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Their settlements...would eventually form the first three (3 ) states in America in 1787, ... Delaware ...Pennsylvania...New Jersey...
For sure, they were driven, dynamic, committed Swedes in 1937 charged with this daunting duty of guaranteeing that the American Swedish Historical Museum would go on into perpetuity through the realized endowment of $750,000. Thus, all of Swedish America was called to task!
For sure, they were driven, dynamic, committed Swedes in 1937 charged with this daunting duty of guaranteeing that the American Swedish Historical Museum would go on into perpetuity through the realized endowment of $750,000. Thus, all of Swedish America was called to task!
Their "1937" Bethany College's Introduction to New Sweden
~ Founded in 1638
Lindsborg's and Bethany's Part In The New Sweden 300th Anniversary Celebration,1937-1938
1938 would mark 300 years since the Swedes and the Finns first landed in the Delaware River Valley of America, a region which would eventually be called New Sweden. Their settlements, thereafter, would eventually form the first three (3 ) states in America in 1787, with Delaware declaring statehood on December 7th, Pennsylvania on December 12th, and New Jersey on December 18th. (The English had landed in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607; and the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts in 1620.)
Joining Swedish Americans all over the country in 1937 for this grand celebration of New Sweden, in New Sweden, was Lindsborg, one small Swedish American city of 30 or so small Kansas towns with Swedish American communities, all of whom were looked to, to raise their Kansas portion of $4,200 which would go towards the $750,000 endowment for the American Swedish Historical Museum in Philadelphia. The date to have this endowment completed would be by June 27,1938, the date for the celebration to begin.
Bethany College had a major role to play in this event as Swedish American President Rev. Dr. Ernst Pihlblad was appointed to represent the Central Committee of the National Campaign Committee Organization of the Swedish American Tercentenary Association for the Swedes of Kansas. In turn, Pihlblad would appoint Dean Emil O. Deere to join District Chairmen Oliver Hawkinson of Lindsborg and Charlie Ohrvall of Wichita to complete this Kansas portion of the task at hand for the Swedes of America. (Source: Reverse side of the Swedish American Tercentenary Association letter from Frank Torell, May 31, 1938.)
All of the planning documents generated for this event that Deere received are presented in this section. Seen as a most important time in their modern Swedish American history, these documents give us a glimpse of "who these Swedes were" and "how they were."
For sure, they were driven, dynamic, committed Swedes in 1937 charged with this daunting duty of guaranteeing that the American Swedish Historical Museum would go on into perpetuity through the realized endowment of $750,000. Thus, all of Swedish America was called to task!
"That [securing the endowment] will be the triumphant note of the Three Hundredth Anniversary," as Rev. Dr. Julius Lincoln, knighted by the Swedish Crown in 1930, former Lindsborg native and Bethany College Swede who had graduated with President Rev. Dr. Pihlblad receiving the first Bethany baccalaureate degrees in College history in 1891, remarked in one of the circulating brochures. (Both he and Pihlblad would become associate pastors to Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson of Bethany Church who was the founder and president of Bethany College.)
A few key Swedes from the Swedish American Tercentenary Association headquarters in New York City and Chicago who would be passing their directives out to all of the Swedish American National Campaign Committee workers were Dr. Rev. Julius Lincoln, Francis J. Plym, O.N. Solbert, and Frank Torell.
One document mailed to Deere and the other Swedes from Dr. Rev. Lincoln was titled The Long Awaited Swedish-American 300th Anniversary CELEBRATION is stage for June 27, 28, 29 and 30 in DELAWARE, PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY.
The article within this brochure, by Dr. Rev. Lincoln, was entitled After the Tercentenary--What?
Joining Swedish Americans all over the country in 1937 for this grand celebration of New Sweden, in New Sweden, was Lindsborg, one small Swedish American city of 30 or so small Kansas towns with Swedish American communities, all of whom were looked to, to raise their Kansas portion of $4,200 which would go towards the $750,000 endowment for the American Swedish Historical Museum in Philadelphia. The date to have this endowment completed would be by June 27,1938, the date for the celebration to begin.
Bethany College had a major role to play in this event as Swedish American President Rev. Dr. Ernst Pihlblad was appointed to represent the Central Committee of the National Campaign Committee Organization of the Swedish American Tercentenary Association for the Swedes of Kansas. In turn, Pihlblad would appoint Dean Emil O. Deere to join District Chairmen Oliver Hawkinson of Lindsborg and Charlie Ohrvall of Wichita to complete this Kansas portion of the task at hand for the Swedes of America. (Source: Reverse side of the Swedish American Tercentenary Association letter from Frank Torell, May 31, 1938.)
All of the planning documents generated for this event that Deere received are presented in this section. Seen as a most important time in their modern Swedish American history, these documents give us a glimpse of "who these Swedes were" and "how they were."
For sure, they were driven, dynamic, committed Swedes in 1937 charged with this daunting duty of guaranteeing that the American Swedish Historical Museum would go on into perpetuity through the realized endowment of $750,000. Thus, all of Swedish America was called to task!
"That [securing the endowment] will be the triumphant note of the Three Hundredth Anniversary," as Rev. Dr. Julius Lincoln, knighted by the Swedish Crown in 1930, former Lindsborg native and Bethany College Swede who had graduated with President Rev. Dr. Pihlblad receiving the first Bethany baccalaureate degrees in College history in 1891, remarked in one of the circulating brochures. (Both he and Pihlblad would become associate pastors to Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson of Bethany Church who was the founder and president of Bethany College.)
A few key Swedes from the Swedish American Tercentenary Association headquarters in New York City and Chicago who would be passing their directives out to all of the Swedish American National Campaign Committee workers were Dr. Rev. Julius Lincoln, Francis J. Plym, O.N. Solbert, and Frank Torell.
One document mailed to Deere and the other Swedes from Dr. Rev. Lincoln was titled The Long Awaited Swedish-American 300th Anniversary CELEBRATION is stage for June 27, 28, 29 and 30 in DELAWARE, PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY.
The article within this brochure, by Dr. Rev. Lincoln, was entitled After the Tercentenary--What?
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Article within brochure:
PREPARATIONS FOR THE "NEW SWEDEN" TERCENTENARY IN 1938
by Naboth Hedin
Board of Directors
Swedish American Tercentenary
PREPARATIONS FOR THE "NEW SWEDEN" TERCENTENARY IN 1938
by Naboth Hedin
Board of Directors
Swedish American Tercentenary
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President Theodore Roosevelt
would be welcoming
HRH Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden and HRH Crown Princes Louise of Sweden
for the celebration
would be welcoming
HRH Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden and HRH Crown Princes Louise of Sweden
for the celebration
Source: "Forget-Me Not." 1902
Tentative Program
New Sweden Tercentenary Celebration
Delaware Valley, June 27-30, 1938
Form 24
by
Francis J. Plym, President and National Campaign Director
and
Frank Torell, Associate Director
New Sweden Tercentenary Celebration
Delaware Valley, June 27-30, 1938
Form 24
by
Francis J. Plym, President and National Campaign Director
and
Frank Torell, Associate Director
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May 31, 1938 Frank Torell Letter
Back of letter showing:
Central Committee Lincoln's role of Secretary and Publicity Secretary; member Pihlblad in Kansas
District Chairman Hawkinson in Lindsborg, Kansas
Central Committee Lincoln's role of Secretary and Publicity Secretary; member Pihlblad in Kansas
District Chairman Hawkinson in Lindsborg, Kansas
The
"PEP TALK"
WHAT SWEDES BEGIN, SWEDES FINISH
by
Francis J. Plym, President and National Campaign Director
Frank Torell, Associate Director
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SUGGESTED QUOTAS
to gather the $750,000
by
Francis J. Plym, President and National Campaign DIrector
Frank Torell, Associate Director
for 28 States with
Swedish American Populations
to gather the $750,000
by
Francis J. Plym, President and National Campaign DIrector
Frank Torell, Associate Director
for 28 States with
Swedish American Populations
From Plym and Torell
Form 43
The Workers' Smorgasboard, Tuesday, May 3, 1938
The Workers' Smorgasboard, Tuesday, May 3, 1938
| form_43_thw_workers_smorgasbord_may_3_1938.pdf |
Form 44a:
Extension of Campaign Dates to June 4, 1938
Extension of Campaign Dates to June 4, 1938
| form_44a_extension_of_campaign_dates.pdf |
Form 49:
Finish the General Canvass June 21st, 1938
Finish the General Canvass June 21st, 1938
| form_49_finish_the_general_canvass_june_21st.pdf |
The Workers Bulletin
Bulletin No. 2:
Build Tercentenary Organization Effective January 1, 1938
Build Tercentenary Organization Effective January 1, 1938
| the_workers_bulletin_no._2__1_1_1938__new_sweden.pdf |
Bulletin No. 3:
$750,000 Endowment Necessary Effective March 7, 1938
$750,000 Endowment Necessary Effective March 7, 1938
| the_workers_bulletin_no._3___3__7_1938_new_sweden.pdf |
.From O. N. Solbert
Chairman of the Executive Committee
New Sweden Tercentenary
Chairman of the Executive Committee
New Sweden Tercentenary
Bulletin 1, 1938
| fr_o._n._solbert_new_sweden_tercentenary_bulletin_1_1938.pdf |
Bulletin 2, 1938
| fr_o._n._solbert_new_sweden_tercentenary_bulletin_2_1938.pdf |
Printed on the inside of the above two Solbert bulletins was this information.
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NEW SWEDEN TERCENTENARY NEWS
Published by the SWEDISH AMERICAN TERCENTENARY ASSOCIATION, 630 Fifth Ave., New York
Published by the SWEDISH AMERICAN TERCENTENARY ASSOCIATION, 630 Fifth Ave., New York
| new_sweden_tercentenary_news.pdf |
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