Greetings to all TexFinn Member and Friends,

I hope everybody is doing well. You will find attached to this email is the March 2009 newsletter. Thanks to Teddy for putting the newsletter together and to Shannon for converting it to a PDF file.

I am also pleased to let everybody know that Dr. Jason Lavery from the Oklahoma State University's History Department will be speaking at our May 21, 2009 meeting. Dr. Lavery will be talking about the history of Finland. More information about Dr. Lavery and the May meeting can be found attached to this email also.

Now on to other Finnish items. ABC's Good Morning America show sent Diane Sawyer to Finland today (Friday, March 13, 2009) to broadcast from Kemi. Kemi is located in very southern Finnish Lapland. You will find below links to the reports that Diane Sawyer did from Finland. Thanks to Sharon Blalock for point this information out.

Snow Castle: http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=7074640

Arctic Swim: http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=7074766

Oulu 's Shouting Choir: http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=7075188

Finnish Cooking: http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=7075149

Finnish Fun: http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=7074999

Finnish Life: http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=7074834

Jorma Ollila (Nokia's Charman): http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7073388

Have a great weekend,

Jeremy Martin

President/Co-Webmaster

Dallas/Fort Worth Finnish-American Society/TexFinns

president@texfinn.org
webmaster@texfinn.org

http://www.texfinn.org