Transcribed from photo: "These youngsters take beginners swimming lessons sponsored by the Sanford Recreation Department. Mrs. Wilton Stone gives Connie Fore a lesson on staying afloat as Gene Beal, Patricia West, Marion Nicholson, Claudia Ferguson, Jane Crutchfield and Lyndia Cooper (left to right) look on at the Sanford Municipal Swimming Pool." Photograph taken by a Sanford Herald staff photographer. The image appeared in the July 10, 1952 issue of The Sanford Herald on page 1.