Bernard J. Fridsma Collection

Professor of Germanic languages at Calvin College. The collection includes extensive correspondence; research materials; newsletters, i.e. Friese stemmen, Frisian roundtable; articles; Frisian/Friesland history materials; poems; class notes; speeches; psalms, hymns and songs translated into Frisian; essays; Frisian theater production materials; annual Frisian church services, i.e., Fryske Tsjerketsjinst materials including the program and sermon for the last Frisian worship service in Grand Rapids, Michigan, held 21 May 2006, in honor of Fridsma; photographs; diaries; scrapbooks; dissertation; various translations into the Frisian language; autobiographical and genealogy materials; manuscripts of books written by Fridsma, i.e., Never a Broken Bond: 60 Years of Frisian Activity in America. The Memoirs of Bernard J. Fridsma, Sr.; Nea Waard Dy Feste Taaie Ban Ferbratsen; Introduction to Frisian; and Twaklank: In Mannich Fersen, Oarspronklik en Oerset; and motion picture film of the 1948 visit to Friesland. [See also Frisian Information Bureau, Coll. 422; Gysbert Japiks: Christian Frisian Society, Coll. 421; and the Campus Titles Database.]