The Icelandic Canadian - 01.09.1981, Blaðsíða 12

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THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
AUTUMN, 1981
manager. Others chosen for the Magazine
Board were — W. J. Lindal, Helen Sigurd-
son, Sigrun Lindal, Stanley Tallman, and
Stefan Hansen.
The president and members were very
happy and voted hearty congratulations to
the original committee for thus bringing to
fruition the long, long dreams of the Club.
Hjalmur asked the members to give lists
of prospective agents in various places who
might distribute the first issue and solicit
subscribers. Later he wrote to all these
people and asked for their co-operation
which was willingly given.
At the meeting of October 12, 1942 Mrs.
L. G. Salverson gave a report on the first
issue of the magazine which had just come
off the press (the Autumn issue), at the end
of September, and it was brought to the
meeting. She said the members might be
proud of the magazine, its quality and style,
and asked members to gather news and other
items for the Winter issue, and to work hard
at getting subscribers. Hjalmur reported that
a hundred copies had been sent overseas to
our fighting forces, under the auspices of the
Jon Sigurdsson chapter, IODE, and 600
copies sent out all over America. $174.00
had come in for subscriptions, already. A
hearty vote of thanks was given to the maga-
zine staff for its fine work.
W. J. Lindal had prepared an outline of a
policy for the magazine which was voted to
appear in the next issue (see Icelandic Cana-
dian, December, 1942).
January 4, 1943, Dr. Sigurdson moved a
vote of thanks to the circulation department
which had been excellent, he said. April 11,
Hjalmur reported “we are doing well
financially; all bills had been paid and about
$200.00 on deposit; there would be suffi-
cient funds for the next issue before it goes
to press” — a good beginning! At the Sep-
tember meeting Grace reported total re-
ceived for four issues, $1,437.31; dis-
bursements $1,116.83; on hand $329.46.
The first issue of the Icelandic Canadian,
September, 1942, was forty pages, the sub-
scription rate was $1.00 a year (it is now
$10.00, such is inflation!). The Spring
issue, 1981, was 48 pages. At its largest the
magazine had 72 pages but that was only for
one or two issues.
The list on the masthead read: Editor-in-
chief, Laura Goodman Salverson; associate
editor, Stefan Hansen; literary editor, Helen
Sigurdson; business manager, Grace Reyk-
dal; circulation manager, Hjalmur F. Daniel-
son; editorial advisor, Judge W. J. Lindal. It
contained among other things: a snappy
greeting — “Hello” — a poem by S. Jul
Johannesson; a splendid editorial by Laura
Goodman Salverson, in which she said in
part:
“We owe our ancestors not worship but
work.” Besides some fine articles, there
were several pages (with pictures) on our
War Service Personnel. From then on this
War Effort Record continued, usually from
8 - 10 pages until such time as that material
was exhausted. The magazine contains the
record of some 1200 persons who served in
World War II.
There were no loud hosannas heard from
some of the older people on the advent of the

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