"The Other Swedes"
~ Celebrating Them~
~ The Groupings, including Swedes from Sweden
~ Celebrating Them~
~ The Groupings, including Swedes from Sweden
1976
His Majesty the King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf's Visit to Lindsborg
April 17th
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- Bethany College President Dr. Arvin W. Hahn & Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf -
April 17, 1976
the day before
Easter
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for "the way it was" on this day click on photograph
Published by the late Lindsborg Smoky Valley Historical Association President Chris Abercrombie in 2005.
April 17, 1976
the day before
Easter
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for "the way it was" on this day click on photograph
Published by the late Lindsborg Smoky Valley Historical Association President Chris Abercrombie in 2005.
Source: The Bethany Magazine, Spring Issue 1976, Editor A. John Pearson, Assistant Estred Johnson Schwantes. Cover photo by JIM TURNER.
Above: The day when King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden visited Lindsborg and Bethany College, the day before Easter, April 17, 1976. The King is in the center. To his right are Bethany College President Dr. Arvin W. Hahn, current Kansas Governor Robert F. Bennett and former Kansas Governor Robert Docking; to his left is a Kansas State Trooper.
On that day King Carl XVI Gustaf personally honored three (3) Lindsborg Swedes at Bethany by knighting the current and eighth Bethany College President Dr. Arvin Hahn, fourth Bethany College President Dr. Emory Lindquist and absentee Bethany College graduate Dr. Arthur W. Lindquist.
On that day King Carl XVI Gustaf personally honored three (3) Lindsborg Swedes at Bethany by knighting the current and eighth Bethany College President Dr. Arvin Hahn, fourth Bethany College President Dr. Emory Lindquist and absentee Bethany College graduate Dr. Arthur W. Lindquist.
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BETHANY COLLEGE
the way it was on that day
April 17, 1976
go to those moments
click below
Published by the late Lindsborg Smoky Valley Historical Association President Chris Abercrombie on May 29, 2014.
BETHANY COLLEGE
the way it was on that day
April 17, 1976
go to those moments
click below
Published by the late Lindsborg Smoky Valley Historical Association President Chris Abercrombie on May 29, 2014.
- T H E W E L C O M E -
[transcribed for later reading]
Bethany College President Dr. Arvin Hahn Welcomes King Carl XVI Gustaf
Your Majesty, Honorable Governor, Ladies and Gentlemen . . .
Bethany College and the Lindsborg Community are pleased to welcome you to this festive occasion.
For many decades the pre-Easter season has been a time of special activity in and around Lindsborg since preparation for the Messiah Festival contains months of diligent rehearsal. Initial activities this year, however, on the part of both the community and the Oratorio Society has taken on extraordinary excitement. The reason is that in this Bicentennial year of our nation's history, Bethany College and Lindsborg relish the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of commemorating both its Christian and its ethnic heritage in one unusual event.
Since 1882, the performance of the Messiah on this campus has been more than a grandiose musical affair. It has been a deep expression of the faith that is within the hearts and minds of those who will and have performed before you today. A faith clearly and simply dedicated to the belief in the Risen Christ who is Lord of All. It is, therefore, with reflections about our Christian heritage that we join together to listen and to sing songs of praise and adoration to the Christ who is our King of Kings.
During our nation's Bicentennial Year, it is appropriate that we remind ourselves of the significance of ethnic heritage and its contribution to our societal enrichment. It is this contact with the past that adds understanding and appreciation for the distinctive contributions of the Swedish people, as well as of contributions of others who have differing heritages.
Your Majesty's presence provides unusual credence in underlining the significance of heritage with an acknowledgment of its impact upon many of the ways of this community.
We rejoice in your majesty's presence today, and want hereby to express our gratitude for the opportunity to join with you King Carl XVI Gustaf in praising the God who gave His Son that all of us might enjoy both freedom and equality in His Presence.
Thank you.
[Following Dr. Hahn's speech was the Ambassador from Sweden speaking for the King who had laryngitis.]
Bethany College and the Lindsborg Community are pleased to welcome you to this festive occasion.
For many decades the pre-Easter season has been a time of special activity in and around Lindsborg since preparation for the Messiah Festival contains months of diligent rehearsal. Initial activities this year, however, on the part of both the community and the Oratorio Society has taken on extraordinary excitement. The reason is that in this Bicentennial year of our nation's history, Bethany College and Lindsborg relish the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of commemorating both its Christian and its ethnic heritage in one unusual event.
Since 1882, the performance of the Messiah on this campus has been more than a grandiose musical affair. It has been a deep expression of the faith that is within the hearts and minds of those who will and have performed before you today. A faith clearly and simply dedicated to the belief in the Risen Christ who is Lord of All. It is, therefore, with reflections about our Christian heritage that we join together to listen and to sing songs of praise and adoration to the Christ who is our King of Kings.
During our nation's Bicentennial Year, it is appropriate that we remind ourselves of the significance of ethnic heritage and its contribution to our societal enrichment. It is this contact with the past that adds understanding and appreciation for the distinctive contributions of the Swedish people, as well as of contributions of others who have differing heritages.
Your Majesty's presence provides unusual credence in underlining the significance of heritage with an acknowledgment of its impact upon many of the ways of this community.
We rejoice in your majesty's presence today, and want hereby to express our gratitude for the opportunity to join with you King Carl XVI Gustaf in praising the God who gave His Son that all of us might enjoy both freedom and equality in His Presence.
Thank you.
[Following Dr. Hahn's speech was the Ambassador from Sweden speaking for the King who had laryngitis.]
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His Majesty's Bethany Home Visit
His Majesty's Bethany Home Visit
Also on this April 17, 1976 in Lindsborg, the King made a very special visit to Bethany Home to visit with nine (9) Swedes there whose birthplace was Sweden. Bill Carlson, retired Administrator of Bethany Home, wrote a 40 year remembrance of this once-in-a-lifetime experience of this 40 anniversary in 2016. To read it, please go HERE.
King of Sweden
Carl XVI Gustaf
( 1973-- )
Source: 2013 EuroHistory.com
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Bethany College President Arvin Hahn
Conclusions of the Bicentennial Year with the King of Sweden's Visit
FOR
The Honoring and Remembering Them
June 6, 1976
the
National Day of Sweden Day
go HERE to
The Lindsborg & Bethany College "Swedes" Hosting & Honoring the King of Sweden, His Majesty,
Carl XVI Gustaf.
The Honoring and Remembering Them
June 6, 1976
the
National Day of Sweden Day
go HERE to
The Lindsborg & Bethany College "Swedes" Hosting & Honoring the King of Sweden, His Majesty,
Carl XVI Gustaf.
This celebration was for those who prepared the way for this most historic Swedish and Swedish American Lindsborg event and for those who assisted the King, who in turn honored them through his representative from Chicago at the Swedish Consulate on June 6.
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" Let Us Celebrate Them "
* * *
Swedes: TheWayTheyWere
~ restoring lost local histories ~
reconnecting past to present
* * *
All color photography throughout Swedes: The Way They Were is by Fran Cochran unless otherwise indicated.
Copyright © since October 8, 2015 to Current Year
as indicated on main menu sections of
www.swedesthewaytheywere.org. All rights reserved.
