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SCHOLARSHIPS
Offered
We invite students to apply for the following scholarships which are
offered, or administered, by the Canada lceland Foundation.
Priority may be given to first time applicants.
All applications must be received by Friday, 30 September, 2005
Information and applications are available electronically by request at
Canadalceland@netscape.net (for application requests only)
and in hard copy from Lögberg-Heimskrinljla.
The completed applications are forwarded to: Canada lceland Foundation Inc.,
Box 27012, C-360 Main Street, Winnipeg, MB R3C 4T3
The Heidmar Björnson Memorial
Scholarship
In the amount of $500, will be given
annually to the siudent obtaining the
highest academic standing in lcelandic
Studies in his/her final year at the
University of Manitoba. The award will
be made by the Department Head.
The Margaret Breckman Mack
Scolarship Award
In the amount of $500, will be given
anually to a needy student of good
scholastic ability who is enrolled in the
University of Manitoba bachelor of
Science Nursing Degree Program.
The Canada lceland Foundation
Scholarship
One scholarship of $500, to be awarded
annually. Award to be determined by
academic standing and leadership
qualities. To be offered to a uníversity
student studying towards a degree in
any Canadian universíty.
Einar Páll & Ingibjörg Jónsson
Memorial Scholarship
One scholarship of $500, to be awarded
annually. Award to be determined by
academic standing and leadership
qualities. To be offered to a high school
graduate proceeding to a Canadian
university or the University of lceland.
Emilia Pálmason Student Aid Award
Two awards of $500 each, to be given
annually. The recipients must be of good
moral character, college calibre and
primarily in need of help to contínue their
studies in high school, college, or at the
university level. The donors hope that
"somewhere along the highway of life" the
award winners will try to provide compa-
rable help to another needy student.
The Gunnar Simundsson Memorial
Scholarship
One scholarship of $500, to be awarded
annually. This annual scholarship will be
awarded to a student ín university or
proceeding into a university in Canada
or the United States. The recipient must
demonstrate financial need and high
scholastic ability.
Thotvaldson Schoiarship
One scholarship of $500, to be awarded
annually. This annualscholarship will be
awarded to a student in university or
proceeding into a university in Canada
or the United States. The recipient must
demonstrate financial need and high
scholastic ability.
John Jónas Gillis Memorial
Scholarship
The late Ingunn Gillis made a gift to the
Canada lceland Foundati'on to set up a
scholarshíp in memory of her son. A
scholarship of $500 will be awarded.
Amold W. Holm Scholarship
One scholarship of $500, to be awarded
annually. This scholarship is to be
awarded to a student demonstrating
financial need and who qualifies to
proceed to university education and a
degree.
The Kristin Stefanson Memorial
Scholarship
One scholarship of $500 to be awarded
to a student who is registered or will be
registering to take a course offered by
The Department of lcelandic at the
Universíty of Maniloba. Preference may
be given to students who have not
previously taken a course offered by
that Department.
The Lorna and Terry Tergesen
Scholarship
One scholarship of $500 to be awarded
to a student entering the second or a
later year of study of architecture, fine
arts, design orgraphic design, music,
Exposure
Lögberg-Heimskringla is
one of a kind and it is a good
way for advertisers to reach the
Icelandic community.
Kent Lárus Björnsson, who
operates Nordic Trails in Reyk-
javík, Iceland, echoes the senti-
ment. “Lögberg-Heimskringla
keeps me in touch with what
is going on with the Icelandic
groups around North America,”
he says. “I especially like the
online version, so I see the pa-
per right away. I advertise in and
promote Lögberg-Heimskringla
wherever and whenever pos-
sible. In terms of advertising, it
gives me the best exposure to
my target group in North Amer-
ica, namely North Americans of
Icelandic decent and others that
have a keen interest in Iceland
and things Icelandic.”
to target
Some advertisers, such
as Ernest Stefanson, owner of
the Pharmasave in Gimli, MB,
hope to encourage their fellow
businessmen. “We advertise for
many reasons,” he says. “Sup-
port for Lögberg-Heimskringla
is paramount and also to encour-
age others business to advertise
as well.”
There are many ads in this
issue of Lögberg-Heimskring-
la, and the revenue from ads is
higher than last year. However,
the ratio of advertising to edi-
torial space in Lögberg-Heim-
skringla needs to increase.
A special committee has
been established to help increase
the ads. It consists of Julianna
Bjomson, Walter Sopher, Rag-
nar Bergman and Vi Bjamason
Hilton.
groups
One of the
strongest
traditional pulpits
Rob Fridfinnson, owner
of Mid-Town Ford in Win-
nipeg, MB, says, “I’ve been
a past subscriber to Lögberg-
Heimskringla and a strong
supporter of vocalizing the
Icelanders’ contribution to
Westem Canadian life. I be-
lieve the L-H is one of our
strongest traditional pulpits.
My great-grandparents, all of
Icelandic descent, settled in
this country with young fami-
lies over 100 years ago, suf-
fered the hard life but made
possible the bountiful exis-
tence we have today.”
Finding family
with a hoekey stick
Garry Oddleifson says that
finding your family can often
happen in strange ways, even
in a hockey arena.
“Backin 1970 and ’71, my
father, Leifi (Oddleifur) Odd-
leifson was looking for his kin
in North America. All his life,
he had never come across any
Oddleifson folks that were not
part of the family, so he wanted
to know where they all were.
“His grandfather, Oddlei-
fur Sigurdsson, had arrived in
Canada in 1874, spent an unfor-
tunate year at Kinmount with
about 300 others, and arrived
with many of them at Willow
Point in October 1875. He per-
ished in the smallpox outbreak
in 1876. But his son Gestur
had corne with him to Canada,
and another son Stefan, Dad’s
father, followed in 1885, and
later two more of Oddleifur’s
sons also emigrated. All but
one married and raised families
in Manitoba.
“The exception was Águst,
or ‘Gus” as he was called. He
was an eleclrica! engineer who
had excelled at the Univer-
sity of Manitoba, and had then
gone off to serve in the First
World War. After the war, he
took advantage of a great op-
portunity to attend the famous
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, where he was also
an honour student. Tbis infor-
mation became known, but the
subsequent lack of any com-
munication between Gus and
the family back in Manitoba
only meant that he was lost.
Any news of marriage or fam-
ily was also lost.
“My dad’s work was com-
plete as far as he could take it,
although he knew that there was
a ‘missing link,’ as he called
it, because nobody seemed to
know what had happened tö
Gus after MIT. So, my father
considered his file ‘The Oddlei-
fson Family in North America’
to be an incomplete work. But
fate took a hand in the form of
a pro hockey player.
“In 1970, my cousin Chris
(his grandfather was my Dad’s
brother Jack) was the 1 Oth pick
in the NHL draft, and was se-
lected by the California Gold-
en Seals. That’s a high pick,
JOtli in the first round — but,
in the old NHL (14 teams that
season), it was rare for first-
year players to play with the
parent club, so Chris played
in the AHL for the Providence
Reds, a farm team of the Seals.
The AHL is a very old and es-
tablished league. It’s where the
Manitoba Moose now play.
“During that 1970 - 71
season, the Reds played a
game in Rochester, New York.
At the pre-game warm-up a
young fan called Chris over to
the boards and stated his name
was Chris Oddleifson. ‘Our’
Chris said ‘Yeah right, kid!
Don’t bug me!’ (Or words to
that effect). After the game, the
players were leaving the dress-
ing roorn, heading for the team
bus, and the kid was there with
an adult. The adult introduced
himself as Peter Oddleifson,
father of the ‘other’ Chris.
“August had been found.
Or, his son had been found,
and it became fairly simple for
Dad to finish his family record.
But first there was quite a bit of
correspondence between Peter
and Dad, all of it adding to my
father’s great satisfaction and
general enthusiasm. I was liv-
ing in Toronto, and managed
two visits with Peter and his
family. Peter also had a* broth-
er, Eric, who lived in Boston.
I know that after he became a
Boston Bruin, Chris also met
Eric. Later, when Chris had
been traded to Vancouver, Pe-
ter brought his family up to
Toronto and we all went to see
thc Canucks defeat the Maple
Leafs. We had a good visit
with Chris at the team hotel
the afternoon of the game. The
result of the game could not
have been scripted better. The
Canucks won a tight one, and
Chris was named ‘first star’ of
the game, mainly on account of
the super job he did checking
Sittler.”
Garry Oddleifson is the lst
Vice-President of the INL/NA
and lives in Winnipeg.
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