Founded in 1921, Fry’s Spring Beach Club (FSBC) has been in operations for over a century. Generations of local children have grown up at the club, learning to swim, competing on the swim team, and even working at their first jobs. Families have come together year after year to enjoy the grounds, dance in the historic ballroom, listen to live music, and cool off in the pools.

As a forward-looking community organization in the 21st century, however, we are coming to terms with the club’s racist past and have enshrined these efforts in our plans for the club’s future. In our second century of operations, we are committed to increasing the ethnic, racial, and socio-economic diversity of our membership and staff. We seek to make FSBC a club that is representative of our community as a whole.

Fry’s Spring Next Century (FSNC) is a 501(c)(3) organized in 2020. Its mission is to raise funds and administer FSBC scholarships in order to expand recreational access and opportunities through FSBC to under-represented families in the community.

In 2025, FSNC and FSBC extended scholarships for:

• 65 family memberships (approximately 10% of all families at FSBC)
• 201 weekly camp tuitions; and
• 30 swim team registrations

We also welcomed over 300 children to the club for private swim lessons.

Our hope is that these children and their families grow up and thrive at the club and become a part of the community. Many of our members with scholarships have begun swim lessons here, not knowing how to swim, and have moved on to getting their first jobs as swim coaches, helping a new generation of kids learn to love the water.

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FSNC Board of Directors

• President: Robin Wrightson
• Secretary: Jenny Ragsdale
• Treasurer: Bruce Gehle
• At-Large: Melissa Henriksen
• At-Large: Lila Heymann