Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-07-15
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
New Vice Consul.
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New Vice Consul.
C. T. Kummen has been APP
pointed Norwegian vice consul
for Manitoba, with offices at
Winnipeg; he succeeds j. Willard
son who recently resigned. Mr..
Kummen is a native of Gud-
brandsdalen, Norway, came to the
United States when Is years old.
studied at the University of Min
nesota and also at the lincoln
jefferson in Kansas, for several
years prior to his coming to Win
nipeg fifteen years ago. Mr..
Kummen is manager of an cleo
trical firm in the Canadian City;
also a member of the executive
board of the Manitoba Electrical
association, and Manitoba vice
president of the Nordmandsfor-
bundet.
Jespersen Invited.
Harvard university has asked
Professor Otto Jespersen, who re-
Gently resigned from the faculty
of the University of Copenhagen,
to become a guest professor either
for one semester or for the entire
academic year. Professor Jesper-
sen has, however, promised to de-
liver number of lectures at
British universities during Octo-
Der and November, and conse-
quently declined the American
invitation which he may be able
to accept in the spring. The Da-
nish philologist who is considered
one of the worlds leading author
tiles in the. field of the study of
the English language, lectured at
American universities some Sc
venteen years ago.
Won the Golden Cup.
The Norwegian gold cup, award
ed to the winner of the Hanko
regatta, went to the United
States the other day as the result
of the victory of the six-meter
yacht, Lannai, owned by Herman
F. Wilton of Oyster Bay, N. Y.
The Lannai's victory was the
third for the United States dur
ing the races; fivecountries were
represented at the regatta in
which also participated a yacht
owned by the crown prince of
Norway. The regatta was a re-
suit of similar affair held in the
Long Island sound last year when
Scandinavian yachtsmen pa took
in races of six-meter yachts.
Leach Decorated.
DR.. Henry Goddard Leach, edi-
tor of the monthly magazine, The
Forum, and formerly general sec
rotary of the Americans andina-
Wan Foundation, has been deco.
rated with the knighthood cross
of the Swedish Vasa order. DR..
Leach, who formerly was an in
structor in Scandinavian litera-
lures and languages at Harvard
University some years ago pub
lished a volume, Scandinavia of
the Scandinavians" ). and although
he himself is an American, with
no Scandinavian blood in h s
veins, he has identified himself
SO closely with the culture of the
Northern countries that his eff
forts in cementing the friendship
between the United States and
Sweden, Norway and Denmark
have met with unusual success.
John Andersen Died.
A few weeks ago it was told
in these columns that the surgeon
aboard the Danish liner, I'm. ted
States, performed an operation
upon John Andersen, ballet dan
Ger of Copenhagen, who was
bound for New York. Following
the operation Mr.. Andersen was
brought to a hospital as soon as
the boat landed at Halifax, and
although reports from the sick
room continued to be encourag-
ing for several days, his condition
suddenly grew worse, and death
followed. The deceased was ex-
tremely popular as a dancer, and
he had planned to spend two
years in New York studying Rus
sian ballet under Fokin.
Mrs. Lie Dead.
Mrs. Jonas Lie, wife of the
Norwegian-American pain e r,
died last week while visiting in
Norway with her husband. Her
Maiden name was Inga Sontum,
and before she married Mr. Lie,
she was a dancer and teacher
of dancing. Mr.. and Mrs. Lie
left New York for Norway two