Looking Back: 200 take plunge for free swimming lessons, San Miguel School breaks ground
Excerpts from the Thursday, July 13, 1950 Paso Robles Journal: 200 Are Enrolled for First Swim Lessons –Two hundred answered the call Monday morning at the Paso Robles municipal plunge for the free swimming and life-saving classes when Miss Alice Durham, executive secretary, and her aides, Mrs. Ed Page and Mrs. Harold Bennett, enrolled the applicants. Ray Bryant, head instructor with Robert Osman and Carolyn Reich as assistants, soon classified the entrants and set the time for classes. The classifications were Beginners, 119; Intermediates, 33: Swimmers, 24: Sr. Life Savers, 6: and Jr. Lif...
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