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correspondence and reports concern chiefly <strong>the</strong> activities <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> board <strong>of</strong><br />

publications <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> United <strong>Norwegian</strong> Lu<strong>the</strong>ran Church <strong>of</strong> America, <strong>of</strong> which<br />

Glesne was a member.<br />

<strong>The</strong> clippings in <strong>the</strong> scrapbook are chiefly from Norden and Amerika and concern <strong>the</strong><br />

controversies between <strong>the</strong> two newspapers regarding Ragnar M. J. Monrad at<br />

Lu<strong>the</strong>r College, <strong>the</strong> anti-Missourian movement within <strong>the</strong> <strong>Norwegian</strong> Synod, and<br />

politics in Wisconsin. <strong>The</strong> scrapbook contains letters and articles by Gisle Bothne,<br />

John N. Kildahl, Laur. Larsen, Ragnar M. J. Monrad, Herman A. Preus, and L. A.<br />

Stenholt.<br />

373. GLIMT READING CLUB, 1899. MINUTES, 1906-1920. 1 item. P 1017.<br />

Copy <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> minute book <strong>of</strong> a Chicago Women’s reading club which celebrated its<br />

80th anniversary in 1979. <strong>The</strong> book opens with a brief his<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> club up <strong>to</strong> 1906.<br />

374. GOODHUE COUNTY LÆRERFORENING. RECORDS, 1885. 3 items. P 110.<br />

Minutes <strong>of</strong> a meeting <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Goodhue County Teachers’ Association held<br />

November 30, <strong>to</strong> discuss co-operation among <strong>the</strong> <strong>Norwegian</strong> Synod congregations<br />

and <strong>the</strong> influence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> home, school, and <strong>the</strong> Bible in child training.<br />

375. GOPLERUD, PER. PAPERS, 1976. 4 items. P 875.<br />

Papers concerning <strong>the</strong> area <strong>of</strong> Hedalen, Valdres, <strong>the</strong> Hedalen Stavkirke, <strong>the</strong> families<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> area, and letters from Per Goplerud.<br />

376. GRAFF, OLGA (1866-1938). PAPERS. 4 folders. P 1137.<br />

Copies <strong>of</strong> poems, letters, and clippings <strong>of</strong> a <strong>Norwegian</strong>-<strong>American</strong> journalist. Much<br />

<strong>of</strong> her work appeared in Urd, a <strong>Norwegian</strong> women’s magazine. <strong>The</strong> papers contain<br />

articles by her husband, Harald Graff, a medical doc<strong>to</strong>r in Eau Claire, Wisconsin;<br />

drawings by her daughter, Gerda, an artist in Oslo; and items about her son Einar,<br />

who lived in Chicago.<br />

377. GRAN BOARDING SCHOOL. REPORT, ca. 1920. 1 item. P 493.<br />

Report concerning a school at Mayville, North Dakota, founded in <strong>the</strong> 1880s by<br />

Bjug A. Harstad, a local Lu<strong>the</strong>ran clergyman.<br />

378. GRANAT, HELEN BILLBERG. VIDEO CASSETTES, 1985. 2 items. P 1320.<br />

“A <strong>Norwegian</strong> Interlude: Impressions <strong>of</strong> Mo<strong>the</strong>r’s Norway,” a composition by Ms.<br />

Granat which was performed at Western Washing<strong>to</strong>n University, and “Once upon a<br />

<strong>Norwegian</strong> Time: Hild Hildahl and her Dolls.”<br />

Ms. Granat was born and raised in Roseau, Minnesota, and was a long-time friend<br />

<strong>of</strong> Hild Hildahl. For Hildahl papers, see P 1285.<br />

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