Bio: Gwin, Edna (Trip to Norway - 1959)

Contact: Stan
Email: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Gwin, Hansen

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 09/24/1959

Gwin, Edna (Trip to Norway - SEP 1959)

A recent article in the Wisconsin Clubwoman featured a former resident of this area, Mrs. Hugh F. Gwin.  Mr. and Mrs. Gwin live in Hudson where they moved upon leaving Loyal (Clark Co., Wis.).  Mr. Gwin is an attorney there and at one time served as District Attorney in Clark County.  Mrs. Gwin, the former Edna Hansen, and a sister to Miss Louise Hansen of Withee, and a member of the Loyal High School faculty.

Mrs. Hugh F. Gwin, state treasurer, had been honored by the Girl Scouts of the United States of America.  She has been selected to participate in the International Interchange of persons Projects, sponsored in the Juliette Lowe World Friendship Fund, and will leave for Norway in August a a Visitor-Observer.  The assignment will be for three months.  In Norway she will work under the Joint Committee of Girl Guides.  While there she will be meeting with adult groups and sponsoring organization of the Guides, besides observing methods and procedures in Norway.  Her work will bring her into all the major towns and cities in Norway, where she will be working with and meeting the people.