A newsletter Linnea Gord distributed to choir members when she became choir director in 1935 remains a source of information about the Order of Runeberg Choir. She duplicated the newsletter by mimeograph from the insurance company office where she worked. The newsletter included stories about the activities of the choir and some short biographies of choir members. It also included a history of the choir by Leonard Svedberg. Leonard Svedberg appears in the 1923 and 1924 portrait of the choirs and in the 1962 portrait of the choir that made the demo albums of Swedish-Finnish songs. This short section describes the earliest organizational efforts at the home of John Malm.
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John Malm was Linnea Gord's grandfather, and my great-grandfather.
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