M AY 2017

IBSEN COURIER S ONS OF

Henrik Ibsen Lodge No. 3-393

Meetings every 3rd Friday of the month at St. Mark’s Church, 754 Hipp Hipp... Hurrah! Montauk Hwy, Islip, NY

FRA PRESIDENTEN:

Here are a few items from our April 2017 meeting held last Friday April 21, 2017: Our meeting had three guests: Steve Helmold—Zone Director, Karen Olsen Helmold—District Secretary and Bob McKeever—Sons of Norway Insurance Representative. Darlene and Cindy again provided us with a very delicious “Cold Board” giving us a nice time to sit down and have a nice talk with each other. Thank you both very much. During the month of April I had received a leter from Commander R. Johnson of Rusy-Bohm Post 411 inviting us to participate in their Islip Memorial Parade. Afer some discussion, it was decided that we would participate. My feeling was that we would get some good atendance to the parade. Larry proposed that we create a banner for the occasion, and at this time most of you should have seen a draf version that I have distributed via an email. The annual Zone 1 Memorial Service will again be held at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on May 7 at 3:00pm. Again, as last year, Norden Lodge is arranging a bus to Brooklyn for the Annual 17th May parade on May 20. Following the parade we will take the bus to Nansen Lodge on Staten Island to continue our 17th May celebration for a couple of hours. The cost of the bus is $15 with a check to “Norden Lodge”. The Nansen Lodge will charge you $15 for food and entertainment. For all of you who cannot walk in the parade, the bus will take you up the Parade Stand at Leif Erikson’s Park, where chairs will be available to experience the whole parade from there. Just a reminder, the Zone Scholarship support at “Star Theater” Sunday June 11. Performance: “Drowsy Chaperon”. And lastly, there will be a fishing trip in August this year, we will not have any upfront payment, we do know there are members who will turn up so an arrangement will be made. Anyone can arrive and join us there at the preset dock and time. More about timing later. Anybody just turning up, may have to pay a couple of dollars more.

Fraternally,

Asbjørn

The mission of Sons of Norway is to promote and to preserve the heritage and culture of Norway; to celebrate our relationship with other Nordic Countries, and provide quality insurance and financial products to our members.

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MONTHLY ANNOUNCEMENTS

Please be advised: Sunshine Commitee Did you know? The LAST DAY to submit You can view all 3rd district Brad Andersen newsletters at information to be included in www.3dsofn.org. Nancy Russo The Ibsen Courier is the 25th of Jane Mawhinney Our newsletter is available Margaret Lageraaen online at www.llund.com/ each month. newsletters/.

COURIER BOOSTERS Anyone with ideas for monthly social activities, please contact Darlene Kern Gladys Everson: 3/2017 Grace Schumacher: 11/2017 (631-666-7668). L. & M. Lund: 11/2017 Asbjørn Lageraaen: 11/2017 For ideas regarding cultural activities, please contact Asbjørn Lageraæn. Bette & Dave Stahl: 12/2017 Margaret Lageraaen: 11/2017

Marie Von Seggern: 12/2017

May Cake Committee: Darlene Kern & Cindy Biancospino

To support The Ibsen Courier, please send a check (“Henrik Ibsen Lodge”) or cash ($12) to our Financial Secretary: Cynthia Biancospino, 179 Studley St., Brentwood, NY, 11717

May Lodge Birthdays

Barbara Johnsen 4 Cynthia Biancospino 24 Gratulerer Vanessa Von Seggern 7 Laura Stahl 28 med Daniel Johnson 9 dagen! Karen Scot 12 Edna Mae Nordby 14 Grace Schumacher 16 Larry Gustavson 21

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LODGE CALENDAR

L ODGE BUSINESS/SOCIAL CALENDAR 2017

Date Event Details

MAY 19 Business Meeting Sister’s Night Pot Luck Supper, Sister’s Skit

JUNE 16 Business Meeting TBD

JUNE 17 Captree Beach Party 4PM, charcoal provided, BYO food/ drink

JULY No Business Meeting

AUGUST No Business Meeting

AUGUST TBD Fishing Trip TBD

SEPTEMBER 15 Business Meeting Welcome Back Pizza Party, Right-Left- Center

OCTOBER 20 Business Meeting Hotdogs, fixings, TBD

OCTOBER TBD Barn Dance TBD

NOVEMBER 17 Business Meeting Catered Turkey Dinner

DECEMBER 9 Children’s Jultrefest TBD

DECEMBER 15 No Business Meeting

DECEMBER TBD Adult Jultrefest TBD

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ZONE FLYERS

SCANFEST 2017 THE DROWSY CHAPERONE

Support the ZONE ONE scholarship on June 11, 2017 At the Star Playhouse: Commack, NY $20 per person Includes reception @ 1PM & show @ 2PM Join us for dinner afer at the Bonwit Inn Sunday September 3rd For an additional $40.00 per person you get: Salad, choice of penne a la vodka, baked clams, mozzarella & BUDD LAKE, NJ tomatoes Choice of chicken parm, veal marsala, boneless short ribs, Broiled salmon or eggplant rollatini Via Zone 1 Bus: $30.00 p/p mousse cake ❖ 1st pick up LIE & Route 110 7:30AM Soda, coffee or tea ❖ 2nd Christopher Morley Park Make checks payable to S/N Zone One Committee before 8:00AM the deadline of June 4th ❖ 3rd PC Richards, 276 86th St. Bay Mail to: Ridge 9:00AM Karin Ryan 152 Caldwell Avenue Saint James, NY 11780

For bus reservations and info please contact Barbara Kristiansen at 718-680-4684

Bus tickets must be paid for by July 17th Checks made payable to S/N Zone 1 Committee

H ENRIK IBSEN LODGE 3-393 | MAY 2017 !4 M AY 2017

CULTURE CORNER WITH ASBJØRN

HISTORY JOHAN THRONE HOLST, Freia Chocolate Company Johan Throne Hoist built a dynasty, revolutionized the workplace - and reengineered Norwegian taste buds. Though small in stature, at 1.6 meters (5 feet three), Johan Throne Holst was a colossal presence in other ways. Entrepreneur, social reformer; politician, scientific innovator, writer and benefactor, he personified the Scandinavian industrial activist with world vision. He may never escape the moniker of "chocolate king," his products familiar to every Norwegian, but his influence runs deep. The legacy of Johan Throne Hoist (1868-1946) follows you everywhere in Norway. If, like many a traveler, you arrive famished in Oslo, he might feature in your first transaction. A crunchy option is the chocolate — introduced in 1937 and still a signature product for a nation on the go. Chocolate was Holst's road to influence, but it could have been anything for the born entrepreneur. Raised in Sør-Trøndelag, the restless 21-year-old upped stakes in 1889 and moved to the capital (then Kristiania) seeking wider horizons and a creative outlet. After study spells in Britain and Germany, he found an opportunity in Rodeløkka, in east Oslo. For just 9,000 kronor he bought a struggling cocoa concern in a country with little home market or production. By decade's end, AIS Freia Chocolate Fabrik had captured a quarter of the domestic market. By 1914 it accounted for more than half. Freia was now Norway's premier firm, a landmark achievement. Apart from punishing hours, his "secret" lay in going retail in 1899, with a boutique on Karl Johans Gate that's still there; and by going commercial in a big and inventive way. Freia billboards were first to light up the night sky above Oslo, its ads synonymous with theaters and cinemas in the bustling capital. The Freia stork became official logo in 1915, making this year the famous bird's 100-year anniversary. Freia was everywhere, and boldly associated with the nation; "Et lite stykke Norge" (a small piece of Norway) still greets hungry purcherses. Had his career peaked there, he'd be just another right-place, right-time success story. Yet Hoist was just getting started. He was swept into the post-independence political world, helping found Frisinnede Venstre (Free thinking Lefts) a liberal faction that prefigured Høyre (conservatives). Briefly he served in Parliament. But politics was never his true métier. That was industry, and he was taking it in new directions. One was outward expansion, the other a fearless re-assessment of the modern firm itself. He set out his vision in Industri og industrielle problemer, published in 1914. His finger on the European pulse, Holst had lived briefly in Hamburg and knew Germany as a land of industrial reform, not just strutting tyrants. Worker health and betterment became a lodestar for Freia and eventually, Norway. The result was a series of path-breaking initiatives. Freia introduced the 48-hour week, on-site chemical labs and a health policy staffed with doctors. Ever image-conscious, he even hired manicurists. After the War he laid out Freiapark, dotted with statues by Vigeland; and in 1921, he contracted Edvard Munch to paint a series of bucolic murals for Freia's dining hall, the Freia Frieze. A curious combination of elitism and populism, Hoist wanted only the best for his people. A self-styled "pragmatic-idealist," he experimented untiring Science was a consuming passion. It may seem odd that a man who catered to the Norwegian sweet tooth was a nutritional enthusiast, but he hailed cocoa's health properties. Given Norwegians' love of coffee, it was frequently served to children. But for Hoist, cocoa would be a better and tastier alternative for the younger set. It helped that Roald Amundsen's dog sledges pulled a cargo of Freia cocoa to the South Pole in December 1911. It was independent Norway's first triumph, and polar imagery still graces some Freia wrappers. What a bold message: Freia products are fuel for . Holst's elder brother, Peter, became a medical pioneer, while the Holst Foundation today funds nutrition research. Going Wider The outbreak of war in 1914 kick-started his expansion plans. Food blockades would cripple Freia's (and Norway's) dependence on sugar imports. On private initiative, he went to Germany and secured wartime deliveries. In 1916 he set up a separate chocolate concern in Sweden, . It struggled at first, saved by another Hoist intervention – this time by his eldest son, Henning. By the 1930s Marabou came to outsize Freia itself. For the first time a Norwegian company had spawned a Nordic empire, and Holst a family dynasty. Henning Hoist, a key Swedish industrialist, later dominated the frozen-food industry with trade names like Findus. As a family concern, it rivaled Denmark's Carlsberg beer dynasty – without Carlsberg's famous feuds. Few Swedes know that Marabou, the country's biggest name in chocolate, or that Marabou Park, voted 's most beautiful, have a solidly Norwegian parentage. Not everything Hoist touched turned to gold. Expansions into Danish and French markets turned sour, as did a cocoa plantation in Ecuador. But he never stopped tinkering. Freia's innovative ads molded Norway's wider image, their social focus shifting from stuffy salons to outdoor life by the 1930s. An associate of polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen, Hoist was picked in 1917 for Nansen's `America Commission" to negotiate a vital trade deal with the US. But he struggled with the summer heat and the grind of diplomacy in English. His nerves, always delicate, took a hit. He soon returned to Norway, but the groundwork eventually paid off. The specter of radical socialism riled him even as he made Freia a reformist model. He introduced worker shareholding, an idea so advanced that labor advocacy groups only endorsed it decades later. Still, with the Depression's onset, Freia suffered a crippling strike just as he headed Norges Industriforbund. After flirting with hard-right nationalism he broke with Vidkun Quisling in 1932 and came to advocate a "third way" for society. And in a final intervention in 1941, Hoist opposed measures that would render Norway economically vulnerable – patriotic, measured and independent-minded to the last.

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ZONE CALENDAR

Z ONE CALENDAR 2017

Date/Time Theme/Event Details

MAY 7 Memorial Service St. Mark’s Church, 3PM

JUNE 11 Scholarship Play Star Theatre “Drowsy Chaperon”

SEPTEMBER 3 Scanfest Bus $30/person, see lyer

OCTOBER 15* Zone Bowling Farmingdale lanes, $15/person lyer to follow

TENTATIVE 2017 NYC Scandinavian Bazaars more to follow

AT LAND OF THE VIKINGS - MAKE RESERVATIONS WITH BEV (570) 461-3500 OR [email protected]

MAY 5—MAY 7 Golf & Kentucky Derby Pary

JUNE 1* Youth Camp Registration Deadline

AUGUST 12 Summer Fair at LoV antique cars, food, vendors, etc

OCTOBER 10—11* Ole and Lena’s Wedding Celebration

Question: What would you like to see the Zone offer as an activity? Please bring it up during the Zone Report at the next lodge meeting. Remember it’s your Zone— Only you can make the Zone strong. Atend as many activities and events as possible. Your Lodge representatives to the Zone, Asbjørn, Helen & Ken

H ENRIK IBSEN LODGE 3-393 | MAY 2017 6! M AY 2017

THIRD DISTRICT BOWLING CHALLENGE

THIRD DISTRICT BOWLING CHALLENGE

Rules: There will be 4 bowlers per team. Teams will bowl 3 games. Teams may be men’s, ladies, mixed or youth. (Youth ages 6 - 16) Teams may be made up of members from more than one lodge within a zone. Bowlers may not bowl on more than one team. Lodges may submit more than one team.

Time Frame: February thru May, 2017 Scores and a team photo must be mailed to 3D Sports and Rec Director by June 15.

Fees: $25.00 per represented lodge with monies to go to Charitable Trust. $15.00 per represented team with monies to go toward prizes and other expenses. Bowling and shoes will be responsibility of the teams to the bowling centers.

Prizes: 1st and 2nd place will be awarded to teams with highest total scores with handicap for 3 games. High game scratch man and high game scratch woman High game handicap man and high game handicap woman High series handicap man and high series handicap woman Youth prizes to be determined.

My intentions are to get the results out to you by the end of June providing I have the scores and photos by June 15th. Photos can be emailed in .jpg format to me at: [email protected].

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DISTRICT 3 BOWLING TOURNAMENT

I will need this form returned to me by June 15th along with the following: 1 check per lodge for $25.00 payable to the 3rd District Charitable Trust and one check of $15.00 per team made out to Sons of Norway 3rd District to cover awards and other expenses. Your team names, photo and scores with handicaps if you have them. If you submit bowling results without the team fee ($15 per team of 4) the results will not be counted as part of the 3-D bowling Tournament.

Print Please LODGE NAME:______LODGE # ______

If this is a youth team, please circle youth

Team #1 ______Game Scores ABC Player Name 1 2 3 Average #1 ______

#2 ______

#3 ______

#4 ______

Add additional teams on another sheet and return to me: Andy Mathisen, 3rd District Sports and Recreation Director, 15 Wilkins Court, Tinton Falls, NJ, 07724.

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FROM THE 3D PRESIDENT

May is such a great month. The month is full of occasions to celebrate –Syttende Mai, Memorial Day, Mother’s Day and Spring!

Publication of District 3, The mild winter this year caused early blooms but the last snow/ice storm wiped out Sons of Norway my daffodils. The tulips and hyacinths are in full bloom. The roses and lilacs are htp://www.3dsofn.org getting ready to bloom. I had to use plenty of “deer away” to protect my tulips but it Mary B. Andersen, President worked! Next I have to work on the weeds and will be looking at adding some soil nutrients , as some of my azaleas didn’t make it through the last storm. Have you noticed the facebook posts regarding the declining bee population and how that will impact food production? Scary stuff. So, what is this all leading to? Analogies – you know by now that I like analogies. From time to time we should look at our lodges and do some weeding, spray some deer away, add nutrients and apply a little nontoxic pesticide. It might be time to weed out stale programs and try something new. Spray a little “let’s give it a try” on the naysayers or those that will say “we never did it that way”, “that won’t work”. We must nourish and protect new ideas like we protect our plants. Sometimes, you may find that you have to use a little friendly persuasion to isolate a stubborn weed and make a concerted effort to sprinkle some peace and harmony. We must protect all the good that we have and nourish the new growth. Don’t let the weed mentality take over; we don’t want to be facing what the bee colonies are facing. The good news is that many lodges have been working on these very things! I see seeds being planted in the form of new programs and venues. Flowers are blooming in all parts of the District. We have new faces trying new things and it is exciting to watch! Let’s always remember to “nourish” our lodge leaders who do so much, often behind the scenes, with a thank you every now and then. A pat on the back can go a long way. Sprinkle gratitude freely and try to reach those members you haven’t seen in a while. You will be rewarded with a vibrant and strong lodge. I can’t thank you all enough for what you do for Sons of Norway and the Third District. I see it and I appreciate

Mary

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SONS OF NORWAY

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