John W. Nielsen The Danish American Archive and Library Dana College, Blair, Nebraska 68008 Tel. (402) 426-7910 E-mail
[email protected] JOTTING February, March, April 2008 ENDOWMENT were presented and discussed. The board consists of FUND AND IT IS SPRING! The crocus and bloodroot have Joan Jensen of Ankeny, Iowa, Pete Petersen of Canyon, already bloomed in our woodland garden as have the Texas, Fritz Hansen of Wichita, Kansas and Sharon 600,000 Wigdahl, Tim Jensen, and John W. Nielsen of Blair. daffodils and tulips. Their places have been taken by Virginia bluebells and Siberian squills, by violets and The latter three serve as an executive committee and bleeding hearts and delicate pasque flowers. The cherry meet weekly. and apricot have yielded to redbud and flowering crab and almond. Each week and month brings something ASSISTANCE: One of the decisions of the board to new. And so it is with The Archive as these Jottings which the volunteers concurred was that some kind of with their reports and acquisitions will indicate. regular, paid assistance had to be provided for the 500,000 archive director – in other words, for me! This, of NEW ENTRANCE SIGN: One of the most recent course, entails a salary of at least $15,000.00 and that improvements at The Archive is a new entrance sign on means more generous financial support than what The the outside door. It is identical to the heading at the top Archive has received in the past. Part of this salary can of this page except in place of “Center for Research and come from interest derived from our endowment fund, Education” it has “Entrance.” Visitors will no longer be but we (you) must think in terms of a paid full-time intimidated by the ominous warehouse looking doors.