LRC History

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="10b785a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Book Antiqua" ><B>Lookout Rowing Club</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lookout Rowing Club"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="LRC General"><U>LRC General</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Registration 2008"><U>Registration 2008</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="LRC NEWS UPDATES "><U>LRC NEWS - UPDATES </U></A>   |   <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Traffic Pattern"><U>Traffic Pattern</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Safety Rules"><U>Safety Rules</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id39.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Map"><U>Map</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="LRC Flood Plan"><U>LRC Flood Plan</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="LRC Board Members"><U>LRC Board Members</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Board Minutes"><U>Board Minutes</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="LRC pictures"><U>LRC pictures</U></A>   |   <B>LRC History </B>   |   <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Related Links"><U>Related Links</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id43.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sculling Classes"><U>Sculling Classes</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id44.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="How to ... "><U>How to ... </U></A>   |   <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U>Contact Us</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="10cd2b03.jpg"> <div> <IMG SRC="073654a0.png" border=0 width="101" height="74" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>LRC History </I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="083e7480.png" border=0 width="487" height="328" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> The " William G. Raoul" rowing center is located adjacent to the Chattanooga Riverwalk, what is be a six-mile long walkway connecting downtown Chattanooga with the Chickamauga Dam and Locks. Completed in the year 2005, the walkway now allows an unimpeded walk from downtown to the dam.</div> <bR> <div> The Chattanooga Rowing Center was completed in June, 1994. It is located about 2000 meters upstream from downtown Chattanooga. It is owned and operated by Chattanooga Rowing, Inc., a nonprofit corporation founded to promote rowing in the Chattanooga area.</div> <bR> <div> The main floor contains four boat storage bays. The bays on the left in the picture hold shells owned by Lookout Rowing Club and by individual users of the rowing center. The second and third bay from the left is dedicated to storage of Chattanooga Junior Rowing boats and privately owned equipment.  On the right is a repair bay. Upstairs, on the left, is a workout room and office, to the right of the workroom facing the river is the women's changing room, and on the right side, facing downstream, is the men's changing room. A spiral staircase connects the two floors.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Lookout Rowing Club</div> <bR> <div>  LRC is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to the promotion of rowing in the Chattanooga area. Originally founded in 1876, it was dormant until 1974 when it was revived with an initial membership of 15 persons, primarily faculty and students at UTC. The club now comprises over 150 persons from Chattanooga and the surrounding area. Individual membership is $350/year and is open to any qualified sculler. Special membership rates are available for families and young rowers. Classes for persons with no rowing experience are available.</div> <bR> <div> LRC's Community Involvement.</div> <div> LRC has enjoyed an intimate relationship with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Over the years, LRC has donated almost 15 racing and recreational boats to the university. LRC even donated two of its most venerable members, Dr. Terrance M. Carney and Mr. Jack Fish, to UTC as rowing coaches from 1981 through 1988. Dr. C also helped found the UTC rowing program and put it on solid ground.</div> <bR> <div> Since it became a corporation in 1989, LRC has continued its support of the UTC rowing program. This support has included a donation toward purchase of a heavyweight eight-person shell, purchase of an eighteen-horsepower motor for the chase boat used by the UTC rowing coach, and cash contributions in the past few years.  Since 1996 LRC is actively involved helping the Chattanooga Junior Rowing Program with donations toward a new trailer, the purchase of engines and chase boats, paying 90% of the annual utlity cost, and allowing Juniors to use LRC equipment.</div> <bR> <div> Members of LRC have helped coach rowing at local high schools, sponsored regattas attended by high school and collegiate rowers from the surrounding area, and hosted special programs for high school rowers at several local high schools.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>