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Archery helps kids learn the fine points of focusing.

KRISTA HUSA Photographer

R

achel Roszler says she's into archery as "another way to beat
the boys.
The 10-year-old joined about 20 other like-minded
William Tell wannabes, in signing up for a second week to
practice her skills at an archery range in Bloomfield Township. The classes
were an offering of the day camp held at the Jewish Community Center
of Metropolitan Detroit's Jimmy Prentis Morris Building in Oak Park.
Instructor Earl Clough, president of Detroit Archers of West
Bloomfield, said archery classes teach kids how to focus. "You are han-
dling things that are not toys; they are tools. We stress safety," he said.
The JCC campers spent six hours a day for a week shooting arrows
at bull's-eye targets indoors or wooden animal targets outside.
Rachel Roszler, who is fond of beating boys in roller hockey, said
she uses a secret way to aim her arrows, but wasn't giving it away.
"You have to have a technique," she explained. And the object is to
get what these archers call "the bull-thingys."
— Harry Kirsbaum

9/3

1999

22 Detroit Jewish News

Clockwise from top left:

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Ten-year-old Sean McDermott
of Troy lets fly.

Instructor Linda Diaz helps
Amichai Roszler, 8'L,
of Oak Park.

Oak Park residents Rachel
Roszler, 10, and Elizabeth
Barnes, 11, get ready to shoot.

Debra Gross, 9, of West
Bloom eld pulls an arrow
out o the bear target.

Instructor Earl Clough
directs the archers.

