White Lake Yacht Club Swimming Pool

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History

Swimming has always been a part of our Yacht Club activities. Swim activities and lessons were taught off the beach or from the dock. During the 1960's Stocky Holly was in charge of the swimming program. She had a large plastic tarp put on the bottom of the lake for the summer to provide a place to teach swimming. This helped keep the weeds down for lessons. The tarp was not successful so the Board authorized the building of our own pool in 1964. Past Commodore Fred Fishel was instrumental in raising the funds through bonds sold to club members.

For years children of members were lifeguards and taught lessons. Dolly Morton who had taught swimming both at the Yacht Club and at Sylvan Beach earlier provided the Red Cross Certification. In 1967 we hired Jim "Red" Heeres to teach swimming. Jim continued every summer for over 30 years as head of our swim school. His program provided our life guards and red cross certification for those who completed the courses. He built an exemplary program during his tenure.

Lloyd Colby volunteered to be in charge of pool maintenance when the pool opened. In 1980 Allan Dake took over the duties of pool maintenance a new high efficency heater was replaced in 1985 and Anne Dake was swim school administrator from 1980 through 1987. Linda Durrel took over as administrator from Anne, with all maintenance being supervised by our club manager. In 1992 Pam Kerr became the pool administrator. Karolyn Rillema took over as administrator in '98, under her direction we replaced most of the pool equipment, installed a new fence around the pool area and painted the pool. Collen Brand accepted the administrator of the swimming program in 2001. In 2002 Kelly Dausey began as assistant administrator. For 2006 Laurie Dermody will coordinate swim school registration and Mary Siemer will coordinate the graduation events.

We offer classes from water babies through advanced swimmer. Basic water safety and life guard certification as well as classes are offered as there is interest. Many of our life guards and instructors have received their instruction at WLYC. Our instructors are highly qualified, all having Red Cross instructor certification, first aid, CPR and other advanced certification.

Classes begin in June with a new sessions beginning every two weeks. Graduation is at at the end of each session where students are provided with certificates of participation and if they successfully passed a level a Red Cross card is issued. Our classes are very popular and almost every session is always filled. We are very pleased to be able to offer the excellent level of swimming instruction to our members.

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Pool Hours of Operation

& Other Activities

Pool photo

 General Swimming During The Summer

Aquaerobics

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Swim School 2008

 Swim School Staff/Guards

Pool Director Corrin Popps
Swim School Director Lindsey Smies

Session Dates

Each session is two weeks in length. The cost for each session is $75.00 to be payable at the first session date. Registration for classes is 30 minutes before the beginning of the class on the first day of the session. On the days of registration see Sally Whitebeck for information. No one will be registered after the start of each session. There will be 8 levels taught this year and if interest warrents we will try to offer advanced level or Lifeguard training . If a Special Guest Status form is needed, please see the secretary for this form. Fill out the form and hand it in at registration.

Graduation ceremonies will continue to be the last Friday of each session after the last class The pool will be closed to open swim during this celebration.

 Class times are as follows:

9:30 - 10:15	Level 6 & 7 .............. Advanced
10:15 - 11:00	Level 4 & 5 ........... Intermediate
11:00 - 11:30	Level 3 ........Advanced Beginner
11:30 - 12:00	Level 2 ................. Beginner II
12:00 - 12:30	Level 1 .................. Beginner I

Looking forward to a great summer, and I am sure you are too! See you at the lake!

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