Swimming Lessons

by Stephanie Kadel-Taras

In Swimming Lessons, alumna and College historian Stephanie Kadel Taras '89 gives voice to seventeen alumni and faculty whose Eckerd experiences span nearly all of Florida Presbyterian/Eckerd College's sixty years. As different as the individual stories are, together they create a colorful mosaic of the values, spirit and spunk of Eckerd's people -- conveying life lessons that will serve everyone. "This extraordinary collection of stories illustrates many varied facets of the Eckerd community, each a different portrait of the institution. Anyone who has even the slightest interest in the...