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Show Open House To Honor Couple On Golden Wedding All friends of Professor and Mrs. John C. Swensen are bidden . to join with them the celebration of their golden wedding anniversary anniver-sary Sunday. Open house, to which no special invitations have been issued will be held from 3 until 6 p.m. in the family home, 333 E. 4th N. Provo. Prof. Swensen was honored by the university and by the BYU Alumni association in 1948 on Alumni Day. He is . now a professor-emeritus of the univernity. He was born in Pleasant Grove, and educated in the public schools of this community. He later went to BY academy and studied under Dr. Karl G. Maeser. Prof Swensen Swen-sen began his career as a teacher in Panguitch in 1789 as principal of Panguitch academy. He later became superintendent of public schools at Fillmore and then spent four years at Stanford university (1894 to 1898). After graduating from Stanford he went to Brigham Young academy acad-emy and ha3 served there since. Mrs. Swensen is the former Maragret Ellen Davis of Panguitch. Pan-guitch. The couple reeide their marriage vows June 21, 1899. There are ten children in the family: fam-ily: Starr, who is a public accountant ac-countant in San Francisco; Carl, Provo teacher; Reed, at Weber College in Ogden; Mrs. James L. ' Jacobs (Margaret) of Richfield; Alice, deceased; Mack Swensen of Palo Alto, Calif., Mrs. Jay Thol-man Thol-man (Louise) Grand Junction, Colo.; Joseph Swensen, of New York City; Albert Swensen, Provo Pro-vo teacher and Richard Swensen of Richfield. Mrs. Swensen also has been in the educational field all her life. She reared her family before taking tak-ing her secondary degrees from BYU in 1931, taking her A. B. degree de-gree earlier. She was educated at BY academy; taught school in Garfield county and also in Ti-ovo for ten years where she specialized special-ized in teaching music. |