"The Other Swedes"

​<>  Their Legacy Listing  <>
"Honoring them and their works"
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Mrs. Alma Christina Lind Swensson
~ Remembering her as Mrs. Rev. Dr. Swensson, the First Lady of Lindsborg

Photographer B.G. Gröndal
~ Remembering him for visually documenting Lindsborg and Bethany College
in their earliest days
New Section

Miss Alma Luise Olson
~ Remembering her as "First Honored American Woman by Sweden”
 by ​Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
Remembering Miss Alma Luise Olson and her most extraordinary life at home and abroad
by Ms. Karen A. Humphrey
 
Artist Birger Sandzén
~ Remembering him for “sharing his art with the world,”
starting first at Lindsborg’s Bethany College
  Dr. & Dr. Mrs. Charles Greenough III
~ Remembering them for their gift of the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery
New Section
 
 Dr. William Holwerda
 ~Remembering him as "Doc Bill," his bedside manner and selfless contributions
 
~ Remembering him as "Svensk Hyllningsfest" founder

Artist Lester Raymer
~ Remembering him as the renown virtuoso artist and "behind the scenes" community supporter
 
Dr. Arvin W. Hahn
~ Remembering him for "saving" Bethany College from going under! 1967-1983
        
~ Remembering him handing me my Bethany College Diploma on May 26, 1968

Dr. Elmer Copley
~ Remembering Bethany College's Oratorio Society Conductor
who carried on “that” "Messiah" traditional excellence for 26 years,
taking it to new levels

         ~ Remembering him as the “Messiah” conductor for the Bethany College
Swedish King’s, His Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf performance, 1976

      ~ Remembering him as the "Messiah" conductor for the Bethany College
"Centennial Celebration” performance, 1981   

        Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
~ Remembering her as the founder of the "Lindsborg Swedish Folk Dancers"
 begun in 1963
 
Mr. & Mrs. Hilding Jaderborg
~ Remembering them and their “Swedish Crafts Shop”
of 65 years and 50 trips to Sweden 

​The Swedish Lindsborg Builders
~ Remembering them for the lovely homes they built
  
    Dr. Greta Swenson & Mr. and Mrs. Mark Esping 
~ Honoring them for founding Lindsborg's "first"
Swedish-American Folklife Institute of Central Kansas, 1986 
        ~ Recognizing their Folklife Institute's “Swedish-American Heritage Center,” 1996

Mr. Bruce Karstadt
~ Honoring him as a Bethany College graduate
for heading up a major national Swedish American institution
     
​Mrs. Becky Anderson
~ Honoring her as Bethany College's “first” woman graduate
to become mayor of
​ "Little Sweden" USA
New Section

Ms. Rebecca Copley
~ Honoring her as Bethany College’s “first” graduate
to become an
International Opera Singer
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Dr. Mark Lucas
 ~ Messiah conductor bringing the Lindsborg “Oberammergau of the Plains" to a "new" world stage
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