Just the Facts

Jean and I have had a difficult time figuring out what happened when. We know what happened. Exactly when it happened has been difficult to determine. “When” isn’t particularly important, but people have a fascination with the details. So, just to get the facts straight, here are some of the particulars –

Ann was a member of the recreation swim league team at Wade Walker Pool in the summer of 1988. Ann was six years old that summer and had just finished Kindergarten at Stone Mountain Elementary School. John was 3 years old, turning 4, that summer and we did not register him for the swim team.

Ann also was a member of the recreation swim league team at Wade Walker Pool in the summer of 1989. Ann was seven years old and had just finished the first grade at Stone Mountain Elementary School John turned 5 years old the summer of 1989 and that was John’s first year on a swim team.

We moved to Lilburn, GA in September of 1989. Ann went to second grade at Gwinnett County’s Camp Creek Elementary School. John went to a private kindergarten at Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church that fall.

Ann was on recreation swim league teams from 1988 through high school graduation in 2000. I think she missed the summer 2000 season because she had to report to West Point mid-summer.

John was on recreation swim league teams from the summer of 1989 through the summer of 2003. John began year-round swimming with the Dynamo Swim Club in the fall of 1995 when he was entering the fifth grade.

This means that Jean and I were working on recreation swim league meets from the summer of 1988 through the summer of 2003; that is 16 swim league seasons. We also worked in USA Swimming meets from 1995 to 2003; a period of 8 years of double duty.

Our recollection is that Ann was running in the neighborhood with Jean during the sixth (93-94) grade, and then started running with me out at Stone Mountain beginning with the summer of 1994, just prior to starting the seventh grade.

Ann and John will surely let me know if any of these facts are amiss.