"The Other Swedes"
~ Celebrating Them ~
~ The Smoky Valley Writers ~
Dr. Leon George Lungstrom
~ Chronicling Bethany College natural science and mathematics, the professors and societies, the Museum, Old Main and Nelson Science Hall, 1881-1990
~ Celebrating Them ~
~ The Smoky Valley Writers ~
Dr. Leon George Lungstrom
~ Chronicling Bethany College natural science and mathematics, the professors and societies, the Museum, Old Main and Nelson Science Hall, 1881-1990
Dr. Leon George Lungstrom
1915 - 2000
Dr. Leon George Lungstrom
1915 - 2000
His Lindsborg Family
Swede Dr. Leon George Lungstrom was born in 1915 in the Kansas McPherson County New Gottland Township. In 1940, he graduated from Bethany College receiving a Bachelor of Science Degree with a major in biology and a minor in chemistry. In 1952, he began his thirty (30) year career at Bethany as a biology professor until 1981.
It was in 1965 that he married Linda Kay Greenwalt who had arrived in Lindsborg to teach at Bethany College in 1964 after receiving the Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Music Performance from Stephens College in 1961 and the Masters of Music Degree also in Music Performance from the University of Michigan. Her career at Bethany College as an instructor in cello, piano and theory extended to nearly 25 years when she retired in 1989. Her career as a performer in the Gallery Trio playing the cello, with performers pianist Ruth Ann Leaf and violinist Linda Newfield, extended decades beyond her college retirement. This trio was founded in 1987 for the 30th Anniversary of the Sandzén Memorial Gallery where they performed.
The couple would have two children, Michael and Laura. As a family they worshipped at the Bethany Lutheran Church, originally a church of the Swedish Augustana Lutheran Synod.
For more about Dr. Lungstrom's family and personal life, go HERE for Dr. Lungstrom ~ His Värmland Swedish ancestry and tough years on the McPherson County family farm.
It was in 1965 that he married Linda Kay Greenwalt who had arrived in Lindsborg to teach at Bethany College in 1964 after receiving the Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Music Performance from Stephens College in 1961 and the Masters of Music Degree also in Music Performance from the University of Michigan. Her career at Bethany College as an instructor in cello, piano and theory extended to nearly 25 years when she retired in 1989. Her career as a performer in the Gallery Trio playing the cello, with performers pianist Ruth Ann Leaf and violinist Linda Newfield, extended decades beyond her college retirement. This trio was founded in 1987 for the 30th Anniversary of the Sandzén Memorial Gallery where they performed.
The couple would have two children, Michael and Laura. As a family they worshipped at the Bethany Lutheran Church, originally a church of the Swedish Augustana Lutheran Synod.
For more about Dr. Lungstrom's family and personal life, go HERE for Dr. Lungstrom ~ His Värmland Swedish ancestry and tough years on the McPherson County family farm.
Carrying on the Legacy of a Growing Science Department
The year after their marriage, in 1966, Dr. Lungstrom was seen as the professor who was carrying on the Bethany College legacy of a growing science department as described in that year's Bethanian yearbook. This followed the glowing reports on Bethany College founder and president Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, renown internationally known artist professor Dr. Birger Sandzén and former 30 year dean biology professor Dr. Emil O. Deere, 58 year curator of the Bethany College Natural History and Swedish Pioneer History Museum, who kept the fires burning at the College for decades.
From the 1966 "Bethanian"
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". . . what they left us . . . "
Drs. Swensson, Sandzén, Deere
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Lungstrom
- the legacy
1966
Page 4: "These three men set high goals for Bethany . . . goals that could not be realized in one lifetime. Goals that are left for us to continue."
Page 5: "Dr. Carl Swensson and Bethany Church had a great vision of a prospering Lutheran college in the Smoky Valley. The heart of their dream was a beautiful chapel in Old Main. Here students meditated; here the pipe organ led them in song; here well-known and world-known voices inspired them. The famous Dr. Birger Sandzén brought a rich and vivid talent to Bethany. The Swedish-built Art Pavilion housed his students as it does Bethany art students today. Dr. Emil Deere built the foundations of a growing science department. His goals are being furthered through a former student, Dr. Leon Lungstrom who is passing this legacy on to us."
Page 5: "Dr. Carl Swensson and Bethany Church had a great vision of a prospering Lutheran college in the Smoky Valley. The heart of their dream was a beautiful chapel in Old Main. Here students meditated; here the pipe organ led them in song; here well-known and world-known voices inspired them. The famous Dr. Birger Sandzén brought a rich and vivid talent to Bethany. The Swedish-built Art Pavilion housed his students as it does Bethany art students today. Dr. Emil Deere built the foundations of a growing science department. His goals are being furthered through a former student, Dr. Leon Lungstrom who is passing this legacy on to us."
THE BOOK
Dr. Leon George Lungstrom's Book
397 Pages
-- A Bethany College Classic --
Recording the Curriculum, Degrees, Societies and Clubs --
Providing Professors Biographies
Providing "only" information on Bethany College Natural History and Swedish Pioneer History Museum
Providing detailed information on Old Main
Providing headlines from 4 publications
on the
Natural Science and Mathematics Departments
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397 Pages
-- A Bethany College Classic --
Recording the Curriculum, Degrees, Societies and Clubs --
Providing Professors Biographies
Providing "only" information on Bethany College Natural History and Swedish Pioneer History Museum
Providing detailed information on Old Main
Providing headlines from 4 publications
on the
Natural Science and Mathematics Departments
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Dr. Lungstrom had an incredibly fulfilling life as a college professor at Bethany and he could see near the end of it that some kind of history should be written about his experience there and those of others. Therefore, he set out to write his "History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas" which was to be 397 pages and was finished for distribution in 1990. He was 75 years old.
Dr. Lungstrom's close association with Dr. Emil O. Deere who had the longest link to Bethany College history, one which spanned sixty-seven (67) years, from 1899 to 1966, probably, more than any other factor, gave him an appreciation and a perspective for the value of Bethany College history, and why he should add to it for Bethany.
After graduating from Bethany College and the broadening experiences of graduate studies at many universities that followed, the career as an entomologist concentrating on mosquitoes U. S. Army work, along with his employment beginning at Bethany in 1952 (the summer of which he traveled throughout Europe) and ending in 1981, the career span of which he would interact with five presidents: Dr. Emory K. Lindquist (1941-1953), Dr. Robert A. L. Mortvedt (1953-1958), Rev. Dr. L. Dale Lund (1958-1965), Rev. Dr. Gustav Kenneth Andeen (1965-1967), and Dr. Arvin W. Hahn (1967-1983), as well as observe many challenging and great events and changes there, including his role in 1966 in the transfer of the Bethany College Museum Natural History and Swedish Pioneer History Collections to the McPherson County Old Mill Museum due to the scheduled historic 1968 razing of the "Old Main Building," sent him "quietly" to work in the late 1980s on his "Bethany Story."
For Dr. Lungstrom knew all along that he could very well be "the only person left" to put down some words on the earliest days of the College, the Museum, and the professors and their activities involved in the fields of Science and Mathematics that he and they so loved.
In his own words, Dr. Lungstrom recalls:
"...the author ...was one of the few still around ...having had considerable experience in...Old Main.…" "Soon much of this information will be unattainable if not recorded now. ...No doubt this could not have been collected anywhere else again."
Dr. Lungstrom's book is rare and exceptional giving one an inside look at the Bethany College Departments of Natural Science and Mathematics. There has been no other book written like this about the other Bethany College academic departments.
Dr. Lungstrom's close association with Dr. Emil O. Deere who had the longest link to Bethany College history, one which spanned sixty-seven (67) years, from 1899 to 1966, probably, more than any other factor, gave him an appreciation and a perspective for the value of Bethany College history, and why he should add to it for Bethany.
After graduating from Bethany College and the broadening experiences of graduate studies at many universities that followed, the career as an entomologist concentrating on mosquitoes U. S. Army work, along with his employment beginning at Bethany in 1952 (the summer of which he traveled throughout Europe) and ending in 1981, the career span of which he would interact with five presidents: Dr. Emory K. Lindquist (1941-1953), Dr. Robert A. L. Mortvedt (1953-1958), Rev. Dr. L. Dale Lund (1958-1965), Rev. Dr. Gustav Kenneth Andeen (1965-1967), and Dr. Arvin W. Hahn (1967-1983), as well as observe many challenging and great events and changes there, including his role in 1966 in the transfer of the Bethany College Museum Natural History and Swedish Pioneer History Collections to the McPherson County Old Mill Museum due to the scheduled historic 1968 razing of the "Old Main Building," sent him "quietly" to work in the late 1980s on his "Bethany Story."
For Dr. Lungstrom knew all along that he could very well be "the only person left" to put down some words on the earliest days of the College, the Museum, and the professors and their activities involved in the fields of Science and Mathematics that he and they so loved.
In his own words, Dr. Lungstrom recalls:
"...the author ...was one of the few still around ...having had considerable experience in...Old Main.…" "Soon much of this information will be unattainable if not recorded now. ...No doubt this could not have been collected anywhere else again."
Dr. Lungstrom's book is rare and exceptional giving one an inside look at the Bethany College Departments of Natural Science and Mathematics. There has been no other book written like this about the other Bethany College academic departments.
Highlights of Book Discussed
Unique and rare Bethany College professors of Science and Mathematics' biographical sketches
Central in his book, from 1881 to around 1987, are biographical sketches of the professors, including information on their parents and their country of origin, many of whom immigrated from Sweden or their parents did. Of these are provided a selection of seventeen (17) Bethany College science professors' biographical sketches, one of whom was from India, professor Dr. Sundapalayan N. Devanathan; and another selection of six (6) mathematics professors' biographical sketches, two of whom were women: professors Anna Marm and Jen Jenkins. In addition to these fields, his sketches cover "Computer Science," on three (3) professors, including one of whom was from India, professor Sridhar Seshadri, and one woman from Kuwait, professor Reni A. Abraham, whose husband, professor Sajan Abraham, as well was at Bethany lecturing in his fields of "Business and Economics." Dr. Lungstrom also includes, a field no longer taught in colleges and universities, "Home Economics," taught by professor Mildred Holmberg, who was also heavily involved in missionary work through the Evangelical Covenant Church of Lindsborg.
Also included are the curator professors of the Bethany College Natural History and Swedish Pioneer History Museum: August Udden, J. Westlund, J. E. Welin and Emil O. Deere, and the professors who planned and helped move the collections of this museum to the McPherson County Old Mill Museum in 1966. Included here were Dr. Deere, biology professor Dr. Glenn Bellah, physics professor emeritus Christian Swenson, and, of course, the author, biology professor Dr. Leon Lungstrom.
Providing a chapter on the Bethany College Natural History and Swedish Pioneer History Museum--an "only" written account
The reason this information on these professors is so important is because there is very little, if any information, on any of the professors at Bethany College, other than Deere, as well there is NO information on the Bethany College Natural History and Swedish Pioneer History Museum, as reported by the Bethany College Archives in 2017.* More important is that, today, this Bethany College Museum enriched by its natural history and Swedish pioneer history collections of which was noted in the latter 1970s as one of the finest of its kind of college museums in the Midwest, is all but unknown to the Bethany College administration, faculty and students as well as to the general population of Lindsborg, other than the last-living-links who have known about it for decades, and who will soon be gone.
The evidence of the Bethany College Natural History Museum collection which included the taxidermy and fossil collections remained in the McPherson County Old Mill Museum up until this institution became the Lindsborg Old Mill and Swedish Heritage Museum under new ownership on August 1, 2021. Soon after, the College Natural History Museum collection, including Dr. Lungstrom's collection of 600 mounted animals, 200 of which he mounted, was placed in safe storage as reported by the startup Executive Director Kay Quinn in an email of November 18, 2021.
As stated before, Dr. Lungstrom's book is most probably the only Swedish and Swedish American Kansas Smoky Valley book that contains one chapter on this once most important college museum. (Dr. Emory Lindquist writes 3 sentences on the Natural History Museum (first formed before the addition of the Swedish pioneer history collections to it), within the first paragraph on page 25 from his 1975 Bethany in Kansas, the history of a college. See it HERE.) Thus, the value of Dr. Lungstrom's book is increased exponentially.
Curriculum, degree programs and societies described
Dr. Lungstrom also details the stages of growth of each department by sharing the curriculum and their corresponding degree programs from 1881 to the late 1980s. He provides a list of the societies during this period related to these fields of study.
Gathering information
>> From publications
He provides Bethany College science and mathematics headlines in four publications: The Bethany Messenger (1893-1990), Lindsborg News-Record (1901-1990), Bethany College Magazine (1954-1990), and the Daisy (1881-1912). Many of these headlines belonged to the articles he used when writing this book. There is a section in SWEDES called "The References" that is being established listing a large number of them.
>> From persons and letters
Gathering some of this information came from his visiting the professors, their families and from personal letters. Additional information on the professors came from professor of business and economics Mrs. Clara Tow.
>> From Mr. John Altenborg on Old Main
Information on Old Main came from Mr. John Altenborg of Lindsborg who provided important material on the floor plan, blue prints of this once "largest building of its kind west of the Mississippi" and "the biggest and best" in Kansas, quotes by college founder Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, who begged the Bethany College Board of Directors for permission to build it. This grand building was named "Bethany College and Normal Institute" on its dedication date of June 2, 1887. It was designed by Swedish Lawrence Gustuv Hallberg of Chicago who patterned the middle part of the roof after Stockholm’s Grand Central Hotel.
Dr. Lungstrom did an extraordinary job on describing Old Main in great detail that included images of the blue print drawings. In memory for the last-living-links to this history on Old Main, and in books, it was the most notable and recognizable building of the college, and, thus, its presence highlighted the College's outstanding and noteworthy growth and development since its founding in 1881.
>> From Old Main's floors before its razing
Much of Dr. Lungstrom's information came directly from scraps of papers scattered all over the floors of this five (5) story structure. Old Main was demolished in 1968 to be replaced by the Wallerstedt Learning Center. (The Center was dedicated on October 18, 1970, to be home to the Wallerstedt Library and Wallerstedt Social Science Center. Other titles, newer titles, have evolved since, like the Bethany College Archives and the Heritage Center or the Archives and the Heritage Center.)
Central in his book, from 1881 to around 1987, are biographical sketches of the professors, including information on their parents and their country of origin, many of whom immigrated from Sweden or their parents did. Of these are provided a selection of seventeen (17) Bethany College science professors' biographical sketches, one of whom was from India, professor Dr. Sundapalayan N. Devanathan; and another selection of six (6) mathematics professors' biographical sketches, two of whom were women: professors Anna Marm and Jen Jenkins. In addition to these fields, his sketches cover "Computer Science," on three (3) professors, including one of whom was from India, professor Sridhar Seshadri, and one woman from Kuwait, professor Reni A. Abraham, whose husband, professor Sajan Abraham, as well was at Bethany lecturing in his fields of "Business and Economics." Dr. Lungstrom also includes, a field no longer taught in colleges and universities, "Home Economics," taught by professor Mildred Holmberg, who was also heavily involved in missionary work through the Evangelical Covenant Church of Lindsborg.
Also included are the curator professors of the Bethany College Natural History and Swedish Pioneer History Museum: August Udden, J. Westlund, J. E. Welin and Emil O. Deere, and the professors who planned and helped move the collections of this museum to the McPherson County Old Mill Museum in 1966. Included here were Dr. Deere, biology professor Dr. Glenn Bellah, physics professor emeritus Christian Swenson, and, of course, the author, biology professor Dr. Leon Lungstrom.
Providing a chapter on the Bethany College Natural History and Swedish Pioneer History Museum--an "only" written account
The reason this information on these professors is so important is because there is very little, if any information, on any of the professors at Bethany College, other than Deere, as well there is NO information on the Bethany College Natural History and Swedish Pioneer History Museum, as reported by the Bethany College Archives in 2017.* More important is that, today, this Bethany College Museum enriched by its natural history and Swedish pioneer history collections of which was noted in the latter 1970s as one of the finest of its kind of college museums in the Midwest, is all but unknown to the Bethany College administration, faculty and students as well as to the general population of Lindsborg, other than the last-living-links who have known about it for decades, and who will soon be gone.
The evidence of the Bethany College Natural History Museum collection which included the taxidermy and fossil collections remained in the McPherson County Old Mill Museum up until this institution became the Lindsborg Old Mill and Swedish Heritage Museum under new ownership on August 1, 2021. Soon after, the College Natural History Museum collection, including Dr. Lungstrom's collection of 600 mounted animals, 200 of which he mounted, was placed in safe storage as reported by the startup Executive Director Kay Quinn in an email of November 18, 2021.
As stated before, Dr. Lungstrom's book is most probably the only Swedish and Swedish American Kansas Smoky Valley book that contains one chapter on this once most important college museum. (Dr. Emory Lindquist writes 3 sentences on the Natural History Museum (first formed before the addition of the Swedish pioneer history collections to it), within the first paragraph on page 25 from his 1975 Bethany in Kansas, the history of a college. See it HERE.) Thus, the value of Dr. Lungstrom's book is increased exponentially.
Curriculum, degree programs and societies described
Dr. Lungstrom also details the stages of growth of each department by sharing the curriculum and their corresponding degree programs from 1881 to the late 1980s. He provides a list of the societies during this period related to these fields of study.
Gathering information
>> From publications
He provides Bethany College science and mathematics headlines in four publications: The Bethany Messenger (1893-1990), Lindsborg News-Record (1901-1990), Bethany College Magazine (1954-1990), and the Daisy (1881-1912). Many of these headlines belonged to the articles he used when writing this book. There is a section in SWEDES called "The References" that is being established listing a large number of them.
>> From persons and letters
Gathering some of this information came from his visiting the professors, their families and from personal letters. Additional information on the professors came from professor of business and economics Mrs. Clara Tow.
>> From Mr. John Altenborg on Old Main
Information on Old Main came from Mr. John Altenborg of Lindsborg who provided important material on the floor plan, blue prints of this once "largest building of its kind west of the Mississippi" and "the biggest and best" in Kansas, quotes by college founder Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, who begged the Bethany College Board of Directors for permission to build it. This grand building was named "Bethany College and Normal Institute" on its dedication date of June 2, 1887. It was designed by Swedish Lawrence Gustuv Hallberg of Chicago who patterned the middle part of the roof after Stockholm’s Grand Central Hotel.
Dr. Lungstrom did an extraordinary job on describing Old Main in great detail that included images of the blue print drawings. In memory for the last-living-links to this history on Old Main, and in books, it was the most notable and recognizable building of the college, and, thus, its presence highlighted the College's outstanding and noteworthy growth and development since its founding in 1881.
>> From Old Main's floors before its razing
Much of Dr. Lungstrom's information came directly from scraps of papers scattered all over the floors of this five (5) story structure. Old Main was demolished in 1968 to be replaced by the Wallerstedt Learning Center. (The Center was dedicated on October 18, 1970, to be home to the Wallerstedt Library and Wallerstedt Social Science Center. Other titles, newer titles, have evolved since, like the Bethany College Archives and the Heritage Center or the Archives and the Heritage Center.)
Book's Rarity
Dr. Lungstrom's book's unique subjects and its rarity makes it all the more valuable to Bethany College, Lindsborg and the other Smoky Valley communities and to Swedish America.
His manuscript would never see a reviewer to write a Foreword, nor see an editor or a publisher. As indicated above, it would remain in its typewritten form, be copied and bound for "a limited readership." It is copyrighted. However, it may not have been recorded in the Library of Congress for there is no record of it. Yet, as indicated above, the contents "only" found within its pages are very valuable to Bethany College foundational academic history and should be valued as such.
The small distribution of "History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas" was done privately, as indicated by the COPY NUMBER __________ on its second page. It was distributed to a small group of persons most likely consisting of Bethany's natural science and mathematics professors or their children, and to other interested persons and libraries.
His manuscript would never see a reviewer to write a Foreword, nor see an editor or a publisher. As indicated above, it would remain in its typewritten form, be copied and bound for "a limited readership." It is copyrighted. However, it may not have been recorded in the Library of Congress for there is no record of it. Yet, as indicated above, the contents "only" found within its pages are very valuable to Bethany College foundational academic history and should be valued as such.
The small distribution of "History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas" was done privately, as indicated by the COPY NUMBER __________ on its second page. It was distributed to a small group of persons most likely consisting of Bethany's natural science and mathematics professors or their children, and to other interested persons and libraries.
Mrs. Joyce Englund
Her role in the production of Dr. Lungstrom's Book
Unlike Dr. Lindquist, who had dozens of individuals to assist him with the various needs that accompany one in the writing of a book, Dr. Lungstrom worked on his narrative all on his own with the exception of one person, the "typist," Mrs. Joyce Englund (1937-2019), wife of the Bethany College Professor Emeritus of Chemistry Charles 'Doc' Englund, who would type the 397 page manuscript.
Dr. Lungstrom was one of countless professors and students who owed part of their success to the professional papers she produced for them. He writes:
"The author wishes to express his thanks to Joyce England for her work in helping to prepare the manuscript into the final finished copy, which would have been difficult without her dedicated labor. She provided valuable suggestions from time to time as the work was progressing."
Dr. Lungstrom was one of countless professors and students who owed part of their success to the professional papers she produced for them. He writes:
"The author wishes to express his thanks to Joyce England for her work in helping to prepare the manuscript into the final finished copy, which would have been difficult without her dedicated labor. She provided valuable suggestions from time to time as the work was progressing."
Many Chapters and References Included
Due to the rarity of this book, SWEDES is providing 17 sections, most composed of "chapters" and the others composed of "References," the publications Dr. Lungstrom used for his book. Also included in the chapters is one full biography style, on "first" professor of the Bethany Academy, i.e. Bethany College, Dr. Johan August Udden and other information on Dr. William Holwerda, M.D.
Where can this book be found?
Director Denise Carson of the Bethany College Archives reported in an email on September 25, 2017, that it had two (2) copies, but these are not noted in the online catalog under the title. However, under Dr. Lungstrom's name the book is listed with his other publications. The only other indications of where this book might be found was through WorldCat (Search libraries throughout the world.) where one (1) was noted and the Lindsborg Community Library has one (1) copy in their Heritage Collection as discovered February 25, 2023. Dr. Lungstrom notes, somewhere in his book, that the Topeka, Kansas Historical Society and at the Rock Island, Illinois, Augustana College Swenson Immigration Center libraries, each have a copy.
Below is a count of all of the Smoky Valley Writers books used in SWEDES. Just click on "Download File" in blue.
Below is a count of all of the Smoky Valley Writers books used in SWEDES. Just click on "Download File" in blue.
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Digitalize for Posterity and Perpetuity
This book, especially, should certainly be digitalize for posterity and perpetuity, for its historical foundational importance. HERE is more information on digitalization.
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These are the first five pages of Dr. Lungstrom's 1990
"History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas"
These are the first five pages of Dr. Lungstrom's 1990
"History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas"
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For more on Dr. Lungstrom, the Bethany College biology professor, go HERE to Dr. Lungstrom ~ "Master Teacher" "Master Learner." Go HERE to Dr. Johan August Udden, 1859-1932, by Dr. Leon Lungstrom. This is an example of one of his biographical sketches. Dr. Udden was the first professor at Bethany College arriving there in 1881.
For Dr. Lungstrom's book's Table of Contents, go HERE.
For the book's selected CHAPTERS with LINKS, go HERE.
For the book's selected REFERENCES with LINKS, go HERE.****
* September 25, 2017 email from Bethany College Wallerstedt Learning Center Archives.
** December 19, 2018 email from Bethany College Wallerstedt Learning Center Archives.
*** December 19, 2018 email from Bethany College Wallerstedt Learning Center Archives.
**** I will be working on the References in spare time as there are hundreds if not thousands of them
For Dr. Lungstrom's book's Table of Contents, go HERE.
For the book's selected CHAPTERS with LINKS, go HERE.
For the book's selected REFERENCES with LINKS, go HERE.****
* September 25, 2017 email from Bethany College Wallerstedt Learning Center Archives.
** December 19, 2018 email from Bethany College Wallerstedt Learning Center Archives.
*** December 19, 2018 email from Bethany College Wallerstedt Learning Center Archives.
**** I will be working on the References in spare time as there are hundreds if not thousands of them
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Dr. and Mrs. Leon Lungstrom
[Mrs. Linda Kay Greenwalt Lungstrom]
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I am incredibly appreciative to Mrs. Leon (Linda) Lungstrom, who on January 31, 2016, allowed me to share selections of her husband's book in SWEDES, the volume of which most of the Lindsborg and Bethany College communities knows very little, if anything.
Information on Dr. Lungstrom is from his book and personally knowing him, and on Mrs. Lungstrom, it is from knowing her, from the 1966 "Bethanian and the 2008 Lindsborg's Midsummer's Day Festival program and from online information.
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I am incredibly appreciative to Mrs. Leon (Linda) Lungstrom, who on January 31, 2016, allowed me to share selections of her husband's book in SWEDES, the volume of which most of the Lindsborg and Bethany College communities knows very little, if anything.
Information on Dr. Lungstrom is from his book and personally knowing him, and on Mrs. Lungstrom, it is from knowing her, from the 1966 "Bethanian and the 2008 Lindsborg's Midsummer's Day Festival program and from online information.
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~ restoring lost local histories ~
reconnecting past to present
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