Officers

President	1st VP	2nd VP	Treas	Sec'y	Legal Counsel
J. Conradsen	I. Stover	G. Dupcak	B. Linden		T. Rosseland

Directors and Assistant Directors

ASFS	Danish Ladies	Icelandic	Norewegian Ladies	SAFG
R. Proter	E. Lindvig		K. Keclik	M. Martin
A. Kohtela	G. Claud		A. Morris	B. Larson

SACC	SWEA	VASA	Viking Club
	E. Meyer	A. Tegner	M. Woodyard
	G. Andersson	K. Wallin	J. Conradsen

With two successful festivals under their belts the planning for the third festival started later with the first Board meeting on Sept. 16, 1996. As usual the member organizations were slow in assigning their directors. A number of suggestions were again offered to improve the Festival.

Jørgen Conradsen continued to send newsletters to keep the Officers, Board of Directors and key committee people informed.

The committees had expanded to 27 plus 5 more for the food houses.

	Advertising – TV and Radio	Janet Rybka
	Advertising – Papers and mags.	Gitte Claud
	Advertising – Promotional	Charles Linden
	Bakery	Guye Dupcak
	Budget	Arvid Tegner
	Children area	Ritva Porter
	Country Store – Purchasing	Inga Fagrell
	Country Store – set-up	Jette Gower
	Country Store – Operation	Karin Walin
	Cultural	Inger Stover
	Decorations	Marjatta Söderlund
	Entertainment	Anne Kohtala
	Exhibitors	Marianne Woodyard
	Financial	Barbro Linden
	Food Court	Kari Keclik/Eva Lindvig
	Danish food house	Birgit Vizzuraga
	Finnish food house	Eeva-Liisa Saarinen
	Icelandic food house	Asa Stigaard
	Norwegian food house	Kari Keclik
	Swedish food house	Gerda Andersson
	Hot dog stand	Eva Meyer
	Raffle	Ralph Howard
	Program – computer work	Charles and Cecilia Linden
	Program – Layout	Göran Rygert
	Program – Ad coordinator	Jørgen Conradsen
	Program – Proof reading	Margareta Martin
	Refreshments	Jørgen Conradsen
	Sponsors	Board members
	Supplies	Jette Bender
	Tickets	Ritva Porter
	Volunteers	Ann-Sofie Tegner
	Work Crew	Eric Tegner

At the January board meeting the decision was made to allow exhibitors to sell T-shirts. Arvid’s initial budget had $73,950 income based on 4500 visitors and 3500 food house platters.

By April it was agreed to buy 72 golf shirts at $16.75 ea. The volunteers entered by the rear door. A Finnish Bakery in Florida was not permitted to exhibit because of potential competition with the existing Festival sales.

Sam Linden was the MC on Sat. and Laurie Fulton on Sun. The returning entertainment included:

Scandinavian Folk Dancers of Raleigh
Sasha (Alexander Lisnichuk)
Viking Age Club Village
Children from the Swedish School of Atlanta

The new entertainment was:

Swedish Voices Chamber Choir
Muskarit guitar and bass
Seija Pesonen
VASA Dränger men's choir from the Nordic Lodge

The Festival was a great success with 3300 visitors and the income equal to the first Festival. There were 16 exhibitor booths. The program book increased to 28 pages. The post-Festival party was held at the Linden’s on July 12. The fashion show was very popular. Seija Pesonen brought many national costumes from Finland.

Interestingly, many of the suggestions presented after these first three festivals are still being recommended, including:

Visit each member organization to develop more interest in the Festival
Hold the Festival on a weekend other than Memorial Day and move it to the Fall.
The volunteer chairperson should be very visible.
Have a representative from each country for cultural, Country Store, and other areas.
Use larger and better signs.
Utilize sponsors for the expenses of the entertainers.
Control expenditures and have budgets.

Margareta Martin and Inger Stover began to prepare a manual for officers, directors and committee chairpersons.