Newsletter May 2016 - Nor

THE NOR-BU NEWS
Mayl 2016
Lodge web address www.nor-bu.org
Lake Telemark, NJ
Volume 12 Number 5
President ......... Audun Gythfeldt ......... 570-646-3817
Vice President.. Judy Randazzo .......... 973-627-7007
Counselor ........ Evelyn Hammaren …..973-584-8249
Secretary ......... Irma Lafko .................. 973-983-9479
Financial Secy . Sigrid Bjelland………..973-627-5706
Social Directors Ingunn Pedersen ....... 973-601-7007
......................... Kari Brescher ............. 973-627-6334
Treasurer ........ Anne-Lise Meisner ..... 973-663-1070
92 West Shawnee Trail, Wharton, NJ 07885-2923
[email protected]
MEETINGS HELD AT BUL CABIN
21 Oslo Dr., Lake Telemark, NJ, ONLY FOR GPS NOT MAIL
B.U.L Cabin
Lake Telemark, New Jersey
Pen and Ink Sketch by Don Tripp ‘94
Deadline for submission of materials for publication is the
20th of the month prior. PLEASE NOTE!
Nor-Bu is on Facebook at Nor-Bu Lodge.
NOR-BU MAY EVENTS
May 14th, 6:30pm. Reservation needed.
Our annual celebration for Norway’s
Constitution day May 17th, with our
special smørgåsbord. BYOB.
See ad inside for more info.
May 15th, 11:30am. Bus to parade.
Please join us on the bus to the
parade. It would be nice to fill the
bus and show Nor-Bu support.
See ad inside for more info.
GRATULERER MED DAGEN
LET’S GO TO THE PARADE
May 15th, 5:00pm. Picnic after parade
at the lodge. Come and enjoy.
May 20-22, LOV. John Karlsen
Memorial Golf Outing.
See inside
COME BACK TO THE PICNIC
92 W Shawnee Tr.
Wharton NJ 07885
973-663-1070
Now also with Cruiseplanners.
[email protected]
[email protected]
GOD BEDRING
We would like to send get well wishes
to Emma Osvold, Gladys Stene,
Love Green, Rita Kugler, Peg Gerding, Glenn Green,
Robert (Bud) Pedersen, and Roy Selland
Have you thought about a cruise
on a US river on a Paddlewheeler?
Call us we can help?
GRATULERER MED DAGEN
Larry Fredricksen
Roy Karlsen
Bridget Pedersen
Evelyn Nelson
Lisa Bischer
Rane Garcia
Evelyn Hammaren
Barbara Lehner
Roy Nilsen
Nancy Ambjor
Amanda Lee
Kimberly Jenkins
Randi Jenkins
Kaare Allan Johnson
Nancy Michael
Shane Randazzo
Linda Hand
Linda Fredricksen
Lila Stephani
William Matyola
Samantha Piterski
Judith Durkin
Christian Nielsen
Zach Brescher
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5/07
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5/09
5/10
5/11
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5/13
5/16
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5/21
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5/27
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5/30
If you know of anyone who is missing from
the list please let Anne-Lise know at
973-663-1070
NOTIFY our Sunshine Lady , Sister Evelyn Hammaren,
973-584-8249 ASAP if you know of anyone who is sick, or if
you wish to extend congratulations to someone, for
whatever reason It only takes a minute to call.
Don’t forget our ongoing sale of Shop-Rite
cards. This is an successful fundraiser.
Since we started in March of 2010, we
have sold over $80,000.00 in gift cards.
Please consider purchasing for yourself or
for gifts.
If you wish to purchase some gift cards,
contact Evelyn Karpack at 973-627-5634 or
just mail a check for your order to
Nor-Bu Lodge, PO Box 317, Hibernia, NJ
07842 and let us know the amount you wish.
TUBFRIM
This is an ongoing project through Sons of Norway
and Richard Olsen is the 3rd district representative.
Collect all the stamps that you get on your Christmas
and other mail and give or send them to Richard. His
address is 44 Claude Ave., Denville, NJ 07834. The
stamps are sent to Norway where they help needy
children. Richard has sent hundreds pounds of
stamps to Norway.
May 2016 MESSAGE
Each year the 17th of May parade in Brooklyn has a theme. This year the theme is “Saluting Norwegian Immigrants.” The following is an article I provided for the Parade Journal:
Norsemen from Greenland and Iceland were the first Europeans to reach North America. Leif Erikson reached
North America via Norse settlements in Greenland around year 1000, and Norse settlers from Greenland founded the settlement of L’Anse aux Meadows in Vinland, in what is now Newfoundland, Canada. These settlers failed to establish a permanent settlement because of conflicts with indigenous people and within the Norse community.
There was a Norwegian presence in New Amsterdam (New York after 1664) in the early part of the 17th century.
Approximately 60 persons had settled in the Manhattan area before the British takeover in 1664. The Netherlands had strong
commercial ties with the coastal lumber trade in Norway during the 17th century and many Norwegians immigrated to Amsterdam. Some of them settled in Dutch colonies, although never in large numbers. There were also Norwegian settlers in
Pennsylvania in the first half of the 18th century, and in upstate New York in the latter half of the same century.
Organized Norwegian immigration to North America began in 1825, when several dozen Norwegians left Stavanger
on the 4th of July bound for North America on the sloop Restauration under the leadership of Cleng Peerson. To a great extent, this early emigration from Norway was born out of religious persecution, especially for Quakers.
The ship landed in New York on the 9th of October, where it was first impounded for exceeding its passenger limit.
After intervention from President John Quincy Adams, the passengers moved on to settle in Kendall, New York. Many of
these immigrants moved on from Kendall, settling in Illinois and Wisconsin. Cleng Peerson became a traveling emissary for
Norwegian immigrants and died in a Norwegian settlement near Cranfills Gap, Texas, in 1865.
While there were Norwegians who emigrated via ports in Sweden and elsewhere in the intervening years, the next
immigrant ship did not leave Norway for the New World until 1836, when the ships Den Norske Klippe and Norden departed. In 1837, a group of immigrants from Tinn emigrated via Gothenburg to the Fox River Settlement, near present-day
Sheridan, Illinois. But it was the writings of Ole Rynning, who traveled to the U.S. on the Ægir in 1837 that energized Norwegian immigration.
The good majority of Norwegian immigrants, close to 500,000, came to the USA via the Canadian Port of Quebec.
The British Government repealed the Navigation Act in 1849, and from 1850 on, Canada became the port of choice. Initially, most ships departed from Norwegian ports directly to Quebec as ships carried passengers to Canada, and took lumber
back to Britain. However, with time, increasing number of ships transported passengers from Norwegian ports to English
North Sea ports, such as Kingston upon Hull. Emigrants were transported overland to Liverpool, were they transferred to
trans-Atlantic ships.
Norwegian immigration through the years was predominantly motivated by economic concern. Compounded by
crop failures, Norwegian agricultural resources were unable to keep up with population growth, and the Homestead Act
promised fertile, flat land. As a result, settlements trended westward with each passing year. Early Norwegian settlements
were in Pennsylvania and Illinois, but moved westward into Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Dakotas. Later waves of Norwegian immigration went to the Western states such as Washington and Oregon, and Utah through missionary efforts of gaining
Norwegian and Swedish converts by the Mormons. Additionally, craftsmen also immigrated to larger, more diverse markets, like Brooklyn.
The majority of the pioneer immigrants, the so-called “sloopers,” assisted by the kindly services of American Quakers, went to Orleans County in western New York state and settled in what became Kendall Township. In the mid-1830s the
Kendall settlers gave impetus to the westward movement of Norwegians by founding a settlement in the Fox River area of
Illinois.
Immigrant settlements now stood ready to welcome Norwegian newcomers, who from the late 1830s, arrived annually. From Illinois, Norwegian pioneers followed the general spread of population northwestward into Wisconsin, which up
until the American Civil War remained the center of Norwegian American activity. A number of Norwegian Americans
fought for the Union, such as in the 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment. In the 1850s Norwegian land seekers began moving into both Iowa and Minnesota, and serious migration to the Dakotas was underway by the 1870s.
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The majority of Norwegian agrarian settlements developed in the northern region of the so-called Homestead
Act Triangle, between the Mississippi and the Missouri rivers. The upper Midwest became the home for most immigrants. In 1910, almost 80 percent of the one million or more Norwegian Americans, the immigrants and their children, lived in that part of the United States. In 1970, 51.7 percent of the Norwegian American population lived in the
Midwest. Minnesota had the largest number, and Minneapolis functioned as a Norwegian American “capital” for
secular and religious activities.
In the Pacific Northwest, the Puget Sound region, and especially the city of Seattle, became another center of
immigrant life. Enclaves of Norwegian immigrants emerged as well in Brooklyn, Alaska, and in Texas.
In a letter from Chicago dated 9 November 1855, Elling Haaland from Stavanger, assured his relatives back
home that “of all nations Norwegians are those who are most favored by Americans.” This sentiment was expressed
frequently as the immigrants attempted to seek acceptance and negotiate entrance into the new society. In their segregated farming communities, Norwegians were spared direct prejudice and might indeed have been viewed as a welcome ingredient in a region’s development. Still, a sense of inferiority was inherent in their position. The immigrants
were occasionally referred to as “guests” in the United States, and they were not immune to condescending and disparaging attitudes by old-stock Americans. Economic adaptation required a certain amount of interaction with a larger
commercial environment, from working for an American farmer to doing business with the seed dealer, the banker,
and the elevator operator. Products had to be grown and sold, all of which pulled Norwegian farmers into social contact with their American neighbors.
In places like Brooklyn, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Seattle, Norwegian-Americans interacted with the multicultural environment of the city, while constructing a complex ethnic community that met the needs of its members. It
might be said that a Scandinavian melting pot existed in the urban setting among Norwegians, Swedes, and Danes,
evidenced in residential and occupational patterns, in political mobilization, and in public commemoration. Intermarriage promoted inter-ethnic assimilation. Beginning in the 1920s, Norwegian-Americans increasingly became suburban, and one might claim, more American.
To give a picture of the situation today, it is interesting to note that Norwegian-Americans currently comprise
the 10th largest White (European) American ancestry group totaling 4.5 million. Of these, approximately three million
claim “Norwegian” as their sole or primary ancestry.
A little more than 2 percent of whites in the United States are of Norwegian descent. In the Upper Midwest,
especially Minnesota, western Wisconsin, northern Iowa, and the Dakotas, more than 15 percent of whites are of Norwegian descent. Nearly one-third of all North Dakotans claim Norwegian as their ancestry.
55 percent of Norwegian-Americans live in the Midwest, 21 percent live in California, Oregon and Washington.
With the exception of Ireland, no single country contributed a larger percentage of its population to the United
States than Norway.
Fraternally,
Audun
Gratulerer med Dagen
Fra Presidenten, Mary B. Andersen, May 2016
It is time to get down to business
“small decisionsCumulatively , choices, actions, make a very big difference” Jane Goodall
As can be expected at this time, your Third District Board and many of your fraternal
brothers and sisters serving on convention committees are busy getting ready for the 64th District Lodge meeting to be held in June at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. This location was specifically chosen to enable as
many lodges as possible to attend. Each delegate makes a difference. The delegates set the course for the
future direction of the Third District! You have a voice; I hope your lodge will use it by sending delegates.
Lodge delegates will receive a Convention Reports book in late April or early May via email. It is the
delegate’s job to discuss the various resolutions with his/her respective lodge and understand how the lodge
wants the delegate to vote on a particular issue. I can’t emphasize enough, this is your lodge’s time to officially voice your thoughts and wishes on the future of the Third District! Please try to take advantage of this
opportunity. It only happens once every two years.
After the convention is over, each delegate should report back to his or her respective lodge with a
summary of the important decisions made at the District Lodge meeting. The delegate should also announce
the new officers and present any other items of interest or news that the lodge may want to know more about.
Yes, there is a serious tone to this letter because the business of running a District is serious. We have
so much fun together at our socials that it is easy to forget that we are more than a social organization. It is
time to really get down to business.
Jeg ønsker dere alt godt, Mary
BUS TO PARADE IN BROOKLYN FOR MAY 15TH.
The bus will leave from the K.D. Malone school on Green Pond Rd. at 11:30am prompt.
Return from Brooklyn at 4:00pm to be back at the lodge for the after parade picnic.
Cost for the bus will be $10.00 for marching members.
Cost for non-marchers will be $12.00 and non-members will be $15.00.
Children and grandchildren of members are free, non-member children cost $5.00.
It would be very nice if we could have a nice turnout of marchers for Nor-Bu Lodge.
Also, the bus is expensive, so we need to try to fill it, otherwise we will not continue to rent a bus.
Please call Anne-Lise at 973-663-1070 or email at [email protected].
HELP THE NEEDY
We are continuing our food collection
for the food bank, so please remember
to bring non-perishable food for the
food box when you come to any event
at the lodge.
PLEASE DON’T FORGET
LOV Golf Tournament
May 20-22, 2016.
Contact LOV for room reservations 570-461-3500
Golf fee $60.00.
Send to Audun Gythfeldt
PO Box 702, Pocono Pines, PA 18350
[email protected]
The folks that help bring you the newsletter.
Ellen & Richard Tonnesen......................................3/2017
Solveig Walaas……………………………………….1/2018
Booster Club Members
Stuart & Eileen Anderson.....................................11/2016
Eleanor Arnell.........................................................5/2016
Dorothy Furst Bahnatka.........................................7/2017
Sigrid Bjelland........................................................5/2018
Frank & Kari Brescher............................................2/2017
Anne-Lise Carew....................................................3/2017
Ann Carlsen............................................................1/2017
Joe Carlsen.......................................................... 11/2016
Marga Conn…………………………………………..9/2016
Ellen & Artie Crane…………………………………..4/2017
Judith Eriksson…………………………………...…..5/2016
Gail Garnett……………………………..……...…...11/2016
Audun & Margaret Gythfeldt……………………….. 4/2017
Ellen Hantho…………………………………………10/2017
Vega & Arthur Hendela.........................................04/2016
Lillian Jensen..........................................................1/2017
Barbara & Peter Johanson...................................12/2016
Edith Karlsen........................................................12/2016
Stan & Hessie Kjekstad..........................................2/2020
Ranveig & Svein Klinge..........................................5/2017
Irma Bergland Lafko...............................................4/2017
Debbie Landvik Larsen Felner...............................2/2017
Barbara & Joe Lehner............................................1/2018
Bjorg Lema...........................................................11/2017
Gerda Lindstrom .................................................. 10/2016
Claire & John Loken .............................................. 7/2017
Marit & Per Mikalsen.............................................12/2016
George & Viola Muriello..........................................4/2017
Christian Nielsen.....................................................1/2017
Roy Nilsen & Elizabeth Grady...............................11/2016
William Nostrand.....................................................3/2017
Mary & Harry Ostevik ............................................ 1/2017
Marilyn Pettersen...................................................1/2018
Judy and Eugene Randazzo..................................4/2016
Ruth Ruediger...................................................... 11/2016
Gunvor Satra………………………………………..12/2016
Raymond & Carol Schutz…………………………...3/2017
Roy & Barbara Selland……………………………...2/2017
Thor & Gladys Stene ........................................... 05/2019
Joyce Svendsen.....................................................1/2017
Mari Svensen MacPeek........................................12/2016
Angie Thompson.....................................................1/2017
Austin Thompson....................................................1/2017
Joanne Thompson..................................................1/2017
Robert & Mary Thompson…………………………...1/2017
Gwyn Anne Thompson………………………………1/2017
Mary Ellen Thompson………………………………..1/2017
Garth Eric Thompson………………………………...1/2017
Cindy Dale Thompson……………………………….1/2017
Garon Keith Thompson……………………………...1/2017
Gayle Elaine Thompson……………………………..1/2017
Heather Thompson…………………………………..1/2017
Jason Thompson……………………………………..1/2017
Laura Thompson…………………………………… 1/2017
Thelma Thompson……………...……………………1/2020
Barbara & Karl Peter Thorsen………………………4/2019
You can be a booster too!
$ 10.00 donation to the Treasurer will put you on the
list! Make Check out to Nor-Bu Lodge.
Mail to:
Anne-Lise Meisner
92 West Shawnee Trail, Wharton, NJ 07885-2923
If your name is missing and you have sent in your booster,
please let Anne-Lise know, 973-663-1070.
Thank you.
Memorial
Boosters
William & Marit Laber May 2017
Daniel Lema
October 2017
Arne & Ingebjørg Strom-Henriksen April 2017
Evelyn & Oscar Tonnesen October 2016
Ruth & Ivar Skavnes
Andy Karlsen
October 2016
December 2016
Arne Landvik-Larsen
December 2017
SUNDAY DINNERS
Will be back in October
SAVE THE DATE OCT. 3RD
Gratulerer med Dagen
Our May 17th Celebration on May 14th at 6:30pm at Nor-Bu
We will celebrate Norway’s Syttende MAI at the lodge with our usual food and dance.
Cost is $20.00 and BYOB
Music by Ellen Lindstrom
“The Swedishmeatballs”
Please make sure you have made your reservation for the evening.
Deadline May 7th
Contact Kari Brescher 973-627-6334 or email at [email protected]
Then follow with coupon and payment.
Hurrah for Syttende Mai!
Reservation form We would like to attend the 17th of May Dinner Dance on Saturday May 14th
Please reserve _______ seats for us. I have enclosed $ 20.00 for each ticket.
Name ______________________________________
Phone ____________________Home
_____________________Cell
Mail to Social Director
Kari Brescher, 3 McDermott Pass, Denville, NJ 07843
973-627-6334
with check made out to Nor-Bu Lodge by May 7th
NORBU CALENDAR 2016
Norwegian language classes are being held
as the schedule of the students permit. If
you are interested in joining, please call
Kari Brescher to find out when the next
class will be held. 973-627-6334
The mission of Sons of Norway is to promote and to preserve the heritage and
culture of Norway, to celebrate our relationship with other Nordic countries, and to
provide quality insurance and financial products to its members.