DHA LXXI
(7/8/2004)

The DHA Board will meet Wednesday evening, July 8, 6:30 p.m. at the museum.

Board members present at the June 30th meeting were Melanie Parsons, Toots Peterson, Lester Lauritzen, and Grant Petersen, Sr. Others present: DOnna Petersen, Palmer and Marjorie Peterson, Michael Ward, and Evert Fredricks.

Work on the museum building and the coming Danish Days activities there, dominated the meeting. Decided to install two new windows in the east (front) end of the building. U.S. and Danish flags have been ordered.

A school display is being installed. The Hooker, S.D., mailboxes and the customer-window have been installed in a "post office" in the SW corner of the present display area.

Viborg's Postmaster is scheduled to do hand cancelling of mail there at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, July 17. Newell Sorensen, the last postmaster at Hooker, has been invited to be present at that time. DHA requests taht as many people with Hooker connections as possible be present that time, concentrating on 12:00 noon, for photos and reminiscing.

Wiring in the building is about complete, except waiting for the trac-lites. Also an old-yardlight type light will be added on the east end, and a security light installed on the south side.

The model railroad display is in progress; the base table is present. The east end of the building is being sided, and the north side painted.

Toots Peterson is in the process of installing a case and shelves for the extensive collection of Danish settler artifacts that she and J. Merle collected over the years.

Subsequent to the meeting, in keeping with the 2004 Danish Festival Days theme of the railroad, DHA placed an order for souvenir postcards, showing two old photos of the railroad are in Viborg. They are expected to be available for sale during Danish Days. If they are purchased and treated to the hand-cancellation on Saurday, they will make an excellent historic treasure for purchasers, or for gifts.

MINGA TAK:

To all of the volunteers that have made progress in the museum building's development to its present degree of readiness. To Melanie Parsons for donating the cost of new windows in the east end of the museum; to Mary Ann Paulsen, memorial to her father, David Miller; to Yvonne Anderson, in memory of L.E. Anderson, Voting Member. To Palmer and Marjorie Peterson, Toots Peterson, and Grant Petersen, Sr., for artifacts and countless hours working in developing the museum; and to any and all others unknown to DHA news (or forgotten).