That day, fourteen leaders of the Swedish Pioneer Centennial Association gathered at the club, 1258 N. LaSalle St., for a 4 p.m. meeting and, following dinner, an 8 p.m. meeting of the Chicago committee attended by 115 members. At these meetings, the Chicago committee was dissolved as of Dec. 31 and its assets turned over to the centennial association, which was to be reconstituted as an historical society with no immediate change in name. “We must not stop now,” Conrad Bergendoff, chairman of the national association, declared at the evening meeting. The assets of the Chicago group, $10,433.04, were sufficient to pay off the debts of the national body and provide a start-up fund for the new historical society., An audience estimated at 18,000 to 20,000 Swedish Americans gathered to hear a number of speakers, including U.S. President Harry Truman and well-known author and poet Carl Sandburg. Swedish Crown Prince Bertil also attended the centennial events., Allt för Sverige: With Anders Lundin, Guy W Clark II, Katie Malik, Rebecca Redner. Follows Swedish-Americans returning to Sweden to discover their roots. They learn more about their family. Participants must leave the series and can thus miss their chance to get to know more about its origins..