Bramwell Directs Variety School At the Weber Gym Dec. 19, 1942 A water safety course is being completed this week at the Weber gymnasium for young men about to enter the services of the United States. For the past eight weeks they have been reviewing water safety technique and skills to prepare them for cross-water duty, and to assist them in cases of emergency where they might have to save themselves or their buddies. The instruction has been under the supervision of Kent S. Bramwell, director of water safety for the local Red Cross. Another class will begin on January 4 at the Weber gymnasium from five-thirty to six-thirty p.m. All swimmers over 17 years are invited to attend and participate. An invitation is especially extended to all boys expecting to be called into the service. Phone 7961 to enroll. Those to graduate this week include Bob Petty, navy reserve; Don Woody, prospective inductee; Joe Wedell, army reserve, and Gene Stoker and Junior Hamlen, of Roy, possible inductees. Others previously in the class dropped out due to employment. A new surf board or paddle board arrived in Ogden Saturday to be used by the local Red Cross for such water safety training. This brings the Red Cross equipment up to a canoe, a paddle board, a boat, extra oars, ring buoys, and dragline and many other water safety devices. The proper use of this equipment is taught in the water safety course. Graduates receive the senior life saving insignia and certificate. The men graduating form the present class have been trained in military pre-enlistment training, such as jumping from high structure, carrying weights above water while swimming, how to swim in oily water that might be afire, and other such actual emergencies they might meet. All Red Cross equipment has been offered to the new trainees now attending the Weber college program, under Bob Davis and C. H. Anderson. “We are anxious to assist in any way possible, and proffer to this group all the water safety instructors and equipment we have in Weber county to aid in the training program as outlined by the government,” Keith Bramwell reported. Subjects discussed and demonstrated include personal safety in the water, use of small craft, means of protection from front and back strangle holds, how to break wristlocks and “death grips,” the proper carries after the individual has been rescued, proper resuscitations methods, how to handle oneself on the ice, the proper use of canoe, paddleboard and boats, the proper swimming strokes for rescue. “Above all,” Mr. Bramwell reports, “we are anxious to instill in the minds of the life-savers that the victim wants ‘help, not company,’ and for that reason every means should be used to rescue the victim without having to swim and save him. When all other rescue methods and means fail, swim after him, and be prepared to break him away from you, if by chance, he should grab you unexpectedly, form the side, back o front. If you are not able to make the rescue, tell others to go to the rescue. It is impossible for a transposition to take place in an emergency, either you are physically able to assist and know what to do to save the victim, or you do not know. Miracles do not happen when a need comes. The time to learn is when opportunities come to prepare before the accident happens.”