Golden Lens Awards.The J. Wendell Howe Awards recognize those individuals who contribute their talents to Camping Magazine. The Golden Quill quill: see pen. Award is presented to the authors of quality articles that promote a better understanding of the camp/outdoor education/youth development field, including current practices, critical issues, and research. The Golden Lens Award recognizes good photography that depicts the camp experience. J. Wendell Howe was one of the early leaders in the private/independent camp movement in ACA's western region. He, along with his wife, Ruth, directed a Community Chest camp, Camp Condor, near Taft, California Taft is a city in Kern County, California, United States. The population was 6,400 at the 2000 census. Adjoining the town to the north is the unincorporated area called Ford City. On the south end of Taft's municipal border is another unincorporated area known as South Taft. , in the summers of 1943 and 1944. In 1945, they bought a camp at Lake Tahoe and named it Skylake Camp for Boys. The camp is now called Skylake Yosemite Camp, which until recently was owned and directed by John T. Howe John T. Howe is a mechanical engineer and former Chief Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. He is known for his pioneering research contributions to the aerothermodynamics of atmospheric entry, including radiative energy transfer, reactive gas , CCD CCD in full charge-coupled device Semiconductor device in which the individual semiconductor components are connected so that the electrical charge at the output of one device provides the input to the next device. , J. Wendell and Ruth's son. Their daughter, Marian Howe Andersen Herndon, CCD, also gained recognition in the camp field as owner and director of Skylake Ranch Camp in Ahwahnee, California Ahwahnee is an unincorporated town in Madera County, California, USA. Demographic estimates The United States does not define a census-designated place called Ahwahnee, but it does define a Zip Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) in the area, 93601. . Funds for the Golden Quill and Golden Lens awards come from a memorial established in J. Wendell Howe's name. |
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