Gladys Petch

              1946

King Haakon of Norway has conferred on Mrs. Petch the highest foreign award—The Medal of St. Olav, with Scroll.

UNDAUNTED NORWAY RISES AGAIN
out of the cruel dark which for five years has shrouded her; for the grandeur of Norway is as indestructible as time.

Across her sun-kissed valleys the church bells are ringing again—

In her ancient, picturesque villages little children dare, once more, to laugh and sing—

And up her still, deep fjords sail the Norsemen's ships, back home at last.

In A Panorama of Glorious Color

With new MOTION PICTURES IN COLOR never before shown, and exquisite color slides,


GLADYS PETCH
Brings you the Norway of yesterday, today and tomorrow.  In this the most delightful of all her lectures, you will hear tales of heroism, or of the daily life of those hardy folks who have been pioneers in exploration, the arts and social reforms.

Did you know that Norway was the first country to establish universal suffrage, and empower women to hold high official and professional posts?

As you marvel at the scenes of incredible beauty which pass before your eyes, you will listen entranced, to the vivid descriptions which accompany them.



SHE HAS BROUGHT EUROPE TO US AND THE UNITED STATES TO EUROPE
The famous Gladys Petch illustrated lectures have attracted enthusiastic capacity audiences from coast to coast in this country and Canada.

Abroad, in England and Norway, by illustrated lectures and magazine articles, and by radio, she has brought home to the peoples of those countries the wonders and beauties of our own great land.

As Radio Consultant to The Royal Norwegian Information Service, she speaks with authority.

On the air millions of radio listeners have heard her inspiring broadcasts:

By short wave, to and from Europe;

Over every national network in America;

Over local stations in more than 50 large cities;

And on her outstanding program: Spirit of the Vikings (with guest speakers, plays, exclusive news and music) which has been rebroadcast regularly every week over hundreds of stations in the United States, Canada and Australia.




SOME OF THE 700 ORGANIZATIONS WHICH HAVE SPONSORED THE GLADYS PETCH ILLUSTRATED LECTURES

U. S. Department of Interior (5 times)
University Club, Washington, D. C.
American Scandinavian Foundation, Harvard University
Geneological and Biological Society, New York City
Buffalo Museum of Arts and Sciences
Women's Club, Larchmont, N. Y.
University Women's Club, Fresno, Cal.
Women's Club, Bridgeport, Conn.
Pond Field Club, Melrose, Mass.
Georgia State Woman's College
Quincy Women's Club, Quincy, Mass.
Women's University Club, Duluth, Minn.
Oakland Forum, Oakland, Cal.
Women's Club, Wilmington, Del.
Business and Professional Women's Club, Sacramento, Cal.
City Women's Club, Boston, Mass.
University Women's Club, Toledo, O.
Parent Teachers Assoc., Newberryport, Me.
Nordic Club, Springfield, Mass.
D. A. R. in New York City.
The A. W. A. Club of New York.
Junior League of Arts, Chicago.
Chicago University.
Art Museum, Cleveland, O.
Pan Hellenic Club, New York City
Scarsdale Women's Club, N. Y.
Women's Club, Evanston, Ill.
Minneapolis Women's Club.
College Women's Club, Mountain Lakes, N. J.
Rotary Club, St. Louis, Mo.
Advertising Club, St. Louis.
Friday Morning Club, Los Angeles.
State College, Fresno, Cal.
Geographical Society, Oslo.
British Norwegian Society, Oslo.
The Zonta Club, Chicago, N. Y.
City Women's Club, Washington.
Alliance Business & Professional Women's Club, Chicago.
American Penwomen's Club, Washington.
The Adventurers' Club, Chicago.
Art Association, Springfield, O.
Open Forum, Toledo, O.
City Women's Club, San Francisco.
The Ebell Club, Oakland, Cal.
Canadian Women's Club, N. Y.
Boston Public Library.



United States Department of the Interior, Memorandum For Chief, Operating Division

The National Park Service Lecture by Gladys M. Petch, held in the Departmental Auditorium, was a phenomenal success, as the audience exceeded 1,800.  All seats on the floor and balcony were occupied, and standing room was at a premium.

(Signed) A. W. Cline, Superintendent.

National Broadcasting Co., New York City, Margaret Cuthbert, Program Department.

Her voice, with its quality of clearnes, vitality and clear cut enunciation, is far above the standard of the usual voice heard over the air, and her material is of the greatest interest to the public.

Public Library of the City of Boston, Richard G. Hensley, Chief Librarian of the Reference Division.

There is no need to tell how much her lecture was enjoyed, for the applause she received at the close must have told its own story.  Her pictures were an excellent complement to the lecture.  The hall was filled to capacity.

Rahway (N. J.) Woman's Club, Mrs. Eleanor M. Kenna, to New York Herald Tribune.

Mrs. Petch gave us one of our most delightful programs of the year (1945).  One gathered the feeling of being actually transported to this most picturesque country.  We should enjoy having her with us again.

The Women's City Club of Detroit, Marion H. Bemis.

Mrs. Gladys M. Petch's talk for the Women's City Club of Detroit was enthusiastically received by an audience that overflowed the auditorium to the halls and into a back-stage room.  Mrs. Petch has charm of manner, a beautifully modulated speaking voice and the poise that comes from much platform experience.  We were thoroughly pleased with her lecture.


Manchester (England) Daily Dispatch
Mrs. Gladys M. Petch, who is broadcasting from Manchester B.B.C. Station tonight on Glimpses of Norway, has probably had a wider experience in broadcasting than any other Englishwoman.  She has given talks in Vienna, Prague, Rome, Milan as well as in Scandinavia, and has already pleased the listeners of Hull, Aberdeen, Swansea, London Cardiff and Bournemouth by her interesting lectures.

American Women's Association, N. Y. C., Catherine S. FitzGibbon, Asst. Dir.

In behalf of the Association may I thank Mrs. Petch for her delightful lecture?  Our members enjoyed it very much and felt, as I did, as if we had made a personal visit to Norway.

Cleveland Museum of Art, Louise M. Dunn, Asso. Dir.

The audience was delighted.  This lecture, we feel, should have a wide appeal to many clubs and organizations.  Mrs. Petch's voice was clear, well-modulated and pleasing, carrying distinctly to everyone in the auditorium.


London (England) Radio Times.
One of the best known radio voices in Europe.

Women's Club, Duluth, Minn. Mary Dwan.

Splendid.  She has a charm all her own.  She has a story to tell and is most delightful in telling it.  She has a wide and definitive vocabulary, and a most beautiful diction.  It was good for our student body to listen to one who uses such choice English.



LEST WE FORGET
During the first critical days of the War the Norwegian Merchant fieet, of 1,034 ships and 30,000 seamen, carried to England 40 per cent of all the oil; 25 per cent of all the food which that beleaguered country received.  HALF of those ships and thousands of their heroic crews were lost in action.



THIS IS NORWAY CALLING
You have heard that ringing call before.  Now again it peals out across the Seven Seas, and soon thousands of voyagers, by steady ship or great plane, will be speeding toward The Land of the Midnight Sun.

But, meantime, until you join them, step on the magic carpet which Gladys Petch spreads before you, and thrill to the lovliest, most breath-taking color photographs of people and places that ever you have seen.

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