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      • ​"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
      • Miss Alma Luise Olson ~ Remembering her as Sweden remembers her as "First Honored American Woman by Sweden," and more
      • Swedish 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
      • American 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
      • Ms. Rebecca Copley ~ Honoring her as Bethany College's “first” graduate to become an International Opera Singer
      • Mr. Bruce Karstadt ~ Honoring him as Bethany College's "first" graduate tohead a national Swedish American institution
      • Dr. Greta Swenson & Mr. and Mrs. Mark Esping ~ Honoring them as Bethany College’s “first” graduates who founded Lindsborg's "first" "Swedish-American Folklife Institute of Central Kansas." 1986 >
        • Recognizing their Folklife Institute's "Swedish-American Heritage Center," 1996
      • 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
    • 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 ...
      • 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 Swedish Royal Legacy Listing
    • 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: "Ljuskröna and Apple Tree Exhibit" online presentation
      • 2020 Christmas; 'Welcome to Annandag Jul Worship from Sunnemo & Lindsborg"
    • ​For Bethany College, 1881, CONTACT Today
    • Traveling through SWEDES & Closing Remarks >
      • The Swedish American Legacy Photographs >
        • ​Lydia's Lindsborg's Photography​, ​1900 - 1925
        • Lydia's Bethany's Photography, ​1906 - 1925
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"...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. Leon Lungstrom drew heavily on articles found in the Lindsborg News-Record (1901-1990) and the Bethany Messenger (1893-1990).
Their friend, Leon Lungstrom,
and his

1990 "History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas"
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Leon George Lungstrom (1915-2000) was a dear and devoted protégé to Emil O. Deere who considered him "a son!"  From the time of Deere's death in 1966 to his own in 2000, Leon would each Memorial Day place flowers on Emil's grave at the Lindsborg Elmwood Cemetery.  When Emil and Lydia had finished building the house of their dreams, Deere House, Leon was there in 1940 to help Emil  with the landscaping and to plant grass around it.  Leon always referred to Lydia as "Mrs. Deere" and Emil as "Dean Deere" or "Dr. Deere" in the formal way then.

Leon would continue to visit Deere House after Emil's death, visiting my grandmother Nina Sohlberg Fry, who inherited the home, and then my mother Lois Fry Cochran when she became owner.  While I had long term visits with my mother at Deere House in 1976-1977, and in 1981, Leon continued these visit regularly.  It was always a joy listening to Leon on "his college history" of Bethany.  Our family always referred to Dr. Lungstrom as Leon, as that is how Emil referred to him, as if his son.

Leon's work, "History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas," his labor of love, he finished in 1990.  As far as I know, it contains the "only" written account of college history detailing, not only the fields of Science and Mathematics, but also the Bethany College Museum, as this is not found in Lindquist's 1975 book, Bethany in Kansas, the history of a college.

Why did  Dr. Leon Lungstrom write the book?  Why do so few know about it?

In time, Dr. Lungstrom saw the need to record what he could on his observations and experiences at Bethany in the same committed way as Dr. Emory Lindquist.  They both saw the need, and accepted "the call" to do so! 

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, probably, more than anything,  gave him an appreciation and a perspective for the value of Bethany College history. 

This, coupled with his having experienced other universities after graduating from Bethany in 1940, may have also increased his appreciation of Bethany's unique and special legacy, i.e. her Swedish culture, her music, her art  and her museum (of which he would become a key player in its move in 1966 to the McPherson County Old Mill Museum).  For Dr. Lungstrom would observe and compare, historically, his college to that of 
Kansas State University (founded in 1863 originally known as the Kansas State Agricultural College where Deere attended)  while working towards his M.S. Degree in Zoology and Parasitology
in 1946, and, also, while working towards his Ph.D. there in Medical Entomology in 1950.  Dr. Lungstrom would also make comparative observations during his postgraduate work at New Orleans' Tulane University (founded in 1834) and at California's Stanford University (founded in 1885).

These experiences, along with his employment at Bethany College beginning in 1952 as an assistant biology professor which would grow into other positions until 1981 when he retired, all "sent him quietly to work" in the late 1980s to write History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas,  knowing all along that he could very well be "the only person left" to put down some words on the College, the Museum, and the professors involved in the fields of study, Science and Mathematics, that he and his colleagues so loved.

This would be "his personal and up close narrative" on these Swedes as well as on other non-Swedes
of Bethany professors who made their contributions in their fields of study.  It could have been his "Swedish shyness and reserve" that others were prevented from knowing about his book, and it could have been his tight budget, as well.  However, there were 26 professors from whom he asked for their infomation that he wrote about, so the majority of them that were living certainly knew about this book and were given copies of it.

In his book, covering the years from 1881 to beyond 1987, Dr. Lungstrom provides 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 woman: Professors Anna Marm and Jen Jenkins. 

In addition to these fields, Dr. Lungstrom also covers "Computer Science," writing biographical sketches on three (3) professors, including one of whom was from India, Professor Sridhar Seshadri, and one of whom was a 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.

At the end of 
History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas, fourteen (14) pages of Old Main blue prints appear, and two (2) pages of blue prints appear on the Nelson Science Hall. 

In addition, Dr. Lungstrom's book ends with a
nineteen (19) page, single spaced, typed list of the titles of all "news" articles he used from the Lindsborg News-Record, from 1901 to 1990.  He did the same from the Bethany Messenger, thirteen (13) pages from 1893 to 1990.

In the " Introduction" of the book, page iii, Dr. Lungstrom writes:

   "This project was initiated for two reasons.  First, the author, when a student at Bethany, had developed a very high regard and respect for his instructors, to the extent that he felt motivated to record some of the history of the institution to which they had made a life-long dedicated contribution.  In the second place, the author began to realize that the time had come when he was one of the few still around who had been both a student and faculty member of the college, having had considerable experience in the building known as Old Main.  
Soon much of this information will be unattainable if not recorded now."

He goes on to state on page iv that, "Some information also came from unusual places and sources.  Scraps of paper found in Dr. Deere's office on the fifth floor of Old Main provided a detailed floor plan of the Old Main Chapel.  No doubt this could not have been collected anywhere else again."



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, wife of the to-be Bethany College Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Charles 'Doc' Englund, who would type the 397 page manuscript.  This manuscript would never see a reviewer to write a Foreword, nor see an editor or a publisher, it would remained in its typewritten form, be copied and bound for "a limited readership." It is copyrighted, but has yet to be included in the Library of Congress Catalog.  There is no record of it online!

Thus, Dr. Lungstrom's informative narrative,
"History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas," on these selected mathematics and science professors, on the College Museum, and on certain aspects of Old Main is a rare work, as no one else has officially written on these subjects, as far as I know.  To add to its rareness, the Bethany College Archives reports that it has only two (2) copies.*  
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Sharing Some of Dr. Lungstrom's Book with You

For Dr. Lungstrom's first chapter, Bethany College, covering, pages 1-22 , access it below:
dr._leon_lungstrom_on_bethany_college_pgs_1-7.pdf
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For Dr. Lungstrom's second chapter,  Museum, covering pages 23-32, access it below:
dr._leon_lungstrom_on_the_bethany_college_museum.pdf
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For Dr. Lungstrom's list of Natural Science and Mathematics Professors from 1881-1990, pages 47 to 55, access it below:
dr._lundstrom_s_list_of_natural_sciences___mathematics_professors.pdf
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Old Main Floor Plan of
the Basement to the Fifth Floor
click on images

Found on pages 339 - 352
of the
1990
History of Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas
by
Dr. Leon Lungstrom
Permission to use Leon's book given by Mrs. Leon Lungstrom, December 2016



The "Quiet Determined Happy Swede"
Dr. Leon George Lungstrom
1915-2000
(He was my friend.)

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* Email of September 25, 2017 from Denise Carson, M.L.S. Assistant Professor Director of Wallerstedt Learning Center.

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