Swimming Lessons made the Evening Tribune 1966

Here is an article from the San Diego Evening Tribune, Saturday, July 16, 1966.

The Photo shows Big sister Lynda and little brother Jeffrey in the pool.

At this time, we did not yet have a swimming pool at our house, but Mom wanted one really bad.  She took me, Lynda, Darwin, and Jeff to an indoor pool in the Midway District, not far from where the Sports Arena is located.  Darwin and I took swimming lessons from an instructor, and Mom and Lynda taught the baby how to deal with being under water.

They would push him just under the water's surface towards each other.  He held his breath and would move his little arms.

I remember Darwin used to complain alot about how the chlorine hurt his eyes.  I think he got some water goggles to help him deal with it.

I was pretty comfortable swimming in the shallow end, but the thought of diving in the deep end really frightened me. I finally got over it and became the fish our Mom wanted all of us to be.

We went to San Diego Divers Supply for lessons for many months.  Baby sister Tabatha would not be born until November of 1966,  and after she was a few months old, she went for lessons in that same pool along with Jeff.

Those swimming sessions would completely wear those babies out.  They would sleep for hours afterwards.