GERMAN CLUB ENTERS ERA OF SURVIVAL
For 100 years, Virginia Tech students have been dancing with the German Club - although not as often as they used to.But what is the German Club, anyway? It has nothing to do with a foreign land or language - as do French, Spanish and Latin clubs. It has nothing to do with running around in little leather pants and knee socks with feathers in their hats, either.It is something else.It is something that has been able to withstand the extreme changes of the last 100 years when...
GERMAN 17 debutantes to be presented at German Club dinner
GERMAN 17 debutantes to be presented at German Club dinner dance The San Antonio German Club will present its 1991-92 season debutantes Nov. 2 at Villita Assembly Building. The 17 young women will make their bows during a formal presentation at the Opening German dinner dance. The debutantes are Linda Marguerite Affleck, 22, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Affleck, Jr. A graduate of Alamo Heights High School, Affleck earned a B.A. in psychology from the University of Texas at...
GERMAN CLUB MARKS 35-YEAR HISTORY WITH BALL
THE German Club of Elizabeth will celebrate its 35th anniversary with a ball on Saturday, July 5. Spokesman Kurt Stumann said this week the club started in 1968 after an advertisement was placed the The News Review Messenger seeking interest in the formation of a German club.``The interest meeting was held at the Kariwara Hotel in Elizabeth West with about 15 people attending, 10 of which were the original group with a woman president.Kurt relates the club's history: ...
German Club: {Christmas} style German
SCHERERVILLE The tune was familiar, but the words were not. Dozens of Peifer Elementary School fifth-graders got the chance to sing "Silent Night" in German on a recent morning while Lake Central High School students, members of the school's German Club, played St. Nikolaus and filled their shoes with candy. It was all part of a demonstration of German Christmas traditions, which included lessons in language and the history of the region. For German...
FESTIVAL GETS COOKIN'
GERMAN CLUB'S OKTOBERFEST WILL SERVE UP BARRELS OF FOOD AND FUN.
The large stainless steel vat of onions and bacon bubbled as Art Spooner, 80, stirred the sauerkraut seasoning with his wooden spoon."Now, this here is a lot of bacon and onion," said Spooner, an American German Club member who doesn't consider himself a sauerkraut connoisseur but has been cooking it for 25 years. Spooner and dozens of other club members spent Thursday wrapping up preparations for the American German Club of the Palm Beaches'...