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JOTTINGS February, March, April 2010 The Danish American Archive and Library John W. Nielsen, Director Jill Hennick, Associate Director Dana College, Blair, Nebraska 68008 ThæW Tel. (402) 426-7910 ho’s Who in Science E-mail [email protected] JOTTINGS February, March, April 2010 ENDOWMENT FUND 600,000 Dane Spends Two Months Forthcoming Lur Book Launches Important New Direction Researching at DAAL With the release of Gustaf Munch-Petersen: Bendt Jensen of Hjoerring, Denmark, spent the Selected Poems in June, Lur Publications launches a months of March and April at DAAL working on a new publishing venture in which it will introduce tourism project in connection with his studies at University College Nordjylland. The project 500,000 American readers to significant works that have appeared in Denmark. This work of Danish poetry involves establishing tourist routes for both Danish has been translated by Brian Young of Port and American travelers to follow as they retrace Townsend, Washington. the routes of their ancestors. Gustaf Munch-Petersen was an early 20th century Bendt’s American experience was enriched by the Danish poet who lost his life when only 26 as a generosity of Thorkild Pedersen, a long-time Blair 400,000 volunteer in the Spanish Civil War opposing resident and recent Archive volunteer, who took Francisco Franco. His poetry was not accepted by him to The Danish Immigrant Museum in Elk Danish critics during his lifetime because it was too Horn, Iowa; the Mormon Cemetery and Museum avant garde. Subsequently it became highly valued in Omaha; the Western Heritage Museum in and Martine Cardel Gertsen, the leading Danish Omaha; the Bertrand Museum and Desoto Wildlife authority on Munch-Petersen has written an Center; Fort Atkinson; the Interstate 80 Arch and introduction to the bilingual Lur edition. Assisting Museum near Kearney, and to Dannebrog. They 300,000 with the layout and design has been Dana senior art also spent time on the Missouri River. student, Mandy Hemphill. Added Shelving Provides As the projected followup to the Munch-Petersen work, Lur is planning a translation of Søren Space for New Collections Daugberg’s Kaj Munk og Tyskland – teater og politik (Kaj Munk and Germany – Theater and The addition of a new range of shelves consisting 200,000 Politics.) This is a study of the Danish resistance of four sections of double-faced shelves has martyr, Kaj Munk, but instead of focusing on recently been installed in the Nielsen Room. This Munk’s wartime resistance and martyrdom which necessitated moving all holdings in order to place are well known to American readers, it concentrates new collections into their proper location and make on Munk’s life in the 20s and 30s when he was additions to existing collections. Bob Krogh who absorbed in German theater and social efforts. As handled the moving and reshelving of all the boxes concluded that the UELC pastors preached some 100,000 with the Munch-Petersen book this will be the first time this work has appeared in English. “mighty weighty sermons!” The Munch-Petersen book is scheduled to appear Bob has also affixed the stamps on the 800 plus the second week of June and will be available from envelopes of previous mailings. The stamps used Lur Publication, DAAL, Dana College, Blair, are acquired at a discount from Boys’ Town Nebraska 68008 for $12.50 plus $3.00 shipping. through the efforts of John Beck. The Archive is 0 Add $1.00 for each additional book ordered. indebted to both men. CASH PLEDGES The Danish American Archive and Library JOTTINGS Page 1 Archive Volunteer Week Again Hennicks Attends Solvang ---------- Offers Service and Fellowship Farstrup-Mortensen Lectures Participants in the Spring Archive Volunteer Week, Jill Hennick and her husband Michael represented the April 19-23, not only accomplished a significant DAAL at the Farstrup-Mortensen Lecture in Solvang amount of work but also engaged in valuable fellowship the weekend of February 26-28. Not only did they during their morning and afternoon coffee breaks. attend the lectures but they were able to meet many Areas of work focused upon were the vast obituary other Danes and experience some of the spirit of the collection, The Danish Brotherhood material, the Danish folk movement. Walker-Johnson collection and the on-going task of translating Danish material. Initial Organization of Music There were 23 volunteers from Colorado, Iowa, Collection Takes Place Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota and Texas that came for the week. They were joined by 15 regular The DAAL through the years has acquired an volunteers who put in more that their usual hours of impressive collection of Danish music – secular and work. religious. Much of it is in Danish; other works consist of performances by Danish artists. The collection Those in attendance were Ruth Randall Benson comprises both books and recordings. The collection (Council Bluffs, IA), Erna Berthelsen (Albert Lea, was significantly expanded when The Danish MN), Borge M. Christensen (Rochester, MN), Norm Immigrant Museum, The Archive at Grandview and Esther Freund (Fremont, NE), Ann George (Blair), University, and The Danish American Heritage Society Janice Hansen (Fremont, NE), Sara Hansen-Walter made DAAL the official repository of all music (Blair), Roger and Marilyn Hanson (Cedar Falls, IA), received. Verlan and Helga Hanson (Blair), Inga and Ralf Hoifeldt (Urbandale, IA), Elaine Hoyer (Blair), To meet the needs of housing these extensive holdings, Lorraine Jensen (Blair), Tim and Sharon Jensen (Blair), The DAAL was fortunate to have a room assigned to it Ada Jeppesen (Blair), Dody Johnson (Iowa City, IA), for that purpose. Now Sandra Wigdahl and Tim Jensen Bee Krantz (Blair), Marilyn Meyer (Everly, IA), John have begun the initial sorting and organizing of this W. and Elizabeth Nielsen (Blair), Thorkild Pedersen music. Efforts are underway to locate someone with a (Blair), Pete and Beverly Petersen (Sioux Falls, SD), knowledge of Danish as well as musicology to assist Larry and Palma Plume (Evergreen , CO), Ruth with this important task. Rasmussen (Omaha), Jens and Eileen Simonsen (Oakdale, NE), Joan Sorensen (Ankeny, IA), Don and Marjorie Wahlgren (Gowrie, IA), Sandra Wigdahl (Blair), and Sharon Dunaway (Hooper, NE) and her New DAAL Brochure sister from Texas. To Be Released Plans to release a new DAAL brochure this summer are Larsen Constructs Base underway. This new brochure will be more visual than For Indian Sculpture verbal. It has been designed by one of DAAL’s work- study students, Belinda Wolverton from Pilger, Phil Larsen of Blair has designed and built an Nebraska. Belinda is a sophomore graphic arts major at appropriate base for the Lakota Sioux sculpture that was Dana. It is hoped that many DAAL supporters will presented to Dana last year in honor of John W. Nielsen request five or more brochures to distribute to friends and the impressive work of The Archive by the sculptor and family thereby introducing The Archive to more Mogens Kiehn. This wooden base replaces a skirted people. table. Larsen donated not only his time and labor but also paid for all materials. The Danish American Archive and Library JOTTINGS Page 2 the Norwegian Royal Consul and Collection Now Accessible Brother Visit Archives By Either Subject or Donor As a result of the efforts of John W. Nielsen and Jill Jens Olesen, the current Norwegian Royal Consul Hennick all of the various Archive collections are General in Sao Paula, Brazil, did family research in The now accessible to users by either the name of the Danish American Archive and Library in Blair, subject or that of the donor. The subject listing is not Nebraska, in early February. He was accompanied by limited to the name of a person but includes such his brother, Lars, who lives in Copenhagen. Both men topics as Danish Baptists and the Rescue of the are Danish and visited DAAL on their way to the Danish Jews. Winter Olympics. Through the efforts of Sharon Jensen and Sandra These men are grandsons of Roger Nielsen who edited Wigdahl a good share of the collection is accessible Den Danske Pioneer early in the twentieth century on the internet. Contact when the paper was published in Omaha. Their mother www.danishamericanarchive.com. Rita Nielsen was born in Omaha. Later the family Hit “Search” on the left hand side. It will take you to returned to Denmark. They were especially interested the search page which has instructions and a in the complete collection of Den Danske Pioneer from connection to the Dana College/Archive catalog. their grandfather’s era. Researcher Spends Several Days Jaspersen-Naegele Presents Using Archive’s UELC Material Audio-Visual on Denmark Maria Erling, a professor from Gettysburg Seminary in On April 21 during Archive Volunteer Week Jean Pennsylvania, spent several days researching the Jaspersen-Naegele returned to her childhood haunts in Archive’s UELC material pertaining to the founding Washington County to present an illustrated talk on and development of the Oaks Indian Mission in Oaks, Denmark. The program combined general interest Oklahoma. This mission was started by the Moravians, material with family pictures and sites for the benefit but when they abandoned it in the late nineteenth of the numerous family members who were in the century, the work was resumed by N.S. Nielsen and audience. subsequently taken over by the United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church. At the close of the evening, Donna Henton, a member of the Jaspersen family presented The Archive with a Maria, the daughter of Dr. Bernhard Erling of Gustavus copy of My Waltz: A Book of Memories, written by Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, is the her mother, Irene Lorsch. granddaughter of former Dana College President Lawrence Siersbeck. Maria’s mother, Marilyn Jean and her husband Rudolph Naegele who live in Siersbeck as a girl and her twin sister Mildred presented Ulm, Germany are world travelers as well as Archive flowers to Queen Ingrid when as Crown Princess she supporters.
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