Ham & Mildred Anderson
Ham and
Mildred Anderson
were official USMS historians from the beginning til about 1989.
They created a scrapbook that was widely copied and many of the early members of USMS have copies.
The material below has been selected from that book. Thanks to
Joan P Smith
,
Debbie Cavanaugh
,
Dorothy Donnelly
,
Jerianne Donnelly,
Peter W Lee
and
Brian Keeney
for preparing this material for the web.
There is additional material that has not been selected for inclusion here which can be added if someone will type it. Below are names of people for whom appropriate material is in the books. If your story is listed here, or one of your teammates, or anyone you'd like to see remembered better, send us the story by e-mail or typed in Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, or some other modern word processing system and forwarded to us as an attached file or on a floppy disk. Only material that has been accepted by the USMS Historian will be included here, but all material in Ham and Mildred's booklets has been accepted.
Stories to be added when a typist is found:
Irving Merritt, USMS All-American - a tribute written after he passed away.
Peter Powlison
, USMS All-American - a story from Honolulu Advertiser, July 21, 1966.
Connie Wilson
, USMS All-American - a tribute written by
Earl Walter
after she passed away.
Lloyd Osborne
&
Joan Osborne
, USMS All-Americans - a story by Mike Gordon, Star-Bulletin Writer.
Eric W Johnson
, USMS All-American and English Channel Swimmer - now living in Plantation, Florida.
1970
1971
Swim-Master Editorial, Dec.'72, June Krauser
What's It All About, April,'73, John Spannuth
1972
1973
First International Masters Swim Meets, March'74
International Swimming, 1974
1974 Masters Nationals, Swimming World, Buck Dawson
1974
1975
History of Masters Swimming, by Ransom Arthur, M.D.
1976
1977
1978
Champions, Then & Now, Ken H to Ham
Champions, Then & Now, Ham to Dorothy
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
