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THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
Winter 1955
XII at Foam Lake, Sask., and valedic-
torian of her class.
Miss Johnson is the daughter of
Ernest and Bertha Johnson, Foam
Lake. Her grandparents are Arni and
Helga Johnson, of Wynyard, Sask,
and Torfi and Jorunn Jonasson, form-
erly of Vestfold, Man.
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HONORARY LIFE MEMBER
Mrs. B. S. Benson
At its meeting in September, the
Jon Sigurdson chapter I.O.D.E. pre-
sented Mrs. B. S. Benson with a life
membership in the Manitoba Prov-
incial Chapter I.O.D.E. in recognition
of her long and faithful service. She
has served as vice-regent for six years
and as regent for the past ten years.
Honorary regent, Mrs. J. B. Skaptason,
read a warm tribute paid to Mrs.
Benson by the members and presented
her with the life membership certi-
ficate and a corsage. Mrs. N. A. Mc-
Millan, municipal regent presented
the life membership pin to her.
APPOINTED TRAFFIC
ENGINEER
W. H. (Bill) Finnbogason
William H. Finnbogasson was ap-
pointed Winnipeg city traffic engineer
by the Winnipeg City council, succeed-
ing Harry F. Burns who retired Nov.
15, to become consulting traffic eng-
ineer with a Toronto firm.
Mr. Finnbogason, previously as
sistant city traffic engineer, is a son
of Mr. and Mrs. Guttormur Finnboga-
son of Winnipeg.
Mr. Finnbogason graduated in
mechanical engineering at the Uni-
versity of Manitoba in 1950 with high
honors and pursued post-graduate
studies for two years with Westing-
house Company (Canadian) Limited
at Hamilton, Ont.
It took Leif’s boat forty days to
make the voyage to Vinland. Today
freighters cover the distance between
New York and Reykjavik in about
ten days.