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Sahs Website Report, Richard Hacken

Swiss American Historical Society Review

The Website of the Swiss American Historical Society is one of the Society’s show windows to the world. The site consists of seven main pages.

About Us, the landing site and first web page, gives our mission statement and goals along with other general information and long-term announcements, such as the dates and locations of annual meetings for the next three years. There is also a listing of the officers of the Society with contact emails and a stand-alone “Contact” button for easy and rapid access to the Society from curious visitors.

The Danish Interest Conference, Thorvald Hansen

The Bridge

On January 1, 1963 The American Evangelical Lutheran Church ceased to exist as a separate entity. The AELC was the new name that had been assumed by the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1954. Therefore, what really came to an end in 1963 was the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church, which hereinafter shall be referred to simply as the Danish Church.

List Of Publications By Walter Angst, Walter Angst

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

1. "Heraldry in a Republic," The Augustan, Book Two (1973): 183-184.

2. "Heraldic Plan for Redesign of the State Flags," Smithsonian 4, No. 4 (1973): 18-25.

3. "Sovereignty, Identity, Morality," The Augustan, Book Five (1974): 638-639.

Some Recent Publications Of Swiss American Interest, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

BAENZIGER, HANS. "Eindrucke aus Amerika und der Schweiz," Schweizer Monatshefte 55 (May 1975), 98-100.

BALMER, HEINZ. "Louis Agassiz 1807 - 1873. Der Mann und sein Werk," Denkschriften der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft LXXXIX (1975), 11-20.

BALMER, HEINZ. "Edouard Desor und sein Landhaus Combe-Varin ," Gesnerus 32 (1975), 61-86.

DEUCHLER, FLORENS. "Als Kunstwissenschafter in Amerika," Neue Zlircher Zeitung No. 153 (5/6 July 1975), 43.

GUGGIS BERG, HANS RUDOLF. Geschichte der USA. Vol . I: Entstehung_ und nationale Konsolidierung Vol. II: Die Weltmacht . Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 197) . Vol . 209 210 of Urban Taschenbucher. 319 pp.

LAENG, HANS "Der Schweizer Indianermaler Carl …

Miscellaneous Items, Heinz K. Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

1. Membership

Since our last newsletter we have received membership applications from the following persons and institutions:

New Sahs Committees, Heinz K. Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The New York annual meeting of December 12, 1970, decided to create two new committees, a nominating committee and a publications committee. According to Article VI, Section 2, of the SAHS Constitution the president "shall appoint special committees for research work, the printing and publishing of pamphlets periodicals and books and such other specific activities as may be deemed necessary in carrying out the objects and purposes of this Society." Accordingly, I have appointed the following committees and charged them with the duties as outlined below. Both committees are appointed for 1971 only, this being the last year of my …

An English Translation Of J.R. Von Salis' Standard Work On Rilke Switzerland, L. B.

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Among the many publications on the poet Rainer Maria Rilke the book by the Swiss Professor of History Dr. Jean Rodolphe von Salis, until recently President of the Foundation Pro Helvetia, excels by its tactful and sober approach to a delicate subject which all too often has been misused by panegyrists full of loud enthusiasm, but rather bare of substance. When Rilke arrived in Switzerland in 1919, von Salis was nearly eighteen years old and twenty five when Rilke died at Territet in 1926. Von Salis knew Rilke as a guest in his family, but more and more also in …