ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, September 20, 1996 TAG: 9609200071
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-2 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: SEATTLE
TYPE: NEWS OBIT
SOURCE: Knight-Ridder/Tribune
Harvey F. ``Sandy'' Swenson - developer of such seemingly poles-apart devices as the automated soft-ice-cream dispenser and the artificial kidney machine - had a wall full of licenses and awards.
Some cited his expertise in refrigeration and mechanics. Some noted his role in promoting trade on the Pacific Rim, in the former Soviet Union, and in other nations. Still others named his membership in engineering societies.
Yet none was a college degree.
``Dad was mainly self-educated,'' said his son, Daniel Swenson of Seattle, who heads the property-management firm begun by his father. ``His formal education consisted, I think, of one year of college in Omaha, Nebraska.''
Swenson, also credited with inventing the milkshake machine, died of a heart attack Sept. 15. He was 86.
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