Jesse Gets Silver!

Photos courtesy of Yahoo sports

Jesse and the Men's Water Polo Team received the Silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Congratulations even though we were all hoping for gold.

The game on TV was great and we saw Jesse many times. JoAnna's family even called us to say they had seen him.

Hannah Gets All Around!

Hannah Anderson won the all around competition at her gymnastics meet Saturday. She was very excited to place making for an exciting season opener.

To see more pictures and video clips of the routines and medal ceremony, visit www.andersonfamilysav.blogspot.com

Olympic Pictures from Sandy in China

Jesse, and my Beijing roommate, Dawn Young (her son is the NBC commentator, Wolf Wigo, 3 x Olympian)















Here's a picture after one of the earlier games of Judy,me,Ned, Jesse, his wife Brittany, and Jacob...(other two on left side next to judy are Brittany's cousins)

Olympic Family Member

Just a quick note from Beijing...Have you heard??? Have you all been watching the Olympics!? Great news for our Swinson family...Jesse Smith and the U.S. mens' water polo...is going for the GOLD!!!!!! U.S. water polo hasn't won a medal since 1988! We beat Serbia last night in the semi-finals 10-5! They played their hearts out!!! We play Sunday at 3:40 pm our time and it's bound to be a very exciting game against Hungary (who has

(Picture from US Water Polo Team Website) won gold the last two olympics). It's also amazing because our current coach (schroeder) was on the team back in '88! Anyway, Judy and I are here in Beijing and sooo excited...Ned had to fly home to take Jacob to start his freshman year at Stanford and now Ned's flying back so he can witness Jesse go for the GOLD!!!Hopefully you can all get a chance to cheer us on and maybe catch Judy and I on TV...check your local listings...all I know is 3:40 pm our time on Sunday will be 12:40 am Saturday in California and 3:40 am Saturday on the East Coast....nbc.com is another way to view or check schedules in your area.Signing out...off to visit the Forbidden City...Lots of Love from Beijing!Sandy

http://www.usawaterpolo.org/NationalTeams/PlayerBio.aspx?ID=17

The Start

This blog is for the family/descendants of John Arthur Swinson and Gracia Minnie Schlie, and the extended families that have grown from their children.

I was compelled to create this blog after procrastinating for the past couple of years by the recent death of my grandmother Elisabeth Sharp. I hope to grow this blog to better help all the family members connect and keep in touch with each other. While we have seen each other in the past, we seem to see less of each other and I have recently discovered the true value I place on family and the relationships with them. I would like to see this blog grow with photos, stories and much more from the past to the current and future. I have worked on ways to be able to secure sections so that we can post e-mails and addresses to better stay in touch. I would like to also eventually open it so that family members can post on it if to say nothing more than to look at their updated site. I have added a link to my family's blog and invite you to look at it.

John A. Swinson was the priest at All Saints Episcopal Church St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands from 1927 to 1953, Canon of the Cathedral, Vicar General and Archdeacon of the Virgin Islands. He was also the founder of All Saints School.

They had seven children: (in no particular order)
Mary Gracia Hall
Grace Martin
James K. Swinson
Jane Mcleod
John Swinson
Dorothy DeWitt Baldwin
Elisabeth Sharp