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Elizabeth Sweeney Serves Breakfast to Prominent CMU Speakers

Posted on October 17, 2018

From 1965, here’s a photo of Elizabeth Pohler Sweeney, Joseph Michael Sweeney (1943) and actor Vincent Price at the 304 S. Washington dining table. Among Joe Sweeney’s many roles as President of the Student Body at Central Michigan University, he handled the arrangements for notable people who came to give talks at CMU. One usual hospitality item was the morning-after breakfast prepared by Joe’s mother Elizabeth. Among the many interesting people, Elizabeth especially remembered entertaining meals with actor Vincent Price and humorist Art Buchwald.

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