Become a member! Add a comment please!

Sent  postcards out this weekend to all for whom I had addresses. The postcard will direct family to the blog. I can see that several people have voted on the polls but only my daughter Lizzie has become a member. (Thanks, Lizz.) It is not hard to do, in fact, all you need to do is click on "become a member" and then follow the directions. I know we Danes are not always so good at following directions... being stubborn and all... but I need feedback from you. You can post comments after my posts.

Two things to do as members:
        1. give me addresses of others in your family and emails too
         2. answer this question: what do you think about holding the Iowa Reunion the weekend before Ohio so people who are travelling far distances can go from Iowa to Ohio with a little time in between?

So, let me hear from you please. Jude

Yes, we are also having the reunion in Ohio this summer too.

Douglas Harpel says to tell you all that the regular reunion, always held in Ohio, is going to happen also. The potluck reunion will be held on Sunday, July 24th at Lake View Park in Port Clinton.

For those of you who have been attending the reunion for many years, in the heat and swarms of mosquitos, we had it there last summer and rented the outdoor Shelter. We had lovely weather, which is on order for this year too, and it was fairly well attended. The lake was right there within walking distance. The food was good, as always. The company was so-so. Uncle Ron and Aunt Bea presided, with Gayle Harpel doing most of the work.

Douglas's phone number is 734-856-3352, if you want to check in with him about it or offer to help.More details will be forthcoming as we get closer to the date.

March 15th visit to the Danish Immigrant Museum

Today Pat Jensen-Bock and Jude Jensen, long-time sisters and Danes, traveled to Kimballton and Elk Horn Iowa to get a sense of the Danish Museum and surroundings. We toured the museum exhibits, chatted with several staff members, ate lunch at the Danish Inn and finally bought a metal plaque with our grandparent's names to be placed on the Wall of Honor. We were previewing this area for the July 2011 Jensen Reunion.

With this blog, we hope to involve family members in the planning and the reunion itself. After all, we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of our family's arrival in America. They have yet to ask us to leave, most of us anyway.

Brenda Jensen Coates and Barb Jensen Reasner are also assigned the task of helping to create the Iowa Reunion this summer. We will need your understanding and support... and at some point a commitment from you who are able to attend.

Phone calls will be accepted by Jude at this number: 319-400-0688. Leave the others alone or respond by posting to the blog, thank you very much.