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The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 7

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San Bernardino, California
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Wnlncwliy, February 22, 19BI A A. I Woinm lean toward fashions (hat work out 3 FITNESS vmFMtklt Il great to see youralf looking good. Ail this hard work Is good for me and for my aelf image. A nice outfit helps the whole process to be very reinforcing She added, "Besides, you really cant work out la the old style stuff like fw eats. They re too bapgy, they get in the way, you get overheated and then it feels like you donl have as much energy." "If I wear something baggy," says aeroblcizer Eleanor whose purple and turquol.se leotards ere a far cry from spartan feel like I'm not accomplishing anything.

1 can't hmj the results." "And." adds Instructor Linda Myers, glancing down at her own form fitting outfit, "other people can see what I'm doing." To Scarpelll, the exercise scene Is a very positive experience. "All the well toned, well-defined bodies are Inspiring. Invigorated, everybody's working," she says. Aesthetics add to the bole picture, "It's fashion, all the way," says Julie Clauson, who runs over to the center about four times a week. "Everybody's out there.

You've got to look like you're Into the aerobic scene." "Clothes are definitely part of the scene," agrees her friend, Margie AJvarez. As for the accessories, Scarpelll says anyone who is serious about working out knows that head bands (Please see Fit, AA-3) Bark in the dark ages, before Jane Fonda, the few women who exercised at health clubs ere rather stoic nd stolid about the whole process. TVy often wore black leotards and ttr.hu. or baggy old gym shorU with a faded Tshlrt, or even sweat suits. They grimaced.

They groaned. Those were the days before health clubs turned coed. Those were the days before working out became fashionable. Those were the days before manufacturer of exercise wear caught on to the fact that women were ready to Inject color, lightness and even yelp of enthusiam into their new form of play-Exercising is now a social experience. And, when women do aerobics, Jazzerclse routines, or even when they pump weights, they do it in style.

These days, leotards come In every shade nltha rainbow, Uh vertical, horizontal or mitred stripes. And. to complement the body-shaping basics, there are color-coordinated accessories: tights, leg warmers, head bands, belts and, the latest addition, matching cotton T-shirts. Recently, women at San Bernardino's Nautilus Fitness Center were asked hat they think of the sleek, colorful outfits that are now so much a part of the exercise scene. Lynnda Scarpelll, who regularly exercises every day before work, says, "Clothes are definitely a part of the psychological set-up.

They are functional as well as flattering. Nasrin Iranyar reaches high during aerobic exercise Story by Jackie Richard Photos by Gary Voth J-i; Instructor Debbie Valence leads drill Lynnda Scarpelll stretches She finds that teaching is a natural thing to do going strong by iono Oliver years ago, led her to her regular visits to the schools and the continuing animal and bird stories and illustrations. She made another decision. She would return to college classes. So she enrolled at San Bernardino Valley College and earned her AA degree.

She also took advantage of extended courses at Crafton Hills College and the University of California at Riverside. For the past two or three years, she has been working for a UCR lab, studying minute protozoa under a microscope she purchased for her own use. This project, she said, is "my own fun thing. It leads no one else anywhere." Outside the school and college classrooms, Roo- (Please see Nature, AA-3) keen observer and avid reader, always increasing her knowledge about the creatures of land and sea and air. Rooney retired in 1967 as an aircraft safety investigator at Norton Air Force Base.

Previously, she had served in the Women's Air Force Pilots Service in World War II. Although they flew Air Force planes, all work of the women pilots' group was non-combatant. They were never "militarized" at the time, she recalled. Upon retirement, she was still young enough and had plenty of energy to continue working at "something." She decided, she said, "not to do things just for myself. I wanted to do something for the community." Children's work and "animals and nature study became important to me," she said, and, about 10 There's never been a generation gap between Dorothy Rooney, a 65-year-old retiree, and the hundreds of school children who listened to her nature study stories.

While the volunteer work she has done in the 14 years since she retired has taken her in many directions, Rooney's specialty has been an on-going affiliation with the San Bernardino elementary schools, where she presents weekly and sometimes bi-weekly programs featuring talks, lectures, illustrations, slides and films on the subject of animals and birds. The children learn about the habits and habitats of creatures both small and large from the tiniest ants to whales, bears, gorillas and elephants. Rooney's 25-plus classifications include reports on trips to Mexico, the Galapagos Islands and Alaska; talks on birds and wild animals, as well as the do- mesticated canine and feline families. Endangered species and even dinosaurs and ice-age mammals are discussed in some of her programs. The subject of "natural science has been neglected in schools" is the opinion she expressed during a recent interview.

Rooney is not, by profession, a teacher, biologist or historian, and her career background has nothing to do with her present volunteer work and hobbies. What she Is, first of all, is a student herself, eager to learn more about her subjects. She is a.

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Pages Available:
1,350,050
Years Available:
1894-1998