Member Story
Member Note
Our family has a tradition of sharing Super Bowl Weekend (that is another story) and go out for dinner on that Saturday, because I prepare food for all day on Sunday. This year, due to the pandemic, we kept it small and with family that we see on a regular basis. I decided to make a frikadellar dinner with mashed potatoes and red cabbage, as several family members had never had it before. In preparation, I had purchased everyone a tshirt from the newsletter, not knowing that they are made only in female sizes. Well, you can imagine the laughter when everyone was a good sport and just “went with it”! Attached are photos of me making 47 frikadellars and our gang with the tshirts!
We made the Country Oat Loaf recipe from the Danish Sisterhood News and it was delicious. We make it once a month now. Paul and Tracey Nielsen
Kathy Bonn
Historian’s Corner
Overview of the Mærsk-Moller Family and the Mærsk Company by Donna Christensen Thomas, National DSS Historian
During the Christmas season while watching the nightly news, a story caught my attention. The report showed a harbor with various ships containing goods manufactured anywhere in the world which were unable to be delivered due to the pandemic and travel restrictions. This resulted in the shortage of some popular gift items. I spotted the shipping container in the harbor marked MÆRSK with its characteristic unique logo. I commented to my husband that MÆRSK is a Danish company and started delving to learn more about the company’s history and the founders’ history. I would normally have tried to access additional materials in the libraries at the Danish AmeriDanish Sisterhood News, March 2021
can Archives and Library(DAAL) and the Genealogy Center of the Museum of Danish America. However, these institutions are closed due to the pandemic so I ended up accessing what I could online, starting with Wikipedia. I will summarize and supplement with further research. A.P. Møller and the Møller family are as well known in Denmark as Warren Buffet, the Carnegie, Rockefeller families and other highly successful business people in the USA. Arnold Peter Møller (1876-1965) was a Danish shipping magnate who along with his father, Captain Peter Mærsk Møller (1836-1927) founded the Dampskibsselskabet Svendborg (the Steamship Company Svendborg in 1904. The latter, a veteran 4
