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LeavingEnglandBlogSizeJim Bayles ’70, a Masters World Championship swimmer, has swum across the English Channel, around Manhattan, and through the tumultuous current from Cape Cod to Nantucket. A competitive athlete at Williston, and later at Dartmouth College, Mr. Bayles now swims to raise money for charity, namely the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the Epilepsy Foundation of Connecticut.

What is your first memory of being in the water?
It was either at a country club or out in a lake in Northern Michigan. Swimming has always been something I enjoyed, even when I wasn’t very good. I just love being in the water.

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