Show C C CI Swain Loses yesig But t 6 Guins a s University y Degree w Twenty nine year old Clark Swain lost 90 per cent of his eyes eyesight while serving ng as a Mormon missionary e eight i g h t years ago but this loss did not prevent him from doing the massive amount of or reading and research which went into the doctor of philosophy degree he will receive from Florida State University next Saturday night HIS WIFE Eleanor 2 28 8 served as his eyes for much of his work and ami since he began a page dissertation in the field of marriage and family living she has spent most of or orthe I the time reading references to her husband compiling data for analysis on a computer and typing Swain whose home is West Bountiful also got some assistance assistance assist assist- ance from two sororities Delta Gamma and Alpha Gamma Delta Del Del- Delta ta and from Crom several inmates of or the Federal Correctional Institution Institution Institution In In- here Sorority girls and institution inmates read and tape tape recorded recorded an est estimated ed books and articles Swain used in his research A NATIVE of Vernal Swain went to Utah State University and Brigham Young University where he received his bachelors bachelors bachelor's bache bache- lors lor's degree in 1956 and did two years of graduate work there there- after It was during his undergraduate undergraduate undergraduate under under- graduate days in 1956 while whit e I serving as a full time missionary missionary mission mission- ary for the Church of Jesus Jesu s Christ of Latter day Saints f In n eastern Canada that he developed devel Bevel aped an eye inflammation n which left him almost completely com corn blind He received a an n honorable release as a n missionary mission missionary ary in 1957 Swain began his studies a at t in 1962 His doctoral dissertation dissertation dissertation dis dis- was based on a questionnaire ques survey of students student s in Florida State University University-aci and d Terry Parker High School i in n Jacksonville He Ile sought to determine de termine their ideas of or a successful successful successful suc family MR AND Mrs Swain threw three v the bulky dissertation together r in its final form last week an and d Swain defended it before hl his S faculty committee Mond a y r Now the Swains including a ason aa aason son Blake three and a daughter daugh- daugh t ter er Valerie one and a half baH are heading west again agam to Bozeman Mont where Swain ain will become assistant professor JJ sor of or marriage and family relationships re re- re-o re at nt Montana State College Mrs Swain ain the former Eleanor El El- Eleanor eanor Duffin of Salt Lake City has a bachelors bachelor's degree in J home economics education e d u cat ion from Utah State Stale University She taught home economics for two years and also has taught taught- family life education tion x |