COUNCIL OF MANAGEMENT (Interim)
Office Bearers
President
Thomas Thompson
Vice President
Margaret Thompson
Past President
Ken Kristoffersen
Honorary Secretary Anny Carchrie
Honorary Treasurer Jim Carchrie
Council Members
Anneli Demberg
Katherine Kelsey
Bill Færstrand
Floss Færstrand
Garry Irvine (Newsletter & Website Editor)
Honorary Member
H.M. King Harald V of Norway
OBJECTIVES
The objectives of our Society are to promote and consolidate friendship and understanding between the Scottish and Norwegian peoples and to further cultural and other relationships between Scotland and Norway.
MEMBERSHIP
Full Members: approx. 65, Facebook Followers: 250
HISTORY
Founded in Dumfries in 1941 and triggerd by the many exiled Norwegians who lived and trained in the area during the War. The present Scottish Norwegian Society (Glasgow) was formed in 1943 is the surviving branch of that original Society.
HM King Olav V became the Society's Patron in 1951 and was guest of honour at a Dinner in Glasgow in 1966 to mark the 25th anniversary of the Society's institution.
HM King Harald V is an Honorary Member.
The cost of creating and maintaining this website
is covered by a kind legacy from
ISABEL JAMIESON of Killearn,
who died in 2008.