36 AMERICAN LIFEGUARD MAGAZINE, SUMMER 2005 SUMMER 2005 2 AMERICAN LIFEGUARD MAGAZINE, SUMMER 2005 AMERICAN LIFEGUARD MAGAZINE, SUMMER 2005 35 USLA OFFICERS USLA Executive Board American Lifeguard Magazine Staff USLA Regional Presidents President Publisher/Editor New England B. Chris Brewster, San Diego, CA Mike Bartlett, Huntington Beach, CA Rian Wilkinson [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Vice-President Staff Writers Mid-Atlantic Jerry Gavin, Chicago, IL Eric Sandy, Del Mar, CA Ed Zebrowski [email protected] B. Chris Brewster, San Diego, CA, [email protected] Treasurer Dr. Peter Hartsock, South Atlantic Greg Farry, Bradley Beach, NJ US Public Health Service Kevin Sweat [email protected] Rick Gould, Santa Clarita, CA [email protected] Secretary Vince Lombardi, Southeast Dave Shotwell, Ocean Grove, NJ Camp Pendleton, CA Patrick McGlammery [email protected] Phil Rogers, Mid-Atlantic [email protected] Recurrent Rep. Financial Advisor Great Lakes J.K. “Duke” Brown, Myrtle Beach, SC Greg Farry, Bradley Beach, NJ Joe Pecoraro [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] International Liaison Membership Liaison Gulf Coast Eric Bauer, Newport Beach, CA Charlie Hartl, Avon-By-the-Sea, Vic Maceo [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Advisor Design/Typesetting Pacific Northwest Tim Gallagher, Jennifer Velasquez, Torrance, CA Cathy VonWald [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Medical Advisor Staff Photographers Southwest (CSLSA) Dr. Peter Werniki, Vero Beach, FL Phil Rogers, Mid Atlantic Rob McGowan [email protected] Andrew Healey, Point Lookout, NY [email protected] USLA Legal Advisor Frank Arena, Piscataway, NJ John “Chip” More, Mid-Atlantic [email protected] USLA Committee Chairs Bylaws and Policies Heroic Acts Public Education John “Chip” More, Nikki Bowie Peter Davis [email protected] nbowie2ccprc.com [email protected] Certification International Public Information B. Chris Brewster B. Chris Brewster Tom Gill [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Competition Junior Lifeguards Statistics Carl Drake Reenie Boyer Rick Gould [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Development Magazine Ways & Means Cathy VonWald Mike Bartlett Greg Farry [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Equipment Research Membership Website Dave Foxwell Joe Pecoraro Charles Hartl, Avon-By-the-Sea, [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Grant Writing National Curriculum Greg Farry Carl Martinez [email protected] [email protected] AMERICAN LIFEGUARD MAGAZINE, SUMMER 2005 3 I N T HIS ISSUE United States Lifesaving Cover Shot: Newport Beach Lifeguard Don Gray leaps Association Mission Statement off their rescue vessel “Sea Watch” and body surfs the www.usla.org wave to a victim inside. Newport Beach, CA. Photo by 866-FOR-USLA (367-8752) Brent Jacobsen. 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Chris Brewster, President - San Diego, CA What’s going on in USLA these up to Team Manager Kevin Sweat days? Plenty. Here are just a few of (Volusia County) and Team Coach the many USLA initiatives underway Mitch Kahn (Los Angeles County) to to prevent drowning and promote assemble and organize a winning professionalism in lifesaving. There’s team. We know they’re up to it. not enough space to include Meantime, thanks to Jay Butki (LA them all. County), who organized a team to USLA “Training and Equipment participate in the International Surf Guidelines for Rescuers Using Challenge in Australia and raised Personal Watercraft as a Rescue much of the funding. As well, thanks Tool” have been developed, to the team members who participat- President Brewster recognizes approved by the Board of Directors, Tim Gallagher for his unselfish efforts ed and the several USLA members and published in the Lifeguard leading the USLA National Competition who donated funds. Library section of www.usla.org. Teams over the past 14 years! As you will learn elsewhere in Now there are national recommend- this issue, USLA has entered into an ed standards for use of PWC in res- waves there and the heroism of the agreement to provide official product guards who brave them. cue. The leadership of Ralph Goto status to a new first aid cream for The rip current education pro- (Honolulu) and the hard work behind the treatment of sunburn and related gram upon which USLA embarked the scenes of Jimmy Barros maladies. You’ll see the USLA logo last year with the National Oceanic (Honolulu) were critical to this devel- featured prominently on this product and Atmospheric Administration has opment, but so was the input of and opportunities will be extended gained real traction. We offer free experts from throughout the US who to chapters and regions to use it in artwork for signs and brochures on contributed to this document. fundraisers. Remember to support our websites (see the Rip Current What steps should lifesaving products that support lifesaving. section of www.usla.org). Many life- organizations take to protect partici- For the first time in decades, pants in open water swim events, saving organizations and communi- USLA has produced an Annual like triathlons and ocean swims? ties have reprinted the brochures Report. You can find a copy in the There were no national standards and signs, and distributed them Lifeguard Library section of until Rick Gould (former Santa Cruz widely. The State of Florida has dis- www.usla.org. Expect to see Lifeguard Captain and USLA’s volun- tributed the signs throughout the these reports issued annually from teer statistician) drafted, “Open state. Lives will be saved through now on. Water Swim Event Safety education about the phenomenon Also in the Lifeguard Library, you Guidelines.” They were considered that produces over 80% of rescues at can now find archival documents by the National Certification surf beaches. covering the first years of USLA, Committee, massaged based on The Virginia Beach Lifeguard from 1964 to 1967. For those of you input from a variety of agencies with Association, with the leadership of who are history buffs and wonder extensive expertise, approved by Tom Gill, has been working prodi- what was behind the formation of dinary the Board of Directors, and have giously to convene an extraor our organization, you can now find National Lifeguard Championships now been published in the the answers. for 2005. We are all looking forward Lifeguard Library. The International Life Saving to the 11th to 13th of August for the The Pacific Islands Region has Federation (www.usla.org), of which spirited competition and deep cama- been created as USLA’s ninth region.