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Dan Nye writes about experiences
l)an Nye, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Dale Nye, Shelton, is
presently in Norway in a Rotary
International exchange student
program.
This letter was written about
his experiences there:
Oslo
November 16, 1978
Deal" members of tile
Shelton Rotary Club,
Greetings, from myself, and
from the members of the Grorud
Rotary Club of Osio, Norway.
Last week, November 8, 1
conveyed Shelton's greetings to
the forty nelnbers of Grorud,
my host club here in Oslo.
(There are several different clubs
in the city.) I talked about
Shelton (a pleasant town of
7,000 or so inhabitants ... on an
arm of Puget Sound... chief
industries: lumbering, pulp and
paper research, shellfish
c u I t i v a t i o n ... Christmastown
U.S.A.), and spent some time in
the "hot seat" fielding assorted
questions. Listened to quite a
few opinions as well. It seemed a
good number of the members
had been in the U.S. but few as
far out west and up north as our
comer. I was made to feel very
welcome, and am looking
forward to further contacts with
Grorud, and other clubs.
It's rather difficult to believe
it has been three months since I
got off the plane at Fomebu
Airport twenty miles south of
Oslo. That crawling ride in my
Norwegian "brother's" (son of
the family I lived with before),
Renault through the pouring rain
and traffic jam on the Drammen
freeway into town seems all too
recent. Time's passage has
accelerated the busier I've
become.
I'm living in student housing
at Sogn Student Town, about a
fifteen-minute tram ride north of
Oslo. I have my own room and
sink and share a kitchen and
shower/W.C, with five others.
(Not simultaneously!) They are
all Norwegians although there are
foreign students of every
imagineable nationality in the
town. There is a grocery store
and a restaurant down the hill
and laundry facilities across the
street. We also have newspaper
b; TN. rooms atttla sauna:
We six live on the top floor of a
six-story building and have a
wonderful view of Oslo and its
fjord.
From the door it is only a
fifteen-minute walk uphill to
Nordmarka, Oslo's many
square-mile forested park area.
The hilly terrain is crisscrossed
with trails that are so well signed
even a foreigner can't get lost.
At intervals there are also old
farmhouses that have been
converted to stopping places
where one can get a cup of
coffee or some fresh-baked
Allen Phinney
in Korea
Airman First Class Allen D.
Phinney, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Dan L. Clark of Rt. 2, Shelton,
has arrived for duty at Osan AB,
Republic of Korea.
Airman Phinney, a pavement
maintenance specialist with a
unit of the Pacific Air Forces,
previously served at Francis E.
Warren AFB, Wyoming.
The airman is a 1975
graduate of Bentonville, Arkansas
High School.
pastry. When the snow falls,
which the weather bureau keeps
promising will happen any day
now, Nordmarka becomes a
mecca for Oslo's cross-country
ski enthusiasts. I'm told that
includes every citizen who can
walk. There are lighted ski trails,
which makes a great deal of
sense. Already now the sun is
down and it's dark out by 4
p.m. The trains, whose runs end
where the trails begin, install ski
racks on the sides of the cars.
Though there's been no skiing
yet, I've had some fine weekend
hikes. Picked quite a few
blueberries and buckets of
lingonberries (like small
cranberries), in October. Guided
by the recipes on the back of
the Norwegian equivalent of a
Certo bottle, I tried my unskilled
but eager hand at some jam. I
got a variety of interesting
results ranging from near-jam to,
well, let's be kind and say,
syrup. The berries are gone now,
so Oslo, and 1, await the snow.
Sogn will no doubt be a fine
place to have one's residence
when winter arrives.
But the temptations of Sogn
aside, I spent most of my time
at my other "place of
residence." I have a desk where I
study at the Scandinavian
Institute of Maritime Law. I'm
following instruction - lectures,
seminars, colloquia - in
international maritime law,
petroleum law and contracts.
Instruction is in Norwegian - or
Swedish or Danish, depending on
the instructor. This is a
Scandinavian institute, supported
by the governments of Iceland,
Denmark, Finland, Sweden and
Norway. My fellow students are
therefore a mixed group. We lack
an Icelander presently, but
otherwise the Nordic slate is
complete. We have also an
Egyptian colleague, and have had
visiting students from the Far
East: Japan and Hong Kong.
The institute occupies a
sizeable corner of the "Aula"
building, one of three buildings
comprising the "old" University
in downtown Oslo. The schools
of law and medicine are located
here. The rest of the University
has moved into new quarters at
iLndem , near Sogn where 1 live,
When I say this campus is
downtown, 1 mean exactly thai.
The buildings face Karl Johan
Street, Norway's Pennyslvania
Avenue, between the Royal
Castle and the Parliament
Building. Directly across the
street is .the National Theater,
for which Henrik Ibsen wrote.
, As one might expect in
seafaring Scandinavia, the
support the institute seems to be
less than paltry. Quite at
contrast with much of the rest
of the building, which groans
under "decorator pastels" and
sandlewood, the institute revels
in moss green and teak -real
teak. The light fixtures are solid
brass and obviously have done
time aboard ship. There are
several wonderful etched-glass
panels over doors and here and
there, with ship and seamen,
mainsails and even Minerva.
These generally salty
surroundings are thoroughly
"peppered" with ship paintings,
ship models and other marine
paraphenalia. The crowning glory
has to be the large, and LOUD,
ship's bell which hangs outside
the door of the institute's
founder, Sjur Braekhus; who is
Norway's "grand old man" in
FOR SALE:
EVERLASTING PEACE
Although peace of mind is priceless, you don't have
to buy any medicine or spend any money to achieve it.
All you need is a sincere desire to attain it.
During the coming Holidays visit the Church or
Temple of your choice and listen to inspired sermons
which can help you find the way to eternal tranquility
and peace.
Our sincere wish Is that you have a
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maritime law. The bell is rung
exactly six tilnes, at exactly
I 1:45 a.ln., every day, to call us
together for lunch. All the rooms
have shipboard names, so
students and faculty gather in
the "Mess." There, most of us
munch on brown goat cheese
sandwiches (Norway's equivalent
of peanut-butter-and-jelly,
available in the U.S. as Ski
Queen Cheese). Here, as
everywhere, we wash them down
with good old instant coffee.
As instant coffee amidst teak
and brass 'might suggest, despite
the somewhat glorious
surroundings, day-to-day routine
is not that different here than
elsewhere. Books are books and
work is work. There is another
aspect of being in Oslo that •
merits comment, nevertheless. It
is something quite different than
anything l've experienced, in
America or in Norway. It is
attributable, ! think, not so
much to my being in a foreign
country, but to where I find
myself within that country.
Though it has only 500,000
inhabitants, Oslo is a national
capital. This casts a whole
different spell over the city, and
gives things occurring in it an
importance beyond what one
might otherwise expect from a
city its size. Karl Johan Street,
which I walk down every day, is
Norway's Pennsylvania Avenue.
That I've mentioned. There's so
much more. The Oslo lawyers
who attend the seminars the
institute holds, are some of the
top people in Norwegian
maritime law. The King rides
past the University on his way to
speak to the Parliament. The
National Theater is across the
street, and the National Gallery
of Art is just around the comer.
At the Rotary meeting I
attended last week, many of the
Rotarians were involved in
businesses and occupations not
only of city-wide, but also of
nation-wide importance. True,
the nation is only a small and
relatively unimportant one on
the international scale. Even so,
there are those moments when
world attention is focused here.
The Nobel Institute, where tile
awarding of the Peace Prize to
Anwar Sadat and Menachem
Begin was announced, is right up
the street. The prize itself will be
accepted in the reception hall of
the same building the institute
occupies, and where 1 sit now
and type this. This feeling of
having a whole nation, and
occasionally the world, turn its
eyes on the place where one
lives, works and sits on the
sidelines taking notes, is quite a
heady one. 1 didn't foresee fully
this aspect of this year in Oslo,
and delight as I stumble upon it
again and again. Living in a
capital has its negative sides
unfortunately.
The first thing I saw as I left
Fornebu Airport three inonths
ago in that little Renault was
"Tom's Drive-In: Hamburgers,
French Fries, Pizza Pies, To Go."
Did I get oil a wrong plane?
What happened to goat's cheese
and Edvard Grieg? Billboards and
signs surfaced through the rain
and foggy car window: "Coca
Cola," "Kodak," "ITT,"
"Saturday Night Fever." Norway
had been doing some changing
since last I was here. Changes, of
course, come first to a capital
city and thrive best there.
Foreigners and natives alike are
bewildered by these changes.
For a foreigner, they can be
most unnerving Jet travel moves
one too far and too fast anyway.
One gains no great psychic
distance between "here" and
"there." Particularly on the
Scandinavia-Seattle flight, there
were no great cities or natural
wonders to be pointed out,
marveled at, and uxed as guides
to how far one had come.
Seattle and Oslo were both
socked in and soaked, as were
most points in between. One
grey flight behind me I was
suddenly "here" and not "there"
anymore. Sights like "Tom's
Drive-ln" can make one wonder
if those preceeding nine hours
weren't spent in a holding
pattern over Sea-Tac. "What's so
foreign about this place'?" one
5
OUR HOLY BIBLE--Part 5 I
I NEW ..... TESTAMENT SCRIBES
s s
i I
Ethel B. Dinning
A .continuance of our New Testament Survey.
First Thessalonians was the first of the PAULINE
LETTERS. It was written from Corinth, on his second
I clever experience of making known to the idol-worshipping,
missionary journey, AD 51 (Acts 18:1). llaving just had his
superstitious Athenians, the power and majesty of THEIR
UNKNOWN GOD TItAT TItEY HAD TUCKED AWAY
AMONG THE HUGE KNOWN ONES (Acts 17:15-31). The
recipients of his letter were a newly' converted group from
first letter with 1 Thess. 4.'13-18.
idolatry and were interested in the future, so he concluded his
Later when Timothy and Silas stopped and told him that !
they were excitedly preparing for the immediate, the second
]
coming of CHRIST, HE WAS SO DISTURBED TltAT itE i
WROTE TIIEM A SECOND letter, assuring them that much €
would happen before CIIRIST would have enough people to fill
a NEW EARTH WITHOUT OCEANS OR MOUNTAINS (Rev.
21:1; 16:20; Zech. 14.'4). He exhorted them to be ready
I against the terrible deceptions that were to come, that they
were to work earnestly and patiently and not be weary of
welldoing (2 Thess. 2:2-16; 3:3-5).
First Timothy was written by Paul, AD 63, after his first
I trial and acquittal in Rome. On the road again he has many
memories of Lystra and Derby (the latter the home o]'
Timothy) where he was stoned and left for dead (Acts[
14:1-5,19,20). It contained much commendation for his work
I during his absence as well as instruction for his new
responsibility at Ephesus (1 Tim. 1.'3; 3:4-6; 4.'1, 7; 6:3-20).
Second Timothy, Paul's farewell, /'or he is back in Rome
i condemned to die under the edict of the cruel Nero, who had
burned Rome as a background for his musical inspirations as
well as for an excuse to kill thousands of Christians that he
condemned as the arsonists. He is now old and still suffering
from the bright lights of Damascus [Acts 9:1.9; 2 Cor.
12:7-10). Luke is the only one with him and he feels the need
of Timothy as well as his cloak and writings (1:1-13; 2.'1-3).
Ills closing message is touching and still an inspiration to all
believers, for his future was assured (4:1,5-8).
To Titus, one of his beloved young workers who has just
been given charge of the church on Crete, and just before the
burning of Rome AD 64. In their working closely together, his {
name has been mentioned 12 times in his other'letters (2 Cor.
2:13; 7.'6,13,14; 8:6,16,23: 12:15; Gal. 2:13; 2 Tim. 4:10).
This letter portrays the finest description of a life of a true
practicing Christian, living by the power of TItE (;RACE OF
CtlRIST (2: ! 1-15; 3:1-9}. [
Next to Phih, mon, which is a one-chapter plea that
comph'tely portrays Paul's character, his deep spirituality and
his burden for the salvation of all. Seems like in his traw'ls he
used to visit with him when in Colosse where he had met his
servant Onesimus. hnagine his surprise one day when the
servanl turns up in Rome al Paul's prison. Ih, had stoh,n mone.v
from his master and come to see the bright lights of Rome, but
like the prodigal he had h,arned tho, were only a had glitter.
Under I'aul's influence he was converted and became extremely
helpful to Paul as son and companion, i/is lesson well h,arnel,
he fi, lt he should return, hut was Ibar/'ul But with the
encouragem(,nl .from Paul that he n'otthl write a h'ller, tcllitlg
of the change thai had heen wrottght arid ask his master not
only to Jbrgive him attd accept him as a true brolher, as well as
staling./hat It(' wouhI he Itapp.l' to pa.|' arty atnott¢;I thai was
o wing.
This is olu" o 1' the I'w letters /hal Pull/ hilhS('ll wrote, [
instead ol /us/ his usual sahtlution (Gal. 6.'1/," ('ol. 4: I R: I ('r.
(
16:211.
Note Ihe .I)'ne way lie words his Idea,
I "hi lime pasl to //tee ttnprolilahh,, hut n,pu, prolilahh, Io
thee and me" (Vs. II}.
5 TRIll, Y A (;II"T SIIA RI:'I) IS T/1/C/('/;" III.I'.'S,W,,'I).
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14, 1978
in Norway
asks. that the pulse is drowned out or
For natives the situation can replaced by rhythms much,
only be worse. Expecting a much too familiar. Nowdays a
capital to be the highest person runs into them in almost
development of their national any large city, it seems. Certainly
culture, they find its crossroads every airport. Most large hotels.
status has nlade it a germination Even in our own little Shelton, it
point for the seeds of the sure seems things "ain't like they
breakdown of that culture, used to be." My visit to Mandal,
Norwegians call the development the town where I lived in
"Americanization" but on Norway before, confirms
reflection ! find this small-time Norway is also not
nomenclature flippant and immune. The strains seem
directly misleading. It disguises omni-present, yet, somehow,
the development's real source, alien just the same. in many
The United States didn't regards it seems the world might
bring "Tom's Drive-In'" to Oslo. be better off without these
A corporation did. And here, as troublesome things called
everywhere it seems, Norwegians nations. Nevertheless, one
bought burgers and joined the wonders if we aren't paying too
ranks of the "billions served.'" high a price for "'ltamburgers,
We speak of things like jet French Fries and Pizza Pies: To
planes, telephones, television and Go.'"
radio as shrinking our world and I haven't given up though.
think in terms of distance in I'nl sure there must be some
time. The byproducts of these lutetisk sliding about on a plate
developments, multinational somewhere. I'll keep you posted!
franchising and mass-marketing, Regards,
shrink our world to an even Daniel A. Nye
greater degree in terms of lost
diversity. As a result, though one And queen
may hope to hear the beat of a Reason is tile mistress and queen
nation's pulse by living in its of all things.
capital, one stands to discover Marcus Tullius Cicero
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