Lögberg-Heimskringla - 11.09.1992, Síða 2

2 • Lögberg-Heimskringla • Föstudagur 4. september 1992
lcelandic Festival of Manitoba
Scholarship for 1992
The Wilhelm Kristjansson Memorial
Scholarship of $500 is offered by the
Icelandic Festival of Manitoba to a student
who has completed one or more years of
post-secondary studies and who will be
continuing his or her studies the following
year.
The selection is based on academic
results, as well as on qualities of leader-
ship and community service.
The winner this year was Theodore
Johann (T.J.) Heidrick of Sherwood Park,
Alberta. The presentation was made at the
Icelandic Festival in Gimli on Monday,
August 3rd.
T.J. completed high school in T.J. Heidrick
Sherwood Park, Alberta, in two years instead of the usual three. He was
the first student at this high school to accomplish such a feat. T.J.
received a mark of 98% on the provincial math exam. This was a remark-
able achievement considering that the failure rate was 34%.
While attending high school, T.J. found time to tutor many students in
physics, chemistry and math. He participated on the football team and
the downhill ski racing team. In music, he studied grade eight piano with
the Royal Conservatory, as well as singing, violin and music theory.
T.J.’s Icelandic heritage can be traced through his mother, Sandra, who
is the daughter of the late Johann and Helga Sigurdson of Lundar,
Manitoba. T.J.’s great-grandparents, Sigridur and Sigurdur Holm and Ásta
and Ingimundur Sigurdson came from Iceland.
T.J. has completed first-year Engineering at the University of Alberta,
and he has a GPA of 6.2. The GPA was considered exceptional enough to
admit T.J. to be one of only 16 students to be enrolled in Computer
Process Control Engineering in the Faculty of Chemical Engineering for
this coming year.
The members of the Icelandic Festival of Manitoba extend best wishes
to T.J. for much success in his future studies.
uMed Bestu Kvedjum, Love, Anna”
This was Anna Peterson’s written
message on her last Christmas card.
She passed away July 27th, 1992. Her
life spanned 93 years of the twentieth
century. Bom in Iceland, just south of
the Arctic Circle, she was impover-
ished by the loss of her mother when
she was only a toddler. Quickly she
leamed the value of extended families
and the comfort of friends and rela-
tives.
Her own family was further broken
when her father, Kristjan Jonsson,
and three sisters went to America
when she was only thirteen, and she
had to take on adult responsibilities.
Seven years later, along with her
sister, Kristin, Anna left the shores of
Iceland to reunite with her family and
to become a part of the American fab-
ric. The transition was difficult for she
had to leam the language bit by bit,
when she became the neighbour to
the German, French, Norwegian peo-
ple of the Milton, N.D. community.
The key word was Love, and the
bridges were built on that foundation.
Anna lived in the beautiful, ver-
dant valley of the Tongue River in
Cavalier County, which must have
reminded her of her Bardardahl
home beside Skjalfandifljot (Shiver-
ing River) of her native land.
When her sister, Kristin, passed
away in 1936, she became the mother
of her two children, Kristjan, now of
Arleta, Califomia, and Kristine, (Mrs
Joe Khoemstadt) of Maida, N.D. She
later married their father, Haraldur
Peterson, and two children, Einar of
Glendale, Arizona, and Bernard of
Devils Lake, N.D. were bom to that
union.
Sæl og Blessuð, Anna mín,
Gudmn Hanson
Walhalla, N.D.
Letters to ttie Edítor
Looking For Lost Ones
I write you in hope of assistance. I
have been trying to find relatives I
have, or had, in Winnipeg, but I have
had no luck so far.
The information about these peo-
ple are the following:
In 1913, Guðrún Sigurjónsdóttir
and Karl Jónasson moved from
Iceland to Canada. Guðrún b. January
10, 1890, d. April 29, 1949 in
Winnipeg. Karl b. July 1, 1883, d. May
4, 1949 in Winnipeg. They had one
child I know of Hugrún Kristín, and
she married a man with the name
George Munday.
I am hoping that you can find
something about these people, or tell
me where I can look, or whom I
could write to.
Sincerely,
Emil Jón Sigtryggsson
Austurgerdi 7
200 Kópavogur, Iceland
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I have been advised by the Consul
of Canada in Iceland, Mr. Jón H.
Bergs, to contact you and ask if you
can help me locate two young
women, Kristín and Marsa Wyvet,
who should be about forty years of
age, bom in Winnipeg.
Kritstín’s and Marsa’s mother was
or is Elsa Hjaltalin, the daughter of
Gottfreð Hjaltalín; and the father’s
name was or is Fred Wyvet.
A relative of Kristín and Marsa
Thórhildur Hjaltalín who was born
December 17, 1904, and died
December 17, 1990, left a little money
to be divided between her relatives.
If you can help me locate Kristín
and Marsa, my fax number is 354-
627746.
Sincerely yours,
Jón Kr. Sólnes. Attomey
Brekkugata 4
IS-600 Akureyri, Iceland
Thanks from the Choir
Thank you for publicizing the
events that the University of Iceland
Chamber Choir were participating in
during the week July 24 to August
3rd. The singers enjoyed seeing their
picture on the front page, and appre-
ciated the audiences that came to
hear them. They left Canada with
many happy memories — realizations
that the Icelandic heritage is strong
and alive here, and hospitality
abounding everywhere. Again, my
appreciation to you.
Respectfully,
Helga Anderson
Treasures of a thousand years
Ég var nýlega á íslandi og hafði ég
tækifæri til að ferðast í hringferð—og
margt fallegt og stórkostlegt hafði ég
séð á leiðinni.
Þegar ég var kominn að Egils-
stöðum tók frændi minn, Haukur
Þorgilsson á móti mér og keyrði hann
að minningarsteini, og þar las ég:
“Frá því um 1875 á fyrstu árum
þessar aldar fluttist fjöldi fólks af
Fljótsdalshéraði búferlum Vestur um
haf til Kanada og Bandakíkjanna.
Þessir Vestur-íslendingar lögðu ætíð
mikla rækt við íslenka tungu og men-
ningu ættlands síns í hinum nýju
heimkynnum vestan hafs. Þessa fólks
og afkomanda þeirra minnumst við
hér með sértækri virðingu.”
Þegar ég stóð þar í blíða veðri og
hreinu lofti — heima á íslandi, þá kom
strax í hug að ég er einn af þeim — af
íslenzkum-ættum. Sannarlega, stóð ég
þar sjálfur í virðingu og þakklæti.
Now I shall continue in English
with a translation of the above inscrip-
tion on the monument at Egilsstaðir to
the “Westem Icelanders.”
From about 1875 to the first years
of this century a large group of people
from the Fljótsdal district immigrated
across the sea to Canada and the
United States. These Western
Icelanders always cultivated a deep
love of the Icelandic language and the
ancient culture of their ancestral home
in the new surroundings across the
sea. These people and their descen-
dants remember her with thanksgiving
and esteem.
It is difficult to fully express the
emotions I felt as I stood by this mon-
ument. I can only say that I was hum-
bled as I reflected upon the treasures
of a thousand years which have been
passed on to me. It was I who also
remembered with “thanksgiving and
esteem” my Icelandic heritage.
And this heritage of a thousand
years is so well given to us in the
pages of Lögberg-Heimskringla week
after week. Thank you for an out-
síanding newspaper.
Með þakklæti, Þinn einlægur,
George Hanson
Upcoming Events 5
Sat., Sept. 12
Winnipeg
Thurs., Sept. 17
Winnipeg
Frón’s Golf Toumament — The Viking Classic, 1:30 p.m.
at Tuxedo Golf Couree - Golfere must register ($25.) - phone
Hallthor 955-9806. Potluck supper at the Scandinavian Cen-
tre afterwards. Eveiyone welcome.
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The Ad Hoc Committee for Icelandic in the school system
will hold a General Meeting, 7:00 p.m. at the Scandinavian
Centre on Erin St All are invited to attend.
Sat., Sept. 19
Winnipeg
Sat., Oct 24
Winnipeg
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Annual Fall Tea — The Jón Sigurðsson Chapter IODE
cordially invites you & your friends to the T. Eaton Assembly
Hall, 7tii floor, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Home Cooking -
Handicrafts - Novelties
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Magnus Eliason Award Banquet 6:30 p.m. atthe Scandinavian
Cultural Centre. Tickets ($40.) must be reserved early. Phone
Neil Bardal at 949-2200 or Scandinavian Centre at 774-8047.
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