The Icelandic Canadian - 01.12.1963, Side 56

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THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
Winter 1963
National Library of Iceland During
the Twentieth Century”.
Research for this was done by Mr.
Hanson at the National Library in
Reykjavik while he was in Iceland
from August, 1961, to September, 1962,
as teacher at the United States naval
station at Kelflavlk.
Mr. Hanson is presently with the
library of the University of Chicago
but will in the near future become
librarian of a junior college in Chi-
cago. He plans to pursue studies lead-
ing toward a PH.D. degree.
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NAMED TO MACC POST
Swain N. H. Westdal
Mr. Swain N. H. Westdal formerly
of Wynyard, Sask. and now of Win-
nipeg, has been appointed Assistant
Manager of the Manitoba Agricultural
Credit Corporation.
Swain graduated from the Univer-
sity of Manitoba in Agriculture in
1950. He served in the last World War
from 1942 to the end of the war. From
the time he graduated until he secured
this position he was engaged by the
Federal Government as Field Super-
visor Soldier Settlement and V.L.A.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul
J. Westdal, 652 Home St., Winnipeg.
-See I cel. Can. Vol. 3 No. 3.
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RECEIVES ORDER OF THE
FALCON
The Knight’s Cross of the Order of
the Falcon, awarded by the President
of Iceland, Asgeir Asgeirsson, was pre-
sented in September at the Icelandic
sonsular offices in Chicago, Illinois,
U.S.A. to Paul Sveinbjom Johnson,
a prominent Chicago lawyer, in recog-
nition of his services to the consulate,
the government of Iceland and Ice-
landic airline, LoftleiSir. The present-
ation was made by Arni Helgason,
consul of Iceland.
Mr. Johnson’s father, Sveinbjom,
former judge of the Supreme Court
of North Dakota and legal counsel for
the University of Illinois, received the
Order of the Falcon in 1941. The elder
Johnson was attorney-general of North
Dakota in 1921 and was elected to the
state supreme court in 1925.
In 1930 when the 1,000th annivers-
ary of parliamentary government was
celebrated in Iceland, the elder John-
son was appointed by the then pres-
ident Herbert Hoover to represent the
United States at the celebration.