DSS News September 2022

Danish SisterhoodNews

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Danish SisterhoodNews

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Volume 75, Number 9

Honorary Member Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark

Published by the Supreme Lodge of the Danish Sisterhood of America, (Dansk Søster Samfund) as its Official Publication.

Christina Sallee, National President

I hope everyone had a great summer, got recharged and inspired. As you know I was on the DSS trip to Denmark and will try to make this a reoccurring trip every two years as it was fantastic and I got to meet many of you and spend some time together.

We have some changes on the National Board that we wanted you to know about. Effec tive August 10th, Vice President Karin Wasler resigned from the Board due to medical reasons. Karin has been a great inspiration, hard worker and promoter for the Sisterhood, so we are sad to see her go, but understand that she needs to prioritize her health.

As per our Bylaws the Board selected 2nd Trustee Nealna Gylling as Vice President and looked to our alternates elected at National Con vention in 2019 to fill the 2nd Trustee position. I am happy to announce that Anna Nielsen, Lodge #20, Kenosha, WI accepted the appointment and will join the National Board effective August 11, 2022. After much discussion it was decid ed that Nealna will continue as the Scholarship chair for the rest of the term, and Anna has been assigned some of the duties Karin chaired such as our social media and website.

We are looking forward to seeing Anna at our Fall Board meeting, and to introduce her to you. Please look in the newsletter for her intro duction article.

Christina Sallee, National President

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Officers of the Supreme Lodge

National President: Christina Sallee, Lodge #81 16116 SW Deline Ct, Beaverton, OR 97007-3425 (503) 928 4494 president@danishsisterhood.com

National Vice President & Scholarship Chairman: Nealna Gylling, Lodge #186 1474 Floan Point Rd, Brainerd, MN 56401 612-390-1374 vicepresident@danishsisterhood.com

National Secretary: Glenda Madrid, Lodge #177 1557 Oak St. Solvang, CA 93463 (805) 448-7631 secretary@danishsisterhood.com • glenda_madrid@hotmail.com

National Treasurer: Linda Brooks, Lodge #21 8402 Winter Berry Dr., Castle Rock, CO 80108 303-905-9934 treasurer@danishsisterhood.com

National Trustee & Butikken Chairman: Linda Holz #102 4400 EP True Pkwy Unit 47, West Des Moines, IA 50265-5615 (515) 225-0951 trustee1@danishsisterhood.com

National Trustee & Website Chairman: Anna Nielsen #20 (262) 412-4482 trustee2@danishsisterhood.com

National Trustee, Membership Chairman: Karen Vig-Keathley, Lodge #4 109 South First Street, Itasca, IL 60143 708-715-0071 trustee3@danishsisterhood.com

National Past President: Sindy Mikkelsen, Lodge #126 2938 Sweet Grass Lane, Santa Rosa, CA 95407 (707) 755-0260

National Historian: Donna Christensen Thomas, historian@danishsisterhood.com

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Editor

Dear Sisters,

I know that many of you are traveling this year. With our TWO Danish Sisterhood trips to Den mark, it seems like nearly everyone is over in Denmark.

I've been seeing many lovely photos com ing from the trips so far and look forward to see ing even more and to hearing all of your stories!

As for myself, no big travel plans here, so I'll have to live vicariously through all of the Den mark trip pictures I come across.

I did, however, make it over to Door Coun ty, WI recently where we were able to spend time with friends and family, and explore some new spots--even though I've been going there my entire life!

There's something especially wonderful about traveling and exploring new places or new aspects of places that you've been to already.

I invite you all to share your stories of travel for upcoming issues...whether you've been traveling recently or if it's been awhile!

I'd also like to remind everyone to start thinking about those Holiday Ads! The holidays are right around the corner.

Hoping you are all well and enjoying the last rays of summer and beginnings of autumn.

Until next time,

Lauren C. Nielsen, Editor editor@danishsisterhood.com

In this Issue

Youth Birthdays

On the Cover

Title: Cover of the January 1979 DSN Courtesy of: Danish Sisterhood archives, Museum of Danish America

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Sisterhood News,

Lauren

Introducing our New National Trustee, Anna Nielsen

For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Anna Nielsen. I have been a member of Katherine Lodge #20 in Kenosha, Wisconsin for 7 years. In that time, I have had the pleasure of hold ing the office of secretary from 2015-2022 before taking over the position of President in February of this year in my local lodge. I also held the posi tion of Vice President of the Midwest District from 2018-2022 and was elected in May of 2022 to the position of Midwest District President.

Finding this group that shares my love of my Danish heritage has been so rewarding over the years. I was born and raised in Racine, Wiscon

sin, famously known as the Kringle Capital of the United States and am 50% Danish. I now reside in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with my boyfriend of 6.5 years, Dan, and our small zoo of animals.

Aside from my many positions in the orga nization, I work full time as a Boutique Manager/ District Trainer-WI/IL for Francesca’s, a women’s clothing boutique company. When I am not busy traveling for work or doing Sisterhood things, you can find me avidly watching Packer football, baking many different Danish desserts, planning wed dings, or at the local biergarten with my dad.

Over the course of the next year, I am excit ed to dive into the technology side of our organiza tion’s operations and work with the National Board and all of you to share some really great content. I look forward to helping plan a fantastic National Convention in Bloomington, Minnesota and meet ing many of you there!

In Memoriam

NAME Cert # Lodge # Location Birth Date Birth Place Initiated Died Benefit

Mardeen Petersen 23427 3 Davenport, IA 2.22.38 Davenport, IA 1.16.76 4.18.22 1000. Janet Hokanson 20304 166 Hayward, CA 2.11.32 Hayward, CA 6.10.48 4.26.22 125. Joyce McGough 90778 21 Denver, CO 4.14.49 Wyoming 12.8.18 7.3.22 0 Mary Ann Knight 21086 55 Rockford, IL 8.4.33 Rockford, IL 11.5.52 6.26.22 250. Jeanette Ragner 24515 15 Millwaukee, WI 3.11.24 Keil, WI 10.19.88 5.10.22 500. Betty Lou Nissen 23405 142 Schenectady, NY 3.1.47 Cobleskill, NY 12.9.75 3.16.22 1000.

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OUR 28th National DSS Convention Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN

Danish Sisterhood of America's 28TH NATIONAL CONVENTION

October 6-8, 2023

Radisson Blu MOA 2100 Killebrew Dr Bloomington, MN 55425

Updates from Amber Lodge #186, Brainerd, MN

Amber Lodge #186 in Brainerd, MN has had a very busy spring and summer.

We hosted an Aebleskiver Brunch with a craft and bake sale on April 30th at Trinity Lutheran Church in Brainerd as a fundraiser. The Brunch was well attended.

Our May meeting was for fun. 15 sisters and spouses gathered at a local restaurant to celebrate our 18th anniversary. Great food and fun was had by all attend ees. We especially enjoyed the beautiful red and white floral arrange ment sent to us from our sister, Laurie Cappellin, located in North Carolina. We miss you, too, Lau rie.

In June we celebrated Sankt Hans Aften at Nealna and Don Gylling's home with a potluck, pontoon ride on Gull Lake, and bonfire with witch burning.

Cuba was the main subject of our July meeting program. Our presenters, sister LeAnn Plinske and her friend, Jennifer O'Neill, shared wonderful pictures and stories of their two volun teer trips in Cuba with the organization, Global Volun teers.

In August Amber Lodge #186 members sponsored two very suc cessful activities at the Crow Wing Viking Festival.

Nealna Gylling organized an Aebleskiver booth that made and served our delicious Aebleskiver to Festival attendees. Amber Lodge sisters, friends, and other family members volunteered and helped

make and serve the Aebleskiver. We raised funds for our sister member, Amber Thusolt, and her fam ily that lost their home in a fire just last June. Also at the Viking Festival was the Children's Craft area that sister Barb Wenschlag was in charge of. 125 kids came through and par ticipated in four Craft activities. The painting of cardboard shields (16" pizza rounds) was a big hit! Barb organized all ma terials and the 13 volunteers needed for the day.

It's been a wonderful spring and summer for Amber Lodge!!!!

Submitted by Barb Wenschlag

Thank Yous

Thank you to the following for making donations to the Sisterhood:

Lodge #142 in memory of Betty Lou Nissen Mary Pritchard in memory of Betty Lou Nissen Heartland District Sisterhood

Danish Sisterhood

News from Northstar Lodge #100 Resolution: Judy Mountfort

Old news; new news, whatever makes us Danish. Our wonderful and efficient secretary of many many years has decided to give up her office position. And guess what! I got the job, it really doesn't pay much.

Seven members met in May. We enjoyed good food and rousing conversation. The talk at the table was about the MOO District Convention in June.

Our Lodge became 115 years young in June. We had a fun celebration at a local restau rant. We even allowed husbands to come and eat with us, so 12 humans were present. None of us were there at the very first meeting.

In July we celebrated our Nation'ss birth day. We also talked about Denmark celebrating our 4th of July.

We gave donations to our womens shel ter and our mens shelter. The members officially elected me as the new old lady secretary. HaHa. They know now what they've done.

In August, Kris and I attempted to prepare Danish food recipes and a smorrebrod table. The food was delicious but not quite as elegant as pictures I have scene. We talked about the histo ry of our Juhl community and our lodge. It is sad that our ancestors wanted to be American and did not teach any of our members the Danish language. We have one member that is 100% Danish and the rest of us are 50% Danish. Our members are not blue eyed and blonde. BUT we have fun and eat well, no alcohol involveddarn.

Carol Schlaud, your goofy secretary. (Guess what, I married a German!)

Judy Mathisen

Mountfort passed away peaceful ly on August 15 surrounded by her family at the age of 83. Judy joined Ellen Lodge 21 on Octo ber 28, 1992. She was a very active member from the beginning hosting many of our month ly meetings, giving heritage presen tations, planning social activities, and filling the position of Lodge Historian for many years. She was also on the 2015 National Con vention committee held in Denver. She was re sponsible for organizing the two tours offered to the attendees during the convention. Judy loved working on projects during our craft sessions. She was the first to make the knitted Danish flag garland for the annual craft fair.

For years Judy worked in the hotel and hospitality business, and after retirement, vol unteered at the Denver Visitors and Convention Center. Judy loved knitting, reading a good book, playing Bridge, dining out/in with family and friends and loved to travel. She loved the theater and was a ticket holder to the Best of Broadway shows. Judy was very proud of her Danish roots. She started researching on Ancestry.com and in doing so, found family connections in Denmark (and Wyoming). She had the opportunity to visit them twice in Denmark and they were able to visit her large family in Colorado.

Judy was the kindest, most considerate, loving person you would have the privilege to meet. Sadly, she spent the last five years in Assisted Living and Skilled nursing. Even though her memory was waning, she would still ask about the Sisterhood. She will be missed. Our lives are better for having Judy in it.

Updates from Katherine Lodge #20, Kenosha, WI

Our Lodge, based in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has had a very busy spring and summer although we have no regular meetings June through Au gust.

New social activities included gathering a couple of times at a local cof fee shop to enjoy morning coffee with a beautiful view of the waterfront and camaraderie of our sisters. Dejlig!

Less well attended, but still great fun were the “brown bag & bier” gatherings at a biergar ten in a beautiful local park. Members and their families enjoyed German-style pretzels and other snacks while having a refreshing beverage. Hopefully more members and their families will join in next summer.

The first of our big events of the summer was the summer solstice party, hosted at the home of our secretary, Kara Ernst-Shalk, and her husband. We all loved the delicious potluck dish es members brought and grilled goodies, but the real fun came at the burning of the winter witch. The weather could not have been better. We had such a great time!

In July, we held our annual fundraiser to benefit local char ities and our scholar ship fund. This year, we tried something new—a wine tasting event. Most attendees brought along hors d'oeuvres and snacks to share. We were particularly excited to taste delicious offer ings on the trays of

smørrebrød brought by Jim Nielsen. With raffles and wines to sample and loads of friends to visit, we all had a great time for a good cause. August 28 brought our 130th Anniversa ry Celebration. Dinner was enjoyed by all in the lovely setting of The Hobnob Supper Club on the shores of Lake Michigan. At precisely 8:30 p.m. on August 28 (the same date and time Kather ine Lodge’s Constitution was originally signed), our current president, Anna Nielsen, honored the originating members by reading their names. Treasurer Marge Orth also read greetings sent by national board members, trustees, and other lodges. We honored several members for ten and twenty-five years of membership and welcomed/ inducted a new member, as well. After dinner we all enjoyed a Danish layer cake prepared by one of Racine’s Danish bakeries. What a fine celebra tion we had!

We are looking forward to resuming our in-person meetings at our former site (Festival Foods Community Room) in September, followed by a program about the Danish Sisterhood Den mark trip attended by Sister Marge Orth. Our nominating committee is working on putting together a slate of candidates for nominations in October, elections and Danish Christmas card-making in November.

Wishing all our Sisters good health and happiness and some fun with your sisterhood groups in the coming months!

In Sisterhood, Mary Lou Nielsen, Lodge 20

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Historian’s Corner

Eugen Warming, the father of Ecology by Donna Christensen Thomas, National DSS Historian

Every day we hear the news about climate change: is it real? How do we combat it? and the like. Recently our son Jason who is a plant sci entist, texted me about a gentleman who was unfamiliar to me...and queried "Are we related?"

I think I've created "a monster" then I discovered that we were distantly related to Betty White!

According to his Wikipedia profile, Jo hannes Eugenius Bülow Warming (3 Nov 18412 Apr 1924), known as Eugen Warming, was a Danish botanist and a main founding figure of the scientific endeavor of ecology. As a professor at the University of Copenhagen, he wrote the first textbook in 1895 on plant ecology, taught the first course on plant ecology, and gave the concept its meaning and content. Scholar R J Goodland wrote in 1975: "If one individual can be singled out to be honoured as the founder of ecology, Warming should gain precedence."

Warming was born on the small island of Mandø which is less than three square miles and in 2018 had forty residents. Mandø today is un der the municipality of Esbjerg. When his father

died when Eugen was only three years old, the family moved to Vejle to live with his mother's brother. Most of his life was spent in Copenha gen.

He was the only child of parish minister Jens Warming (1797-1844) and Anna Marie von Bülow of Plüskow (1801-1863). On 10 Nov 1871 he married Johanne Margrethe Jespersen (known as Hanne Warming (1850-1922). They had eight children with only five living to adult hood. Several also reached notable success in their given fields.

His accomplishments and accolades were numerous within the science field, including countries in Europe. Among them he was made Commander 1st degree of the Order of the Dannebrog and others. His work remains the foundation of many scientific ideas and theories still used today.

I guess I better get busy and find out if we are "related" or not! He may have to settle for being a student of his scientific process.

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Danish Sisterhood of America

CONVENTION VENDOR FORM

On October 6-8, 2023, the Danish Sisterhood of America will hold its 28 th National Convention in Bloomington, Minnesota. Radisson Blu MOA

We are happy to offer you space in our Merchant Mall at $125.00 for three days. There will be a 6’2” table w/cloth available to you along with two chairs. Tablecloth plus skirting $10.00 per day. Electric $80.00 per day Due to the size of the room, we are limited to 10 tables on a first-come basis. Deadline for return of Convention Vendor Form is October 31, 2022

Vendor Name/Lodge

Name

Address

The set-up time will be available Thursday October 5 th 8:00 am to 11:00 am. Please mail your check payable to Danish Sisterhood of America

Vig Keathley

South First Street Itasca, IL 60143 2114

If you have any questions, please contact Karen Vig Keathley at trustee3@danishsisterhood.com Or 708 -715-0071. Tak

Thank you in advance for your interest and continued support and association with the Danish Sisterhood of America.

VIEWS FROM LOLLAND

Beach on the peninsula Hyllekrog.

A field of poppies on Lolland, Denmark.

Nysted harbor marina on Lolland in rural Denmark.

Old windmill at Majbølle

Cathedral at Maribo

CARD

RECIPE

1 c. flour

1 tsp. sugar

1/4 tsp. salt 4 eggs

Danish Beer Pancakes (Danske Øl Pandekager)

2 Tbsp. oil 1 c. beer

1/2 c. milk

RECIPE CARD

Mix flour, sugar and salt. Separate egg yolks and whites. Beat egg yolks with oil. Add to flour mixture and mix well. Add beer and mimlk. Set batter aside for 30 minutes.

From Danish Sisterhood Treasures Cookbook. Recipe from Grethe Henshaw, Spokane, WA

Cut along the border for your very own recipe card! Recipe continues on 2 following cards.

1/2 c. margarine

3/4 c. brown sugar

Brown Cookies (Brunekager)

1/2 c. dark Karo syrup

1 Tbsp. packed, grated orange rind

1/2 tsp. cardamom

1/2 tsp. cloves

3/4 tsp. salt

1/4 tsp. allspice

1/2 tsp. cinnamon

2 c. flour

1/2 tsp. carbonated ammonia (optional)

Blanched almonds cut in halves

Cut along the border for your very own recipe card!

Danish

Danish Beer Pancakes (cont.)

Fold in beaten egg whites. Heat large fry pan with oil. Pour batter, a little at a time, and rotate hot pan around. This will result in a round, thin pancake. It is a lot like a crepe.

Serve with butter, syrup or jelly. I sometimes roll them up and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

RECIPE CARD

Cut along the border for your very own recipe card! (Front of recipe card found on previous page.)

Brown Cookies (cont.)

Cream margarine and brown sugar. Add syrup. Mix well. Add dry ingredients. Refrigerate dough for two weeks for better flavor. Roll, very thin, on floured surface and cut diagonally into diamond shapes. Press 1/2 almond into center of each. Bake at 350 degrees until light brown. Remove from cookie sheet while warm. Must be crisp when cooled.

From Danish Sisterhood Treasures Cookbook. Recipe from Marie Jaeger, Lodge 177, Solvang, CA

Cut along the border for your very own recipe card!

RECIPE CARD

DSS Angel Member Status

The Danish Sisterhood has a new and very special member status, the DSS Angels. This status belongs to those members that wish to gift their funeral benefit back to the Sisterhood. We have had some members in the past make the Sisterhood their beneficiary. We believe this is a generous and significant gift, and wish to honor them while we can, keeping a list of our current “Angels” posted. A couple of options are available:

• A change of beneficiary to: Danish Sisterhood of America or, • A change of beneficiary to one of the national schol arship funds. Be specific, ie: Betty Hansen Scholarship, Past National Officers, Camp Grant, etc.

If you wish to change your status, please contact your lodge or the National Secretary for a Beneficiary Change Form. Your benefit does not need to be fully paid yet, and you'd be expected to maintain your payments, as the Sisterhood will not receive the benefit until your passing. Those that do not have a funeral benefit as part of your membership category can participate by donat ing $1,000 to the Danish Sisterhood of America. On behalf of our entire membership, we wish to thank and honor as our first Angels:

Lodge # 166

Name

Viola Wilson Joann Scott Dorothy Petersen Karin Plagens Sandra Nelson Carole Hodges Andrea Sue Welling Leih Elizabeth Haar Glenda Madrid Nancy J. Mayland Johanne Gade Diann Weinman Carol Smith Meredith Sorensen Marie Jaeger Christina Sallee Melissa Sallee Marie Fairbanks Constance Schneider

Lodge # 102 15 125 177 15 166 126 15 142 165 177 86 15 15 90 177 185

Name

Susan R. Fisher Lou Ann Jensen Hanne Skaarup Else Lassiter Pamela H. Ruben Carolyn Sias Ruth M. Brigden Kristine Huss Seena Drapala Margaret Wetzel Verina Farrell Lorraine Buchanan Janice L. Schneider Debra Spotz Vicki Bousquet Marianne Larsen Bente Bob

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