Wednesday, June 27, 1928

There was much discussion this morning as to whether June should go to school or not. In the end she did and she has gone thru the day without a relapse. At Physics today the teacher changed all our seats around. I sit all the way across the room from Helen. I do’t know what I’m going to do. I was so surprised this noon when I came home and told Mom I wanted to go and see the “Fair Co-ed” and she said she would like to go with me. I tho’t she didn’t like movies. We had lunch right at twelve thirty and hurried down so we could be there at the beginning of the one o’clock show. It was a peach of a show. More wise cracks!! We came home and I fooled around and spent lots of time getting dressed. As a result I made Mom twenty minutes late to the tea. It was St. Luke’s Hospital Benefit tea. After spending about a half hour there I went and got Frenchie and Ruth and we went to the Polo Club. The water was only about 1 1/2 ft deep. So we walked around for half an hour and then came home.

Jane’s Notes: Mom was an amazing swimmer and throughout this diary you’ll read references to swimming. There are several references to swimming in the scrap book as well. There is a Junior Life Saving Corps badge dated September, 1927. One of the earliest home movies I remember was one my father took on a visit to Lake Port, California, where my grandparents ultimately lived when they retired from the Philippines. It is a picture of mother swimming out quite some distance into the lake and back. She was quite a swimmer and she told stories of swimming in the swift current of the Mill Race in Eugene when she was in school at Oregon. This badge is the first evidence I’ve found of her interest in swimming.