The Norden Club of Lincoln Our 72Nd Year December 2019 • Next Meeting: Dec 8, 2019 Swedish Smörgåsbord
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The Norden Club of Lincoln www.nordenclub.com Our 72nd Year December 2019 • Next Meeting: Dec 8, 2019 Swedish Smörgåsbord. Hillcrest Country Club. 12:00 Inside this issue: noon Contact Information Dec. meeting information ...... 1 • Reservation and payment to President—Del Stites: Smörgåsbord reservation ............ 2 Ted Ericson needed by Nov. President’s Corner ................. 3 30 402-830-6679 or [email protected] Menu & Calendar 2020 ......... 4 or [email protected] Foundation News ................... 5 Courtesy Report ..................... 6 Norden Club Foundation —Joan Tomlinson Membership report ................. 6 Officers & Committees White: 402-423-0023 or Swedish History ..................... 7 [email protected] Santa Lucia pagaent ............... 8 Swedish Immigration ............. 9 President Del Stites Scandinavian tour ................ 13 Vice President Cyndi Mattson Swedish Smörgåsbord Secretary Sandy Hanson Celebrate an authentic pm. Make sure to stop by the Treasurer Ted Ericson Swedish Christmas on Sunday, Swedish Christmas tree to have Dec. 8 at Hillcrest Country Club, your free photo taken. Membership Mary Brass 9401 E. 'O' St., Lincoln. Our Advance reservation and Courtesy Mary Brass annual Christmas Smorgasbord payment is required by Nov. celebrating Scandinavia is open to 30. Call Ted at 402-464-4682 for Historian Phyllis Ericson the public. This year we highlight reservations. $45 for general Name Tags Ingrid Stites Sweden with a children's candle public, $35 - Norden members, lit St. Lucia pageant! and $15 age 6-12. Free for age 5 Newsletter Len Nelson There is a silent auction of and under. Mail check made out Song Leader Kendra Hartwick Scandinavian items which benefits to Norden Club, with names of all an educational attending (including guest names Pianist Kristina Hanson scholarship fund for that you may be paying for) to: Librarian Phyllis Ericson students to study abroad Norden Club, 4130 N. 42nd St. in Scandinavia. Doors Circle, Lincoln, Ne. Web Master Len Nelson open at 12:00 noon 68504. Please include your email Foundation with hors d'oeuvres and address when you send in your Joan Tomlinson White President cash bar available before check as reservation confirmation a buffet dinner at 1:00 will be done via email. Advertising & PR Terri Heckman Past President Special request: If you host a Swedish foreign exchange student or know of Ron Nielsen someone who does, please have them contact Terri Heckman, #402-421-7142 or Reservations Ron & Karen Nielsen [email protected]. Terri is the foreign exchange student coordinator for Norden's annual Christmas banquets. The Norden Club likes to invite three Scandinavian students from the featured country to be our guests of honor at the Christmas Smorgasbord each year. Other Scandinavian students and their host families are of course welcome to attend as well. The Norden Club promotes fellowship among Scandinavian-Americans and their descendants and helps preserve for the benefit of the United States the best in the cultural heritage of Scandinavia. The countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden make up Scandinavia. Reservations for Christmas Celebration, Sunday, December 8, 2019 @ Hillcrest Country Club, 9401 O Street, Lincoln, NE 68527 Deadline for receiving your reservation AND payment is November 30. Prices are as follows: Adult Norden Club Members, ________ @ $35 each Name(s) ___________________ Adult Non-Members, _________ @ $45 each Name(s) ___________________ Children (Age 6-12) _________ @ $15 each Name(s) __________________ Children 5 years old and younger are free. ____________ Name(s) __________________ Total to be paid to Norden Club is ________________. Note - Please provide the names of all attendees. Also, please provide an email address so we can send you a confirmation of your reservation. Please mail your reservations to: Norden Club c/o Ted Ericson 4130 N 42nd St Circle Lincoln, NE 68504 Please make checks payable to “Norden Club”. If you have questions please send an email to [email protected] Or call 402-464-4682. Ted Ericson How to talk Swedish to Santa Claus (Jul Tomte)! Jul - (Christmas – Yule) – Julafton (Christmas Eve) - Julfest (Christmas Party) God Jul! (Merry Christmas!)(“God” is not the Swedish word for God (that’s Gud), but it means good.) Jul Tomte – Santa Claus (the Jul Elf) Finns det några snälla barn här? (Jul Tomte will ask: Are there any good children here?) Ja! (yes) hopefully not Nej! (No!) Adventskalender (Advent Calendar) Julgran (Christmas Tree) Kan jag få en Jul kaka? (May I have a Christmas cookie?) (Pepparkakor - gingerbread cookie) Julklapp (Christmas present) Tack. (Thank you.) Tack för mat. (Thank you for the meal.) Var så god! (Please.) Välkommen! (Welcome). Hej! Hej! (Goodbye.) December 2019 THE NORDEN CLUB OF LINCOLN PAGE 3 President’s Corner ”Nu är det Jul them out to dry…rather to freeze g), in a snit she stormed out and did Igen!” (Now it is and would bring them in as sheets not return until the next morning. Christmas again!) is the as hard as dried fish! Our first Christmas Eve in Sweden first line of one of the most popular We had to make sure that would be glögg-less! Since that Swedish Christmas songs. Yes, Ingrid’s salary would pay our rent, time Ingrid and I have always now it is Christmas time again. tokens for the tram, and some food. gotten the supplies early lest such a How quickly the months and years Because Ingrid was so embarrassed calamity happen again. I have my float by. Fifty-five years ago, I was about not having any money, each own ‘secret’ recipe (Del’s a student at the University of day she ate her noon meal, one slice Professorns Glögg). So, don’t Stockholm and Ingrid was a shop of hard bread, in the women’s worry, Ingrid and I will be girl selling paper goods at PUB, restroom. The Sunday before supplying a batch for you at this one of Stockholm’s department Christmas that year, we decided year’s Norden Club Christmas stores, to keep us fed. My because it was too late to walk to Smörgåsbord. If it is not the best scholarship had paid for my tuition the Lutheran church a mile or so glögg you’ve ever tasted, you need and airfare to Sweden, but the rest from us, that we would use the two to take another cup full! was dependent on Ingrid’s meager kronor we had left to ride the tram The Norden Club crew is salary. We were too proud to ask over to its Christmas service. We busy getting things ready for a very our parents for help. That fall had were feeling bad and chagrined that Swedish Christmas celebration… been full of new adventures for we didn’t have anything to put in lots of good food and hor d’oeuvres us…newly married, new family the collection. But as we waited for and a special Lucia pageant. We members to meet, studying in a the tram, I looked down and there have robes and materials for all the different culture and language, was a kroner lying between the children who want to be part of being selected by the University to tram tacks. A Christmas miracle? Lucia’s retinue…boys and girls of be one of three students to represent In any case we were so pleased to all ages. Just let us know their the University at the Nobel Prize have something to drop into the names, ages, telephone numbers, presentations, and getting to hear coffer. (A widow’s mite?) and parents or guardians’ names. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. just We had been invited to Send that information to Ingrid after he had been in Oslo to receive spend Christmas in Stockholm city Stites (402-830-6678 or the Nobel Peace Prize. Heady with one of Ingrid’s maiden aunts, [email protected]). There is stuff! Aunt Sara. She was a big-boned, no cost to participate and the The sun sets about 3:00 p.m. soft, kind, and loving woman who Norden Club Executive Committee in Stockholm in December… had worn herself out taking care of has decided to host the meal for the usually a dark, damp, early unwed mothers working for the children who participate. What nightfall…snow on snow. Every Salvation Army. Ingrid’s brother, fun! evening I used to wait for Ingrid at Arne, who stayed with Aunt Sara Now it is time to make your the open-air tram stop which was a between trips as a seaman would be reservations for this year’s few blocks from the one room we there too, as well as another of Christmas feast and celebration. rented from a widow in the suburb Ingrid’s maiden aunts, Aunt Lisa, Treat yourself to the Norden Club of Bromma. Ingrid had to take the would be in town with us. Lisa Christmas party and if you are subway (tunnelbanna) from was a retired no-nonsense nurse looking for a wonderful gift for that downtown then change to the small whose dark continence would scare hard-to-shop-for neighbor, co- tram line that wound its way any patient into taking their worker, or relative, a reservation for through the woods and shoreline to medicine. Although Lisa had a them would be perfect. our stop. Many times, my face and good heart, she had a temper and beard would be thick with ice (ala Christmas eve afternoon when she God Jul! See you on the 8th! Dr. Zhivago) that would slowly found that Arne had not gotten the melt when she finally arrived, and ingredients for Christmas Eve Del Stites, President we got inside. We washed our Glögg (a mulled wine/aquavit clothes in the bathtub and hung spiced hot toddy-pronounced gloo- HELP!!! We need nominations for next year’s President and Vice President.