In Loving Memory of Francis McSwain

Joel Francis McSwain "Nanny" "Half the world knows not how the other half lives."

Francis transferred to EHS at the beginning of his junior year. He was highly intellectual and a fine athlete in high school. He was He was a member of the Debate Team at EHS, a member of the Beta Club, the Annual Staff, the Commercial Club and a senior class officer. He graduated from the University of Georgia in Business Administration and went to work for Mercury Outboard Motors. He advanced all the way to the top as National Sales Director for the company. He attended all the reunions except for his last one due to a meeting in Mexico whereby Francis signed a sales contract with the president for Mexico to use all Mercury Outboards for their government. He was killed in an automobile accident shortly afterward in Anchorage, Alaska when a dump truck passed a car going up a hill and hit Francis' car head on. I'm told he was kept on life support in Alaska until his mother and brother (Homer) could get there to check out the situation and to turn off the machines and let him die in peace.