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    • The Bethany Artist & the Bethany Scientist: Lydia & Emil >
      • ​"First Swedish Agricultural Company" Lindsborg Founders, 1868 >
        • Swedish Pastor Olof Olsson Immigrating to Lindsborg 1869, June 27th Arrival >
          • Church and Lindsborg Founder Pastor Olsson, 1869 - 1876 >
            • ​"He Gave God Glory" The Story of Olof Olsson, ​1841 - 1900
      • Their "Bethany Lutheran Church" 1869 >
        • Their "Augustana Lutheran Synod," 1860 - 1962 >
          • The Augustana Heritage Association, 2000 - 2016
        • Their "Augustana Women's Missionary Society," 1892
      • Their "Bethany Lutheran Home" Since 1907
      • Their Lindsborg's "First" Swedish Smoky Valley Community Chronicle 1909 and Their "Second" 1919 >
        • "Pioneer Swedish-American Culture in Central Kansas," 1965 >
          • "The Smoky Valley in The After Years," 1969
      • Their 1920s Coronado Heights Photographs and their Smoky Valley Historical Association (SVHA)
      • Their 1936 1873 Swedish Homestead, "The Old Deere Farm," The Peter J. Larson Farm, etc. >
        • Their 1873 Swede House
        • A Smoky Valley Swedish Virtual Memorial - ​"Dedicated to the Memory of the Smoky Valley Swedish Settlements" >
          • Recognizing & Thanking >
            • - Claude Koehn -- The Before and After
      • Their 1940 Deere Home >
        • Emil's and Nina's 1961 Thunderbird
      • 1943, After Lydia--The Building of the Lindsborg Hospital
    • Their Bethany College Handel's "Messiah" Performances, 1882 on... >
      • "Messiah" Performers, Venues & Audiences, Press and Broadcasts
    • Their Bethany College 1899 Swedish Artists' Midwest Art Exhibition
    • Their Bethany College 1902 "Terrible Swedes," Coach Bennie Owen, Their 1903 "Rockar Stockar"
    • Their Bethany College 1904 St. Louis World's Fair Swedish Pavilion
    • Their Bethany College Anniversary Celebrations: 15, 20, 25, 100 years >
      • Their Celebrating 15 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1896. The First Bethany Annual, 1895-96
      • Their Celebrating 20 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1901. The "Forget-Me-Not," 1902 >
        • The King of Sweden's Emissary, 1901
        • Yale University's Bethany Club
      • Their Celebrating 25 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1906, "Souvenir of Lindsborg and Bethany College"
      • Their Celebrating 100 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1981, "The Centennial of Bethany College"
    • Their "I WAS THERE" Coin ~ Bethany College Celebration, 1902
    • Their Bethany College's 1937 Introduction to New Sweden, founded in 1638 >
      • Deere's Introduction to New Sweden
    • Their friend, Emory Lindquist, and his 1975 "Bethany in Kansas, the history of a college" >
      • Their friend, Emory Lindquist, and his 1953, "Smoky Valley People, A History of Lindsborg, Kansas"
    • Their friend, Leon Lungstrom, and his 1990 "History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas"
  • Swedish Immigration Story, 1854
    • "The Story of the Old Spoon" by Ingrid Anderson Sohlberg & Daughter Lydia Sohlberg Deere, 1937
    • Who They Left Behind
    • From Sweden with Love Collections >
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Kosta Portraits, 1867 >
        • The Swedish Sohlberg Kosta Glass
        • The Swedish Sohlberg Letters
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Royal Gold Thread Embroidery Sampler (c1890s)
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Post Cards (c1890s)
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Magazines, (c1940s)
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Books, 1819/1886 to 1899
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Albums, late 19th early 20th centuries
      • The Swedish Deere Coins -- 1801-1929
    • Lydia Sohlberg Deere's 1927 "Lindsborg Swedish Club's" Handwork >
      • Lydia's Signatured Black Book of Her Handwritten Sewing Instructions >
        • Nina Sohlberg's Child's Sewing "Little Dots" PICTURE BOOK >
          • The Lindsborg Swedish Club's "Allers Monster-Tidnings" magazine, 1940
  • Artist Lydia Sohlberg Deere
    • Lydia's Lindsborg Photography, 1900-1925 >
      • The Hats
      • The Smoky River
      • The Smoky Hill Bluffs
      • Coronado Heights -- One Winter's Day
      • In and Around Lindsborg
      • Sohlberg House with Parents >
        • Our Sohlberg Home and Neighbor Alma Luise Olson
      • Sohlberg House with Emil 1916 to 1920 >
        • Lydia's Travels with Deere 1916 - 1930s >
          • Lydia's California Photographs for Painting
          • Lydia's Palm Springs Pictorial Magazine, 1938-1939
          • Lydia's California Pressed Wild Flowers, c1930
      • "LYDIA'S WORLD" Photography Exhibitions in Lindsborg, 2005 - 2011
    • Lydia's Art, 1919-1938 >
      • Lydia's Art: The Kansas Collection >
        • The Sketches
      • Lydia's Art: The Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico Collection >
        • The Sketches
      • Lydia's Art: The California Collection >
        • The Sketches
    • Lydia's Art Professor Sven Birger Sandzén, 1871-1954 >
      • Lydia's Assignments for Professor Sandzén >
        • Students of Sandzén 2019 Exhibition
        • Bethany Home ~ Celebrating Artist Birger Sandzén through His Students' Paintings
    • Lydia's Art Professor Birger Sandzén's "Art Exhibitions" ... 1893-1940 >
      • Lydia's Art Professor Sandzén's Exhibition at the Babcock Gallery in New York, 1922
    • Lydia's Sandzén's Body of Work Reviewed by N.Y.C, 1984 "American Impressionism," author William H. Gerdts
    • Lydia's and Sandzén's Swedish Artist Friend Charles Edward Hallberg, 1855-1940
    • Lydia's and Sandzén's Swedish Artist Friend Oscar Brousse Jacobson, 1882-1966
    • Lydia’s Sohlberg Family Connection to Sandzén, 1880-1894-1993
  • Scientist Emil O. Deere
    • Deere's & Lydia's Bethany -- Lydia's Photography, 1906-1925 >
      • Bethany College "Campus from Above"
      • Bethany College "The Gateway" 1917 and "Bethany Campus Association" 1912
      • Bethany College "College Street," today's "North First Street"
      • Bethany College "Campus Life"
      • "Bethany College's Earliest Buildings" >
        • Bethany College "​Ladies Dormitory" / "Lane Hart Hall" 1883 - 1899 - 1983
        • Bethany College "Old Main" 1887-1968 >
          • Lydia's and Emil's Old Main Apartments, 1920 to 1940
          • Deere's Bethany College Classes in Old Main
        • Bethany College "Messiah Auditorium" / "Ling Auditorium" / "Ling Gymnasium" 1895 - 1946
        • Bethany College "Swedish Pavilion" 1904
        • Bethany College "​Carnegie Library" / "Bethany Library" 1908 - 1980
        • Bethany College "​Bethany Academy" 1882 -- Swensson's Bethany's Beginnings
    • Deere's 1959 Interview on Rev. Dr. Carl A. Swensson (On YouTube) >
      • Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, 1857-1904 >
        • Swensson's "Bethany Lutheran Church" and the "Augustana Lutheran Synod"
        • Swensson's Bethany's Beginnings: "The Bethany Academy of 1882"
        • Swensson's Musicians' and Singers' "Messiah", 1882 on ... >
          • Thure Olof Jaderborg
        • Swensson's Swedish Artists of the 1890s
        • Swensson's "Bethany College Museum," 1882 - 1966
      • In Memorium**Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, 1904
    • Deere's Rev. Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad, 1873-1943 >
      • In Memoriam**Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad, 1943
      • Rev. Dr. Pihlblad on Bethany College, 1904 - 1941
    • Deere's Swensson's "Bethany College Museum" 1882 - 1966 >
      • Bethany College Museum Collections' New Location,1966 >
        • Articles on the Bethany College Museum Collections Move of 1966
    • Deere's Bethany College Field Trips -- Lydia's Photography, 1906-1925 >
      • Deere's Swensson's Bethany College Museum Collections >
        • Cliff Dwellers' Pottery Collection
        • Fossils Collection, "The Find"
        • Taxidermy Collection
    • Deere's Dr. Leon Lungstrom on the "Bethany College Museum"
    • Deere's Dr. Leon Lungstrom on "Three Pioneer Scientists of Swedish Descent"
    • Deere's Smithsonian Institution's Souvenir, 1904
    • Deere's 1940 Presidential Address to the Kansas Academy of Science
    • Deere's 1955 Letter to President Eisenhower re Tuttle Creek
    • Deere's Service, 1901-1966 >
      • Deere's Education & Degrees
  • "The Other Swedes"
    • Honoring them and their works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \\\\/ >
      • 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
      • 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
      • 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!​ >
        • Dr. Arvin W. Hahn (1923-2017) ~ Remembering him handing me my Bethany College Diploma on Sunday, 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 >
        • Dr. Elmer Copley ~ Remembering him as the “Messiah” conductor for the Bethany College "Swedish King’s" performance, 1976 >
          • Dr. Elmer Copley ~ Remembering him as the "Messiah" conductor for the Bethany College "Centennial Celebration” performance, 1981
      • Dr. William Holwerda ( MD) ~ Remembering him at the founder of "Svensk Hyllningsfest"
      • Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg ~ Remembering her as the founder of the "Lindsborg Swedish Folk Dancers"
      • Mr. & Mrs. Hilding Jaderborg ~ Remembering them and their “Swedish Crafts Shop” – 65 years and 50 trips to Sweden
      • The Swedish Lindsborg Builders ~ Remembering them for the lovely homes they built
      • Dr. Greta Swenson and Mr. & 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
      • Ms. Rebecca Copley ~ Honoring her as Bethany College's “first” graduate to become an International Opera Singer
      • Mr. Bruce Karstadt ~ Honoring him as a Bethany College graduate for heading up a major national Swedish American institution
      • Mrs. Becky Larson-Anderson ~ Honoring her as Bethany College's “first” woman graduate to become mayor of "Little Sweden" USA
      • Dr. Mark Lucas ~ Messiah conductor bringing the Lindsborg “Oberammergau of the Plains" to a "new" world stage
    • The Smoky Valley Writers on "The Other Swedes" ​ ~ Their Swedish American Legacy Collection >
      • Mr. Bror Carlsson and Mr. Alf Brorson from Sweden ~ Chronicling Founder Pastor Olof Olsson's missionary journey to Lindsborg from Värmland, Sweden
      • Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson ~ An author of countless Swedish & English publications, newspapers, articles and books ...
      • Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy ~ Providing the only known history on Lindsborg and Bethany College's earliest Swedish photographer, B.G. Gröndal
      • Rev. Dr. Alfred Bergin ​~ Compiling foundational Swedish Smoky Valley Augustana Lutheran settlements' histories and more
      • Dr. Emory Lindquist ~ Chronicling Swedish Augustana Lutheran Lindsborg and Bethany College
      • Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg [Selma Lind] ​ ~ Chronicling the Lindsborg of her day, its early histories, and more
      • Dr. Leon Lungstrom ~ Chronicling college professors and providing the "only known written" account on the Bethany College Museum
      • Ms. Karen A. Humphrey ~ Chronicling highlights of Swedish Augustana Lutheran Lindsborg and Bethany College society and culture in the earliest years
      • Mr. A. John Pearson & Mr. Kenneth Sjogren ~ Chronicling the Bethany College Presidents
      • Mr. Bill Carlson ~ Chronicling Lindsborg's earliest and later histories with a personal connection
      • Mr. Chris Abercrombie ~ Remembering him as the "historian," the SVHA president and his body of work
      • Mr. Thomas N. Holmquist ~ Chronicling key Swedish Augustana Lutheran Smoky Valley settlements other than Lindsborg
      • Rev. Eugene K. Nelson and the Bethany Home Writers ~ Chronicling the "only known written" story on the beginnings of Bethany Home
      • Smoky Valley Historical Association Members ~ Researchers, compilers and writers of " Where Did They Live? "
    • ​Smoky Valley History Research Writers Website Designers ~ Their Swedish American Legacy Websites
    • Bethany College Swedish Knights and Honored Ladies ~ Their Royal Swedish Legacy Listings
    • His Majesty, Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden ~ Honoring him in Lindsborg and at Bethany College, 1976 >
      • Mr. Bill Carlson's Lindsborg's Bethany Home & the Swedish King's Visit
  • Contacts
    • For Lindsborg, 1869, CONTACT Today >
      • 2020 Christmas in Lindsborg ~ 'Welcome to Annandag Jul Worship from Sunnemo & Lindsborg"
      • 2020 Christmas in LIndsborg ~ the Ljuskröna and Apple Tree Exhibit" online presentation
    • ​For Bethany College, 1881, CONTACT Today
    • Closing Remarks & Traveling through SWEDES >
      • The Swedish American Legacy Photographs >
        • ​Lydia's Lindsborg's Photography​, ​1900 - 1925
        • Lydia's Bethany's Photography, ​1906 - 1925
"The Other Swedes"
~ Honoring Her and Her Works ~
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Miss Alma Luise Olson
~ Remembering her as 
"First Honored American Woman by Sweden"

~ A story on "Miss Alma Luise Olson" by Smoky Valley Writer Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg* ~

 
​The story to follow on Miss Alma Luise Olson is by Mrs. Elizabeth June Doe Jaderborg (1918-2016), who was the first non-Swede woman who became a Lindsborg historian, research writer, editor and author on this community's history, culture, and Swedish heritage.

​Born in Boston, Massachusetts, educated at New Hampshire's Keene State Teachers College, in 1943, Elizabeth June Doe married Lindsborg Swede Einar Henning Jaderborg (whose interest was also in education finding him ending his career in Lindsborg as the Superintendent of the Smoky Valley School District).

Mrs. Jaderborg's interest in her own Mayflower ancestors that settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts, would take a back seat to her greater interest in the Lindsborg Swedes. For over three and one-half decades, she became a keen observer of, and researcher on, the lives lived in Lindsborg where she interviewed innumerable residents; and, it seemed, she wrote on every historical and cultural and Swedish subject found in Lindsborg.  Her endeavors resulted with more than 350 stories that first appeared as articles in the Lindsborg News-Record (LNR) between December 12, 1962, and August 22, 1969.  Most of these articles would then be compiled into 5 small books, the last of which was published in 1990.

She, also, was to become the founder of the Lindsborg Swedish Folk Dancers in 1963 and the longtime committed Smoky Valley Historical Association Secretary.

A primary factor for her writings was due to the real need she saw, maybe as she viewed it from a teacher's heart, of  informing a very busy community of their most interesting history and their "notables," as well as documenting it for them to pass it on to their children.  A
s the Kansas Salina Journal so importantly points this out in Mrs. Jaderborg's obituary published March 22, 2016:

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"As a non-Swede in a community founded by Swedish immigrants who held fast to their traditions, she became intrigued by the community’s history and brought it to life for its children’s children through her research and writings."

It seems that Mrs. Jaderborg interviewed Miss Olson as that was definitely one of her research practices.  In 1965, that LNR article on Miss Olson became part of Mrs. Jaderborgs published small book Lindsborg On Record and was given the titled "​International Relations."  Then, in 1976, this article became part of another book that Mrs. Jaderborg was asked to write, Why Lindsborg? for the visit of His Majesty, Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden.  It was in this book that she changed the title on Miss Olson's story from "International Relations" to "Liberated Woman." 

It is from page 4 of this 1976 book, Mrs. Jaderborg has written:


                        "Permission granted to use material, if credit is included.  Copyright 1976, Elizabeth Jaderborg."


Her devoted work as a research, writer, and author of the stories of Lindsborg were her selfless gift to the community, and became a lasting tribute, especially when compiled into her five books, for those Lindsborg Swedes and non-Swedes who founded the community, developed it, educated it and preserved its Swedish traditions and culture.

So let us now read one of Mrs. Jaderborg's Lindsborg stories on a most liberated woman for her time who was married to a writing career which took her to New York City, Scandinavia and the Continent where she would meet the most interesting persons, visit wonderful places and have incredible experiences, all of which she wrote about.
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​International Relations // Liberated Woman
by
Elizabeth Jaderborg

" ALMA LUISE OLSON "
(1884 - 1964) ​
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Source: "Lindsborg on Record," page 34, by Elizabeth Jaderborg
There were only a few “outsiders“ who were close enough to Scandinavia at the beginning of World War II to understand the idea of “permanent neutralization as a preliminary contribution to peace” which had evolved there.
 
One of the few was an American newspaper woman, Alma Luise Olson, Special Correspondent for the New York Times in Stockholm, Sweden.  This talented young woman of Swedish descent had grown up in a Swedish-American community and had lived in Sweden close to the Swedish people over a span of 12 years.
 
She understood, and she could and did put her understanding into words for contemporary international understanding and for posterity.

                               In Iceland
Miss Olson was shown how ship's passengers
               are landed during a storm.  

PictureSource: "Lindsborg on Record," page 33, by Elizabeth Jaderborg
Her book, written in New York, was in a way responsible for bringing her back to the United States. During the early rumblings of the war, Miss Olson ignored the suggestion of the State Department that she return to the United States. When asked why, her reply was “When the right time comes, I will know it.”
 
The “right time” came when a Minnesota company offered to publish her new book “SCANDINAVIA, The Background for Neutrality.”


​Miss Olson returned then to the United States to begin work on the manuscript. “This was a difficult book to write with war on our heels,” she commented later.
 
When the Minnesota firm suddenly backed down, Lippincott of Philadelphia phoned immediately. Alma Luise was wary, but Mr. Lippincott stood firm, and SCANDINAVIA was published in 1940.

​It was popular, and had two printings. Reviewers from roughly 100 newspapers and magazines were generous in their praise. They did not always agree with the book’s point of view, but they admired the “ideals and vision” and Miss Olson’s warm and comprehensive style.
 
The New Yorker Magazine said, “The author gives us a knowledgeable picture . . . honest and revealing. The Chicago Examiner said: “This is not merely ‘one small travel book.’  It is a scholarly way of life."


Alma Luise Olson was born near Lindsborg, Kansas, attended Bethany College, and continued her studies at the University of Chicago. At Chicago, she received her Master’s Degree in English and Philosophy, though she finished with enough credits for a Doctors Degree. After working in New York for a time as a writer, she “reversed the migration of her parents” by crossing over to Stockholm, Sweden.

Picture"Sweden, Land of White Birch and White Coal" by Miss Olson. Online eBay and Amazon image.
She had knowledge of the Norwegian, Danish, French, Spanish and German languages, and used excellent English and Swedish. Once, when she returned to Sweden from a trip to Norway and presented her visa for stamping, she spoke such excellent Swedish that the officer just couldn’t believe she was an American. “You’re a Swede alright,” he said.  “No American can speak Swedish like that!” In Iceland and Finland, she used guide-interpreters.
 
At this time she was traveling extensively all over Scandinavia, and walked up “as close as the fence” to Russia.  During her many years abroad, she worked on special assignments covering such varied subjects as Swedish art, dramatics, writers, stained glass, novels, snow sports, opera and industrial arts.
 
Much of her time was spent in reviewing books for the “New York Times Book Review Section.”  She did no spot news, and her work was done at her own speed and discretion. When she expressed amazement to a visiting Times’ editor that the Times was using so much of her work, she was told that this was true because they knew that she was living and associating with the people, not just sitting in an office in Stockholm.
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Later, she met a member of the Times' staff in New York. When she was introduced, he exclaimed, “Oh, are you the one who takes a notion and sends us an article now and then!  Right then she began an attempt to get on a regular schedule.

​Miss Olson wrote several books, newspaper articles too numerous to begin to count, and a great many illustrated articles for magazines here and abroad. Two outstanding articles, beautifully illustrated, were written at the request of the editors of the National Geographic Magazine. One, on Sweden was published in the October 1928, issue; the other, on Finland, was published in the October, 1938, issue.

​It was a thrilling moment for Alma Luise Olson when the King’s representative, Wallmar F. Bostrom, Minister of Sweden, presented her with Sweden’s highest award for women, the Vasa Medallion. This was a singular honor, since she was the first American woman to receive this award.  The presentation was made at a luncheon in New York City on December 2, 1940, for “valuable work… done in spreading knowledge of Sweden, its art and literature, in the United States.”
 
The award was a gold medal and was presented on eight counts (the maximum number). The major count was that “she understands what we mean when we say ‘neutrality.’ ”
Picture ​One of many books she authored. Online eBay and Amazon image.
One of Alma Luise Olson‘s main interest was the affairs of the United Nations. She attended the opening session in New York City and an unprecedented number 18 of the beginning sessions (the normal limit allowed was 2).  Her interest was always intense, continuous, and contagious.

​While she was at the UN, she lunched regularly at the cafeteria.  One day she heard a familiar voice behind her in the line. Turning to see who it was, she came face-to-face with Eleanor Roosevelt. For a long time she had wished for the opportunity to tell Mrs. Roosevelt how, time and time again, the consul in Sweden had assured her that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would win the presidential election. Now, so close to this remarkable woman, she was too impressed to speak.
 
It has been said that, “Miss Olson, despite her American citizenship and Middle West childhood, always had an ‘Old World consciousness.’”
 
She continued her lively interest in the United Nations and her study of International Relations until her death in Lindsborg, April 25, 1964, always preferring to talk about them rather than about herself for she recalled her mother’s early and wise counsel: “We must not forget that there are good forces at work in life.”

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​Miss Olson's home in Lindsborg at 328 North First Street
​ Built by her father John Olson 1893**
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- Miss Alma Luise Olson -
Recipient of the Vasa Medallion during the reign of Swedish King Gustaf Adolf 
Bethany College Graduate
​University of Chicago, Master's Degree in English and Philosophy

International Correspondent headquartered in Stockholm for 12 Years for the New York Times
International author of many books, domestic author for the New York Times and for many publications
Fluent in 5-7 languages

International traveler to S
candinavia and the Continent
​Attendee to New York's United Nations' First Session 1945 and 18 more sessions
Bethany College Professor of English, Swedish, and Political Science


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For more on Miss Olson, go  HERE for Remembering Miss Alma Luise Olson and her most extraordinary life at home and abroad by Ms. Karen A. Humphrey

Go HERE to find Miss Olson listed in Bethany College Swedish Knights and Honored Ladies.


Go HERE to Our Sohlberg Home and Neighbor Alma Luise Olson

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​* Go HERE to learn more on Smoky Valley Writer Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg​ ~ Chronicling the Lindsborg of her day, its early histories, and more
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