Sverdrup 4-107 Bismarck, ND August Calendar 1 Needlework at the home of Marilyn Kristensen at 1:30 p.m. 209 Stuttgard Drive, Bismarck 701 202 3509 15 Needlework at the home of Karen Jensen at 1:30 p.m. 628 Medora Avenue at 1:30; 701 255 3841 23 Business Meeting 7 p.m. 1st Lutheran Church Historic Centerpiece at Memorial Service Nominating Committee President Saude will be selecting a nominating committee to contact lodge members about serving in an elected office or appointed position to begin in January. Please answer their call and consider this important part of being a lodge member. These are 2 year positions for the most part. Spread your wings and help us lead Sverdrup in 2019. Sverdrup Nyheter President’s Column As you read this message, I’m still on a high from the wonderful trip to Iowa! I’m sure many who attended will be asking, “When can we go again?” With out-of-town guests and our lodge members spending 4 days together, you can imagine the new friendships that were made and memories of the fun we had in Decorah at the Nordic Fest. I certainly have a new appreciation of tour guides responsibilities and talents. This self-guided tour was a real experience and I’ve taken notes to assist anyone who is planning to take a group on a bus tour to unknown lands like Iowa! But as I can always count on Sverdrup lodge members to make it work, no matter the task. We certainly demonstrated resourcefulness under pressure. Thanks to Audrey Solheim for bringing along fun word games and puzzles, Eve Schultz for leading sing-a-longs, Earl Aune for sharing cowboy poetry, Shirley Svanes and her babysitting story and Kari Mahle and Candice Christianson for sharing their personal stories with relatives from Norway who were part of the entertainment at the Nordic Fest. We also endured a physical stress- test to get into our “lodge” on the Luther College campus, in the dark no less. I surmised that soap-on-a-rope must have been invented by Avon for college life and that a $1 coffee pot makes for 25 happier Norwegians. I also predict that Earl may pen another humorous story ending in “and that’s how I woke up on the Winneshiek County courthouse lawn” . Remember…what happens in Decorah, stays in Decorah. Takk for meg, Jerry Volume 49, Issue 8 August 2018
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Sverdrup 4-107
Bismarck, ND
Sverdrup Nyheter
August Calendar
1 Needlework at the home of Marilyn Kristensen at 1:30 p.m. 209 Stuttgard Drive, Bismarck 701 202 3509 15 Needlework at the home of Karen Jensen at 1:30 p.m. 628 Medora Avenue at 1:30; 701 255 3841 23 Business Meeting 7 p.m. 1st Lutheran Church
Historic Centerpiece at Memorial Service
Nominating Committee President Saude will be selecting a
nominating committee to contact lodge
members about serving in an elected
office or appointed position to begin in
January. Please answer their call and
consider this important part of being a
lodge member. These are 2 year
positions for the most part. Spread your
wings and help us lead Sverdrup in 2019.
Sverdrup Nyheter
President’s Column
As you read this message, I’m still on a high from
the wonderful trip to Iowa! I’m sure many who
attended will be asking, “When can we go again?”
With out-of-town guests and our lodge members
spending 4 days together, you can imagine the new
friendships that were made and memories of the
fun we had in Decorah at the Nordic Fest.
I certainly have a new appreciation of tour guides
responsibilities and talents. This self-guided tour was a real
experience and I’ve taken notes to assist anyone who is
planning to take a group on a bus tour to unknown lands like
Iowa! But as I can always count on Sverdrup lodge members to
make it work, no matter the task. We certainly demonstrated
resourcefulness under pressure.
Thanks to Audrey Solheim for bringing along fun word games
and puzzles, Eve Schultz for leading sing-a-longs, Earl Aune for
sharing cowboy poetry, Shirley Svanes and her babysitting story
and Kari Mahle and Candice Christianson for sharing their
personal stories with relatives from Norway who were part of
the entertainment at the Nordic Fest.
We also endured a physical stress-test to get into our “lodge”
on the Luther College campus, in the dark no less. I surmised
that soap-on-a-rope must have been invented by Avon for
college life and that a $1 coffee pot makes for 25 happier
Norwegians. I also predict that Earl may pen another humorous
story ending in “and that’s how I woke up on the Winneshiek
County courthouse lawn”. Remember…what happens in Decorah,
stays in Decorah.
Takk for meg, Jerry
Volume 49, Issue 8
August 2018
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