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Swedish Center News October 2009 Swedish Cultural Center Swedish Center News October 2009 Swedish Cultural Center . Seattle . Washington We’re Liking Vikings Our Mission To promote better understanding between the United States and the Nordic countries, with emphasis on Sweden, and to perpetuate Nordic culture and traditions through the teaching, observance, practice and celebration of this culture and its traditions. he Vikings are coming! Not to plunder and The Nordic Heritage Museum’s Viking-style pillage the Center, but to remind us of our boat, Nordic Spirit, was rowed to Fishermen’s T Terminal for its rechristening on Aug. 30, 100 heritage as seagoing people connected to other years to the day after the Alaska Yukon Pacific cultures. (AYP) Exposition’s Viking boat arrived at the Starting in the ninth century, these traders AYP grounds on Lake Washington. Photo by Jon Halgren. and raiders terrorized Europe with their sudden attacks. Swedish Vikings went east toward Russia Vikings and modern Scandinavia. The Swedish and then south, exchanging their DNA and Cultural Center took note. Starting in October, culture as far south as Italy. (Redheads in every Friday evening through the winter we’ll northern Italy? The Swedish national celebration show segments of a Great Courses DVD titled of an Italian saint, Lucia? Historians say, “Blame The Vikings. the Vikings!”) Vikings from Norway and Den- Attendees can tell us whether a 5:30 start time mark headed south to England and then west— works for these illustrated, college-oriented and eventually became the first Europeans to set lectures. We hope it’s just enough time for you to foot in North America. The Viking period also grab a glass of something from upstairs and come coincided with important changes in Scandina- to the library to enjoy a 30-minute lecture, and/or vian society, from the buildup of the nation of to head upstairs afterward for dinner and a bit of Sweden to the coming of Christianity. socializing. The full series is 36 segments, but you In spite of these Northmen inspiring fear in don’t have to watch them in sequence. earlier centuries, today Viking art and culture The local community offers other Viking fascinate us. Research by the Nordic Heritage opportunities. Nordic Heritage Museum has Museum found that the two areas of greatest refurbished a very old Norwegian fishing boat, interest to Scandinavian Americans are the Continued on p. 2 swedishculturalcenter.org Swedish Cultural Center Hej då, Maggie 1920 Dexter Avenue North Seattle, WA 98109 ome people just stick in your mind. STheir passion, their charm, or their 206-283-1090 Club Business merriment stays with you between the 206-283-1078 Rentals 206-283-2970 FAX times you see them. The Center has lost just such a friend this past month with [email protected] [email protected] the passing of Maggie Berthiaume. www.swedishculturalcenter.org Maggie was born Maj Britt Ferngren in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1924. As a young Office Hours Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. child, she and her mother, Ruth, moved to Bellingham, where Maggie graduated Board of Directors President Karl Larsson from high school. She married Don Vice President Bob Blair Berthiaume and they had two children, Secretary Syrene Forsman Treasurer Don Wahlquist Lynn and Mary, four grandchildren, and Past President Brandon Benson two great-grandchildren. Maggie was Directors Sara Lightle Don Meyers dedicated to Vasa Frihet Chapter #401; Paul Norlen Vännerna Swedish Auxiliary, for which Randy Nelson Erik Pihl she was the chair; and her much-be- Darcey Quinn loved Swedish Cultural Center. She was Susan Ramstead an active volunteer at the SCC for 20 Mark Safstrom Carl Westerdahl years, especially devoted to the pancake breakfast crowd on the first Sunday of the month. Just before her unexpected but peaceful passing, Maggie attended the Vasa District Center Operations Exec. Director R.W. Clay Convention on Saturday evening and served ham on the pancake breakfast line early on Cultural Director Kristine Leander Sunday morning—with her usual warm smile and friendly greeting for all. Maggie, oh, Admin. Assistant Nicole Kuhnau Admin. Assistant Kris Reitan how we’ll miss you! Donations in celebration of Maggie’s life can be made to the Swedish Cultural Center. Auxiliary Vice-chair June Anderson Evanoff VIKINGS Continued from p. 1 Secretary Bonnie Orr Haven’t We Met Before? outfitted it with Viking symbols, and Treasurer Rachel Osterlof here in Seattle would a 17-year-old Sewing Jean Wirch rechristened it the Nordic Spirit. On Saturday, Swedish high school exchange student, Oct. 10, the Leif Erikson International W Swedish Center News newly arrived in town, bump into his local Editor: Kristine Leander Foundation (the group that beautified the librarian from Nacka, a suburb of Stockholm? Copy Editor: Martin Stillion statue of Leif Erikson at Shilshole Bay Marina), At the Swedish Cultural Center, of course! will row the Nordic Spirit from its home in Swedish Center News (USPS 533- Joakim Bosved was still jetlagged and Ballard through the Locks to Shilshole, where 750) is published monthly as part experiencing his first 24 hours in America of yearly membership dues at $5 a Swedish car show will surround the statue. per person, per year, by the Swed- when he got a tour of the Center and saw a SCC members “Red Volvo Ramstad” (Gary ish Cultural Center, 1920 Dexter familiar face. Swedish librarian Maria K. Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98109-2795. Ramstad) and “Volvo Dick” (Dick Libby) Telephone is 206-283-1090. Peri- Norberg was there on her last day in America. are managing the car show from 10 a.m. until odicals postage paid at Seattle, Maria’s trip was made possible by a Washington. Postmaster: send 2 p.m., and everyone is invited! travel grant from the Swedish Library address changes to Swedish Center On Leif Erikson Day, Friday, October 9, News, 1920 Dexter Ave. N., Seattle, Association, and she toured libraries in the WA 98109-2795. the public is invited to a dinner and program Pacific Northwest to study their marketing. Deadline for material for with two illustrated lectures on Viking ships She also visited her American cousins in the the next issue is (see the ad on p. 4). And if you haven’t gotten Oct. 13. Continued on p. 6 your name or your family’s immigrant names Bring articles into the office or fax on the Vikingesque runic stones that sur- SCC President Karl Larsson is on to 206-283-2970. You may also e-mail articles to round the Leif Erikson statue in Ballard, time’s vacation in Europe this month. The [email protected]. running out. With all these opportunities, you “President’s Notes” column will return in too can be a Viking! November. 2 october 2009 Cultural Director’s Notes SCC Announces News about, or in the interest The Third Era in Ethnic Clubs of our members... here’s nothing like being asked to give a speech to help you sharpen your thinking and The Swedish Cultural Center organize your ideas. My talk at the Vasa Order of America’s District Convention banquet T announces 817 member households. two weeks ago in Federal Way gave me the wonderful opportunity to think about ethnic New Members organizations. Here’s what I told the group. Lennart Akerlund Immigrants formed clubs such as the Swedish Club and the Sons of Norway for social Lindsey Albertson & Alex Bailey contact, and also to help each other in sickness and death. In the case of the Swedish Club, Donald Barrett nearly the same group of Swedish immigrant men who started the Club in 1892 also founded Annabelle Allen Kim Barrett-Smith Swedish Hospital, and so the club was intentionally social, while the Sons of Norway (founded Erik Benson in 1895) offered social ties along with health and death benefits. Mary Alice & Joe Benson World War I ushered in a need to hide ethnic roots, immigration slowed after 1920, and Sissel Gassert David & Kathleen Gometz the second era of ethnic clubs began. Bingo and gambling nights, trips to entertainment spots Monica Grafstrom Hinckley across America, and rituals borrowed from American fraternal organizations such as the Mary Hurley Masons were more ultra-American than ethnic. But many of these clubs are dying, while the Ralph Johnson Swedish Cultural Center, of course, is growing. What are we doing right? Linda Dike Killeen & Edward Killeen I believe we’re successfully negotiating the third era, namely retaining our roots of a social Kris Knutsen club, based around Sweden and Swedish culture, but connecting to contemporary Sweden. Beth Kollé Paul & Leanne Larkin Other groups maintain strong loyalties to their home countries and cultures, but it’s often to a Emily Lawrence country or a cultural concept that’s more reminiscent than recent. At the Swedish Cultural Lauren Mattson Center, we are modernizing our facility and our programs, and working to make it a place Susan Mitchell & Harrison Magun where a visitor from Sweden today will feel at home. Ivana Pocrnja The SCC has another strong advantage. After my talk, Vasa’s Grand Lodge Master Rolf Nick Pullen Bergman confided to me that organizations with a network of clubs have a harder time Carolyn Ratley Ginny Redpath modernizing. Some local clubs may think that changes aren’t fast enough, and others may Erin Saarinen think they’re too fast. The Swedish Cultural Center, on the other hand, is nimble. We can Sue Schroder develop new programs and change without checking in with some mother organization. Gary Seale We have only ourselves to be responsible for, and it’s been a major factor in our recent Douglas & Ellen Sellin growth. Erik Stangvik The SCC is not throwing away old Sweden, Swedish antiques, or our genealogy studies, Shawn & Stephen Thornsberry Lois & Svend Toftemark but we are maintaining the same balance that modern Sweden does.
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