the ship & the stone

the dedication

Tulocay Cemetery, Napa, California

May 15, 2004 --- 3:00 p.m.

 

PROGRAM*

 

Words of Welcome                                                          Keith Wheeler & Einar Slogvik

 

Invocation -Pastor Emeritus Dagfinn Kvale, Norwegian Seaman’s Church in San Francisco

Opening song                                                                                             Hanne Krogh

 

Presentation of the “idea”  Keith Wheeler

 

WELCOMING COMMENTS AND PRESENTATIONS

 

Are-Jostein Norheim                                   Royal Norwegian Consul General of San Francisco 

Representative for Congressman Mike Thompson (Lorena Fisher), U.S. House of Representatives

Hans Storhaug                    General Manager Norwegian Emigration Center Stavanger, Norway

Representative for Wesley Chesbro (Lorena Fisher),                                California State Senator

 

Anthems:  Ja vi elsker and  Star Spangled Banner

 

 Ingvar Frøyland                   Cultural Officer Tysvær Kommune, Rogaland Fylke, Norway

    Gunleif Seldal                                Slooper Cousin & Historian, Kleppe, Rogaland, Norway

   Ed Henderson                                                                                             Mayor of Napa

     Rotraud Slogvik                                                                                        Tysvær Historielag

  Blaine Hedberg             Naeseth Chair for Vesterheim Genealogy Research and Publication 

 Sherrill “Swede” Swenson                                          Sons of Norway District 6 President

Einar Slogvik                                                    Slogvik Farm, Tysvær, Rogaland, Norway

   Mary Beth Ingvoldstad                                                     Sons of Norway Director Zone 2  

 

Song:  Hanne Krogh

 

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

 

  Peter Manasse                        Executive Vice President and Manager Tulocay Cemetery

   Floyd Stone and Nancy Brennan                                               Napa Historical Society 

Nordahl Grieg Leikarring                                                                           Dance Group

Slooper Descendants                                                                                                       

Stuart and Jo Saugstad                                                        Turlock Marble and Granite

 

 

Song: “Nolivnar det I lundar no lauvast det I li”

 

UNVEILING THE SHIP AND THE STONE   

Stone Artist  Ira Kessey

 

Closing song, guest singers from Tysvær, Norway, “Fager Kveldssol Smiler”

 

*NOTE: Program as planned for May 15^th, 2004, Slooper Monument Project dedication at Tulocay Cemetery, Napa, California.  Some changes and additions were made in actual program.

 

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