The day Betsy went swimming

Jordan, NY - around 1966 - I don't remember all the circumstances that led up to this, all I remember is that Betsy obviously deserved it.  It was sometime around junior or senior year at Jordan-Elbridge High School. 

Friends of ours, the Haskie's, lived down on Route 31 between Jordan and Iona Corners.  One of the many cool things about their well to do home was they have a very large pond in their back yard.  Their son Pete was a friend of mine.  I had made arrangement with Pete's mom that it would be OK for me to stop by after school one day with Betsy and give her a dunk in the pond, something she was not suppose to be expecting.  There were other kids there, they knew what was about to happen...  I even seem to remember Betsy knew what the threat was, but no one thought I had the nerve to really go through with it...  but I did.  Her in her school dress went for a swim...  I think I had to go in and pull her out as I remember, geesh, and I don't hardly swim at all, at least she did...  just not too well that day.