The Icelandic Canadian - 01.12.1955, Page 41

THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
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APPOINTED CHIEF MED-
ICAL STATE EXAMINER
Dr. and Mrs. S. E. Bjornson of 1080
Dorchester Street, Winnipeg, have
just received word that their son, Dr.
Sveinbjorn Stefan Bjornson, has been
appointed Chief Medical Examiner
for the state of Delaware, with head-
quarters at Wilmington.
Dr. Bjornson received his elementary
and secondary education at Arborg,
and Gimli, Manitoba. After taking a
Science course at the University of
Manitoba he entered the Manitoba
Medical College, receiving his M.D.
degree in 1946. Following four years
of medical practice at Ashern, Mani-
toba, he began his studies in
Forensic Medicine at the General
Hospital, Regina, Saskatchewan. He
continued his studies at Yale Univer-
sity where he was simultaneously en-
gaged in research at a hospital in New
Brittain, Conn. In 1952 lie was award-
ed an Army and Navy Research Fel-
lowship at Harvard University where
he continued his studies in legal med-
icine at the Harvard Medical School
and acted in the capacity of Visiting
Pathologist at the Jordan Hospital in
Plymouth, Mass. The New England
Journal of Medicine has published his
main research projects.
In January, 1955, he was appointed
Associate in Legal Medicine at the
Harvard Medical School. His present
appoinment became effective Novem-
ber 3rd.
Dr. Bjornson is married to Helga,
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. V. Sig-
urdson, Riverton, Man. Helga is a
graduate in Home Economics, Univer-
sity of Manitoba, and took post grad-
uate studies at the University of Tor-
onto. Dr. and Mrs. Bjornson have three
children, Alan, Diane and Kris.
★
WINS A FOUNDATION
SCHOLARSHIP
William C. Cline of Los Angeles,
Cal., whose mother, Vera, is of Ice-
landic descent, was last summer award-
ed a Wolcott Foundation Scholarship
for graduate work at George Washing-
ton University, Washington, D. C. An-
nouncement of the award to Mr. Cline,
a Fourth Estate Club candidate, was
made by Nelson Truitt, chairman of
the foundation’s board of trustees, at
the annual High Twelve Internation-
al convention held in Detroit, Mich.,
in June.
Mr. Cline, a senior at George Pep-
perdine College, is editor of the col-
lege paper, The Graphic, for the
1955-56 term, journalism and public
speaking have made up most of his
extra-curricular activities, his debating
record last year being thirteen wins and
four losses. He is president of the Los
Angeles Chapter of Pi Kappa Delta,
national honorary forensics fraternity.
Mr. Cline was born in Salt Lake