Camp Lowden Patches
Lowden Aquatic School and segments
Nineteen Fifty Five was the first year of the Camp Lowden Aquatic School. This was not the National Camping School for Aquatic Directors; this was a program for boys. The Aquatic School was a three-day weekend for Explorers only and
consisted of canoeing, swimming, and lifesaving. The first year they had Red Cross lifesaving. The second year the Thompson Canoe people came and finished a canoe during the weekend. Howard Fox came and taught wilderness survival.
The final test was to portage a canoe from the waterfront to the pool (sounds like a good way to get the canoes brought up from the river!)
There were black patch segments depicting aquatic specialties; in later years the segments were white. This was a reasonably popular program, but key staff organizers moved on due to graduation, college, etc., and the program was
ultimately discontinued. The program did continue at least through 1960.
| LAQ-11 | Boating black |
| LAQ-12 | Canoeing black |
| LAQ-13 | Life Saving black |
| LAQ-14 | Swimming black |
| LAQ-15 | Staff black |
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| LAQ-21 | Boating white |
| LAQ-22 | Canoeing white |
| LAQ-23 | Life Saving white |
| LAQ-24 | Swimming white |
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