The Icelandic Canadian - 01.12.2001, Side 12

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THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
Vol. 56 #3
for the Central Bank of Iceland.
Customers may order the Leif Ericson
Commemorative Coins directly online via
the U.S. Mint secure web server at
www.LFSMINT.gov and pay no additional
shipping and handling charges. Customers
who prefer to fax their orders may down-
load an order form from the web site and
fax it to (301) 344-4150, ATTN: Order
Processing.
Customers also may order by tele-
phone by calling 1-800-USA-MINT.
Operators are available 24 hours a day, 7
days a week to take orders. Customers may
also order by mail; send check or money
order to United States Mint, P.O. Box
382614, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-8614. Please
allow 8-10 weeks for delivery.
Proceed from sales of both new U. S.
and Icelandic Leif Ericson coins will sup-
port the Leifur Eirlksson Foundation at the
University of Virginia, created this spring
to finance graduate-level student exchanges
between both countries.
The foundation will promote the
advanced study of Iceland, including its
history, culture, literature, science, law,
business, medicine, technology and other
areas. The Eirlksson Foundation also is
working as a partner with the White House
Millennium Commission to celebrate the
1000th anniversary of Leifur Eirlksson’s
discovery of The New World.
“The Leifur Eirlksson Foundation will
provide significant resources that will
enable generations of students to explore
all of the educational opportunities that
both countries hold,” said Robert Kellog,
Univ. of Viriginia Professor emeritus of
English and chair of the foundation’s board
of trustees. “The University of Virginia, its
Health System and Graduate Arts and
Sciences programs are especially excited
about this endeavor, given all the treasures
of the Republic of Iceland processes n
genetics, the environment and literature,”
“In genetics, for example, they’ve done
some incredible work,” Kellog says,
explaining that researchers have complied
what is essentially a ‘genetic’ map of the
nation’s relatively small population of
270,000 people.
The Eirlksson Foundation is a cooper-
ative effort of the Univ. of Virginia and the
Central Bank of Iceland and is a natural
outgrowth of a number of cordial and pro-
ductive relationships between Iceland and
students and faculty of the University over
the last 50 years.
The foundation will supplement the
resources from the U. S. Mint and the
Republic of Iceland with support from pri-
vate individuals and corporations that
encourage international education.
Additional information is available from
the Leifur Eirlksson Foundation, c/o Univ.
of Virginia Foundation, PO Box 400218,
Charlottesville, Va 22904-4218.
Editor’s Note: The American spelling
of Einksson is Ericson.

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