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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
 " . . . There are now more graduates from Bethany College in the Yale Graduate School than from any other college, Yale excepted."
                                                                                                                                                                             
The Yale Alumni Weekly
of 1902 -- Lindquist
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Their Celebrating 20 Years of Bethany College
1881-1901
(The Jubilee Celebration)
The "Forget-Me-Not," 1902

(The Annual of Bethany College)

This annual covering the school year 1900-1901 definitely belonged to Deere as he would graduate the following year in 1902.  In 1899, he had come to Bethany College upon the request of its founder, Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, by way of his good friend Deere's father, Charles Deere.  Swensson's request would take Deere permanently away from his studies at the Agricultural College in Manhattan, Kansas (Kansas State University). 

Lydia's parents would moved from McPherson to Lindsborg in 1904.  She would begin her career and life at Bethany College in 1906, leaving her Lindsborg millinery business, to become Bethany College's Lane Hart Hall Ladies Matron and Lady Principal, also referred to as Dean of Women and Matron, of the ladies dormitory.  Yet, in 1901, she, her family and Swedes everywhere who were not part of Bethany would most likely be celebrating this very special 20th anniversary, the Jubilee Year, of Bethany College. 

A large part of this 1902 Annual was written by Swensson.  Fourth Swedish American Bethany College President Dr. Emory Lindquist confirms this in his 1975 book, Bethany in Kansas, the history of a college, writing that Swensson "...was a major contributor of two volumes:  Forgat-Mig-Ej (1902) in Swedish and Forget-Me-Not (1902) in English, which dealt with his college and Christian education."  


Below is a sampling of the contents of this annual.


-- the border of "blue" around this cover are "forget-me-not" flowers --
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- consisting of 160 pages and no ads -


H  I  G  H  L  I  G  H  T  I  N  G

THE LINDSBORG VISIT
of

The Swedish King's Oscar II's Emissary and His Wife -
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Besides reporting on the state of Bethany College for her first 20 years in 1901, ending her anniversary year would be the significant visit of King of Sweden Oscar II emissary Bishop Von Scheele who would come to Lindsborg with his wife to join in the celebration and to also act in the King's place to knight Dr. Rev. Carl Aaron Swensson as part of the College's program, beginning on Saturday, November 9th at the Bethany Parsonage at 8 P.M.  and ending on Wednesday, November 13th at 1:30 A. M. at the Missouri Pacific Depot in Lindsborg. 

(The year 1901 was to be, most probably, Lindsborg's and Bethany's most important year in being recognized by the King of Sweden, not to mention the trickling effects of this visit spreading out to other parts of Kansas and the Great Plains of America!  The Swedish traditions and legacy of Bethany and Lindsborg, and their links to Sweden, would carry on to such a degree that by the year 2014, thirteen (13) other individuals would also be so recognized by the Royal Crown of Sweden!  The most significant event of all these years of such Swedish Royal recognition would be in 1976, when King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf, the great grandson of Oscar II, would personally visit Bethany College and knight three persons from the College:  born in Lindsborg of Swedish parents, Bethany graduate and fourth Bethany College President Dr. Emory Lindquist; born in Lindsborg of Swedish parents, Bethany graduate and internationally known entomologist, Dr.  Arthur W. Lindquist, and the then current eight Bethany College President Dr. Arvin W. Hahn.)

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H  I  G  H  L  I  G  H  T  I  N  G

the surprise "knighting" of
Swensson


Note Swensson wearing the Swedish "Order of the Knights of the North Star" bestowed upon him in 1901.

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From the Lindsborg Record in 1901 we read:

"The decoration received by President Swensson of Bethany has neither any political nor military signification.  It is the King's way of saying to him: "I have watched you and your work for some time and I want to encourage you.  Your are a good fellow."  And that is enough.  King Oscar is the most learned and scholarly monarch living, and his praise is sufficiently great to please the most fastidious.

"A reporter of the Record saw the Doctor about it.  This is what he said:  "Certainly I feel please and grateful.  As far as I know, I am the first Swede, born in America, to be remembered and honored.  In giving the "North Star" to my old beloved class mate, President Wahlstrom of Gustavus Adolphus College, and to myself, King Oscar has said:  'I  am much interested in the work of education among my countrymen of the new world, and I will encourage them by all means within my power to keep on and to do still better.'"

and

H  I  G  H  L  I  G  H  T  I  N  G

Yale University's Bethany's Yale Club


The Yale Delegate
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The other striking piece of information for me was to learn more fully about the Yale University's Bethany's Yale Club and that in 1901 from Dr. Lindquist's book, Bethany in Kansas, in his finding in The Yale Alumni Weekly of 1902, is to read " . . . There are now more graduates from Bethany College in the Yale Graduate School than from any other college, Yale excepted."

For the full Lindsborg News report read on.

The Lindsborg News
Reports
1901

 To read the article, Press PAUSE to read and ARROWS to turn pages:
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- All articles included in this "Forget-Me-Not" Annual of Bethany -
list only
Bethany Song.   Page 3

Cantata.  
Pages 5-7,
From the Swedish of J. P. Sandzen D. D., Adapted by P. H. Pearson

Twentieth Anniversary.   Pages 8-19

Greetings From Yale.  Pages 21-24

The Value of Higher Christian Education.   Pages 25-29

The Students and Missions.   By J. T.  Pages 30-35

The Program of the Twentieth Anniversary.   Pages 37-46

Athletics at Bethany.   Pages 47-49

When Men are Transplanted.   Pages 50-58,
P. H. Pearson

The Nobility of True Culture.   Pages 60-65
Was Swensson 1901 Commencement Speech!


Does it Pay To Go To College?   Pages 66-79
Compiled from many Sources by C.S.


Extracts.   Pages 80-98,
Out of the multitude of congratulatory Telegrams and Letter Received
We Desire to Present a Few, Just to Show By Examples How Her
Friends Do Lover Dear Bethany


Kind Words From the Press.   Pages 100-117,
The newspapers of America gave much space to our Twentieth Anniversary.
From New England to Califronia they spoke kind words of Bethany. 
Below we copy some of these:  (Compiled from several newspaper articles,
by C. S.)


The Right Reverend Vishop and Lady Von Scheele.   Pages 118-129,
To Bishop von Scheele on Behalf of the Faculty of Bethany College,
By Dr. C. F. Carlbert.


Address of Welcome   Pages 131-132

The Kansas Pioneer.   Pages 134-140,
By Nels Pearson


President McKinley’s Last Speech.   Pages 141-151

Collection of Ancient and Modern Pottery.   Pages 153-155

Our Needs.   Page 157

No Title:.  Page 159, Swensson's apology for the hastily put together annual

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R E C O G N I Z I N G

The Philanthropists

R E C O G N I Z I N G

The Faculties of Bethany

R E C O G N I Z I N G

 The Supporters of the Augustana Synod Clergy, the Bethany Faculty and Administration


H I G H L I G H T I N G

the

 B E T H A N Y   C O L L E G E   B U I L D I N G S




- Ladies Hall (Lane Hart Hall) Exterior & Interior -

- Bethany College's Main Building
which was called
Bethany College
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(Old Main)

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- Interiors of the Main Building -

- The Messiah Auditorium -
(The Ling Auditorium)

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emphasizing its sacred music

T H E   M E S S I A H
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- He donated 25,000,000 feet of lumber from the lumber lands of Oregon for the Auditorium -
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H I G H L I G H T I N G

- Athletics -

H I G H L I G H T I N G

The Bethany College Museum
&
Collection of American Indian Cliff Dwellers' Pottery



R E C O G N I Z I N G

His "American" Birthplace" and being grateful for the "American Fatherland"


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R E C O G N I Z I N G

"His Father and the Augustana Synod"

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KIND WORDS FROM THE PRESS
Swensson Recounts
The newspapers of America gave much space to our "Twentieth Anniversary."
 From New England to California they spoke kind words of Bethany.  Below we copy some of these: 

newspaper articles from
The Topeka Daily Capital, The Kansas City Journal, The Jersey City Journal, The Chicago Record-Herald,
The Topeka State Journal, The Denver Times, The New York Evening Post, The Salina Union,
The Topeka Daily Herald,  The Hartford Courant,  The Kansas City Star


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At the very end of this significant Annual is Swensson's plea and prayer to support Bethany College, entitled

"Our Needs." 


"May the good Lord grant that our friends may take it upon themselves to provide dear Bethany with love and money,
and don't forget --the money."

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[ Gratefully, "the good Lord" supplied those needs and continues to this day!  And, by faith, HE will for her future tomorrows! ]


- His Last Page -

The Apology from Swensson
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EXTRACTS
Swensson's Recounts
"Out of the multitude of congratulatory Telegrams and Letter Received We Desire to Present a Few.
Just to Show By Examples How Her Friends Do Love Dear Bethany."

One of two:
Two of two:
Go HERE to The King of Sweden's Emissary, 1901 as found in this 1902 "Forget-Me-Not" Annual
Go  HERE to Yale University's Bethany Club as found in this 1902 "Forget-Me-Not" Annual

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