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Notes for Lloyd Balderston SWIFT
Lloyd Balderston Swift, 67, a language expert and a retired official with the State Department's Foreign Service Institute, died April 7 at his home in Bethesda. He had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
Mr. Swift was born in Richmond, Ind. He graduated from Oberlin College and received a master's degree in linguistics from the University of Michigan. During the early 1940s, he was a research subject at the Goldwater Memorial Hospital in New York City, where scientists were developing a cure for malaria.
From 1948 to 1951, he was an educational missionary with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in China. He taught in missionary schools in Turkey from 1951 to 1958, except for a year that he spent at American University in Beirut.
Mr. Swift came to the Washington area in 1959 and joined the Foreign Service Institute's school of language studies, where he was the acting dean when he retired in 1985. He later was a consultant to the Center for Applied Linguistics.
He was a founder of the Bethesda Friends Meeting, where he was a past clerk. He had worked for the Quaker United Nations Office in New York and was a past president of the Maryland Suburban Memorial Society.
Mr. Swift's books include "Bethesda Friends Meeting: The First 25 Years," published in 1988, and "A Reference Grammar of Modern Turkish," published in 1966.
Survivors include his wife, Gladys Hubbard Swift of Bethesda; four sons, Khusrau E. Swift of Princess Anne, Md., Lloyd Swift Jr. of Crozet, Va., Alan Swift of Glenview, Ill., and Jonathan Swift of
Charlottesville; a sister, Josephine Swift of Carrier, Okla., and five grandchildren.
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