The Icelandic Canadian - 01.09.1977, Blaðsíða 23

THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
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President:
Thorvaldur Thorvaldsson
Vice-President:
Skuli Hanson
Secretary:
Miss Maria Anderson
Treasurer:
Miss G. Johannson
Corresponding Secretary:
E. J. Skjold.)
The topic of discussion at the
meeting of Heimskringla was espe-
cially noteworthy. The topic was
Jonas Hallgrimsson and his in-
fluence on Icelandic literature. The
proceeds of the evening went to
support the Student Society in
Reykjavik in the project of erecting
a monument to the poet.
The meeting on February 8 was
also noteworthy in that the ladies
provided the program.
At an open meeting in March, the
Honorary President, Reverend Jon
Bjarnason, gave an address, and Arni
Anderson gave a paper on Shake-
speare.
At this point the Society appears
to have adapted its calendar to the
academic year, for on April 5 there
was an election of officers. The new
president was Arni Anderson.
Featured at two of the meetings
in the fall of 1902 was an interesting
and informative paper on Long-
fellow, by the law student Marino
Hannesson, and a discussion on the
novelist Ralph Connor, author of
“the famed novels The Sky Pilot and
The Man from Glengarry", with
readings from his works. At a
January meeting in the Tabernacle
Church, the chief topic on the pro-
gram was a poet who with the pas-
sing years came to be acknowledged
as the poet laureate of the Icelandic
people in America, Stephan G.
Stephansson. At an April meeting
Olafur Eggertsson gave paper on
elocution. No one in the Icelandic
community would be better quali-
fied to speak on the subject than
this master actor.
The Students Society sponsored a
concert held in the First Lutheran
Church, on March 14, 1904. The
speakers and the artists taking part
in an impressive program were
people well known or prominent in
the Icelandic community. The pro-
gram was as follows:
1. Piano solo
Miss Emily Morris
2. Vocal solo
Mrs. W. H. Paulson
3. Vocal solo
J. W. Long
4. Address
Reverend Jon Bjarnason
5. Song
Wesley Quartette
6. Violincello
F. Dalman
7. Vocal solo
H. Thorolfsson
8. Trio
J. W. Long, F. Dalman,
Miss E. Morris
9. Address
Reverend F. J. Bergmann
10. Violin solo
J. W. Long