• This marks three years since the Patton Pool Website began. Thanks again for your support and encouragement. The website continued to grow at a rapid rate with the addition of about 250 new files bringing the total to around 645. When I think back to when the website was started and there were no news clips for the first few months, it is amazing that by this August, there should be close to 200! If you have more you want to add, send them in. About five people have volunteered to help retype them so they can be turned into webpages for everyone to enjoy.
• This section of the newsletter is the website's version of Public Television's "Pledge Break." Instead of money, we need your Patton memorabilia and memories to add to the website. Let's keep it growing! You can help by continuing to contribute material to be added and helping to locate people. Next time you visit the website, please check out the webpage linked to your name and see if you want to add to or change any of the material. If there is no webpage linked to your name, you probably haven't filled out the registration form.
• The Patton Website will be transferred to a CD sometime this summer, probably after the reunion so the photos from the reunion can be included. It will be made available for a couple or three bucks and include everything on the website up to that point. I know a lot of you are sitting on some great old photos or articles tucked away in a drawer or basement that can be enjoyed by a lot of people if  you want to send them to me to be scanned. Think about it! Our swimming days are 35-40 years behind us. To the kids swimming now it would have been like us looking at stuff from the 20s. The age-group program at Patton in the 50s and 60s was at the very beginning of modern, organized competitive swimming. I think the website has a certain historical value, in that regard. The plan is to send a copy of the CD to the Director of Swimming for Detroit Parks and Recreation and to the Recreation Director at Patton Pool with the hope to inspire them to get something going again. Last I heard, there was no swimming team at Patton. How tragic, when the kids who live in that area now need positive role models and a wholesome activity to participate in more that ever.
• The Patton Reunion scheduled for August 12, 2000, in Ann Arbor is on track and the reunion committee hopes to be sending out the invitations in the next couple of weeks with all the details. If there is a person you would especially like us to look for, please let us know. There will be about 60 invitations going out; however, there are still a lot more people to locate.
• Is your email still up-to-date on the website?

Ed