Donald Duncan was the swimming coach and pool manager from 1956-1994. Chris Myrhe was the swimming coach and pool manager from 1994-Present.

Don and Chris look back over the nearly six decades since Don was appointed Pool Manager for the opening of the Wallace Pool. From that time until now, pending the opening in September of the newer, bigger Wallace Pool, only two men have held the position of swim coach and pool manager: Don until 1994, and Chris from 1994 to the present. During these years the swimming program at the University has gained a brilliant reputation and, in some years, spectacular successes in the National Championships. The program has several times changed its affiliation (from NIAA to Division II, back to NIAA again, and then to Division III), according to the kinds of athletic scholarships it can, or cannot offer. Don and Chris look at the campus in the years of the Vietnam War (Don gives a not exactly sympathetic account of the "revolution" on the steps of Jones Hall in the late 60's), and at the changes that occurred in the athletic program because of the University's decision in the Phibbs/Davis years to put its efforts and money into becoming a first-class academic institution, de-emphasizing athletics, and from the requirements of Title IX (1974) that women's sports be given the same weight as men's. (The men at first made the women feel unwelcome in the pool, then for some years women had their own practice sessions; finally men and women swimmers train together, to their mutual benefit.) The building of the big new athletics and aquatics center at Puget Sound is a move characteristic at this point for the Liberal Arts college, at a time when the U.W. and some other big universities have disbanded their swimming programs in favor of high-profile sports. Chris looks forward to vastly improved conditions for training his swimmers.