Contributors
(Volume 28 Page 347)

Peter A. Munch, professor emeritus of sociology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and a member of our board of publications, has made intensive studies of Norwegian settlements in Wisconsin. In 1970 he published, with his wife Helene, The Strange American Way: Letters of Caja Munch from Wiota, Wisconsin, 1855-1859.

Jean Skogerboe Hansen is a graduate of the college and graduate library school of the University of Chicago. Her article is based on materials gathered for her M. A. thesis.

Joan N. Buckley, associate professor of English in Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, wrote a doctoral dissertation on Martha Ostenso at the University of Iowa.

Frederick Hale is presently in Denmark on a senior research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is preparing a volume on Danish migration to America.

Della Kittleson Catuna is a relative of the Dokken brothers who died in the Civil War. Although she lives in Georgia, she is vitally interested in and makes studies of Norwegian-American immigrant life.

Carol Lynn H. Knight and Gerald S. Cowden are associate professors of history in Tidewater Community College, Chesapeake, Virginia.

Peter L. Petersen, member of the department of history in West Texas State University, Canyon, has studied immigrant life in Texas.

Clarence Kilde, retired Episcopal priest residing near Hudson, Wisconsin, recently prepared a thesis on Waldemar Ager for the M. A. degree at the University of Minnesota.

Arne Hassing is a member of the department of humanities and philosophy in Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff. He earned his doctorate in the field of the history of the Christian church at Northwestern University.

Curtis D. Ruud, department of English in Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, wrote his doctoral dissertation at the University of Nebraska on the prairie as changing force in Rølvaag’s Giants in the Earth.

The late Lars Fletre, well-known Chicago sculptor in wood and versatile artist, died in 1977 while in Norway, where he had made many contributions in glass, stone, and wood.

Marion Marzolf is associate professor of communication in the University of Michigan. She has written a hook on women in journalism, and her doctoral dissertation on the Danish press in America is being published by the Arno Press, Inc., in their series on Scandinavians in America.

Duane R. Lindberg, senior pastor of Trinity American Lutheran Church in Waterloo, Iowa, completed work for the Ph.D. degree at the University of Minnesota in 1975. His dissertation deals with the social-cultural role of the Norwegian clergy in the Upper Midwest.

Marilyn B. Anderson of Minneapolis has recently promoted several exhibitions of the paintings of Carl L. Boeckmann, her grandfather, in the Twin City area.

C. A. Clausen, a member of the board of publications, has translated and edited several books and numerous articles for the Association, in addition to compiling lists of pertinent recent publications.

Charlotte Jacobson is archivist for the Association.

NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

Officers

EXECUTIVE BOARD

Arthur O. Davidson, Hanover, New Hampshire, President
Roy N. Thorshov, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Vice President
Arthur Andersen III, Chicago, Illinois, Treasurer
Lloyd Hustvedt, Northfield, Minnesota, Secretary
Kenneth O. Bjork, Northfield, Minnesota, Editor
Oscar A. Anderson, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Henning C. Boe, Seattle, Washington
John Christianson, Decorah, Iowa
Reidar Dittmann, Northfield, Minnesota
Rolf H. Erickson, Evanston, Illinois
Kjetil A. Flatin, Oslo, Norway
Derwood Johnson, Waco, Texas
Norma Arnesen Knutson, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Ole G. Landsverk, Rushford, Minnesota
Elsie M. Melby, Duluth, Minnesota
Janet E. Rasmussen, Tacoma, Washington
Rolf A. Syrdal, Northfield, Minnesota
Harry J. Williams, Kenilworth, Illinois