The Icelandic Canadian - 01.06.1963, Blaðsíða 63

THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
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ATTENDS U.N. SEMINAR
Of five top B. C. high school students
from Vancouver to attend a week-long
seminar at United Nations headquar-
ters in New York lately, and joined by
27 other high school students from
across Canada, was Judy Reykdal,
daughter of Jack and Rose (Oliver)
Reykdal and granddaughter of the late
John and Lilja (Sveinson) Reykdal and
Mrs. Kristine and the late Daniel Oli-
ver, all residents of Wynyard, Saskatch-
ewan for many years. Paternal great
grand-parents were the well-known Sig-
urjon and Valgerdur Sveinson.
The students are selected because
of their interest in international af-
fairs and leadership in UN activities
in schools.
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The wife of Vladimar Ashkenazy,
a world wamous Soviet pianist, is an
Icelandic lady, Thorunn Johannsdot-
ir, also a gifted pianist, whose parents
live in London, England. Mr. and Mrs.
Ashkenazy have a sixteen-month old
son. Lately the couple sought permis-
sion from the Soviet authorities to
take up their residence in London, and
this permission was granted. Tin
Soviet government is so reluctant to
lose any of its citizen, especially artists,
that this item of news received world
wide publicity.
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Rev. Robert Jack, who has been
in Canada recruiting for semi-skilled
and unskilled labour for fish producers
and other employers in Iceland, re-
ports that he has selected about 40
and that they will be leaving for Ice-
land as soon as passports have been
issued and tranportation by air has
been arranged. Rev Jack says that
more men will be required later.
★
The Misses Gladys and Gloria Tfior-
valdson of Winnipeg this spring be-
came stewardesses for Canadian Pacific
Airlines after completing a stewardess
course in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Twenty years of age and the twin
daughters of Mrs. Margaret Thorvald-
son, of 945 Government Avenue in
suburban East Kildonan in Greater
Winnipeg, and the late Mr. Helgi
Thorvaldson, they were born at Oak
Point, Manitoba.
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