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N Signs of spring ... President’s report ...... 2 A O J

Y From the office; calendar ...... 3 B O T

O Annual meeting report ...... 4-5 H P Heritage House update ...... 5 Picture this: Two milestone birthdays 6 Ski-jump champ goes to school . . . . 6-7 The Scandinavian Heritage: Charles Lindbergh, Amer. hero . . 8-9 Gifts, memorials aid park . . . . . 10-11 Fiske honored by Clergy Academy . . 12 Scandinavian Society reports . . 13-15 Tracing Your Scandinavian Roots: Old books, new resources . . . . . 16

The snow melts along a path leading to SHA Park’s giant Dala Horse. Right: A few good books... see pages 7 and 16 Page 2 • March 2011 • SCANDINAVIAN HERITAGE NEWS

President’s MESSAGE Scandinavian Heritage News Vol. 24, Issue 53 • March 2011 SHA banquet just ahead Published quarterly by . by Gail Peterson, president ing tickets, and The Scandinavian Heritage Assn Scandinavian Heritage Association you may also pur - 1020 South Broadway chase them at the 701/852-9161 • P.O. Box 862 Minot, ND 58702 e are already into the new year, SHA office. e-mail: [email protected] and this will be my fourth year Spring is ap - Website: scandinavianheritage.org Was SHA president. I would like to proaching, and thank everyone for all of their help we will be getting Gail Peterson Newsletter Committee and support. It has been a privilege ready for Mid - Lois Matson, Chair serving you, and I look forward to the summer Night, a Al Larson, Carroll Erickson new year and all that it brings to our festival I know many of us look for - Jo Ann Winistorfer, Editor organization. ward to after our long, cold winter. 701/487-3312 We will now be preparing for our As always, we welcome new board [email protected] annual banquet. Doris Slaaten and Liz members, and this year I am happy to Gjellstad will chair the event. George announce that Sue Weston has agreed Al Larson, Publisher – 701/852-5552 Officer and I will co-chair the silent to serve as treasurer. Besides Sue, auction. Verla Rostad has also agreed Everett Olson, Adelaide Johnson. Les Strege and Bob Wheeler have agreed to help with the event. The banquet SCANDINAVIAN HERITAGE will be held at the Holiday Inn this to one-year terms on our board. ASSOCIATION year, and I know it will be a fun-filled Please be careful on all of the ice 1020 South Broadway • P.O. Box 862 evening. Board members will be sell - around town, and think spring! • Minot, North Dakota 58702 Phone 701/852-9161 2011 O FFICERS Gail Peterson President E Peder Rice Vice President YOU’R Marion Anderson Secretary D! Sue Weston Treasurer INVITE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Three-year terms ending January 2014 Jerome Jorgenson Jim Maragos Lois Matson Peder Rice Bob Sando Ernie Selland SHA ANNUAL BANQUET Joan Varty Neil Zimmerman Three-year terms ending January 2013 SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2011 YOU’R Marion Anderson Ron Bieri IN E Liz Gjellstad Jana Hennix VITED! Gail Peterson Virgil Rude Holiday Inn Riverside, Minot Three-year terms ending January 2012 Social hour 5:30 p.m. • Dinner 6:30 p.m. Myron Anderson Eva Goodman Erv Johnson John Sinn ON THE MENU : Roast turkey & trimmings Doris Slaaten Robert Whetter Jo Ann Winistorfer Entertainment • Silent auction One-year appointees to January 2012 Adelaide Johnson Everett Olson Les Strege Sue Weston Tickets $20 per person Bob Wheeler Co-chairs Doris Slaaten & Liz Gjellstad Verla Rostad, Office Manager Ex-Officio Members Carroll Erickson , Past President SPEAKER: Melissa Gjellstad Bruce Christenson , Past President Allen O. Larson, Past President Asst. Prof. of Languages/Norwegian Roald Mattson, Past President UND Dept. of Modern & Classical Languages & Literatures George Officer, Past President Mark Anderson, Past President Directors Emeritus Marian Bergan, Director Emeritus Doralyn Brown, Director Emeritus Jeanne McNea, Director Emeritus Helen Haaland, Director Emeritus SCANDINAVIAN HERITAGE NEWS • March 2011 • Page 3

From the OFFICE CALENDAR Busy with plans for 2011 season SPRING 2011 by Verla Rostad path should look SHA office manager and how we can fund it. suppose it’s pretty quiet at your We also talk office these days,” is a common about the en - c“omI ment I hear during the winter trance to the Her - months. There is no denying that the ac - itage House tivity level in the park and Gift Shop is Museum itself; it much slower during the winter months. should be more • Scandinavian Heritage However, that doesn’t mean there is accessible to folks Association Annual Banquet, nothing going on! with mobility is - Saturday, April 2, 2011, During the winter we reflect on the sues. So a ramp Holiday Inn Riverside, Minot Verla Rostad past year: What went well? What can and larger landing Social hour begins 5:30 p.m., we do better? Along with serving as the by the door enter banquet at 6:30 p.m. office manager, I am the Tours Commit - the plans as well. • Sons of Norway Thor Lodge tee chair for the board of directors. Dur - Plans are coming together for the an - Potet Klubb dinner, ing the summer of 2010 we were able to nual SHA Banquet and Silent Auction, Monday, March 21, 2011, 6:30 have the park buildings open evenings which will be held on April 2 at the Hol - p.m., First Lutheran Parish until 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, iday Inn Riverside. You’ll find more in - Hall, Minot thanks to volunteer teams. formation on the opposite page. Unlike most of our day-time volun - The Midsummer Night Festival is • Sons of Norway Thor Lodge teers, who commit to a half day each scheduled for the evening of Friday, Luncheon/Bake Sale, week (Monday afternoons, Wednesday June 24. Save the date! More details will Saturday, April 16, 2011, mornings, etc.), our evening teams appear in the June issue of the newslet - lower level of Scandinavian share their shift with others. Most teams ter. Heritage Assn. headquarters were made up of six or eight individu - Elsewhere in the newsletter you will NEXT SHA BOARD MEETING: als—some couples—who worked out a find a report from Jeanne McNea on Friday, March 25, 2011, at noon schedule among themselves to cover plans for the Heritage House Museum NEXT NEWSLETTER DEADLINE: the evening shift on a given day. Our this summer. In order for an exhibit on Copy and pictures—May 15, 2011 goal is to expand to Friday evenings, early Minot to be complete and interest - Printing date—June 1, 2011 and to recruit teams to share Saturday ing for visitors, we need photos of im - morning and afternoon shifts, and also migrants and early settlers! Sunday afternoon. The copy machine in the office has a Another goal is to have the Heritage scanner, so if you bring your photos in MARCO’S RESTAURANT House Museum open whenever the to the office, we can scan them, jot park buildings are open. We need more down the information that will identify Just across the street from Scandinavian Park people, but are asking them to commit them, have a cup of coffee and you can Town & Country Center • 1015 South Broadway less time, in a more flexible setting. Vol - leave with your photos in hand. For a “Fast Lunch” or “To Go” call ahead 839-4433 unteers all seem to agree on one thing: Please consider sharing your family the people you meet are so interesting! history with us through photos—no Winter is also a good time to dream matter if your family was among the about how we can improve the park first in the Minot area or if they arrived THE HEART of a and the visitors’ experience to the park. later. community is There have been conversations about Remember, the Scandinavian Her - installing a path to connect the paths in itage Park was built out of the dreams reflected the park with the Heritage House Mu - of the members of the Scandinavian in the seum. As it is now, visitors to the Her - Heritage Association. itage House Museum must walk across What are your dreams? How can we quality the lawn—which is uneven—or return make the Scandinavian Heritage Park of its to the parking lot and walk along the even better? • sidewalk next to the street. Without a parks. path, many visitors don’t even realize the Heritage House Museum is part of MINOT PARK DISTRICT the park. So we think about how that 420 Third Avenue SW • 857-4136 Page 4 • March 2011 • SCANDINAVIAN HERITAGE NEWS

Directors being installed at the SHA annual meeting include (from left) Les Strege, Sue Weston, Lois Matson, Ernie Selland, Jerry Jorgenson, Jim Maragos and Everett Olson. Past SHA president Al Larson (far right) handled the formalities. Seated at the table (foreground) is volunteer greeter Mitchell Koch. Helen Haaland (left in center photo) accepts her Director Emeritus certificate from SHA president, Gail Peterson.

Among the officers elected at the annual meeting were (from left) Gail Peterson, president; Marian Anderson, secretary; and Sue Weston, treasurer. Not pictured is Peder Rice, vice president. Al Larson (right) emceed the election portion of the meeting. SCANDINAVIAN HERITAGE NEWS • March 2011 • Page 5

At annual meeting—

Officers elected, Helen Haaland honored as Director Emeritus

t the annual meeting of the Scan - dinavian Heritage Association on AJan. 29, 2011, long-time SHA board member Helen Haaland was awarded the status of Director Emeritus. Helen was recognized for her tireless work in the area of fundraising over the years. Thanks, Helen, for the gift of your time and treasure over the years! A group of board members were elected to three-year terms, which will Heritage House report— end in January 2014. They were Jerome Jorgenson, Jim Maragos, Lois Matson, Peder Rice, Bob Sando, Ernie Wanted: Volunteers; photos, articles Selland, Joan Varty and Neil Zimmer - man. Appointed by President Gail Pe - terson to one-year terms were Everett and artifacts on early Minot area Olson, Les Strege, Sue Weston, Ade - by Jeanne McNea, all have our own priorities, but our or - laide Johnson and Bob Wheeler. SHA Heritage House committee ganization and our park were built by Officers elected for 2011 were Presi - volunteers and we would like to keep dent Gail Peterson, Vice President he calendar shows that spring and it that way as much as possible. For Peder Rice and Secretary Marion An - summer should be coming soon. the Heritage House, we need volun - derson, all returning for another term. TWe hope the weatherman pays atten - teers on our committee to help set up Treasurer Sue Weston replaces Jerome tion to the calendar after the long, cold displays, to do some research and to Jorgenson, who asked to retire from and snowy winter. guide visitors through the house. the position of treasurer but has The Heritage House committee has Our committee meets the second agreed to remain active on the board. been taking a break since October, but Thursday of each month at 9 a.m. Minutes from the annual meeting will resume monthly meetings in Most of us take a shift at the house will be published in the Annual Re - March. We will be doing some spring each week, but we need more people port, which is available upon request cleaning and making plans for the to fill every slot. Weekday shifts are at the office. Call 701/852-9161 if you summer. Plans at this time are to have from 9:30 to 12:30 and 12:30 to 4. would like a copy. pictures, artifacts and stories of early If enough people sign up, we could Drawings for door prizes were Minot and the area nearby. Other be open for two hours in the evening. held at the conclusion of the business items will be added, and some that we Last year we did not have enough vol - meeting. Winners were Sue Weston have will be rearranged so that the unteers to keep the house open on (Telemark book), Ernie Selland (rose - museum will have a different look to weekends, but we hope that will maling cards), Sonja Hernes and Fran returning visitors. change. Sunday hours would be 1 to 4 Braaten (calendars), and Mitchell Items anyone would like to share p.m. Koch and Jana Hennix (table nap - can be brought to the office for the Anyone who would like more infor - kins). • committee to look at and decide what mation, please call me—Jeanne we can use. Pictures and news stories McNea—at 701/838-0163. Leave a can be scanned at the time they are message if I don’t answer and I will brought in, so it is not necessary to get back to you. • leave them with us. Everyone is busy these days and we Page 6 • March 2011 • SCANDINAVIAN HERITAGE NEWS

Ski-jump champion Casper Oimoen ‘goes to school’ by Verla Rostad

hen former Minoter Casper Oimoen was inducted into the WNorth Dakota Rough Rider Hall of Fame in 1973, he was the first tradesman to hold the honor. Famous as an Olympic ski jumper, Oimoen was also an accomplished brick mason. “A Rough Way to Fly Between Earth and Sky” is a memoir of the life of Casper Oimoen written by his daughter, Sonja Oimoen Stalions. Casper emi - grated from Norway to Minot in 1923 as a 17-year-old young man. He continued his sport of ski jumping by competing in regional competitions and became rec - ognized as the top jumper in the U.S.— winning three national championships. He competed in the Olympic Winter Games in 1932 and 1936. But Casper be - lieved that it is important for an athlete Ski jumping champion from Minot, Casper Oimoen, has been honored via a statue in SHA to pay his own way, so even when he Park (left) and a portrait that hangs in the State Capitol building’s hall, along with those of was competing in ski jumping during other North Dakota Rough Rider Award winners. Casper was so honored in 1973. the winter months, he worked as a brick layer during the summer building sea - sons. ask for the transcript to review. fourth-grade classes at Longfellow Last winter, Sonja wrote a revised I was invited to three classrooms to School welcomed me into their class - version of the book for children. Minot make a presentation about Casper rooms. I was able to share Casper’s story teachers were invited to use it in their Oimoen. The third graders at Our Re - and some of the memorabilia the classrooms this year. We had 10 teachers deemer’s Christian School and both Oimoen family has shared with us. The

PICTURE THIS! Two ‘nonagenarians’ celebrate birthdays

wo longtime, active directors and volunteers at SHA Park Tcelebrated milestone birthdays the past two months. George Officer, shown below surrounded by his son, Roy, and wife, Jeanice, turned 91 on Feb. 5. A family gathering took place on that day; on Feb. 7, birthday cake and coffee were served at the Scandinavian Her - itage Association office in Minot. John Sinn (far right) be - came a nonagenarian on Jan. 20. His family held a 90th birth - day bash for John at the Holiday Inn Riverside. The photo at right shows some of John’s friends congratulating him during the event. Both men are proof that age is just a number. George’s SHA project is the Gol Stave Church Museum; John is SHA’s buildings and grounds chairman. • SCANDINAVIAN HERITAGE NEWS • March 2011 • Page 7

Verla Rostad, SHA office manager (background) introduces third-graders at Minot’s Our Redeemers Christian School to Casper Oimoen. Included in the presentation is a photo display and a case containing Casper’s ski-jumping medals.

Longfellow students were excited to Oimoen. We also offered the option for know that they could see the hills that allowing us to photograph the fireplace were once the site of a ski-jump struc - or patio for a photo display. Responses ture from their classroom windows! I are still coming in. was able to share a bit of Minot’s history I am confident that we will have a with the children and hopefully instill in photo display that will allow us to them an interest in the Scandinavian showcase Casper’s work. We may have Heritage Park at the same time! a driving tour with a list of addresses Sonja also remembered some of the and, if more interest surfaces, possibly a homes and buildings that reflect Tour of Homes. Casper’s work as a brick mason. We Besides residential work, Casper was have been working this winter to verify involved in brickwork on many public the addresses and have contacted cur - buildings in Minot. Those buildings will rent residents, asking them to complete be included when we showcase the ma - a survey. We asked residents if they sonry of Casper Oimoen. • would be willing to open their homes to Oimoen’s biography, “A Rough Way to Ride Between Earth and Sky,” earned the a Tour of Homes, since many Minot International Skiing History Association’s Ullr Award in 2004. Two SHA directors helped homes have fireplaces, patios and exte - with the book: Jo Ann Winistorfer(design/layout/editing) and Allen O. Larson (publisher). rior accent brickwork by Casper Page 8 • March 2011 • SCANDINAVIAN HERITAGE NEWS

When he’d had enough of the reac - The Scandinavian Heritage • 21 tionary spirit prevailing in his home - land, Manson—now Lindbergh— took his family to Sauk Centre, Minn., in 1860, where he built a 12- by-16-foot log cabin. This was quite a comedown in lifestyle. Before leaving Sweden, members of the parliament gave him a medal made of solid gold. After arriving in America, he traded the medal for a plow. Trinkets meant nothing to him. Those sterling qualities were passed on to his children. His son, Charles August Lindbergh Sr., named after the king of Sweden, became a lawyer and made his home in Little Falls. Later he was elected to the U.S. Congress five times, defeated only because he voted to oppose Amer - ica’s entry into World War I. His wife had degrees from Michigan and Co - lumbia universities. She had gone to Little Falls to teach chemistry. Charles Lindbergh: American hero Charles Jr. was born Feb. 4, 1902, in Detroit. He never attended a full by Arland Fiske born in 1810, was a peasant farmer year of school in one place until he who broke loose from his economic entered the University of Wisconsin. he Last Hero” is the way biog - servitude and was elected to the Riks - After a year and a half, young rapher Walter S. Ross described dag (parliament) at age 39. He struck Charles decided that the University C“haT rles Augustus Lindbergh. There is up a friendship with the Crown was no place for him. So he enrolled no doubt about the hero status of this Prince, who became King Charles XV in a flying school in Lincoln, Neb., tall, handsome and boyish-looking in 1859, and was named his secretary. against the wishes of his father. His Swede from Minnesota. When Lind - A man of high principles, his goal in mother, however, thought it was bergh returned to New York after his government was to campaign for so - great and went barnstorming with triumphant nonstop flight to Paris, he cial reform. The privileged classes him around the country. At the Army was greeted with the city’s greatest were enraged at his efforts and man - Air School at Brooks Field, Texas, parade. It’s estimated that up to aged to trump up charges of embez - Charles graduated at the head of hs 4,500,000 admirers lined the sidewalks zlement against him where he was a class in 1925. leading to Central Park on June 13, loan officer in a bank at Malmo. Six years earlier, a New York finan - 1927, and more than 3,500,000 pounds of ticker tape was dropped on his en - tourage. The first air mail stamp was dedicated to him. Honors were given him by the governments of the United States, France and Germany, as well as private recognitions. That was a turbulent time, and America needed a hero. Historian Page Smith, now retired from UCLA, stated that “leaders were in disrepute; politicians, alive and dead, had come under severely critical scrutiny.” The young flier from Little Falls, Minn., had captured the world and taken people’s minds off their troubles. In his autobiography, “We,” Lind - bergh wrote about his family back - Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis visited Fargo, N.D., on Friday, Aug. 26, 1927. From left: ground. Their name in Sweden had Murray Baldwin (president of the Fargo Aeronautic Club), Lindbergh and Fargo Mayor been Manson. Grandpa Ole Manson, J.H. Dahl. SCANDINAVIAN HERITAGE NEWS • March 2011 • Page 9

and Germany. Unfortunately, he was - General in the Air Force Reserve. n’t a sophisticated diplomat. He Lindbergh died of lymphatic can - didn’t say what the Western press cer on the Hawaiian island of Maui wanted to hear. Lindbergh praised on Aug. 25, 1974. The Rev. John Germany’s Luftwaffe as the best air Tincher, a United Methodist pastor force in the world. The Nazis were from Burlingame, Calif., held the fu - delighted and decorated him for it. neral service the following day, read - Immediately he was branded pro- ing these words: “We commit the Hitler and anti-democratic. body of Gen. Charles A. Lindbergh to Nothing could have been further its final resting place, but his spirit we from the truth, and history soon vin - commend to Almighty God, knowing dicated Lindbergh’s judgment. If Bill that death is but a new adventure in Mitchell (acting on Lindbergh’s re - existence and remembering how ports) hadn’t worked furiously to Jesus said upon the cross, ‘Father, into build up Britain’s Royal Air Force, Thy hands I commend my spirit.’” Hitler would have had his way dur - Lindbergh was inducted into Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis, the ing the London blitz of 1940. Norsk Høstfest’s Scandinavian-Amer - plane he made famous. The original plane is Lindbergh campaigned hard to ican Hall of Fame in 1991 in Minot, now on display at the National Air and keep the United States out of the war. N.D. A museum has been built in Space Museum in Washington, D.C. His strong anti-Soviet views seem to Lindbergh’s honor at Little Falls, have been a part of his “America Minn. • cier had offered a prize of $25,000 for First” rally participation in Madison • • • the first successful air flight from Square Garden in May 1941. From For more on Charles Lindbergh’s life— New York to Paris. Charles was deter - our present perspective, we’d have to including some highly personal controver - mined to win it. Some St. Louis finan - say that Lindbergh was politically sies—visit the following website: ciers backed his effort, ordering a “unwise.” Still, he was no friend of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh. plane with a 200-horsepower radial the Nazis. For his convictions, he was G

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Paris was 3,500 miles away. He took whose home was found $13,000 of the P off from Roosevelt Airfield on Long $50,000 ransom money, was front- Island at 7:54 a.m. on May 20, 1927, page news for years. People’s hearts and landed at LeBourget in Paris after went out to the Lindberghs so much a flight of 33.5 hours. that even the noted Chicago gangster That was a daring adventure by Al Capone and his wife offered any standards. It had never been $10,000 to get the child back. done before, and his chief competitors The body was found on May 16, for the prize were planning to fly tri - 1932. Hauptmann was arrested in motor planes with extra crew. September 1934 and convicted. I can’t Landing in Paris proved to be dan - remember anyone mourning his Author Arland Fiske gerous. Huge crowds had to be held death in the electric chair on April 3, back by the police or they would have 1936. The media, however, had ex - torn him apart, they were in such a ploited the story to the hilt, and the Editor’s note: This column is the 21st in a celebrating mood. He was rescued Lindberghs never recovered from the series by former Minot pastor, Arland and driven to the American Embassy, wound. Fiske (now living in Moorhead, Minn.), but someone stole his log book out of Though active on corporation retired from ministry in the Evangelical the plane. It was never recovered. boards and a constant round-the- Lutheran Church in America. Fiske has Lindbergh became an instant hero. world traveler, Charles Lindbergh written nine books on Scandinavian her - Then came the dark days. I remember was a very private person, not want - itage. The chapter reprinted here is from being told by our rural grade school ing anyone even to write his biogra - his book, “The Swedish Heritage.” teacher that Lindbergh had gone to phy. Honor was restored on April 7, Europe and was invited to inspect the 1954, to the famous Swede from Min - air forces of England, Russia, France nesota when he was made a Brigadier Page 10 • March 2011 • SCANDINAVIAN HERITAGE NEWS Page 12 • March, 2007 • SCANDINAVIAN HERITAGE NEWS GGiiffttss,, mmeemmoorriiaallss hheellpp pprreesseerrvvee oouurr hheerriittaaggee by Verla Rostad • Myron & Marion Anderson • Arthur & Alpha Sevig Coming soon: Audio• Glenn & N otoursrma Berg of SHA• Bernic ePark! 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As a member of the Scandinavian Heritage Association, You help support: • Interpretative Tours of the Park • The Heritage House Museum MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES • Local School Field Trips • The Annual “Midsommar Natt” SUSTAINING MEMBER • Membership Pin (initial membership) • “Arts in the Park” $35.00 per year • The Scandinavian Heritage News, offi- • Seminars on Heritage and Culture Will receive the SHA Membership cial newsletter of the Association • The on-going preservation and pro- Package, which includes: • Invitation to Annual Banquet and other motion of Scandinavian traditions, • Membership Card good for 10% off SHA events positive values and ethics Scandinavian Gift Shop items • And much, much more! • Annual SHA Gift Packet • Logo window Sticker SPONSOR MEMBER M EMBERSHIP A PPLICATION $100.00 - $499.00 per year Name (please print)______Phone ______Receives the SHA Membership Package, Address______E-mail______plus: City______State______Zip______• Recognition in Newsletter (one issue) I/We wish to support the Scandinavian Heritage Association at the level checked below: • One (1) Complimentary Ticket to the  Sustaining Member  Sponsor Member  Benefactor Member Annual Banquet  Yes, I/We give permission to print our name in the SHA publications BENEFACTOR MEMBER  Please contact us.  I/We would like to become Volunteer(s) at SHA. $500.00 and above per year  Check enclosed $______ Credit Card:  MasterCard  Visa  Discover  Am. Exp. Receives the SHA Membership Package, Card Number ______Exp. Date______plus: Name on Card (please print) ______Signature______• Recognition in Newsletter (one issue) Please mail to Scandinavian Heritage Assn., P.O. Box 862, Minot, ND 58702. Thank You! • Two (2) Complimentary Tickets to the Annual Banquet SCANDINAVIAN HERITAGE NEWS • March 2011 • Page 11

In memory of Arnie Braaten: • Robert & Linda Whetter • Duane & Barb Aase • Michael & Rosann Wold • Mark & Jodi Anderson In memory of Carl Danielson: • Helene Anderson • Glenn & Norma Berg • Myron & Marion Anderson In memory of Vera Goodman: • Daniel & Norma Baranick • Viona Hanson • Marian Bergan In memory of Wendell Haugen: • Ron & Jane Bieri • Glenn & Norma Berg • David & Ardis Braaten • John Sinn • Noris & Joyce Braaten In memory of Mert Indergaard: • Duane & Jeanne Brekke • Ruth McIntyre • James Clute & Sherlene Nelson In memory of LeRoy “Buster” Mackey: • David & Myrna DeMers • The Best family • Eileen Emly In memory of Carol Mays: • Carroll & Noreen Erickson • Carroll & Noreen Erickson • Lyle Fitterer In memory of Rachel Mestad: • Robert Gjellstad • Myrtle M. Husted • Eva Goodman In memory of Lawrence Odland: • Verla Hodgson • John E. Sinn • Hunters Ridge Homeowners In memory of Elenore Officer: Association • John E. Sinn • Anna Indergaard In memory of Harlan O. Olson: Bradley Thomas • Bryan Thomas • Adelaide Johnson • Duane & Barb Aase • Jerome & Pat Jorgenson • Ramona Buettner • Janet Kurth In memory of Odd Osteroos: We are proud of our • Allen O. Larson • Myron & Marion Anderson Swedish Heritage • Lowell & Ann Latimer • Marian Bergan via the • Donna Lawrence • Allen & Nada Butz Quist and Chelgren (Johnson) • Bob & Lois Lindquist • Jim & Barbara Matthews lineages. • Rolly & Iona Loken • George & Jeanice Officer • Armend & RaNae Lynner • Jim & Verla Rostad • Helen Mackey In memory of Tillie Overlee: • Cory & Kari Mahle • Carrol T. Juven d, • Lois Matson • Allen O. Larson d Foo “Goo nks” • Roald & Marilyn Mattson In memory of Ida Pederson: e Dri • Jeanne McNea • Jeanne McNea sNic • Curt Medalen • Nora Pederson • Minot Sash & Door, Inc. • Geraldine Pederson for Reservations, • Norsk Høstfest Association In memory of Richard Priess: call 70 1-83 7-1010 • George & Jeanice Officer • John E. Sinn • Yvonne Peterson In memory of Helen Silseth: Walk-Ins Welcome • David & Leanne Pladson • Ramona Beuttner 10 North Main St. • Phyllis Rasmuson • Craig & Martha Elliott Minot, ND 58703 • Jim & Verla Rostad • Curt Medalen • Virgil & Geraldeen Rude Other gifts: Open Tuesday–Saturday • Beulah Saunders • A cash gift and future proceeds of 4:00 pm – Close • Ernie & Marilyn Selland a Charitable Remainder Trust • Jerry & Cheryl, Jacob & Becca & from the Edna Solheim estate Andrew Sinn • Gifts from Doris Slaaten (includ- • John E. Sinn ing establishment of an office man- • Doris Slaaten ager’s salary fund) • Irene Solie • A gift to fund a single-table picnic • Thomas Stockert shelter from Roald and Marilyn • Leslie Strege Mattson (in honor of their grand- • Laurette Styles sons) • Ardien & Carolyn Tandberg • L.C. Thomas A memorial or a donation in honor • Laurence & Opal Thompson of a special person, given to the Scan - • Mr. & Mrs. Mike Timm dinavian Heritage Association for • Orlan & Rosella Tollefson preservation of the park, keeps heri- • Duane & Sharlene Tollefson tage alive for future generations. 1831 BURDICK EXPRESSWAY WEST • MINOT • Joan Varty Thank you, donors. Look for more Call Us…852-5552 • Dennis Vasek listings of memorials and other dona - • Clair Watne tions in future issues. • Page 12 • March 2011 • SCANDINAVIAN HERITAGE NEWS

Arland Fiske honored by Academy of Parish Clergy e are pleased to announce that Arland O. Fiske, retired pastor and the author of our “Scandinavian Heritage” col - Wumn in this newsletter (see pages 8-9), has been recognized by the Academy of Parish Clergy for his 20 years of service on the organization’s Book of the Year committee. Fiske’s certificate of appreciation (right) was unveiled during an academy meeting held in Orlando, Fla., Feb. 15-17, 2011. A member of the academy since 1975, Fiske served as the academy’s president for two terms beginning in 1980. He started the Book of the Year award program in his first term, serving as that committee’s chair for the first five years. From 1994-2009, he served as the contact person with major publish - ing houses producing books for pastors. The Academy’s Book of the Year program is highly regarded by publishers. The Academy of Parish Clergy is an ecumenical association of Catholic and Protestant clergy bonded together with an em - phasis on collegiality, continuing education and high profes - This certificate of appreciation was awarded to Arland Fiske sional standards. Fiske is a Fellow in the Academy (FAPC); two for his 20-year service on the Academy of Parish Clergy’s Book of his minister sons, Paul and Christopher, are also members of of the Year committee. the academy. •

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SCANDINAVIAN SOCIETY NEWS ••• Dakota Finnish Society NEWS

Fibny Mnarsion cAnedelrseonb, prresiadentt e theTihre Fhinneishr Siotciaetyg pre sented do - Dakota Finnish Society nations of $250 to the YWCA and $250 to the Salvation Army. Earlier in the e had our Pikkujoulu (Little year we donated $500 to the local Christmas) celebration on Sun - chapter of the American Red Cross Wday afternoon, Dec. 12, 2010. We had and $100 to the Salolampi Foundation approximately 80 present. Several (Salolampi is the Finnish Language non-Finns who had volunteered at Camp at Bemidji, Minn.). Norsk Høstfest were also in atten - A college scholarship of $500 was dance. Guests came from Rolla, awarded to Casey Carlson of St. John, Makoti, Ruso, Fargo, Stanley, New ND. The son of Daryld and Peggy Alfred is very involved with volunteer Town, Wing, Douglas, Washburn, Carlson, Casey is a senior at the Uni - work in the Rolla area and keeps busy Rock Lake, Velva, Mohall and Minot, versity of North Dakota, where he is with many services to his community. in North Dakota. The Kannianens of majoring in banking and financial eco - He has also been doing the mainte - Stanley had many representatives; nomics. This is the seventh scholarship nance of the Finnish Monument Rest members of their family were also we have been able to provide. Area. This was a much-deserved there from Northglenn, Colo., and This past fall we assisted in the re - recognition. Congratulations, Alfred!! Winlock, Wash. The Finnish Society pairs and new trees at the Finnish His - Thank you again to our many vol - furnished the catered meal to all torical Monument Rest Area between unteers at Høstfest who have been so guests. Entertainment was provided Rolla and Rock Lake. This was done at faithful and willing with their help. It by John Halone, Alfred Juntunen, a cost of $2,520 from this society. Old is to their credit that we have been George and Velma Raasakka of Rolla trees and bushes had to be removed able to give out donations to help oth - and Carl Kannianen of Stanley. and dug out, new evergreens were ers. planted, etc. Spring and summer will soon be Alfred Juntunen of Rolla has had here, so the next thing to get ready for feature articles and news clips saluting is Midsummer Night, on June 24, him as an outstanding octogenarian. 2011. Make plans to attend. •

Icelandic Heritage Society N EWS Did you know... ost Icelanders are descendants of Norwegian settlers and Celts from the British Isles. M• Life expectancy, at 81.3 years for women and 76.4 for men, is one of the highest in the world. • The Icelandic language is closest to the Old Norse lan - guage, relatively unchanged since the 12th century. • Most Icelandic surnames are based on patronymy, or the adoption of the father's first given name. For example, Mag - nús and Anna, children of a man named Pétur, would hold the surname Pétursson and Pétursdóttir, respectively. Women normally maintain their original surnames after marriage. This system of surnames is required by law, except for the descendants of those who had acquired family names be - Casey Carlson of St. John, a senior at UND, fore 1913. is the latest recipient of a $500 scholarship • Icelanders rarely call each other by their surnames, and even phone direc - awarded by the Dakota Finnish Society. tories are based on first names. • Page 14 • March 2011 • SCANDINAVIAN HERITAGE NEWS

Souris Valley Danish Society N EWS Remembering Grandma’s æbelskivers Again in this issue, we are highlighting family histories of our members. The following is the history of Michael Knoop, Minot. We hope you enjoy these articles. Watch for more of them in future issues of this newsletter.

hen I reflect upon the moves that my ancestors made, leav - iWng homes which were known to them for decades, I wonder why. Research has shown that some left to avoid being conscripted into the Russian army, and others were promised great farmland in the Dakotas. Many of my relatives were from Bessarabia, South Russia, and Germany, with the excep - tion of my grandmother’s family. Ida and Henry Larsen and daughters. The photo was taken in Denmark. My grandmother, Ida Irene Larsen, was born in Vojens, Denmark, on Dec. 16, 1895, one of three daughters along with two sons of Henry and Ida Johann Grill and his wife had left had never before experienced: Larsen. One brother drowned in a sail - Canada to move to North Dakota. It Grandma made Danish æbelskivers ing accident, while the other was was during this visit that Irene met her (apple dumplings) for us! What a struck in the chest with a rifle butt future mother-in-law, Anna Schafer thrill to have those wonderful round during a military activity. Anna, the Knoop Schmidt, and stayed to marry pancake balls instead of the old flat youngest daughter, died from a rup - Anna’s youngest son, Herbert Knoop. ones we were so used to. tured appendix. An older sister, They farmed and ranched on the fam - It was long after my grandparents Katherine, had left Denmark and ily homestead north of Stanton, N.D., passed away that I became more inter - moved to Canada, having married a raising three children, and later mov - ested in learning about my Danish an - German Lutheran minister. ing into town. cestors, their lives and interests. I have Irene arrived in New York in De - Years later, while visiting our made æbelskivers in the hopes that my cember of 1920 with intentions of visit - grandparents, two of my sisters and I grandsons would enjoy the same ex - ing her sister, Katherine Grill. Rev. were treated to a breakfast treat we citement I did when treated to a new dish. After my grandparents were mar - ried, my grandfather had promised to take my grandmother back to Den - mark for a visit, but sadly, this promise was never kept. I often wonder how she would have reacted to returning to her birth country after so many years of living in the United States. • 176 Spacious Rooms • Beauty Salon • Minot’s Finest Corporate • Indoor Heated Pool • Pavilion Restaurant Club The North Dakota Historical Soci - • Two Whirlpools • Ground Round Bar & Grill • Oasis Lounge & Casino ety had interviewed my grandparents • Sauna • Minot’s Largest Convention Center • Gift Shop for a historical project, and I was fortu - • Game Room 2200 Burdick Expressway East, Box 2228, Minot, ND 58702 Phone (701) 852-2504 • Fax (701) 852-2630 nate enough to obtain a copy of that Toll Free 1-800-468-9968 interview. I thoroughly enjoyed listen - Velkommen Til ing to them tell their story about com - Norsk Høstfest! ing to America and how rough their lives were living on the prairie. • SCANDINAVIAN HERITAGE NEWS • March 2011 • Page 15

Thor Lodge Sons of Norway N EWS at 701/362-7497. Is there a Norwegian cultural skill or activity you have wanted to learn or try your hand at? We have many op - portunities available. If you would like S/N Potet Klubb more information on any of our cul - tural classes, call Mary Zurcher at dinner set for March 21 701/362-7468 or just ask one of our by Rob Odden, At our own Thor Lodge, new offi - members. Contact person for Thor president cers have begun serving their term. Lodge dancers is Kari Mahle. Contact Thor Lodge 4-067 Martha Elliott continues to serve as person for Thor Lodge singers is Sonja Sons of Norway vice president of Sons of Norway Dis - Hernes, 701/838-4555. trict IV. Thor Lodge supports Trollfjor - Thor Lodge will host a Luncheon ounder’s Day den, a Norwegian language and and Bake Sale at our lodge home on was observed cultural family summer camp. Troll - Saturday, April 16. Our annual Potet this year by memberFs on Jan. 16. Sons fjorden is open to District IV S/N Klubb Dinner will be on Monday, of Norway celebrates 116 years since Youth Club, District IV members, March 21, at 6:30 p.m. at First its inception. Sons of Norway was their grandchildren and great-grand - Lutheran Parish Hall. Keep the 21st of founded Jan. 16, 1895, by 18 Norwe - children. Trollfjorden will be held June March open on your calendars to gian-American immigrants. Interna - 9-12. The deadline to sign up is May enjoy some Klubb with us. We antici - tional headquarters are in Minnea - 15. If you would like more information pate a large turnout! All are welcome! polis. on Trollfjorden, please call Kari Mahle See you at the Klubb Dinner. •

are part of their celebration. Swedish Heritage Society-NWND N EWS We are encouraging our members to attend the SHA Banquet on April 2 at the Holiday Inn (see ad on page 2 Election held at annual meeting for more information). by Bev Jensen, secretary safeguarding items regarding med - Välkommen to visitors and Swedish Heritage Society-NWND ical concerns. An individual record prospective members. Membership book is available for everyone to dues are $10, which includes a sub - ur society held its annual meet - record personal medical information scription to the magazine “Sweden & ing on Jan. 15, 2011. The follow - for easy access later. America.” • Oing officers were elected to serve this Our next meeting will be on Sat - year. urday, April 9, 12 noon, at the Scan - • President: Bob Soderstrom dinavian Heritage Center, Minot, Our reputation • Vice President: Marcella Nelson where we will enjoy a potluck meal. shines as brightly as our diamonds. • Treasurer: Lois Matson A program will be presented by a • Secretary: Bev Jensen group of lady singers from Minot, Fred, Jr. & Sheri Lien 107 South Main Street • Lunch: Eldora Eliason the “Hattitudes.” 701-838-5151 Minot, ND 58701 • Hospitality: Gerri Larson In addition, we will learn more A “thank you” was given about traditional festival to Loren Anderson for hav - days celebrated in Sweden Caring for you through all during the month of April. ing served as our president the stages of your life. for the past years. His lead - This year, Easter will be ership has enriched our ap - observed as one of their re - preciation for the Swedish ligious holidays. The heritage we share, from an - Swedes also feel this is one cestors to present day. of the best seasons to go A program was pre - for a vacation, holiday trips and enjoy a fun-filled sented by Debi Nelson from Full Service Pharmacy Trinity Medical Center. Her picnic to mark the arrival presentation was entitled of the Easter season. (We Phone: 701-858-6700 will wait to enjoy a picnic in June in Toll Free: 1-800-841-7321 “Medical Identity Fraud.” She pro - www.centerforfamilymedicine.net vided many helpful tips along with North Dakota!) Birch twigs deco - warnings on ways that your identity rated with brightly colored feathers, 1201 11th Ave. SW • Minot, ND 58701 can be used by someone else and on Easter eggs and a traditional brunch CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Minot, ND 58701 Permit No. 266 P.O. Box 862 Minot, ND 58702

Page 16 • March 2011 • SCANDINAVIAN HERITAGE NEWS Tracing your Scandinavian ROOTS • 33 Old books, new resources by Jo Ann Winistorfer tion for his pioneer history project by mailing out 163,000 small books and or anyone interested in Norwegian pamphlets, along with 450,000 circu - immigration history and genealogy, lars and forms to the early immigrants Fa recently translated and published and their families. The stories of those book—”Norwegians in America, their first settlers from Norway, covering History and Record”—can be a boon. both the U.S. and Canada, are Originally called “Nordmaendene i arranged by country, state and county. Amerika, deres Historie og Rekord,” A 5,700-name index is located in the this monumental project was the work back of the book. of Norwegian emigrant Martin Ulves - Publisher of the translated version tad, author, publisher, amateur histo - is Deb Nelson Gourley, owner of Astri rian and linguist. Born in 1865 in Volda My Astri Publishing in Waukon, Iowa. (Volden) in Sunnmøre, Møre/Roms - Astri My Astri has also published dal, Norway, Ulvestad immigrated to another milestone book—based on two the U.S. in 1888. He published three other early immigration histories (1908 separate volumes, in 1901, 1907 and and 1930) written by Norwegian- Norwegian roots. 1913. The fresh-off-the-press version, American Hjalmar Rued Holand. Orig - The extensive name lists of both published in 2010, covers Volume 1 inally containing Dano-Norwegian books are available by visiting Astri and contains both the Norwegian and gothic text, the 2006 English version, My Astri Publishing’s website: www. the English text. “History of the Norwegian Settle - astrimyastri.com. For book details and According to Ulvestad’s bio in the ments” (edited by yours truly), is an - ordering information, log on to the back of the book, he collected informa - other “must” for anyone with same website. •