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THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
Summer 1957
DALMAN NAMED TO POST
Dr. Conrad Dalman
Dr. Conrad Dalman of the Sperry
Gyroscope Co., in Great Neck, N. Y.,
has been named a professor of electr-
ical engineering at Cornell.
Professor Dalman will teach courses
and conduct research in his special
field of electron tubes and associated
circuitry.
After receiving a bachelors degree
in electrical engineering in 1940 at
the City College of New York, Dal-
man was associated successively with
the R.C.A. Victor Division and Bell
Telephone Laboratories, working
chiefly on developing electronic tubes.
He received Master's and Doctor's
degrees at the Polytechnic Institute of
Brooklyn in 1947 and has since then
been with Sperry Gyroscope.
His work there has been on micro-
wave tulbes and on oscillator studies.
Since 1954, he has been engineering
section head in the Company’s tube
department. He has also taught even-
ing courses at C.C.N.Y. and Brooklyn
Polytech.
Dalman was born in Winnipeg and
is a U.S. citizen. Lie is the son of the
well known musician Conrad Dalman
and his wife Valgerdur Lorsteinsdottir,
who moved to New York several years
ago. His paternal grandmother was
the late Karolina Dalman of Win-
nipeg. Professor Dalman is married
and has three children.
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DR. BECK HEADS SCANDI -
NAVI AN STUDY SOCIETY
At the annual meeting of the Society
for the Advancement of Scandinavian
Study held in Chicago on May 3—4,
Dr. Richard Beck was elected pres-
ident. The election was by mail ballot
of the membership of the Society in
the United States and Canada and was
announced at the closing session of
the two-day convention.
This is the third time Dr. Beck has
headed the Society, and he has served
on the Advisory Committee. The
Society publishes a quarterly called
Scandinavian Studies and Dr. Beck
has served for many years on the edi
torial board of that publication.
Scandinavian Studies is a publication
maintained at a high cultural level
and, as the title indicates, is devoted
to studies of the Scandinavian langu-
ages, particularly old Norse in its many
dialects. For instance, in the February
1957 issue there is an article on the
word “rune” by Terence H. Wilbur
of the University of California.
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PEAK SCOUTING HONOURS
WON BY WYNYARD BOYS
This magazine is indebted to Mrs.
Esther (Gudjonson) Wellington of
Oakville, Ontario, for pointing out
that William Johnson of Cornwall,
Ontario, was not the first Canadian of
Icelandic dsecent to be presented with
the Queen’s Scout Badge, as reported
in the last issue of the magazine in a