May 2015

Friendship Newsletter Official Publication of the

German American Society of Pinellas County

Since 1951

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“All the News

Is Print that Fits”

Anne Boortz

Useful Web-sites:

The German Consulate General in Mi-ami, FL www.miami.diplo.de

United German American Society of Florida, Inc. www.UGASFLORIDA.org

Your Home Newspaper from Germany www.onlinenewspapers.com/germany.htm

German TV Stations www.glotzdirect.de

Folksmusic from Germany www.alpenmelodie.de/ www.surfmusic.de/

German news in English www.thelocal.de

German American Hall of Fame www.gamhof.org

German missions in the U.S. http://www.german.info/Vertretung/usa/en/Sitemap.html

Heritage question? www.nameheritage.com

Germans traveling to U.S. Visa waiver program http://germany.usembassy.gov/visa/vwp/

General Membership Meeting Thursday, May 7, 2015

Happy Mother’s Day

Dear Members and Friends, April was a busy month.

Cultural Exchange. UFS students and their professor of German studies vis-ited us. We had an Easter Parade. SPIFF International Ball was fun for all who attended and the Pinellas Park Chamber of Com-merce Mixer was a success with the best turn-out ever. The roof was fixed and fans installed. The grease trap from the kitchen was un-clogged. Thank you David Loucks for co-ordinating the re-pairs. The parking lot will be resealed in the near future. Oktoberfest 2015 planning is on the way. Please consid-er chairing one of the areas that still

Oktoberfest 2015 Chairpersons:

Permits/Tent Rental George White

Honorary Buergermeis- George White

Set-up and Take-down Wyley Seals

Food Supply incl. cake

Paper goods, condi-ments

Vesta Loucks

Beer, Soda, Water etc. Bob Courtney

Front Kitchen

Back Kitchen Vesta Loucks

Food Line

MC and spec. programs Bob Courtney

Potato Pancakes Gordon Westermann

Sound

Reservations Bob Courtney

Groupons

Advertising

Volunteer Sign-up

Trash Detail Paid Staff

Parking

Raffle Wolfgang Riemer

Daily clean-up

need a char person. This does not mean you have to do all the work by yourself, but rather organize and oversee volunteers. Please come to the Membership meeting for more information. Happy Mother’s Day to all our mothers. In friendship, Anne

Editor & Staff Willy Frueh 941-927-1073

Willy.frueh@ Verizon.net

Distribution Ilse Kearney 727-527-6281

OFFICERS 2014 DIRECTORS TERM

President Anne Boortz Don Fowler 2017

1st VP Bob Courtney Woody Matthews

2017

2nd VP George White Marion Matthews

2017

Record. Secretary

Ray Torrent Wyley Seals 2017

Corresp. Secretary

Greta Perry Gordon Westermann

2017

Treasurer Ilse Kearney Katie Riemer 2016

Financial Secretary

Connie Fowler

Wolfgang Riemer

2016

Past President - Wyley Seals

COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS

Publicity Bobbie Floerchinger

Raffle Bob Courtney

Building David Loucks Entertain-ment

Willy Frueh

USASF/Sunshine

Ilse Kearney Bar Bob Courtney

Counter Anne Boortz Reservations Bob Courtney

Scholar-ship

Vesta Loucks Decorating Paula Barker

SPIFFS George White Hall Rental Marion Fritz

Member-ship

Maria Schnei-der

Kitchen Ilse Kearney

Non-Member Newsletter Rate: $18 per year mailed monthly.

Advertising Rates

Classified Free for members

Half Page $20 / mo.

Quarter Page $14 /mo.

Business Card $8 /mo.

We reserve the right to refuse ads

Cultural Exchange Submitted by Maria Schneider

Birit Nessmann arranged for Professor Peter Funke from USF and his German class to visit our club prior to their trip to Germany in May. Maria Schneider and Helmut Drews shared with the students their jour-ney which ended in Florida. Maria was born in Transylva-nia, from there her journey took her to Austria, Canada, Ohio, and finally Michigan. Her family worked in the tobacco harvest for nine seasons, and did other seasonal work. She attended school in Austria, and in Ontario and then college in

Ohio. She was a High School Ger-man l anguage teacher for many years. Helmut was born in Poland on the Russian border. From there his family traveled to E a s t - G e r m a n y

where he was a baker’s apprentice. The family was able to es-cape from Communist East Germany into the west, find his way to a distant relative, and eventually immigrate to the USA, Michigan, from where he retired to Florida twenty years ago. The students were fascinated with the information and had many questions. Students enjoyed samples of German food prepared by Ilse and Alma, and Marion was there to help with bever-ages. The students took information about our club with them, and said they would be delighted to come back after their trip to Germany and share their impressions.

Far right Birgit Ness-mann who was instru-mental in arranging the visit. Next to her is Professor Peter Funke and eighteen of his students who are studying German at USF and will be visiting Germany in May.

Wir Sprechen Deutsch

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www.thegermandeli.net

Tues. - Fri. 10 am - 5 pm Sat. 10 am - 4 pm

1995 East Bay Dr. Largo, FL 33771

(727) 586-1980

German Deli

May 2 Manni Daum Maybaum Dance MC Vesta May 9 Jeanne Zube Mothersday Dance MC Wyley May 16 Cathy’s Lorelei Heimat Abend May 23 Manni Daum Memorial Day Dance MC Wyley May 30 The Brothers Bavarian Night

Jun. 6. Steve Daniels Western Night MC Vesta Jun. 13. The Just Us Duo International Night Jun. 20. Danny Mack Fathersday Dance Jun. 27. Manni Daum Sonnenwende Feier

PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS THEY SUPPORT US & OUR NEWSLETTER MENTION YOU SAW THEIR AD HERE!

German Courses Evening Classes for Adults

Kindergruppe –playgroup– songs, crafts and con-versation for kids. Ages 3 –8. 6 week sessions. For more information and to enroll contact:

Birgit Nessmann at 727.755.3459 Pegasus.scholar@gmail.com

www.languagesfor.us

Upcoming Entertainment Schedule Willy Frueh

We reserve the right to change the Entertainment Chairman Willy Frueh

Dress code: no Shorts, Lederhosen and Dirndels welcome anytime.

Doors open at 6:00 pm. Dancing starts at 7 un-til11:00 pm. Our Kitchen is open 6 until 8:00 pm. Bar is open until closing time at 11:00 pm. For additional information and/or reservation please call Bob Courtney 727-238-8201

172 YEARS OF WEDDED

BLISS

May 1, 1955 Vernon and Annabelle

Bostelman

May 24, 1958

Andy and Helen Spiess

May 28. 1955

Don and Connie Fowler

Our best wishes to all couples

who are celebrating their

Happy Mother’s

Day

Counter Help 6—8:00 pm. If you would like to help once every two month, either behind the counter (you will meet many wonderful members and guests) or help take out the garbage at the end of the evening (our undying gratitude will be yours forever), please let me know . Anne Boortz

Many thanks to the following members and friends who make our kitchen, counter and garbage disposal work: Angelika, Connie, Christine, Breda, Greta, Vesta, David L, Emily and husband, Gary, Elliot, Sigrun, Hanni, Andreas Benedek and wife, Don, Wyley, David T. Woody, Frank, Robert, Alma, Wilma, Ilse, Lillie, Marie and Vinny and many volunteer members without who the club can not exist.

Danke schoen.

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DELICIOUS CAKES & K UCHEN

If you have sampled some of the delicious cakes at the club lately, you know what I am talk-ing about. If you haven’t, than you are missing out on the most delightful des-serts. Manny thanks go out to our won-derful bakers. If you would like to share one of our special cakes with the club, please sign the CAKE DONATION list by the kitchen door or please come and see me. Anne Boortz

May Birthdays 4-May Helga Seybold 5-May Alfons Hanczyk 6-May Frank Warzemann-Costin 8-May Helmut Drews 8-May Edwin Winkler 9-May Fredrika Latzko 11-May Otto Noeding - LTM 14-May Marion Matthews 15-May Charles Parker 18-May Gabriele Schlierf 18-May Marion Monroe 21-May Joyce Ebersol - LTM 22-May Mario Quarrella 24-May Anna Tischner 25-May Marlene Yost 25-May Adam Pfister 26-May Frank Bendick 27-May Gerda Kern 27-May James Geoghegan 27-May Joe Mckinley 27-May Angel West 28-May Karl Klenner 29-May Judy Vega 30-May Hanes Bemme May Anniversaries 5/1/55 Vernon & Annabelle Bostelman 5/4/?? Marion & Gary Monroe 5/15/93 Jeff & Christine Clogston 5/17/73 Karl & Sandra Klumpp 5/24/58 Andreas & Helen Spiess 5/28/60 Donald & Connie Fowler

June - Birthdays 3-Jun Anne Boortz 3-Jun Willy Frueh 6-Jun Korianne Williams 7-Jun Paula Barker - LTM 8-Jun James Burrell 15-Jun Frederick Garfi 15-Jun Steven Mccolley 17-Jun Sandra Klumpp 18-Jun Rudolf Wegner 20-Jun Rita Geoghegan 24-Jun Ann Omerzo 27-Jun Donald Kohler 29-Jun Wolfgang Riemer 29-Jun Manfred Yost 30-Jun Gary Williams

June - Anniversaries 6/12/04 Karl & Elfriede Wolter 6/18/88 Edward & Karen Bach 6/19/54 Ted & Helga Seybold 6/25/?? Michael & Donna Reichenbach

Clubhouse Rental Our facilities are available for

weddings, parties, celebrations, business meetings and social gath-

erings. They include the main Ger-mania Hall, the Bier and Kaffee Stube, a fully equipped kitchen, a smaller Fest Hall (also with a kitch-en), a large parking lot and our grassy quadrangle. These facilities may be rented separately or in their

entirety. Members may rent it at a reduced membership rate.

For further information about hall rental please call Marion 727.343.8018.

From the desk of our Sunshine Lady

Hello Members and Hello Friends,

I am so glad our ill and passing list has shrunk down to nothing. Yes our friend and member for many years Hansi Wil-son has passed. Our Sympathy is going out to her family. We did not get any information about here burial, sorry about that. I have spoken with Fred Myer the owner of our passed band: “Band called Fred”. Fred is doing al-right. Some days are better than oth-ers. Also I stay in contact with Regina Waltenspiel. Regina is missing the club quite a lot. Maybe some person living in Town Shores, Gulfport could bring her to the Saturday night dance. That would just be wonderful. That’s it for this month. I wish all of you a healthy spring and I will see you on Saturday night at the Club. ___ Greetings Members and Friends,

I have been at the last Heritage Day meeting in Casselberry. Every one there agreed that the music left some-thing to be desired. Yes the music should have been more according to the theme of the festival. It is not de-cided yet who will play next year, yet the place will be the same. It was also encouraged to participate in the Heimat Abend the evening before. Overall we had a good report. As al-ways a few wrinkles have to be ironed out. The UGASF staff is thanking all participants and wishes that all will come back next year.

Your UGASF Delegate Ilse

Just wanted to say Thank you to Alma Smith, she is always there when needed the most. Like tonight while we hosted the mixer with the Pinellas Park Chamber of Commerce. She is “eine gute Küchenfee”!

Also a Thank you to the person taking care of the of the greeneries around the flagpoles and the flowers at the front en-trance.

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Grace Lutheran Church

812 N. Highland Avenue Clearwater FL 33755

German Ministry

Deutscher Gottesdienst

Jeden 4. Sonntag des Monats um 15 Uhr Das Heilige Abendmahl wird jeden

zweiten Monat gefeiert.

Nach dem Gottesdienst folgt eine gemuetliche Stunde mit Kaffee, Kuchen und deutschen Liedern zum Mitsingen

BOOSTERS 2015

COSTIN, Robert COURTNEY, Bob and Marga CUNNINGHAM, Robert and Evelyn DREWS, Helmut and Ilona DULMOVITZ, Frank ERDODI, Steve FRUEH, Willy and Dorita GEBBEKEN, Horst HINTZ, Hugo JAEGER, Wally KEARNEY, Ilse KIRSCHBAUM, Elfriede KLUMPP, Karl and Sandra LATZKO, Friederika MOERSEBURG, Uwe and Geraldine MULINTI, Vinay NAEGELE, Dorothy NESSMANN, Birgit NOEDING, Erika PERRY, Greta PFISTER, Adam and Annemarie SCHATTNER, Withold and Irene SCHNEIDER, Maria SDAO, Lillie SEALS, Wyley SKRAPITS, Geraldine SUNSERI, Thomas and Virginia TEGGE, Thea TROXELL, Augustine VOGT, Werner WAGNER, Josefa WARZEMANN, Frank WEHRY, Anneliese

In Memory

Johanna “Hansi” Wilson + March 19, 2015

Hansi had been a very active and longtime member of our club. Our sympathy are with her family and friends.

Daniel Almeida

+ Our heartfelt sympathy are with Edel-gard and her family.

College Scholarship Our Club awards a scholarship of $2.000 paid over four years to a student who will be starting a four year college or university in fall. An applicant does not have to be a member or rela-tive of a member of the Club, but must be sponsored by a Club member in good stand-ing. Completed applications must be returned by May 31 to the German Club to the at-tention of Vesta Loucks, Scholarship Chairwoman. For applications and Scholar-

ship requirements please con-

tact Vesta 727.347.4040.

Amateur Hour

At the German Club.

Bob Courtney inspired Wyley Seals

and Daria Perse to participate in

Amateur Hour. Bob, Hanni, Wyley

and Daria entertained us with

songs.

Thank you for sharing your talents

Easter Parade

Our M.C. for the evening was Bob Courtney and Manni

Daum entertained us with his music.. Thank you to

the ladies who participated in the parade, they

looked lovely in their spring hats.

The prize for prettiest hat went to Lois Weissman,

for most original hat went to Lillie Sdao and for the

funniest hat to Elisabeth Selleck.

The judges were Hanni Kreutzer, Wolfgang Riemer

and Don Fowler. Thank you for volunteering to make

those difficult decisions.

The Easter Bunny (Gary Wil-

liams) was spotted hopping

around the hall passing out East-

er eggs and wishing every one a

Happy Easter.

A wonderful time was had by all.

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Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 Manni Daum Maybaum Dance

MC Vesta

3 4 5 6 7 General

Membership

Meeting

8 9 Jeanne Zube

Mothersday Dance

MC Wyley

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Cathy’s Lorelei

Heimat Abend

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Manni Daum

Memorial Day Dance

MC Wyley

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Service

Grace Luth.

Church

25 26 27 28 Board

Meeting

7:00 pm

29 30 The

Brothers Bavarian Night

May 2015

May 2015

German American Society, Inc. 8098 66th St. N. Pinellas Park, Fl. 33781 727 541-6782

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www.germantampa.com

God Bless

America!!

SPIFFS International Ball 2015

The Ball was held at the Gulfport Casino. Anne Boortz was recognized as the Person of the Year and George White as the Am-bassador. Entertainment was provided by the Dominican Republic. The food was deli-cious. The Band inspired the guests to dance. There was a lot of laughter and smiles and everyone seemed to have en-joyed themselves.