EDVARD GRIEG NOTES
SONS OF NORWAY LODGE NO. 6-074
www.edvardgrieglodge.com
Meeting Place:
Lutheran Church in the Foothills
1700 Foothill Blvd.
La Cañada, California
Ord Fra Presidenten
Kjære Venner.
We are progressing into a new exiting phase of our Lodge, namely the move to Lutheran Church in the Foothills, La Canada, starting with our next Cultural Evening, Saturday, September 25. (See page 2 for the address and directions for the church.) The Board plans many new and interesting evenings to promote our Norwegian heritage for the next year. Please try to attend activities as much as you are able. Takk.
By the time you receive this newsletter we will already have completed our move and await your attendance on Sept 25th. Our guest presenters have already been introduced to you in the last newsletter, the Bosworths from Norseman Lodge #91, Thousand Oaks, who will present a great program for you about SN Cultural Skills program. This is no boring presentation, my friends, as they are bringing samples of their projects and the award medals they have achieved…..which we can do as well.
I bring to your attention our October 30 Cultural night which is our annual big fund raiser Silent Auction. Planning ahead, please dig out your extra items that you love but
As our primary fund raiser at this time, we appreciate your donations, and bringing friends and family who might like to bid on some really fine items.
About your donations: please bring clean, clear, appropriate items…i.e. those which you would like to buy, rather than some old decrepit items we might find in attics or garages…Ha. They need not to be Norwegian or Scandinavian origin. Proceeds from our fund raisers go to 1) half camper- ships to Camp Norge for our youth, 2) annual donations to the Norwegian Seaman’s Church, Camp Norge and Edvard Grieg’s Endowment at Glendale Community College. and 3) our treasury for lodge expenses.
Har det bra. And tusen takk.
Jo Ness
PS Please note that the date for the October Cultural Night is the 5th Saturday, October 30, instead of our usual 4th Saturday. As we move into our new “digs” we must honor previous arrangements that the church has made. This is one of them. We are so easy adapting to change, ikke sant? (don’t you think?)
Gratulerer Med Dagen
SEPTEMBER
2 Mary Berglund
10 Frances Quick
12 Vidar Bech
13 Janet Couch
16 Anne Laity
23 John Fleischer
God Bedring Get Well Soon
DeNora Clinton
Bill Davis
Vernie Fletcher
Edna Franett
Astrid Omdal
Jean Parks
Virginia Paulson
Herb Wirtz
LODGE ACTIVITIES
POTLUCK AND CULTURAL EVENING
Saturday, September 25, Social hour – 5:30 p.m. Dinner – 6:30 p.m. at Lutheran Church in the Foothills. The presentation will be on the Cultural Skills Program by members of Norseman Lodge #91 in Thousand Oaks.
BOARD MEETING
Tuesday, October 5 at 7:15 p.m. at Lutheran Church in the Foothills. Refreshments will be provided by Pat Savoie and Yvonne Claypool.
POTLUCK AND SILENT AUCTION
Saturday, October 30 at Lutheran Church in the Foothills. Social 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, November 2 at 7:15 p.m. at Lutheran Church in the Foothills.
LEFSE PARTY
November 6 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Lutheran Church in the Foothills.
We will be making lefse for the Julebord and for sale. Our lefse party is a family affair, everyone can help and learn all the steps to its making.
No Cultural Night in November because of Thanksgiving.
BOARD MEETING
Tuesday, December 7 at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Jo Ness, 2619 Fairway Ave., Montrose.
818-249-8102.
The membership is invited to enjoy a mini Jul celebration. Jo has special Jul decorations, food, including a traditional tree. Lots of goodies, candles and good time…after the meeting stuff.
JULEBORD
Saturday, December 11, 6:30 p.m. at Lutheran
Church in the Foothills.
Lutheran Church in the Foothills is at 1700 Foothill Blvd. La Canada. The church is on the south side of Foothill Boulevard, just northeast of the junction of the CA-2 and the I-210 Freeways. Look for the Tower of Redemption Statue, also known as the "Touchdown Statue," which rises over the landscape. Parking is available next to church
From the freeways:
CA-2 NB: Foothill Blvd. offramp. Turn east (R) on Foothill. About 2 blocks, on your right.
I-210 WB: Angeles Crest Hwy exit. Turn south (L). Turn NW (R) on Foothill. About 1 mile.
I-210 EB: Ocean View exit. Turn north (L). Turn east (R) on Foothill. About 0.7 miles.
A Wonderful Surprise
As you all know, I am very active in a Hawaiian dance group. At our last 2010 show (of at least 15 this year at various convalescent facilities, private parties, and other venues), I had a fun surprise.
We were invited to Simi Valley to perform for a club meeting. Guess what? As our leader, Cheryl, came in a lady said “Do you happen to know Jo Ness? Cheryl’s answer was “Yes, she is dancing with us today!” The lady was Dorothy Green of Norseman Lodge #91, Thousand Oaks. She is Past President and every other officer in her lodge and many other offices in our SofN community.
During our audience participation segment she got up because I grabbed her hand and said “come along”. What a hit it was for this group of over 100 ladies who meet regularly to forward their community services. We had a ball with them. Jo
Help Wanted!!
We need help on our phone committee. Three of our loyal committee members are “graduating” from this volunteer job after many faithful years. Nearly every month the ladies phone to their assigned list regarding upcoming lodge activities. It is our way of connecting personally with each lodge member throughout the year. Here is a chance to serve the lodge in an easy way….If you are interested, please contact Committee Chair Yvonne Claypool at (213-748-5612) or Jo Ness at (818) 249-8102. No test, no application, no questionnaire, and no demonstration of dialing ability required. Ha. Just interest in our lodge communication with lodge friends. Mange Takk.
On Sunday afternoon, September 12, the Solheim Retirement Home in Eagle Rock honored many of its supporters at the annual recognition dinner.
Among those receiving awards were Sons of Norway members Chester and Carol Weiche, Carl Voien and John Danielson, Jr. Chester was especially recognized for his endowment which was used for remodeling of the Chapel.
It was an enjoyable event with games, musical entertainment, a program and awards, and of course, the delicious catered dinner.
Norwegian journalist quits during live radio broadcast.
A Norwegian radio journalist quit on the air today after complaining about her job and saying she would not read the day’s news because “nothing important has happened” anyway. Pia Beathe Pedersen accused her employers at the regional radio station of public broadcaster NRK of putting too much pressure on the staff.
She said in the live broadcast that she was “quitting and walking away” because she “wanted to be able to eat properly again and be able to breathe”.
She ended her nearly two-minute announcement by saying there would not be any news on Saturday.
The reporter had worked at NRK for 18 months. NRK spokesman Oeyvind Werner Oefsti said her actions were a surprise.
Norway News 9/11/2010
MARITIME AGREEMENT
Russia and Norway signed an agreement Wednesday on their maritime border in the energy- rich Barents Sea, ending a dispute that has dragged on for decades.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said after the signing that the deal would strengthen stability in the region and enhance economic cooperation between the two neighbors.
Interest in the Arctic region has intensified amid evidence that global warming is shrinking the sea ice, opening up new shipping lanes and opportunities to explore rich oil and gas deposits.
Russia claims a large part of the Arctic seabed as its own. The United States, Canada, Denmark and Norway have also been trying to assert jurisdiction over parts of the Arctic, which is believed to contain as much as a quarter of the Earth's undiscovered oil and gas. Los Angeles Times 9/16/2010 electricity and in the measurement of radio waves,
IT ALL BEGAN IN CANTON, SOUTH DAKOTA
Their grandparents, both on their father’s and mother’s side, had emigrated from Norway and settled in the Upper Midwest during the 1860s and‘70s. In the closing years of the nineteenth century, the two families, one from Minnesota and the other from Wisconsin, would move further West to make their home in Canton, South Dakota. Those two families lived on the same street in that small town, and their sons were born in 1901, within two months of one another. At the time the town’s population numbered only a few thousand, and in fact is about the same size today. While most of the residents traced their family roots to countries in northern Europe, Norwegians constituted the largest national group. In fact, the first person to establish a homestead in the town, in 1862, was a Norwegian immigrant by the name of James Wahl. And it was he who was reputed to have given the town its name, based on a common belief of the time that the town was located exactly opposite Canton, China, on the other side of the earth.
However, this story is not about a small town set down on the farmland prairies in the southeastern corner of South Dakota. Rather it is about two boys of Norwegian ancestry whose interest in science began in their early years and carried them on to international acclaim. Born in Canton, six weeks apart in 1901, they grew up in homes across the street from each other. They attended local schools, and were members of the same Boy Scout troop. Together they persuaded a family friend, a student in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to teach them about electricity. Before long they had established a telegraph line linking their two homes. They later became interested in radio, and after one of them moved away during their high school years, they continued in touch with their own amateur radio network, later known as “ham radio.”
Upon graduation from high school and now living in separate states, one would go on to St. Olaf College, only to transfer after one year to the University of South Dakota, while the other enrolled at the University of Minnesota. They would be reunited again, when both received their Master’s Degrees from the University of Minnesota in 1923. From there, for one after a year at the University of Chicago it was on to Yale for a Ph.D. in Physics. For the other, a year of teaching at Princeton was followed by enrollment in the doctoral program at the Johns Hopkins University, from which he received his doctoral degree, also in Physics. Even as graduate students their pioneering work in photo-
respectively, was beginning to attract attention in the scientific world.
Thus it is not surprising that these two boyhood friends of Norwegian ancestry, both from Canton, South Dakota, would go on to international acclaim in science. At the age of twenty-nine, Earnest O. Lawrence was named a full professor at the University of California where he embarked on a career in nuclear physics, being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his role in the development of the cyclotron. Incidentally, by his own admission what led Lawrence to the development of the cyclotron was a research report written by a Norwegian engineer, Rolf Widerboe by name. Merle Tuve also received numerous awards from scientific organizations and foreign governments, particularly for his research on the use of radio waves for measurements in the upper atmosphere and on shock waves in measuring the earth’s interior.
Lawrence’s professional career was spent entirely at the University of California and in extensive involvement with its several laboratories and nuclear research. Tuve, upon receiving his Ph.D., took a position as a research scientist at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, DC, becoming Director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism two decades later and then serving an additional twenty years at Carnegie until his retirement in 1966. During the early 1940s he took a leave of absence to direct research related to the U.S. war effort at John Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory under the aegis of the National Defense Research Committee.
Both Ernest Lawrence and Merle Tuve made major contributions to the victories over Germany and Japan during World War II. Lawrence was a leading figure in the development of the atomic bomb, which was dropped on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And following the war he was an advocate for the development of even more powerful weapons, including the hydrogen or thermonuclear bomb. When it came to the use of atomic weapons, however, Merle Tuve took a different position. Although he was well aware of the potential of atomic fission prior to World War II, and served briefly on a government committee to determine the efficacy of creating atomic bombs, he preferred to participate in the war effort in the development of more conventional weapons. His experimentation with radio waves was a major factor in the development of radar and of the proximity fuse and its application in anti-aircraft defense.
More than any other single factor, the proximity fuse was responsible for the destruction of the rockets and “buzz bombs” deployed during the Battle of Britain and later, for anti-missile defense against nuclear warheads.
While relationships between these two boyhood friends remained civil if not close throughout their lives, their views on ethical or political issues, as they related to weaponry and war were different. Ernest Lawrence died in 1958 at the age of fifty-seven years; Merle Tuve passed away nearly twenty-five years later, in 1982.
Richard C. Gilman
Pasadena, California
Dr. Gilman may be reached at rcgilman@earthlink.net
English in Borderland Schools
Ten Norwegian and ten Russian teachers from towns in the Norwegian-Russian border area will get higher education in English. The teachers come from the Norwegian municipality of Sør-Varanger and the town of Zapolyarny on the Kola Peninsula. The project is called “English in Borderland Schools” and is co-financed by the Norwegian Barents Secretariat.
Bodø University College and the Pedagogical University in Murmansk are responsible for the teaching, Bodø University College’s web site reads.
The twenty participants are going to meet four times a year, two times in Kirkenes and two times in Zapolyarny. Their Norwegian and Russian pupils from 5th and 6th grades will also meet each other as part of the project.
The aim of the project is that teachers of English on both sides of the border shall learn from each other’s experience and practices in teaching. Norway News 9/14/2010
Edvard Grieg Lodge #6-074
Board of Officers 2010-2011
President Jo Ness JNess2619@gmail.com
Vice President Vacant
Counselor Dorothy Bakken
Secretary Mim Johnson
Asst. Secretary Elaine Lundby
Membership Secretary Anne Marie Nassif annenassif@att.net
Treasurer Margaret Shuler alsvid1@hotmail.com
Historian Pat Savoie patriciasavoie@sbcglobal.net
Youth Director Judith Gabriel Vinje Jgabriel.vinje@gmail.com
Insurance Representative Dennis Burreson 800-448-2499
EDVARD GRIEG LODGE WEB SITE www.edvardgrieglodge.com Dan Christensen, webmaster
6TH DISTRICT WEB SITE www.sofn6.com CAMP NORGE
www.campnorge.com
KALENDAREN
Saturday, September 25
Potluck and Cultural Evening
Tuesday, October 5
Board Meeting
Saturday, October 30
Potluck and Cultural Evening
Tuesday, November 2
Board Meeting
Saturday, November 6
Lefse Party
Monday, October 11, 2010
Summer Newsletter 2010
EDVARD GRIEG NOTES
SONS OF NORWAY LODGE NO. 6-074
www.edvardgrieglodge.com
Meeting Place:
Lutheran Church in the Foothills
1700 Foothill Blvd.
La Cañada, California
SUMMER 2010
Ord Fra Presidenten
Dear Friends: Kjære Venner:
ANNOUNCEMENT:
WE ARE MOVING TO LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE FOOTHILLS, 1700 FOOTHILL BLVD. LA CANADA.
OUR FIRST CULTURAL EVENING HERE WILL BE Saturday, September 25, 2010, 5:30 pm social hour, 6:30 pm pot luck dinner, short meeting, and Cultural Program.
PLEASE NOTE THIS CHANGE ON YOUR CALENDARS.
Parking is available on the east side of the church, the sidewalk to the social hall is well lighted, and the meeting hall is spacious and on one level.
Special guests are Karen and David Bosworth, Norseman Lodge #71, Thousand Oaks, CA.
Their well known talents include any and all arts and crafts projects earned in the Sons of Norway Cultural Skills Program. Trust me, it will be a wonderful and enlightening program.
The purpose is to inform our membership that any of us can choose from the variety of cultural skills programs that SofN offers; be completed on one’s own effort and time; and feel really good getting the beautiful medals.
It’s impressive, my friends. PS I received my first medal from completing Level 1 of Norwegian Literature after taking a class from our own Pat Savoie.
Har det bra, Jo Ness
Jo Ness and Cara Clove were the lodge’s delegates to the District 6 Convention in Modesto in June. A report on the convention starts on page 2.
The new District 6 Officers are:
President: Lyle Berge
Vice President: Mary Beth Ingvoldstad
Secretary: Wendy Winkelman
Treasurer: Roger Espeland
Public Relations Officer: Erik Pappa
Our Zone 5 Director: Ordale Johnson
Some facts: Sons of Norway founders in 1895 numbered 18; the Order now has 67,000 members in USA, Canada and Norway. District 6 has 54 lodges, however, a few were unable to send delegates. The District covers Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah, and Hawaii, however there are no lodges there.
Gratulerer Med Dagen
Belated greetings to those with July birthdays.
JULY
1 Carrie Engevik
1 Jean Wildern
2 Penny Eidem
3 Sally Hamilton
3 Evelyn Riveness
6 Eileen Wirtz
6 Barbara Yeager
8 Reidun Hedenstad
12 Brit Trydal
13 Greta Moses
15 Deanna Anderson
17 Solrun Cammarata
18 Judith Hammer
19 Virginia Paulson
20 Bethel Trammell
27 Cara Clove
27 Robin Niles
28 Richard Gilman
30 Carl Voien
31 Vera Osnes
AUGUST
1 Raymond Bentson
3 Henrik Lovdokken
10 Mimi Chen
10 Berit Jansta
18 Daniel Christensen
18 Gloria Larson
18 Jan Lovold
21 Kristen Guritz
22 Joan De Graffenried
23 Elizabeth Danielson
26 Patricia Lowe
28 Roger Moses
30 Margrethe Rankin
God Bedring (Get Well Soon)
DeNora Clinton, Bill Davis, Vernie Fletcher, Edna Franett, Astrid Omdal, Jean Parks, Virginia Paulson, Herb Wirtz
TIL MINNE
Muriel Bandy, a member of Edvard Grieg Lodge, passed away on August 11. Our condolences to Muriel’s family and many friends.
Patricia Lowe, a member of Edvard Grieg Lodge, passed away on August 14. Our condolences to Pat’s family and many friends.
LODGE ACTIVITIES
BOARD MEETING
Tuesday, September 7 at 7:30 p.m. at Lutheran Church in the Foothills, 1700 Foothill Blvd. La Cañada, CA 91011.
POTLUCK AND CULTURAL EVENING
Saturday, September 25, Social hour – 5:30 p.m. Dinner – 6:30 p.m. at Lutheran Church in the Foothills. The presentation will be on the Cultural Skills Program by members of Norseman Lodge #91 in Thousand Oaks.
BOARD MEETING
Tuesday, October 5 at 7:30 p.m. at Lutheran Church in the Foothills.
Report on District 6 Convention
June 23-26, 2010
Hosted by Garborg Lodge #56, Modesto
What a great convention we had in ‘beautiful downtown Modesto” – actually in the heart of agriculture. This town has a small, but wonderful feeling with lots of restaurants, clubs, activities, arts, etc, and a sophisticated hotel where we stayed in the middle of this longtime farming town, a Doubletree Hotel. There were around 170 voting delegates, but over 200 at dinners/banquets and other evening activities. Jo Ness and Cara Clove were our delegates.
It was a well organized and thorough event. Garborg Lodge #56 did an outstanding job Although it is expected that little gifties, kjotchies, candies, and table favors appear at our seats every morning Garborg’s convention committee had wonderful things appear at every break, meal and other excuse to regale us with their local articles. They asked for and received much support for the convention from their community.
The business of the convention was in the hands of the President Janie Kelly and she did herself proud. Everything proceeded smoothly with a modicum of negativity. As is the pattern I’ve experienced in years of conventions, there were lots of jokes and laughter. Yes, there is a business agenda, but there is also a freedom of expression sometimes bordering on the absurd but always pertaining to ourselves….. in other words, although we love our Norwegian heritage and membership in Sons of Norway and have serious agendas, we still don’t take ourselves so seriously…there’s always a joke and a laugh.
Our Lodge has been honored several ways. Of greatest note, we received a Plaque for Family Lodge of the Year 2008. Two years ago at the Convention we were awarded the first ever Family Lodge of the Year 2006. We are so proud of our volunteers who help us obtain this recognition regarding service to family activities. Lodge of the Year Awards were presented to us as Bronze and Silver Awardees. This is recognition for lodges pursuing the goals and objectives of Sons of Norway through their own projects to improve their own lodge organization.
The service to Sons of Norway by our beloved LaVonne Kerfoot was recognized on the convention floor, much to our happiness. She and Amon Johnson will be on the Memorial Service list and be recognized at the next convention.
We have two famous artists in our midst. In the Arts and Crafts Competition, Diane Langill won 1st, 2nd, and 3rd ribbons for her three rosemaling entries. All three were purchased by delegates, among whom was Cara Clove. Jo wanted to buy one, but a member from another lodge was so eager for it that she gave in; however, she has ordered another one from Diane. Judith Gabriel Vinje, our talented weaver/crafter, also swept the field for Weaving winning 1st, 2nd and 3rd places.
Ahoy, Reindeer
The antlered animals weren’t made for this – to stumble onto a boat in the middle of an autumn night and bump and sway on the water for six hours until they attain solid ground again and resume their overland migration a winter refuge. In Norway, both reindeer and their seminomadic herders, members of the indigenous Sami, are struggling to find their balance as development intrudes on traditional grazing lands, changing the way humans and animals mover
For centuries the Sami have seasonally driven reindeer between grassy feeding grounds on the coast and lichen-rich tundra in the interior. Unlike the tiny wild population to the south, the 250,000 northern reindeer are semidomesticated, raised principally for the sale of their meat. The income helps support about 3,000 herders, nowadays a small fraction of Norway’s Sami population of 50,000.
But no longer can herds drift as easily as clouds. A glut of holiday cabins, oil and gas complexes, military ranges, windmill farms, and power lines has fragmented migration corridors. To adapt, the Sami are shifting grazing areas and using boats as well as trucks to maneuver herds. With the loss of pastureland, some worry that the culture’s long dependence on reindeer will slowly vanish, destined for tales told by elders.
National Geographic – November 2009
British girl’s balloon reaches family in Norway
A fundraising balloon, released at a village fete in the UK, has been found by a family in Norway, more than 600 miles from home. The blue balloon was sent on its long journey from North Somerset by 10- year-old Beccy Filer in a bid to raise money to buy equipment for her school. Just a day later, an unidentified floating object was spotted at Farsund on Norway’s south coast by the Oyri family, who have a holiday cabin in the area. Seeing that it was about to fall into the sea, the family grabbed their boat and went out to investigate.
“It was a beautiful morning with no breeze. As the children were getting dressed we could see it gently falling down from the sky,” said Vibeke Oyri in a report by the BBC. “We could see something attached underneath and our kids were very curious so we decided to take the boat out about 200m from the shore to investigate. It was a stroke of luck we got to it quickly otherwise the note would have been unreadable,” she added. On the tag were Beccy’s address and a message reading: “When you get this, please send it back.” A week later a letter was received in Somerset, much to the Filer’s surprise. “We’d entered the balloon race a while back and hadn’t thought anymore about it, said Beccy’s mother Tanya Filer.”When the letter arrived I asked her if she’d been writing to a pen friend.”
“When she opened it she said ‘mummy my balloon’s got to Norway’. I said ‘don’t be so ridiculous.’ Then she showed me the letter. Everyone thought the winning balloon had been found in Peterborough but we think this is the winner now,” she added.
Norwaynews.com
Norway to Launch First Satellite in August
The Norwegian AISSat-1 (Automatic Identification System) satellite has been scheduled to launch in August on an Indian rocket, the Norwegian Space Center announced July 5. AISat-1, Norway’s first satellite, aims to provide maritime tracking services with coverage over the High North Seas. The service will be used by ships around the world as a short-range coastal traffic system. Under regional laws, seagoing ships weighing over 300 tons must be fitted with the technology to allow authorities to track movements and to avoid collisions with other boats.
The satellite’s receiver will be a based on a platform built by the University of Toronto. The spacecraft will operate in a polar orbit at an altitude of 600 kilometers and will be managed by the Norwegian Space Centre. The total cost of the project is estimated at $4.6 million.
Norwegian anti-pirate Map-System
In light of the many hijackings of ships in the Gulf of Aden and off the coast of Somalia, a Norwegian security company has now developed a new method to help avoid pirate attacks.
Jeppesen Marine, in cooperation with Bergen Risk Solutions (BRS), has created an interactive map that includes updated information about hijacking attempts, weather patterns and sea routes. By cross checking this information the system assesses the risk of attack.
For instance, as product manager Bjørn Åge Hjøllo tells Bergens Tidende, pirates are less likely to carry out attacks if waves are higher than a meter and a half. Therefore, by navigating towards areas with higher waves and fewer reported attacks, ships can avoid hijacking attempts.
The up-to-date information featured in the system indicates that more of the attacks now occur outside the Gulf of Aden and more frequently in the Indian Ocean. An analyst with BRS, who monitors the map system, indicates that this change may have come as a result of the increased presence of international navy forces in the area.
The international shipping industry has already taken note of the new map system. Last year the two companies received the "2010 Safety at Sea International Award for Security," and will be featured in the well-known magazine Safety at Sea later this fall. Several companies from around the world have already purchased licenses for the system, or are in the process of testing its utility.
Bergens Tidende / Aftenposten The Norway Post
Norwaynews.com
TENNIS RIVALS MOLLA BJURSTEDT AND MAY SUTTON
GREATEST WOMEN TENNIS PLAYERS TO MEET. That headline in the Los Angeles Times for September 29, 1915, declared what so many were anticipating with great excitement – a match between a little known player from Norway who had just won the United States Singles Championship and a California woman, herself a former champion, who began playing tennis in the backyard of her family home at the southwest corner of North Hill and East Mountain streets in Pasadena.
Molla Bjurstedt was born in Norway where she won a number of championships and captured the bronze medal in tennis for her country at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm. In 1915 she came to this country, ostensibly to seek work as a masseuse. However, within weeks after her arrival she entered and won the women’s singles championship as an unknown newcomer. That win proved to be the first of eight U.S. singles victories, along with two in women’s doubles, and three in mixed doubles. Altogether she participated in 24 “Grand Slam” finals prior to her retirement in 1929 at the age of forty-five. From the 1920’s on she was known as Molla Mallory, reflecting her recent marriage to Frank Mallory of New York City.
Although born in England, May Sutton moved with her family to the United States when she was just six years old. She and her three sisters learned to play tennis on a court built by their father, and the four girls soon dominated the tennis scene in California. May moved onto the national stage in 1904 when, at age eighteen, she won the United States women’s championship, defeating the two time champion, Elizabeth Moore. In that same year she was a victor in the women’s doubles and a finalist in mixed doubles. As with her subsequent rival from Norway, she began her outstanding career with spectacular and surprising victories.
The following year May Sutton went on to win the women’s singles at Wimbledon, being the first American to do so. She placed second at Wimbledon in 1906, and won again in 1907. Following her marriage in 1912 to Tom Bundy, himself a three-time winner in the U.S. men’s doubles, she went into semi-retirement to raise a family, although remaining very much in the public eye as one of the most outstanding women’s tennis players of her time.
Thus the idea of a match between May Sutton, the champion of a decade earlier, and Molla Bjurstedt, the current reigning champion, generated tremendous interest throughout the tennis world. They met first in San Francisco in mid-November 1915, with Molla Bjurstedt emerging the victor, winning two out of three sets in what was described as the “most desperate struggle ever seen in this country in women’s tennis.” Their second meeting was on Thanksgiving Day in Long Beach, where Sutton, now referred to as May Bundy, won decisively in two sets.
Thus, with each having won a hard-fought victory, the stage was set for a deciding match between the tennis rivals two weeks later on the courts in Long Beach. Playing “the greatest tennis ever seen in these parts,” Bundy handily defeated Bjurstedt by scores of 6-3, 1-6, and 6-2. During her two-month stay in California both Molla Bjurstedt and May Sutton Bundy played in a number of tournaments and exhibitions, facing each other in doubles matches, and on at least one occasion playing together as doubles partners.
Upon leaving California in late December of 1915, Molla Bjurstedt expressed a desire to return to live in Southern California, and there was even a rumor afloat that a prominent Los Angeles physician had offered her a position as a masseuse in his office. Although Bjurstedt did return in February 1917, it was not with the thought of remaining permanently. Rather, she was looking forward to playing once more against Mary Sutton Bundy and avenging her earlier defeat
The match between Bjurstedt and Bundy was scheduled as an exhibition during a series of matches between a team from the east and one from the west. Needless to say, it was the Bjurstedt-Bundy match-up that created the greatest attention. Hotel and country club courts, where tournaments were usually held could not begin to accommodate the anticipated crowd. Thus, a special court was laid down on Bovard Field on the University of California campus, where seating would be available for as many as a thousand spectators.
In intersectional play the host team handily defeated the team from the east, and May Sutton Bundy prevailed in defeating Molla Bjurstedt in what proved to be a very close match with scores of 7-5 and 9-7. It was Mrs. Bundy’s third victory in four matches between the two rivals, and to all intents and purposes signaled her retirement from competitive tennis at least on the national scene.
Bjurstedt on the other hand continued her dominant play, and having won the women’s national title in 1915 went to repeat for next three years, and won again in 1920, 1921,1922, and finally in 1926.
May Sutton Bundy decided in 1921 to make a comeback and return to national competition on the east coast. In her first major appearance in three years she reached the finals of the New York State championships in July of that year. Her first meeting with Molla Bjurstedt in the east was in the semi- finals of the national championship at Forest Hills, where Bjurstedt prevailed. The Norwegian star also defeated her California rival three times during the 1922 season.
Lest too much be made of that rivalry between Mrs. Bundy and Mrs. Mallory, as they were known in later years, it should be said that both were elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame for their accomplishments in both singles and doubles play in international as well as national competition. Mrs. Bundy’s great career began with her victory in the U.S. singles championship in 1904 and at Wimbledon in 1905 and 1907, and came to a close 42 years later as a quarter-finalist at Wimbledon and in that same year playing with her daughter as one of the top ranked pairs in the national champion- ships in women’s doubles. It was said that May Sutton Bundy continued playing tennis from her home in Santa Monica until her death in 1975 at 89 years of age.
Norwegian born Molla Bjurstedt Mallory made such an impact on tennis in the United States that officials of the United States Lawn Tennis Association sought to have her included as a member of the national team competing in the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924. However, the fact of her residence in this country since 1915, and her marriage to an American citizen, thus making her an American citizen, was insufficient to persuade the International Olympic committee. Her last major victory was in U.S. women’s championships came in 1926, and although she continued to compete both nationally and internationally for another three years, she left the tennis world in 1929, and later lived in Sweden where she died in 1959.
Richard C. Gilman
Pasadena, California
Dr. Gilman may be reached at rcgilman@earthlink.net
EDVARD GRIEG LODGE WEB SITE www.edvardgrieglodge.com Dan Christensen, webmaster
6TH DISTRICT WEB SITE www.sofn6.com CAMP NORGE
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Sons of Norway Mission Statement The mission of Sons of Norway is to promote and preserve the heritage and culture of Norway, to celebrate our relationship with other Nordic countries, and to provide quality
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SONS OF NORWAY LODGE NO. 6-074
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Meeting Place:
Lutheran Church in the Foothills
1700 Foothill Blvd.
La Cañada, California
SUMMER 2010
Ord Fra Presidenten
Dear Friends: Kjære Venner:
ANNOUNCEMENT:
WE ARE MOVING TO LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE FOOTHILLS, 1700 FOOTHILL BLVD. LA CANADA.
OUR FIRST CULTURAL EVENING HERE WILL BE Saturday, September 25, 2010, 5:30 pm social hour, 6:30 pm pot luck dinner, short meeting, and Cultural Program.
PLEASE NOTE THIS CHANGE ON YOUR CALENDARS.
Parking is available on the east side of the church, the sidewalk to the social hall is well lighted, and the meeting hall is spacious and on one level.
Special guests are Karen and David Bosworth, Norseman Lodge #71, Thousand Oaks, CA.
Their well known talents include any and all arts and crafts projects earned in the Sons of Norway Cultural Skills Program. Trust me, it will be a wonderful and enlightening program.
The purpose is to inform our membership that any of us can choose from the variety of cultural skills programs that SofN offers; be completed on one’s own effort and time; and feel really good getting the beautiful medals.
It’s impressive, my friends. PS I received my first medal from completing Level 1 of Norwegian Literature after taking a class from our own Pat Savoie.
Har det bra, Jo Ness
Jo Ness and Cara Clove were the lodge’s delegates to the District 6 Convention in Modesto in June. A report on the convention starts on page 2.
The new District 6 Officers are:
President: Lyle Berge
Vice President: Mary Beth Ingvoldstad
Secretary: Wendy Winkelman
Treasurer: Roger Espeland
Public Relations Officer: Erik Pappa
Our Zone 5 Director: Ordale Johnson
Some facts: Sons of Norway founders in 1895 numbered 18; the Order now has 67,000 members in USA, Canada and Norway. District 6 has 54 lodges, however, a few were unable to send delegates. The District covers Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah, and Hawaii, however there are no lodges there.
Gratulerer Med Dagen
Belated greetings to those with July birthdays.
JULY
1 Carrie Engevik
1 Jean Wildern
2 Penny Eidem
3 Sally Hamilton
3 Evelyn Riveness
6 Eileen Wirtz
6 Barbara Yeager
8 Reidun Hedenstad
12 Brit Trydal
13 Greta Moses
15 Deanna Anderson
17 Solrun Cammarata
18 Judith Hammer
19 Virginia Paulson
20 Bethel Trammell
27 Cara Clove
27 Robin Niles
28 Richard Gilman
30 Carl Voien
31 Vera Osnes
AUGUST
1 Raymond Bentson
3 Henrik Lovdokken
10 Mimi Chen
10 Berit Jansta
18 Daniel Christensen
18 Gloria Larson
18 Jan Lovold
21 Kristen Guritz
22 Joan De Graffenried
23 Elizabeth Danielson
26 Patricia Lowe
28 Roger Moses
30 Margrethe Rankin
God Bedring (Get Well Soon)
DeNora Clinton, Bill Davis, Vernie Fletcher, Edna Franett, Astrid Omdal, Jean Parks, Virginia Paulson, Herb Wirtz
TIL MINNE
Muriel Bandy, a member of Edvard Grieg Lodge, passed away on August 11. Our condolences to Muriel’s family and many friends.
Patricia Lowe, a member of Edvard Grieg Lodge, passed away on August 14. Our condolences to Pat’s family and many friends.
LODGE ACTIVITIES
BOARD MEETING
Tuesday, September 7 at 7:30 p.m. at Lutheran Church in the Foothills, 1700 Foothill Blvd. La Cañada, CA 91011.
POTLUCK AND CULTURAL EVENING
Saturday, September 25, Social hour – 5:30 p.m. Dinner – 6:30 p.m. at Lutheran Church in the Foothills. The presentation will be on the Cultural Skills Program by members of Norseman Lodge #91 in Thousand Oaks.
BOARD MEETING
Tuesday, October 5 at 7:30 p.m. at Lutheran Church in the Foothills.
Report on District 6 Convention
June 23-26, 2010
Hosted by Garborg Lodge #56, Modesto
What a great convention we had in ‘beautiful downtown Modesto” – actually in the heart of agriculture. This town has a small, but wonderful feeling with lots of restaurants, clubs, activities, arts, etc, and a sophisticated hotel where we stayed in the middle of this longtime farming town, a Doubletree Hotel. There were around 170 voting delegates, but over 200 at dinners/banquets and other evening activities. Jo Ness and Cara Clove were our delegates.
It was a well organized and thorough event. Garborg Lodge #56 did an outstanding job Although it is expected that little gifties, kjotchies, candies, and table favors appear at our seats every morning Garborg’s convention committee had wonderful things appear at every break, meal and other excuse to regale us with their local articles. They asked for and received much support for the convention from their community.
The business of the convention was in the hands of the President Janie Kelly and she did herself proud. Everything proceeded smoothly with a modicum of negativity. As is the pattern I’ve experienced in years of conventions, there were lots of jokes and laughter. Yes, there is a business agenda, but there is also a freedom of expression sometimes bordering on the absurd but always pertaining to ourselves….. in other words, although we love our Norwegian heritage and membership in Sons of Norway and have serious agendas, we still don’t take ourselves so seriously…there’s always a joke and a laugh.
Our Lodge has been honored several ways. Of greatest note, we received a Plaque for Family Lodge of the Year 2008. Two years ago at the Convention we were awarded the first ever Family Lodge of the Year 2006. We are so proud of our volunteers who help us obtain this recognition regarding service to family activities. Lodge of the Year Awards were presented to us as Bronze and Silver Awardees. This is recognition for lodges pursuing the goals and objectives of Sons of Norway through their own projects to improve their own lodge organization.
The service to Sons of Norway by our beloved LaVonne Kerfoot was recognized on the convention floor, much to our happiness. She and Amon Johnson will be on the Memorial Service list and be recognized at the next convention.
We have two famous artists in our midst. In the Arts and Crafts Competition, Diane Langill won 1st, 2nd, and 3rd ribbons for her three rosemaling entries. All three were purchased by delegates, among whom was Cara Clove. Jo wanted to buy one, but a member from another lodge was so eager for it that she gave in; however, she has ordered another one from Diane. Judith Gabriel Vinje, our talented weaver/crafter, also swept the field for Weaving winning 1st, 2nd and 3rd places.
Ahoy, Reindeer
The antlered animals weren’t made for this – to stumble onto a boat in the middle of an autumn night and bump and sway on the water for six hours until they attain solid ground again and resume their overland migration a winter refuge. In Norway, both reindeer and their seminomadic herders, members of the indigenous Sami, are struggling to find their balance as development intrudes on traditional grazing lands, changing the way humans and animals mover
For centuries the Sami have seasonally driven reindeer between grassy feeding grounds on the coast and lichen-rich tundra in the interior. Unlike the tiny wild population to the south, the 250,000 northern reindeer are semidomesticated, raised principally for the sale of their meat. The income helps support about 3,000 herders, nowadays a small fraction of Norway’s Sami population of 50,000.
But no longer can herds drift as easily as clouds. A glut of holiday cabins, oil and gas complexes, military ranges, windmill farms, and power lines has fragmented migration corridors. To adapt, the Sami are shifting grazing areas and using boats as well as trucks to maneuver herds. With the loss of pastureland, some worry that the culture’s long dependence on reindeer will slowly vanish, destined for tales told by elders.
National Geographic – November 2009
British girl’s balloon reaches family in Norway
A fundraising balloon, released at a village fete in the UK, has been found by a family in Norway, more than 600 miles from home. The blue balloon was sent on its long journey from North Somerset by 10- year-old Beccy Filer in a bid to raise money to buy equipment for her school. Just a day later, an unidentified floating object was spotted at Farsund on Norway’s south coast by the Oyri family, who have a holiday cabin in the area. Seeing that it was about to fall into the sea, the family grabbed their boat and went out to investigate.
“It was a beautiful morning with no breeze. As the children were getting dressed we could see it gently falling down from the sky,” said Vibeke Oyri in a report by the BBC. “We could see something attached underneath and our kids were very curious so we decided to take the boat out about 200m from the shore to investigate. It was a stroke of luck we got to it quickly otherwise the note would have been unreadable,” she added. On the tag were Beccy’s address and a message reading: “When you get this, please send it back.” A week later a letter was received in Somerset, much to the Filer’s surprise. “We’d entered the balloon race a while back and hadn’t thought anymore about it, said Beccy’s mother Tanya Filer.”When the letter arrived I asked her if she’d been writing to a pen friend.”
“When she opened it she said ‘mummy my balloon’s got to Norway’. I said ‘don’t be so ridiculous.’ Then she showed me the letter. Everyone thought the winning balloon had been found in Peterborough but we think this is the winner now,” she added.
Norwaynews.com
Norway to Launch First Satellite in August
The Norwegian AISSat-1 (Automatic Identification System) satellite has been scheduled to launch in August on an Indian rocket, the Norwegian Space Center announced July 5. AISat-1, Norway’s first satellite, aims to provide maritime tracking services with coverage over the High North Seas. The service will be used by ships around the world as a short-range coastal traffic system. Under regional laws, seagoing ships weighing over 300 tons must be fitted with the technology to allow authorities to track movements and to avoid collisions with other boats.
The satellite’s receiver will be a based on a platform built by the University of Toronto. The spacecraft will operate in a polar orbit at an altitude of 600 kilometers and will be managed by the Norwegian Space Centre. The total cost of the project is estimated at $4.6 million.
Norwegian anti-pirate Map-System
In light of the many hijackings of ships in the Gulf of Aden and off the coast of Somalia, a Norwegian security company has now developed a new method to help avoid pirate attacks.
Jeppesen Marine, in cooperation with Bergen Risk Solutions (BRS), has created an interactive map that includes updated information about hijacking attempts, weather patterns and sea routes. By cross checking this information the system assesses the risk of attack.
For instance, as product manager Bjørn Åge Hjøllo tells Bergens Tidende, pirates are less likely to carry out attacks if waves are higher than a meter and a half. Therefore, by navigating towards areas with higher waves and fewer reported attacks, ships can avoid hijacking attempts.
The up-to-date information featured in the system indicates that more of the attacks now occur outside the Gulf of Aden and more frequently in the Indian Ocean. An analyst with BRS, who monitors the map system, indicates that this change may have come as a result of the increased presence of international navy forces in the area.
The international shipping industry has already taken note of the new map system. Last year the two companies received the "2010 Safety at Sea International Award for Security," and will be featured in the well-known magazine Safety at Sea later this fall. Several companies from around the world have already purchased licenses for the system, or are in the process of testing its utility.
Bergens Tidende / Aftenposten The Norway Post
Norwaynews.com
TENNIS RIVALS MOLLA BJURSTEDT AND MAY SUTTON
GREATEST WOMEN TENNIS PLAYERS TO MEET. That headline in the Los Angeles Times for September 29, 1915, declared what so many were anticipating with great excitement – a match between a little known player from Norway who had just won the United States Singles Championship and a California woman, herself a former champion, who began playing tennis in the backyard of her family home at the southwest corner of North Hill and East Mountain streets in Pasadena.
Molla Bjurstedt was born in Norway where she won a number of championships and captured the bronze medal in tennis for her country at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm. In 1915 she came to this country, ostensibly to seek work as a masseuse. However, within weeks after her arrival she entered and won the women’s singles championship as an unknown newcomer. That win proved to be the first of eight U.S. singles victories, along with two in women’s doubles, and three in mixed doubles. Altogether she participated in 24 “Grand Slam” finals prior to her retirement in 1929 at the age of forty-five. From the 1920’s on she was known as Molla Mallory, reflecting her recent marriage to Frank Mallory of New York City.
Although born in England, May Sutton moved with her family to the United States when she was just six years old. She and her three sisters learned to play tennis on a court built by their father, and the four girls soon dominated the tennis scene in California. May moved onto the national stage in 1904 when, at age eighteen, she won the United States women’s championship, defeating the two time champion, Elizabeth Moore. In that same year she was a victor in the women’s doubles and a finalist in mixed doubles. As with her subsequent rival from Norway, she began her outstanding career with spectacular and surprising victories.
The following year May Sutton went on to win the women’s singles at Wimbledon, being the first American to do so. She placed second at Wimbledon in 1906, and won again in 1907. Following her marriage in 1912 to Tom Bundy, himself a three-time winner in the U.S. men’s doubles, she went into semi-retirement to raise a family, although remaining very much in the public eye as one of the most outstanding women’s tennis players of her time.
Thus the idea of a match between May Sutton, the champion of a decade earlier, and Molla Bjurstedt, the current reigning champion, generated tremendous interest throughout the tennis world. They met first in San Francisco in mid-November 1915, with Molla Bjurstedt emerging the victor, winning two out of three sets in what was described as the “most desperate struggle ever seen in this country in women’s tennis.” Their second meeting was on Thanksgiving Day in Long Beach, where Sutton, now referred to as May Bundy, won decisively in two sets.
Thus, with each having won a hard-fought victory, the stage was set for a deciding match between the tennis rivals two weeks later on the courts in Long Beach. Playing “the greatest tennis ever seen in these parts,” Bundy handily defeated Bjurstedt by scores of 6-3, 1-6, and 6-2. During her two-month stay in California both Molla Bjurstedt and May Sutton Bundy played in a number of tournaments and exhibitions, facing each other in doubles matches, and on at least one occasion playing together as doubles partners.
Upon leaving California in late December of 1915, Molla Bjurstedt expressed a desire to return to live in Southern California, and there was even a rumor afloat that a prominent Los Angeles physician had offered her a position as a masseuse in his office. Although Bjurstedt did return in February 1917, it was not with the thought of remaining permanently. Rather, she was looking forward to playing once more against Mary Sutton Bundy and avenging her earlier defeat
The match between Bjurstedt and Bundy was scheduled as an exhibition during a series of matches between a team from the east and one from the west. Needless to say, it was the Bjurstedt-Bundy match-up that created the greatest attention. Hotel and country club courts, where tournaments were usually held could not begin to accommodate the anticipated crowd. Thus, a special court was laid down on Bovard Field on the University of California campus, where seating would be available for as many as a thousand spectators.
In intersectional play the host team handily defeated the team from the east, and May Sutton Bundy prevailed in defeating Molla Bjurstedt in what proved to be a very close match with scores of 7-5 and 9-7. It was Mrs. Bundy’s third victory in four matches between the two rivals, and to all intents and purposes signaled her retirement from competitive tennis at least on the national scene.
Bjurstedt on the other hand continued her dominant play, and having won the women’s national title in 1915 went to repeat for next three years, and won again in 1920, 1921,1922, and finally in 1926.
May Sutton Bundy decided in 1921 to make a comeback and return to national competition on the east coast. In her first major appearance in three years she reached the finals of the New York State championships in July of that year. Her first meeting with Molla Bjurstedt in the east was in the semi- finals of the national championship at Forest Hills, where Bjurstedt prevailed. The Norwegian star also defeated her California rival three times during the 1922 season.
Lest too much be made of that rivalry between Mrs. Bundy and Mrs. Mallory, as they were known in later years, it should be said that both were elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame for their accomplishments in both singles and doubles play in international as well as national competition. Mrs. Bundy’s great career began with her victory in the U.S. singles championship in 1904 and at Wimbledon in 1905 and 1907, and came to a close 42 years later as a quarter-finalist at Wimbledon and in that same year playing with her daughter as one of the top ranked pairs in the national champion- ships in women’s doubles. It was said that May Sutton Bundy continued playing tennis from her home in Santa Monica until her death in 1975 at 89 years of age.
Norwegian born Molla Bjurstedt Mallory made such an impact on tennis in the United States that officials of the United States Lawn Tennis Association sought to have her included as a member of the national team competing in the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924. However, the fact of her residence in this country since 1915, and her marriage to an American citizen, thus making her an American citizen, was insufficient to persuade the International Olympic committee. Her last major victory was in U.S. women’s championships came in 1926, and although she continued to compete both nationally and internationally for another three years, she left the tennis world in 1929, and later lived in Sweden where she died in 1959.
Richard C. Gilman
Pasadena, California
Dr. Gilman may be reached at rcgilman@earthlink.net
EDVARD GRIEG LODGE WEB SITE www.edvardgrieglodge.com Dan Christensen, webmaster
6TH DISTRICT WEB SITE www.sofn6.com CAMP NORGE
www.campnorge.com
Sons of Norway Mission Statement The mission of Sons of Norway is to promote and preserve the heritage and culture of Norway, to celebrate our relationship with other Nordic countries, and to provide quality
insurance and financial products to its members.
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