pro-
gress steadily toward an associate or
baccalaureate degree. To assist service
personnel who usually do not stay in one
place long enough to earn a degree, each
school in the program has established
liberal admission requirements, provides
for transfer of credits and has reduced
residency requirements. The schools are
also willing to recognize and award aca-
demic credit for military formal school
training which may be counted toward a
degree.
The schools also award credit for
non-traditional educational experiences
through the College Level Examination
Program (CLEP) and correspondence course
work.
Some of the schools offer a contract
for degree work which enables military
personnel to continue their course work
as they move about and then transfer all
credits back to the contracting school
for the awarding of a degree.
Each school also provides a counselor
to assist service persons in planning
programs of studies.
The current edition of a catalog of
Servicemen's Opportunity Colleges was
recently distributed to military instal-
lations around the world. These are
available for reference at the NCFA
office.
The first step for anyone in the
military who has education in mind is to
contact the Education Office about the
Servicemen's Opportunity Colleges.
sThe all-American ivy
Want to nominate an all-
American green plant for the
Bicentennial Year? How about
poison ivy! It's native to
North America, and has been
making itself known to
Americans ever since the
earliest colonists brushed
against it, says the Nation-
al Geographic Society.
Captain John Smith prob-
ably was still smarting from
contact with the plant when
he commented from Jamestown
in 1607:
"The poison weed, being
in shape but little differ-
ent from our English yvie;
but being touched causeth
redness, itchinge, and
lastly blysters...for a time
they are somewhat paineful."
Poison ivy, Rhus toxico-
dendron radicus, grows
everywhere but in California
where flourishes a look-
alike cousin, poison oak.
Poison ivy is loaded with an
oily juice called urushiol
which produces a bout of
skin blisters with red,
itchy rash.
Through the years poison
ivy rash has been treated
variously by rubbing with
banana skins, scrubbing with
yellow laundry soap, and ap-
plying baking soda, Epsom
salts or calamine lotion.
Doctors say these treat-
ments will not cure, but may
give relief. Burrow's solu-
tion or saline (two tea-
spoons of salt per quart of
water), applied in the form
of a compress, is effective
in drying the rash, removing
crusts and debris, and re-
lieving the itching. But
the best medicine is pre-
vention: "Leaflets three,
leave it be."
American Indians ate
poison ivy, hoping to gain
immunity. Scientists now
are testing the belief with
injections and pills of
poison ivy extract and plant
materials.
A US0 SHOW, the "Surry Singers," will arrive in
Iceland on Tuesday from a tour of Europe. The
five women and five men perform a fast-paced show
of rock, pop and variety music, dance and comedy.
The group from Oklahoma City University will
appear first at H-3 on Wednesday. They will also
perform at Rockville on Wednesday at 9 p.m. On
Thursday, the Surry Singers will appear at
Grindavik at 2:30 p.m. and on the NATO Base at the
Andrews Theater at 9 p.m.