The Icelandic Canadian - 01.03.1954, Side 36

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THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
Spring 1951
Education in North Dakota; Profes-
sor T. W. Thordarson of the North
Dakota Agricultural College at Far-
go; Professor Peter Olafson of the
New York State Veterinary College,
Ithaca, New York; and Professor Dora
S. Lewis of Hunter College in New
York City.
The North Dakota Icelandic settle-
ment has produced a number of other
able professional men and women, too
numerous to list in a brief historical
survey. Others have won a name for
themselves in business and other re-
lated fields.
In the field of agriculture and con-
servation, besides Thorfinnson, men-
tioned above, there are such men as
G. B. Gunlogson of Racine, Wisconsin,
and Victor Sturlaugson of Langdon,
North Dakota, to name but a few in
that field.
Many Icelanders from the settle-
ment have been members of the State
Legislature and held other public of-
fices. Thus J. K. Olafson of Garclar
was for twelve years a member of the
Legislature, and F. M. Einarson, pre-
viously referred to, was last fall elect-
ed to his fourth term.
Assuredly, the Icelandic settlement
in Pembina County has both made a
notable contribution and been a credit
to the old homeland of the settlers. Its
past record is a challenge to the pres-
ent day generation of their descend-
ants.
The following evaluation by Dr. Vil-
hjalmur Stefansson, contained in a
message to the 50th anniversary cele-
bration of the settlement, applies no
less forcefully to its history and con-
tribution on its 75th anniversary.
“You are celebrating a colonization
that has been powerful in its results
upon the lives of all of us. Those re-
sults have been to our advantage, in
most cases. I for one am grateful that
my most formative years were spent
near Mountain, under just those pio-
neer conditions”.
Other sons and daughters of the Ice-
landic settlement no doubt share
those sentiments, and the fruitful im-
pact and contribution of the colony
are, of course, far from limited to the
large group of men and women who
have their roots there, and now have
spread all over the American continent
and beyond its boundaries.
—Reprinted from The American-Scandinavian
Review
CREAMERY BUTTERMAKER’S
COMPETITION - MANITOBA
DAIRY CONVENTION
Mr. Larus Bjomson, who for many
years has been a member of the staff
of the North Star Creamery at Anborg
as buttermaker, won the following
prizes at this convention: Canadian
Bank of Commerce special, a gold
watch, first prize. Appleford paper
product special, a silver tray, first
prize. Also three cash prizes of $22.00
and $13.00 all first prizes in three dif-
ferent classes.
Mr. Bjornson is now operating his
own creamery which he purchased last
fall at Fraserwood, Man.
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