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Three visits by Danish royalty were highlights in Dana’s history. Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Ingrid (later King and Queen of Denmark) visited Dana in 1939. Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik visited the college in 1976 where the Queen spoke during commencement exercises.
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Performance. Tradition. Two People. Dana College Dancers In Traditional Costume Perform Danish Folk Dance Sixteen dancers performed in the "Salute to Great Danes" Monday at The Denver. Credit: Denver Post Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images.
Dana College was a private college in Blair, Nebraska. Its rural 150- acre (607,000 m 2) campus is approximately 26 miles (40 km) northwest of Omaha and overlooks a portion of the Missouri River Valley. The campus was planned to be purchased by Midland University, which expressed its intention to re-open the campus in 2015 or 2016, [1] but ...
May 3, 2020 · More about the Dana Folk Dancers In response to the article about the Folk Dancers in the last Jottings, three Dana alumni have given us additional information about the group. Hans Hermansen, a Folk Dancer from 1968-1972, in an e-mail from Racine, Wisconsin, writes that the Dancers' new costumes “came to Dana in 1970. They were created by Inga
Alumni. Notable Alumni. Nielsen Honored with Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog. Former Dana College Professor, Dr. John Mark Nielsen was awarded the Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in a ceremony at the Danish Embassy in Washington, D.C. Nielsen is currently the executive director of the national Danish Immigrant Museum in Elk Horn, Iowa.
Dana College’s all-purpose building—chapel, gymnasium, concert hall and the site of countless plays, recitals, banquets and commencement ceremonies. The great Danish heldentenor, Lauritz Melchior, performed there, and Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark spoke there when he and Crown Princess Ingrid visited the campus in 1939.
Dana College was founded in 1884 and was a church-affiliated (Danish Lutheran) college in Blair, Nebraska, until its closing in 2010. A large collection of documents, photographs and associated materials from the school reside in the Danish American Archive and Library.