Sons of Norway Edvard Grieg Lodge 6-074
FEBRUARY 2009 BULLETIN
Ord Fra Presidenten
3flag.jpgThe February 28th family event will be a Silent Auction with dinner and
fun. Please save your good, clean, unused or nearly unused articles for
our always successful fund raiser. I have heard some members mention
the boxes of things they plan to bring to the auction. I am sure we all
can find some treasures to take home.
Another activity coming up is the annual event at Shakers Restaurant in
Glendale. This is a nice chance to visit with members of other lodges
and support the Language Heritage Camp at Camp Norge. A number of
children and grandchildren of Edvard Grieg members have enjoyed the
camp.
Thanks for your support and attendance at our meetings and events.
Fraternally, Jo
tree.jpgARBOR DAY
For many years, Edvard Grieg Lodge has participated in Glendale’s Arbor
Day Program, donating a tree in honor or – or in memory of – a member.
The program will be held on Tuesday, March 3 at Casa Adobe de San
Rafael Park, 1330 Dorothy Drive, Glendale. Coffee social: 10:00 a.m.
Program: 10:30 a.m. The awardees will be given seedlings at the
program; the trees will be planted later.
SHAKERS RESTAURANT
The annual fundraiser for the Southland Past Presidents Club will be on
Tuesday, March 17 at the Shakers Restaurant, 801 N. Central, Glendale.
(Phone: 818-246-4994)
Bring your neighbors, friends, relatives. You DO NOT have to be
Norwegian for it to count. All you have to do is tell the waiter you
are with Sons of Norway.
For the hours between 3 p.m. and 9 p.m., we will receive a percent of
the table checks, and also of bakery sales and take out. The money
received for this project is used to provide camperships for children
of the 6th District to go to the Camp Norge Language/ Heritage Camp in
July.
Gratulerer Med Dagen
bdaycake.jpgFebruary
7 Chuck Ackerknecht
7 Larry Hovland
9 Vernie Fletcher
9 Ora Kennedy
11 William Parks
13 Carolyn Baldwin
God Bedring Get Well Soon
Annette Besvold
Bjørghild Brummenes
Bill Davis
Amon Johnson
LaVonne Kerfoot
Henrik Lovdokken
Yumiko Lovdokken
Jan Lovold
Lenora Overby
Herb Wirtz
TIL MINNE
Kjell Svanoe, a long time member of Edvard Grieg Lodge, passed away on
January 11 in Yakima, Washington. For many years, he was the lodge’s
Sports Director and was active behind-the-scenes. He and his wife moved
to Yakima several years ago. Our condolences to Kjell’s family and
friends.
LODGE ACTIVITIES
POTLUCK AND SILENT AUCTION
Saturday, February 28 at the American Legion Hall. Happy hour – 5:30 pm, dinner – 6:30 p.m.
Bring a favorite family recipe – or one that you have been wanting to
try. The Silent Auction could be a good time to check closets and
cupboards for items you no longer want.
BOARD MEETING
Tuesday, March 3 at 7:30 pm at the home of
Tina and Patrick Hartney, 2757 Frances Avenue, La Crescenta, (818) 957-1294
POTLUCK AND CULTURAL EVENING
Saturday, March 28, at the American Legion Hall. Happy Hour – 5:30 pm, dinner – 6:30 pm.
Make this a Souper-Supper, or bring a salad, casserole or dessert.
There will be initiation of new members, and Patricia Savoie will give
a presentation on Norwegian writers.
BOARD MEETING
Tuesday, April 7 at 7:30 pm at the home of
Eileen and Herb Wirtz, 425 N. Orchard Drive,
Burbank. (818) 848-1552
HAWAIIAN NIGHT
Saturday, April 25 at the American Legion Hall. Happy hour – 5:30 pm,
dinner – 6:30 p.m. Roast pork dinner, with trimmings - $7. Cara Clove
will give a presentation on Norwegians in Hawaii, and the Kealoha
Dancers will entertain.
POTLUCK AND CULTURAL EVENING
Saturday, May 23 at 6:30 p.m. at the American Legion Hall. Happy hour –
5:30 pm, dinner – 6:30 p.m. Bring open-faced sandwiches, salads or a
favorite casserole. Following the brief meeting, there will be a
Norwegian Sing-a-Long.
BOARD MEETING
Tuesday, June 2 at 7:30 pm at the home of
Margaret Shuler, 147 N. 5th Avenue, Monrovia. 626-564-2343
POTLUCK AND CULTURAL EVENING
Saturday, June 27, at the American Legion Hall. There will be more information in the next issue of the Notes.
women_men_bunad.jpgSCANDINAVIAN FESTIVAL
The Scandinavian Festival will be on Saturday, April 18 and Sunday,
April 19, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at California Lutheran University, 60
W. Olsen Road, Thousand Oaks.
For more information, contact the Scandinavian Cultural Center at (805)
241-0391 or (805) 241-1051 or www.callutheran.edu/scancenter
NEWS FROM THE EDITOR
I received a note from Joan Gorges who was a member of Edvard Grieg for
many years. She moved to Arizona some time ago but has kept in touch.
She sends greetings to members of the lodge.
Shirley Peterson also sent greetings to Edvard Grieg members, and some stamps for Tubfrim.
Volunteers rally to put Norwegian records online
On Feb.2, 2009 FamilySearch International, the University of Tromsø,
and DIS-Norge announced a joint initiative to transcribe the 1875
Norway Census for free online access. It is the only Norway census that
has not been indexed and the first to be tackled as a global,
Internet-based effort. Volunteers who can read Norwegian are being
sought to complete the project at www.familysearch.org.
The 1875 Norway Census is valuable to researchers because it was the
last national census taken just before the great Norwegian immigration
period that started in 1878. Researchers will not have to wait much
longer for convenient, online access to the historic census.
FamilySearch digitized the census images and is using its Web-based
transcription tool and volunteers to create the automated index. The
University of Tromsø and DIS-Norge are sponsoring the project, but many
more online volunteers are needed to transcribe the 1.6 million
individuals found in the tens of thousands of census sheets.
Although FamilySearch has done other major international indexing
projects, this is the first one for Norway. “The biggest challenge is
the Norwegian handwriting and names,” said Jeff Svare, collection
management specialist. “Most of FamilySearch’s current volunteers are
not skilled at reading Norwegian names or handwriting. Native Norwegian
volunteers would be much more effective and efficient at transcribing
the required information from the census sheets,” concluded Svare.
Norway.com 2/2/09
Edvard Grieg Lodge #6-074
Board of Officers
President Jo Ness 818-249-8102 JNess2619@sbcglobal.net
Vice President Vacant
Counselor LaVonne Kerfoot 909-599-3052 LaVonne@kerfoot.com
Secretary Mim Johnson 626-574-9550 oviere@msn.com
Asst. Secretary Elaine Lundby 818-848-4869
Membership Secretary Virginia Paulson 323-254-2060 paulsonx@sbcglobal.net
Treasurer Margaret Shuler 626-303-6465 alsvid1@hotmail.com
Social Directors Vacant
Social Committee Peg Chereek 818-241-6773
Yvonne Claypool 213-748-5612
Connie Guritz 818-249-3014
Kristen Guritz 818-249-3014
Tina Hartney 818-957-1294
Carl Voien 909-596-6339
Eileen Wirtz 818-848-1552 epwirtz@earthlink.net
Cultural Director Cara Clove 818-249-7371 caraclove@earthlink.net
Editor Margaret Shuler 626-303-6465
Publicity Jo Ness 818-249-8102
Historian Pat Savoie 626-794-8806 patriciasavoie@sbcglobal.net
Youth Director Judith Gabriel Vinje 818-563-2526 JGabriel@thegrid.net
Sunshine Astrid Omdal 626-799-8211
Trustees Amon Johnson 626-574-9550
Carl Voien 909-596-6339
Marshal Milton Paulson 323-254-2060
Musician Shelly Baum 626-797-8586
Foundation Director Dorothy Bakken 818-244-2997 dartbakken@charter.net
Librarian Fran Quick 818-507-6224
Zone 5 Director Eric Herem 805-480-0937 eherem@verizon.net
Insurance Representative Dennis Burreson 800-448-2499
EDVARD GRIEG LODGE WEBSITE
www.edvardgrieglodge.com
Dan Christensen, Webmaster
webmaster@edvardgrieglodge.com
6TH DISTRICT WEBSITE
www.sofn6.com
SONS OF NORWAY HQ WEBSITE
www.sonsofnorway.com
LEIF ERIKSON IN LOS ANGELES
leif1.jpgIt would be interesting to know how many persons of Norwegian descent and living in the Los Angeles area
have seen the memorial to the explorer located in a grassy plot on Los Felix Boulevard, just west of Fern Dell
Drive at the Western Avenue entrance to Griffith Park.
This tribute to the Norse explorer features a larger than life
bronze bust of a young looking Leif Erikson mounted on a granite column
about seven feet in height. On the front of the column is a rectangular
bronze tablet depicting a Viking ship under sail and a star in the upper
right hand corner. Beneath the tablet and carved in the granite column
are the words “Leif Erikson/Explorer/Landed in America/Year 2000.”
It was presented to the city in October 1936 as a gift of the Nordic
Civic League, one of the many Scandinavian organizations active in
Southern California at the time. The dedicatory ceremony, on October 9,
was attended by more than three hundred persons and described in a
newspaper account as “impressive.”
Among those participating in the ceremony was Los Angeles Mayor Frank Shaw, who accepted the
monument on behalf of the city from Captain Haakon H. Hammer, president
of the Nordic Civic League. Others participants included an author, an
historian, and a high school student, who pulled the cord unveiling the
monument. Messages of congratulations were received from the Ministers
of Denmark and Norway and from the government of Iceland.
Also present and introduced to the audience was the artist who created the Erikson bust. Nina
Saemundsson was a native of Iceland and said to be a direct descendant
of Leif Erikson. Although regarded as her country’s first professional
female sculptor, she is perhaps better known abroad than in her own
country.
She spent a number of years in this country during the 1930s, and for a time resided in Hollywood.
Saemundsson’s bust of Erikson in Griffith Park was not her first dedicated to her illustrious ancestor.
In 1930 she participated in a competition in this country to select the best Erikson sculpture, as part of the
observance of the 1000th anniversary of Iceland’s parliament. The competition was won by Alexander Stirling
Calder, father of the better known Alexander Calder, who specialized in
mobile sculptures. In 1932 the winning sculpture was presented to the
Government of Iceland and mounted on a huge granite base in Reykjavik,
the
country’s capitol. (Another casting of the sculpture is in The Mariner’s Museum in Newport News, Virginia.)
But to return to Nina Saemundsson, she too participated in the
sculpture competition, and her small bronze statue was awarded second
prize. It depicted Erikson as standing on the bow of a Viking ship, his
right arm shielding his eyes from the sun. In the year 2000, to mark
the millennial anniversary of Erikson’s voyage to North America,
Saemundsson’s sculpture was placed on display at Leif’s birthplace,
known as Eiriksstadir.
The monument in Griffith Park is not the only Saemundsson work located in Los Angeles. In the mid-1930s,
as one of the Federal Art Projects initiated by the federal government
to provide employment for writers and artists during the Great
Depression, she executed an eight-foot black cement nude, depicting
Prometheus bringing fire to
the earth, which was dedicated in MacArthur Park in April 1935.
After spending most of her adult life abroad, and chiefly in the United States, Nina Saemundsson returned
to her native Iceland in 1955 and died there ten years later at the age of 73.
Finally, and returning to the dedication of the Erikson monument in
Griffith Park in 1936, the two principal participants in that ceremony
– Mayor Frank Shaw and Captain Haakon Hammer – both had colorful and in
part
at least questionable careers. Shaw was a consummate politician and
held elective offices in both city and county government. He served two
terms as Long Angeles Mayor, or more accurately one four-year term and
upon
re-election less than one year of a second term, before being recalled from office in September 1938 for corruption
and scandal, said to be the worst in the history of Los Angeles.
As for Captain Hammer, serving at the time as President of the Nordic League, his claim to fame is
attached almost exclusively to his association with polar explorer
Roald Amundsen. In 1921 he was employed in a Seattle firm providing
supplies and equipment for Amundsen’s second effort to reach the North
Pole from the west.
He became Amundsen’s business agent, and at times spokesman and by his own design kept himself very
much in the public eye. The basis for his being referred to as “Captain” or “Arctic explorer” or “Danish consul”
(although he was born in Denmark) are all of slender or uncertain origin.
In addition to his association with Amundsen, Hammer was engaged in
many different projects, including construction of a 50-passenger
flying boat, planning polar navigation routes between the United
States, Europe,
and Japan, and undertaking his own flight over the North Pole, none of
which ever materialized. He resided in Los Angeles for about ten years
beginning in the late 1920s, and at the time of his death in San
Francisco in 1942
he was Pacific Coast Director of the International News Service.
Richard C. Gilman
Pasadena, California
Sunken WW2 submarine to be raised
The Norwegian Government has decided that the wreck of the WW2 German
submarine U-864 which contains 65 tons of mercury, is to be raised, and
that the contaminated seabed be covered with clean sand.
The wreck, which is located off the Norwegian west coast, near Fedje,
north of Bergen, has long been considered an environmental hazard by
the local population and environmental groups.
However, experts have long disagreed on whether or not the wreck should
be raised or if it would be better to build a sarcophagus which would
isolate the mercury from the marine environment, thereby eliminating
the pollution hazard.
However, the head of the Marine Safety Directorate, Magne Roedland, disagrees. In his opinion the wreck should be raised.
He believes that the strong currents around the wreck will undermine
the sarcophagus, and result in emissions of mercury. The local
population agree, and have said the wreck must be removed.
On Thursday Fisheries and Coastal Minister Helga Pedersen announced that she had decided that the wreck be raised.
- I have given highest consideration to the insecurity felt by the
local population, as well as the concern by the fisheries industry
over possible contamination of the waters, if the wreck would just be
entombed Pedersen says to NRK.
The Norway Post – 1/30/09
FORTY NINTH ROSEMALING SEMINAR AT CAMP NORGE
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April 25/26, 2009
It is time to make your reservations for the adult (18 years and over)
spring Rosemaling Seminar at Camp Norge. We will have three classes.
The teachers are Julie Anne Droivold, Kay White, and Cherly Seath. We
will be using the firehouse for classes.
We will be painting on a beautiful ten inch clock. Julie Anne is
teaching a Hallingdahl pattern with a red/orange background. . Kay is
teaching a Valdres style on a greenish/blue background with red trim.
Cherlyl Seath will be teaching the beginner’s class using a Telemark
Red Embroidery (with gold accents) on a black background. Look on the
Camp Norge Website for pictures of all three projects:
www.Campnorge.com.
Please make your room reservation with me. I develop the list of who is
in which room. You will pay for your room when you arrive at Camp. It
is not included in your class fee. Bring your current membership card.
Members pay $15 per night; guests pay $20 for dorms, plus 8% Placer
County Occupancy Tax. Only members are allowed to stay in the main
house and the cozy cabins. For people who want to room together, I need
to receive the list of names with the first reservation. RV’s are
encouraged as we have a limited number of beds. Members pay $20 per
night for up to four people per RV. Guests pay $25 per night for RV’s.
We have electrical and water, but no sewer hookups. Tents are $15 for
up to four people for members, $18 for non members. Pets are $2 per
night. Pets are not allowed in any of the buildings, pool area or
sleeping rooms at any time.
Please include your full phone number, address and lodge name and
number when registering. If you have e-mail, please include your e-mail
address. It is so much faster and cheaper if I need to talk to you. As
soon as the supply lists are available from the teachers, I will send
them as I receive your registration form and check. ABSOLUTELY NO
E-MAIL RESERVATION REQUESTS. I need the check and registration form
together. Be sure to send a self addressed stamped envelope for your
supply list and class confirmation information if you do not have
e-mail. I will not be sending you a supply list unless you send me a
self-addressed, stamped envelope or your e-mail address with your
registration form. I use Microsoft Word running on an XP program and
all attachments will be attached from that program.
The cost of the seminar will be $80 for registration which includes the
class and wood piece all base coated and ready to go, the fire hall
rent and clean up, and the meals. There will be $25 cancellation fee
for any cancellations, but absolutely no cancellations after April 5th.
Registration fees (less cancellation fee) can be refunded if you have
to cancel up to April 5 if there is someone on the waiting list who
wants your space. It is difficult for people on the waiting list to
take your place if they do not have at least three weeks to make their
plans. Melanie Souza will again do our cooking. The cost for food for
the weekend is included in the $80 registration fee. The food includes
breakfast, lunch and dinner on Saturday and breakfast and lunch on
Sunday. You were so very generous and cooperative with the cookies last
time. I do so appreciate that. We will ask just one class to bring
cookies, and will rotate those classes each time. The information will
be in your supply list letter.
My e-mail address is pennyjknudsen@sbcglobal.net. My phone number is
(916) 941-6433. Please complete the following registration form, make
your check payable to Penny (not Camp Norge) and return as soon as
possible with your stamped, self-addressed envelope for supply list if
you do not wish to receive it by e-mail, to:
Penny Joseph Knudsen, 3774 Park Drive, El Dorado Hills, California 95762
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APRIL 25/26, 2009 ROSEMALING SEMINAR REGISTRATION FORM
Name _______________________ Phone (_____) __________ I need a room reservation: Yes_____ No _______
Address ___________________________ e-mail address ____________________ I want to room with: ______________________
City _________________ Zip __________ Name of Lodge ________________
Class I want is: Julie Anne ______ Cheryl_______ Kay_________ I am bringing my RV __________
I am enclosing $80 for registration fee for food and class. I am bringing my tent __________
My spouse and/or family will be eating with us and I enclose $30 for each _____
SONS OF NORWAY - LODGE #74
EDVARD GRIEG "NOTES"
Margaret Shuler, Editor
147 North Fifth Avenue
Monrovia, CA 91016
FEBRUARY 2009
Happy Valentine’s Day
KALENDAREN
Saturday, February 28
Dinner and Silent Auction
Tuesday, March 3
Board Meeting
Saturday, March 28
Dinner and Cultural Program
Tuesday, April 7
Board Meeting
Saturday, March 28
Hawaiian Night
Planning 250 windmills at sea in northern Norway
windmills.jpgTroms Energy is planning to build a gigantic park of 250 windmills
outside the coast of northern Norway. The total costs of the project
could be up to 2.5 billion EUR, reports Barents Observer.
The planned windmill park outside the coast of northern Norway will
produce two percent of Norway’s total energy production. That’s four
times the size of one of Norway’s largest hydro power plants in Alta.
The park shall also be able to use wave energy.
“Our goal is to be Norway’s top company on wind energy technology,”
says Oddbjørn Schei in Troms Kraft to Norwegian newspaper Nordlys.
The windmill park will occupy a large area at sea and some of the mills
will reach up to 110 meter above sea level. Norway.com 2/6/09
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