Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1956-04-06
National VFW Auxiliary Head
To Visit State April 16--17


Mrs. Sherman L. (Hedwig) Oh
son of Denison, Iowa, National
President of the Ladies Auxiliary
to the Veterans of Foreign W1rs
of the United States, will visit
Wilmington on Monday and Tues
day, April 16 and II.
Mrs. Olson, who was elected Ma
tional President u the VFW La
dies Auxiliary at its And Annual
National Encampment on Septem-
Der 2. 1866, in Boston, Mass, is a
member of the Minus l.. Hunt Aux
Hilary to VFW Post No. 2504 Of
Denison, Iowa, and holds a double
eligibility to the organization
which she leads. through the over
seas wartime service of her hus-
band. Sherman l.. Olson, who SER
we'd in the Quartermaster Corps in
France during World War l, and
through their son Warren "a Kor-
can War overseas veteran) now
engaged in business with his ia
Their In Denison, Iowa.
Born in Bern, Switzerland, of
Swiss parents 1.-THE late Mr. and
Mrs. Rudolph Aebi) with whom
she emigrated to America in 1906
while small child. Mrs. Olson has
the distinction of being an Amer
lean by choice through her par
ents' naturalization and her own
personal avowal. Educated in the
public and state teachers training
schools of Iowa, Mrs. Olson is
grateful for the happiness and
honor which residence and her cit
izensbip in tie United States of
America have brought her. AS Ma
tional President of the Ladies Aux
Hilary to the Veterans of Foreign
Wars of the United States, she is
emphasizing Americanism and
community service activities for
the organization $4,000 members
and has chosen as her special pro-
ject. program to give financial
support and endorsement to the
establishment of the American Mu-
scum of immigration at the base
of the Statue of Liberty.
This program, inaugurated by
Mrs. Olson with a personal contri-
button, was officially opened for
the Auxiliary on October %, 1855,
at the Auxiliary's Annual Statue
of Liberty Birthday Observance on
Bedloes Island. New York. with
the presentation of a $4,000 check
from the Auxiliary. That event
launched a campaign for the Aux
Hilary to raise a $4,000 contribu-
ton toward a fund for establishing
the American Museum of Immigra-
ton and thereby become sponsor
of that national shrine. With that
action. the Ladies Auxiliary to the
WV took leadership as the first
national patriotic women's organ
ization to actively participate in
the nation wide appeal which
started in January of this year, for
citizenship support of the Am
erican Museum of Immigratin
Planned as a project to build unity
among Americas citizens and
friendship with other nations by
giving recognition to the cultural
contributions which the immigrant
citizens have made to America,
Mrs. Olson explains her great in
terest in the project by saying
ITO me, the establishing of an
erican Museum of immigration
has both personal and patriotic APP
peal because it will provide
place where millions of naturaliz-
ed immigrant citizens, like me, or
the descendants of them can estab-
lish the ancestral record of their
rich heritage as American citi-
zens.'
Typical of the energy which she
brings to her official duties. Mrs.
Olson for the past twenty-one
years has been her husbands bus