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Posted:
Saturday, February 28, 2004 12:07 PM
Welcome:
Waltaud
Frenz: sponsored by her husband Guenther, Waltraud
joined in Frebruary. She was born in Pforzheim and
makes her home in Kildeer.
Ruth
Bohn: sponsored by Frank Wimmer, Ruth joined in
March. She was born in ulm an der donau and
now lives in Vernon Hills.
Margaret
Knepp: sponsored by her father Lionel Walder,
Margaret joined in April. She was born in
Hollywood, Florida, and now lives in buffalo
Grove.
Frederic
Leinweber: sponsored by Siegfried Endlichhofer,
Frederic joined in april. He was born in
chicago and nove lives in lombard.
John
h. Maier: sponsored by Helga Zettl. John joined in
April. He was born and still lives in lake
forest.
Emma
Wolf: sponsored by Siegfried Endlichhofer, Emma
joined in May. She was born in Winterlingen
in the area of Ebingen/Baliingen im Schwabenland.
She now lives in Chicago.
Brian
Hamm: Last not least, it has been a brought
to our attention the we never properly welcomed
Brian Hamm to the Schwaben Verein. Sponsored
by Guenther Frenz. Brian joined in July of
2004. He was born in chicago and lives in
Wheaton.
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Lost
Members:
Irv
Braack was a member since 1964 and passed away on
December 29, 2004. He was 84 years old.
Karl
Marquart was a member since 1964. He passed
away on January 220th of this year. He was
66 years old.
Arthur
Schmelka: was a member since 1971. he passed
away on April 12 of this year in Lehigh Acres,
Florida. He was 72 years old.
Fred
Drueck, Jr. was a member of over 50 years.
He joined the Schwaben Verein in 1947 and passed
away this past April.
TO
THE FAMILIES OF OUR DECEASED MEMBERS OUR HEARTFELT
SYMPATHY. UNSER HERZLICHSTES BEILEID!
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128th
Annual Cannstatter Volksfest - The Schwaben Fest
It
is spring, which means also getting ready for
the Cannstatter Volksfest - Schwaben Fest on
August 20 and 21, 2005.
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Board
Meetings
As
you know, EVERY
member in good standing -male or female - is
welcome to attend board meetings. The dates
of the board meetings are listed on page four
of the Schwaben News.
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Membership
Meetings
March
3th, 7:30 pm …………..
board of directors
April 7st , 7:30 pm ……………
board of directors
May 5th , 7:30 pm ……………
board of directors
June 2rd , 7:30 pm ……………
board of directors
June 12th , 2:00 pm ……………
2nd membership
July ……………………………...no
meeting
July 31st, 2:00 pm ……....……
3rd membership
August 4th, 7:30 pm ………….
board of directors
August 20th & 21st, …………..128th
Schwaben Fest
September 1nd , 7:30 pm …… board
of directors
October 6th , 7:30 pm…………
board of directors
October 22rd , …………………
Octoberfest
November 3th, 7:30 pm……….
board of directors
November 6th , 1:00 pm ...….. 4th membership
& election & Schillerfeier
December 1nd , 7:30 pm ……. board
of directors
December 11th ,1:00 pm ……. Christmas
Party
See
you at the next meeting !
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Schwaben
Charity Fund:
To
honor deceased relatives and friends with a
memorial or to make an endowment to the fund
please contact the treasurer Anton R. Iberle
For
Anton's address and or phone number, please
contact the Schwaben
Verein.
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The
Schwaben Center for Your Parties:
Always
consider first the Schwaben
Center for your social affairs such
as:
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What’s
Happening Elsewhere?
So
long to the Schwäbischer Frauen Verein. After
105 years the remaining 14 ladies have decided
to dissolve the Schwäbische Frauen Verein.
At our last membership meeting, the members of
the Schwaben Verein unanimously voted to accept
the ladies into the Schwaben Verein as honorary
members. We welcome the following ladies Frieda
Ambacher, Betty Anton, Henrietta Baltes, Gisela
Boehm, Karola Djurovich, Eleanor Dumentat, Ida
Gutberlet, Fannie Hauser, Maria Hettich, Hildegaard
Holz, Joyce Luciani, Maria Schilli, Johanna Streder
and Luise Moell. Congratulations, and we hope
to meet and greet you at our next membership meeting
in February.
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Schwaben
Facts
A
wonderful web-site
for everything Swabian. Unfortunately, it is only
available in German. Its author is a product manager
by the name of Klaus Brecht who lives, obviously,
in Schwaben . I will draw from it frequently when
it comes to Schwaben facts. And I already learned
a hard reality. I was not able to successfully
complete the Schwaben-Puzzle, remaining a Reingschmeckter”,
a newcomer. There always is a lot to learn.
The
Schwabenexpress claims that Carl Laemmle from
Laupheim was the founder of Hollywood. He emigrated
to Chicago in 1884 where he opened up his first
movie theater in 1906. Later, he created the world
famous Hollywood in a suburb of Los Angeles. He
reportedly founded the Universal Movie Pictures
Company and is credited with the discovery of
such star personalities as Mary Pickford and Erich
von Strohheim.
Note
From the Editor:
I
would like to use this spot to introduce myself
as the new editor of Schwaben News, thanking,
first and foremost, my predecessor, Kurt Gebert,
who founded the News and had created and improved
them over many year. I will follow his design,
but due to the idiosyncrasies of computer programs,
I cannot just copy and paste from his previous
work, as the programs in different versions
turn out not to be completely compatible. I
am, therefore forced to do some of the formatting
myself. And as I am not a professional, this
does not come easy. So if you find some clumsiness
in this present and some future edition of Schwaben-News,
some things that do not look quite right, please
bare with me. I am learning by doing, and one
day I will have it together.
My name is Uli Senz. I grew up in the very rural
area of the Ostalbkreis in the East of Baden-Württemberg,
in a village called Zipplingen, Gemeinde Unterscheidheim,
by Bopfingen, and I went to the University of
Tübingen. I have lived in Chicago since
1989. I am one of the late comers, being here
on account of my wife, Adrianne, who grew up
in Skokie. She worked for the U.S. army hospital
in Heidelberg for many years before it was time
to keep my promise to move to Chicago with her.
We
live on the north side of Chicago and have three
children. I have been an active member of the
Verein for about 4 years now. I used to do part-time
work for the German language newspapers, so
I had the opportunity to gtt to know the clubs
in our area pretty well.
One
of my hope for the future of the Schwaben News
it that it will become a little more of a medium
where members report about themselves and what
is going on in their lives. Why not report about
you, your families, anything that you might
want to share with your friends in the Verein,
e.g. the birth of a child, a grandchild, a retirement,
you name it…. Further down in this edition,
you will find a category called “Share
your news”. It will remain empty this
time, except for my contact information, and
I want to encourage you to give me things to
report in the next edition. Meanwhile, feel
free to give me your opinion and your suggestions,
for the Schwaben News, as well as in general,
I hope we will make the best of it. Write, call,
e-mail….!
I am looking forward to working on this.
Uli
Senz
Share
you stories and thoughts
e-mail
me
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