Donald Gordon spouts water, displays Easter eggs from Morro Bay High School swimming pool.
April 9, 1968
With all the recent hot weather a trip to the pool sounds good.
Over my career I have covered a lot of Easter egg hunts but never one under water.
This idea was unique enough that two photographers and one reporter went to the Morro Bay High School pool to cover the event. Barry Minett stayed dry while David Ranns used a Nikonos to take underwater photos.
According Family Editor Linnea Waltz, more than 200 youngsters crowded the pool to compete at five stations organized by age.
Linnea was still at the Telegram-Tribune when I interned here in the early 1980’s. She and Dorie Bentley were nice to the new kid, occasionally buying me lunch because I looked too scrawny.
However Linnea hated my habit of whistling tunes while making prints in the darkroom. On weekends I knew that she had come in to write a story when, without warning, the door would crash shut followed by the sound of stomping feet back to a desk.
