summer 2016 - German Family Society

German Family Society
of Akron, Inc.
Deutscher Familien Verein, Akron e.V.
www.germanfamilysociety.com
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3871 Ranfield Road, Brimfield Township/Kent, Ohio 44240 • 330-678-8229 • Email: [email protected]
SUMMER 2016
Happy 55th Anniversary “Our Frauengruppe”
Soon after our German Family Society formed in
1955, Our Organization continued to grow and
moved to GA Club in Akron and by 1961, the Ladies Auxiliary was formed. For many of us today,
these were our Mothers and Oma’s bringing their
love of cooking to support our “Verein”. With the
many family recipes brought with them from the
“Old Country,” they soon were recognized offering some of the best food in the area. Even our
sister clubs comment on how good our food is.
Today our leader, Helga Hippich finds new innovative ways to mass produce hundreds of pounds
of schnitzel, sarma and potato salad, all with the
same homemade taste and loving care. Our Festival guests come from all over the area to enjoy
a meal with us. “Some of the best food!” some say
while they wait, sometimes in the rain for their turn
to get an Oktoberfest Platter.
The evening of May 14th we celebrated and
recognize those that have put a lifetime of love
and dedication towards our Club. We were well
represented from some founding members to the
women that show their love for their group today.
Many awards were given for decades of service
to their group.
The fun-filled evening included performances by
our Jr Youth and Tanz Groups and hours of dancing to Eintracht band. They did a great job and
we can’t forget the guys that volunteered in the
kitchen that evening. Congratulations Ladies!
You will always be the Heart of our “Verein”
A Message from our President
As summer arrives so begins the busy schedule for many of us on the Board and those that
support and volunteer to help throughout the
year. We always want to stress how appreciative we are of the many folks that make
our club work year after year. I also say, without all of you, there would be no club. Many
of our groups and the kitchen are asking for
help through the Festival season. We ask for
your help. Even if it’s only 1 or 2 festivals, we
rely on our members to help so please accept a request to volunteer, or if not called,
contact any of our kitchen, bar or Vice Presidents and let them know. We need you!!
Our board has been reviewing the possibility
of coming on line with credit card readers.
This is still in discussions and we hope to tie this
in with looking at revising our Website to accept reservations on-line as well. ( don’t worry, we love our reservations ladies, Eva and
Renate and hope they hold their jobs for a
long time.) Many of our sister clubs now operate in this manner and even purchase their
tickets on-line as well.
Our Thursday night crew, of which I’m also a
part of, have completed and still working on
other projects around the park. You may not
even notice but a major Pipeline was installed
to capture the parking lot water and take it
directly to the pond. Thanks to some great
weather early this year, grass has grown back
and you would never know how torn up the
grounds were 2 months ago. Thanks to Nicholas Burdohan, Frank Ganz, Mike Petzker, Skyler Sutton and Albert Petzker for all their help
with this.
This will eliminate the huge flow of rain water
around the youth group and bier garten. We
are also adding some new festival lights and
adding more power out to the vendor areas.
Eventually we plan on continuing about 600
square feet of brickwork on patio area. This
will also allow us to have our vendors and
ticket booths all on bricks.
Our USA Donauschwaben Clubs gathered
in Chicago the weekend of April 23rd. Our
club was well represented with over 40 of our
members. They mostly review each function
of the clubs, break out sessions are done with
each group from Kinder Group leaders, to
Frauengroup leaders to the Presidents meeting. Here the Group leaders, Frauen, Sport
and Presidents discuss ideas amongst themselves, suggestions, successes and issue that
all of our groups deal with.
Lastly I wish to again Congratulate, Helga Hippich, her Board and Frauenschaft on their 55th
Anniversary. A wonderful evening was held in
their honor. Helga gave out several longevity
awards then was surprised herself at several
gifts Thanking her for years of service to the
kitchen and to their group. Even the Bar guys
offered their collected tip money, gave them
a 500.00 cash gift to the Ladies group to treat
their members to something special this year.
Congratulations Ladies!
Rudy
We extend our condolences to
the families of:
John W. Kemerer
Wendel Gieger
Jacon Waidmann
John,Fiehn
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Saturday, June 25, 2016
3 pm - 11 pm
Sunday, June 26, 2016
1 pm - 7 pm
Kirchweih Mass, 11:30 am
Fr. David Misbrener
Visit our Beer Garden and enjoy European style food!
Music by:
Deutscher Musik Verein, Al Zimmerman Band, Fred Ziwich Band and Hank Haller Band.
Dancing performed by
The GFS Tanzgruppe, GFS Youth Group, GFS Jr. Youth Group and the GFS Kindergruppe
Traditional Donauschwaben Kirchweih Program on Sunday.
Childrens games, and other fun activities
Sunday afternoon behind the main building.
Inflatable bounce house and More!
Entrance - $5 for adults ages 12 and older.
Free Entrance for Children under 12.
Free Parking
Located at: 3871 Ranfield Road, Brimfield township (Kent) Just East of Routes 43 and 18.
Our Youth Group travels to the “Old Country”
The German Family Society Youth Group has
worked hard with fund raising including selling
sausage towards their planned trip to Germany,
Austria and Hungary. All the work involved in the
planning and funding comes to a close as their
July 21st departure date arrives. Twenty nine Jugend kids and 5 chaperones will soon arrive in
Frankfurt and begin their once in a lifetime experience visiting city after city. They will stay in some
homes with people of different cities and also experience life in a few youth hostels.
What a wonderful way to experience the Culture
that we so often speak of. They will be visiting cities such as Speyer, Germany, and will stay with
other Donauschwaben families. All will be welcomed home to where many of their own families once lived.
The group will then move on to Mosbach where
many of our former Jugend members stayed in
the past. Their club offers dormitories for the kids
to stay for a few days. This is a very active Club
and their own Jugend members will be traveling
to the USA shortly after our group leaves. In fact,
Mosbachs group will be visiting Akron in August
where we will host their members at our homes.
Their group will perform at our club on August
17th. All are welcome for dinner and a performance by their groups. Please try to attend this
Wednesday evening event.
The youth will travel every few days to new cities including Draisl, Crailshem, Spaichingen all in
Germany, and will perform. They will then travel
to Ulm another fun place to see with the historic
churches and may possibly climb up the massive
stairs to the top.
They will wrap up their trip through Germany with
a visit to historic Munich and make their way
to Innsbruck, Austria where a cable car ride is
planned to the mountain tops. Vienna is next on
their list where many of our own members settled
in camps during the transitions from Yugoslavia to
the USA. They’ll move on to the Budapest, Hungary where they will stay in Kleinturwall with the
Donauschwaben folks there.
The Youth Group wishes to thank all of parents
and volunteers that have helped support the
Youth Group throughout the years. It has taken
many to help with festivals, making sausage, and
our newest endeavor, the 5K run which will return
for the second year the Saturday of Oktoberfest
this year. Thanks to all who have supported the
group which has allowed them to take part in
such an amazing experience.
Kultur Ecke
Culture Corner
Hallo Freunde,
Hello friends,
After the mild winter and a to short spring
are gone we are already in the summer
season. On May 14 we had the 55th anniversary of the Frauenschaft (women’s
group). We enjoyed a nice evening with a
wonderful program. It was a little bit sad to
see that this special event wasn’t attended
very well. Not to many of the 3rd generation showed up. I think it would be great to
support the 1st and 2nd generation more.
Please, support the older members!
It is special to be a volunteer, meeting with
other people and make friends. For many
of us our club is another home and it is a
very nice home. Collaboration is the key to
keep the club going.
“Grandma’s kitchen” will start again in fall,
because many of us are pretty busy during
the summer
Hold the culture in your heart
Greetings
Anna Koenig
Nach dem milden Winter und dem viel zu
kurzen Frühling befinden wir uns schon im
Sommer. Am 14. Mai hatten wir unser 55
jähriges Jubiläum der Frauenschaft.. Wir
erfreuten uns an einem schönen Abend
mit einem wunderbaren Programm. Leider
wurde diese besondere Veranstaltung
nicht sehr gut besucht. Die 3. Generation
unseres Clubs war leider sehr schwach vertreten. Ich denke das es schön wäre wenn
sie die 1. und 2. Generation ein wenig mehr
unterstützen würde.
Bitte unterstützt unsere älteren Mitglieder!
Es ist etwas besonderes ein Ehrenamt zu
haben, andere Menschen zu treffen und
Freunde zu machen. Unser Club ist für viele
wie ein zu Hause und es ist ein sehr schönes
Heim. Nur durch gute Zusammenarbeit
können wir noch viele Jahre unseren Club
beibehalten.
“Großmutter’s Küche” wird erst im Herbst
wieder weitergehen, da viele von uns im
Sommer kaum Zeit haben werden.
Haltet die Kultur im Herzen
Mit Gruß eure
Anna Koenig
Family News
Congratulations to one of our very own,
Tyler Kemerer, on taking 2nd place in the
“2016 World Irish Dance Competition” held
in Glasgow Scotland. Tyler has been a proud
member of our Youth Group for many years.
While we were gathering information in writing this article and we were saddened to hear
that both Zachary and Tyler lost their father
John, suddenly, just days ago. Our hearts go
out to Karen and the Kemerer family. We decided to take a few excerpts from the Green
South Side Leader and allow us to show off our
World Class Dancer Tyler and how very proud
we are of his amazing accomplishment. His
mother Karen, said to me “Thank you for recognizing Tyler’s amazing achievement! His
love for Irish dance as well as German dance
is unwavering.” It’s this kind of dedication
that Tyler and his fellow Jugend Members put
out some of the best performances year after
year. Way to Go Tyler!
Green High School senior Tyler Kemerer
came home from the 2016 World
Irish Dance Championships to a very
big pile of homework, but his second-place finish in the men’s 18-19 division made it all worthwhile.
The world championships, held March
20-27 in Glasgow, Scotland, were a
week earlier than the school district’s
spring break, which meant Kemerer
missed a week of school for the competition.
Kemerer, however, is accustomed
to hard work. Preparing for the world
championships meant dancing five to
six days a week and traveling to Cleveland or Columbus to do it, he said. On
weekends, Kemerer would practice
six to seven hours a day, taxing even
for a young person.
“I’m 18 and there are times I was really sore,
especially coming up to the world’s. … I’m
thankful now, because it helped me prepare
so much for the competition,” Kemerer said.
In the world competition, Kemerer, the reigning U.S. national champion, performed on a
huge stage — 90 feet wide and 80 feet deep
— with two other competitors, each trying
to keep the judges’ attention on them. Big
smiles; fancy, twisting footwork; and Kemerer’s signature high kicks were part of his bid
for good scores.
“I’m very flexible,” Kemerer said. “I’m able to
kick high and I do a lot of kicks in my routines
— it’s one of my trademarks. Not a lot of boys
can be that limber.
“I just went in wanting to dance my best and
hoping to do well,” Kemerer said of his fourth
trip to the world championships.
His highest finish before this year was 12th in
2013, he said.
“It was a very surreal moment,” he said. “All
that hard work paid off.”
*******Upcoming Event*********
Wednesday, August 17th 2016
Coming to Akron German Family Society
Dinner at 6:00pm Program at 7:00PM
Herzlich Willkommen aus Deutschland:
Jugend und Gesangs ( Singing) Gruppe
Landsmannschaft der Donauschwaben Mosbach e.V.
Our GFS will host 30 Performers from Mosbach Germany.
Please note this date has been set due to their travel times in the USA. We hope that all can
join us for a fun filled evening, enjoy their performance and socialize with our Donauschwaben
Brothers and Sisters from Mosbach Germany.
Please note: The date set on calendar for TBD on August 13th has changed to Wednesday
August 17th. Nothing will be held on August 13th at the club.
Reservations will be required!
Please contact Eva Lehner 330.335.8985 or Renate Moellmann 330.633.3949
We are still looking for Families to Host our Guests from Monday August 15th
evening to Thursday morning August 18th Please contact Carri Sensius at 330.715.2365
German Family Society’s
2nd Annual
Lederhosen 5 K-eg Run
1 Mile Fun Run & 50 yd. Toddler Dash
In Conjunction with the
German Family Society’s Oktoberfest
Saturday, September 10, 2016@ 9am
Registration:
$25 5-K Pre-Registration (T-Shirt
27, 2016)
All proceeds will directly help to offset
costs for
our Youth Group’s upcoming trip to Europe.
guaranteed if you register by Saturday, August
$30 5-K Day-of-Race Registration 7AM-8:30AM Saturday, September 10, 2016 (T-Shirt NOT guaranteed)
$20 1-Mile Fun Run Registration (T-Shirt guaranteed before 8/27/16) $25 Day of Race (T-Shirt NOT guaranteed)
$10 50-yd.Toddler Dash (under 5 - No T-Shirt Available)
Online race registration link at www.germanfamilysociety.com - ends Friday, September 9, 2016 at 12PM, Noon.
Questions about the race?? E-mail us at: [email protected]
Location:
The race starts and finishes at the German Family Society 3871 Ranfield Road Kent, Ohio. The race will primarily be on
Ranfield Road and in the neighborhood adjacent to the German Family Society.
Finish Line Beer Garden:
In addition to a goodie/gift bag and post race nourishment, your registration includes one free drink (Draft Beer/Soda/Water)
ticket that can be redeemed until 12PM/noon day of run, must be 21+ with valid ID to redeem for beer. Sausage sandwiches
and hot pretzels will also be available for purchase. After race photos will be available for a fee in the Beer Garden with our
Youth Group Dancers. We invite you to come back to our Oktoberfest festival Saturday evening and Sunday for more German
food, music, dancing and fun.
Beer Belly Division:
Got a beer belly? Be proud and join in our elite Beer Belly Division! We will treat you like Oktoberfest royalty, providing you a
head start for the race. After the race, enjoy your beer, guilt free - you just burned those calories and earned a perfect reward!
How to qualify: Men and women 21+ who are proud of the midsections they have built are eligible to enter this unique division.
However, as this division is solely intended to be “for fun”, with the head start, you will not be eligible to win the race.
Awards*:
Best German-Themed Male and Female Costumes - wear your favorite German clothing, lederhosen and dirndls!
5 K-eg Run - Top 3 Men and Women Overall and Top Person in each division: Elementary (age 5-10), Middle School (age
11-14), High School (age15-19), 20-29, 30-39, 40-49. 50-59, 60+
1 Mile Fun Run and Toddler Dash - Top 3 in each race. *Based on chip timing.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Print/Mail Registration - Due Sept. 3, 2016 (or register online until Noon, Sept. 9, 2016)
By signing below, I hereby understand that upon my entry into the Lederhosen 5 K-eg Run, Walk or Dash, I waive any and release all claims for
damages and liabilities of any kind that may arise out of my participation in this event against all persons, entities, and agencies involved with
promoting and running this event, including but not exclusive to the German Family Society, the city of Brimfield, all sponsors and any involved
in the production of the race in regard to any and all injuries suffered by me while running, traveling to and from or participating in this event. I
give my permission for the free use of my name, picture and/or video for broadcast, telecast, print and social media account of this event. Race
does not permit pets, rollerblades, roller skates, skateboards, scooters, and bicycles.
Registrations without fee will be void. Registration fee is non-refundable. Official entry form - please print clearly.
Make checks payable to: German Family Society. Mail to: P.O. Box 182 Munroe Falls, OH 44262
I am participating in, circle one:
5 K-eg Run
1 Mile Fun Run
Toddler Dash (No T-Shirt Available)
T-Shirt Size - guaranteed if you register by August 27, 2016. Circle one: AS AM AL AXL
A2X (Add $3.00)
Total Amount enclosed: $_________________ Additional Donation: $___________________
Name:____________________________ Gender: M or F circle one Age (day of race):_________
Address:_______________________________________ State: ___________ Zip: _______________
Email: ________________________________________________ Phone Number: _______________
Signature: _____________________________________________ (Parent or Guardian if under 18)
Contributions for Sponsorship are still needed.
New this year, 2 free registrations with Platinum Sponsorship.Please email
[email protected] or call Jill Armbrust at 330.606.9445
for more information.
New Referral page for our Members owning Businesses or Services
To all of our Club members that operate Businesses. What better place
to post your company and services provided to our other
club members, than our newsletter.
Today it’s all about being able to trust someone and word of
mouth on some of the services that our talented business owners
can provide. This forum should let others know what services you
offer and we’ll keep this free of charge. As the Family that we are,
it gives our members options to hire someone that they know
and trust. We offer this free service to all of our business members
but it is as a referral only. We hope that by word of mouth
from our Club members that we could be a part of
your success throughout the year.
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Business owners please contact me at [email protected]
and get your company listed. Please provide your Business name,
your name, phone and small description of services offered.
A website and address is important as well to those that offer
services from their location. We will continue to run this program
every quarter and hope to build a convenient referral page for
our many members that have a need for such services.
Parking: Tom Clark
330.338.3778
Tickets/Entrance: Rudy Germeister
330.633.0247
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330. 696.8521
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European Festival. In order to keep our Festivals
running we ask for a few hours of your time on
Jun 25th and/or 26th. The Kitchen, parking and
ticket crews are in need of help. Please, please
offer to donate some time to continue our success as a Club. If we no longer have enough
support for our Festivals, the future of our Club
will also be in Jeopardy.
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