The Foreign Service Journal, September 2009

76 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / S E P T E M B E R 2 0 0 9 at Bucks County Community College. In 1969, he was elected the first Dem- ocratic mayor of Newtown and served until 1972. He then served as Bucks County treasurer until 1976. He also served on the George School’s governing board from 1974 to 1988 and as presiding officer of that board from 1976 to 1984. He was the school’s historian from 1988 to 1992 and its archivist from 1992 to 2006, during which time he wrote the school’s history for its 1993 centennial. Mr. Swayne also wrote the centen- nial history (1897-1997) of Friends Home, the retirement community in Newtown where he lived, as well as the 50-year history of Newtown Friends School, where his mother was founding principal in 1948. He was a board member of the American Friends Service Committee in Phila- delphia from 1973 to 1980 and presid- ing clerk of the annual assembly of Quakers (known as the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting) from 1984 to 1986, according to the Inquirer ’s obituary. Mr. Swayne is survived by 10 nieces and nephews. ■ E-mail your “In Memory” submission to the Foreign Service Journal at FSJedit@afsa.org , or fax it to (202) 338-8244. No photos, please. I N M E M O R Y