FEBRUARY 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”

President’s Message Anne Boortz

Dear Members, I like to take the opportunity to thank Board members who completed their terms. Vesta Loucks, corresponding secretary will remain our Scholarship chairwoman. Lillie Sdao, Tom Sunseri and Anton Pichler, directors. Thank your for your time, dedication and contributions in making our Board and club run smoothly. Welcome to the Board Greta Perry, corresponding secretary, Marion and Woody Matthews, Wyley Seals and Gordon Westermann, directors and returning for a new term Don Fowler. Welcome back Katie and Wolfgang Riemer. My gratitude to all the returning Board members for your time, dedication and hard work assuring that the club runs efficiently. Thank you Maria Schneider for undertaking the job as membership chairwoman. If you had an address, telephone or e-mail change, please let our membership chairwoman, Maria Schneider know. The Canadian Night was a total success. Anna Allin, thank you for all your contributions in making it a great evening. We will be celebrating Fasching (Carnival) on Saturday, February 14. There will be prizes for the best costumes. Be creative and come in costume. Information about the upcoming SPIFFS International Ball and Heritage Fest may be found somewhere else in this Newsletter. Let us all work together to make it a most successful year. In Friendship, Anne Boortz

2015 Membership Dues are due $25 single, $35 couple. See Maria Schneider, Membership General Membership Meeting Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 7:30 pm. Your attendance is desired. Valentine’s Day Special Dinner Saturday, February 14, 2015 Chicken Marsala, with roasted Rosemary potatoes and green beans.

Heritage Day is on March 22. 2015. in Maitland (outside of

Orlando ) The Menu is Sauerbraten or Jaegerschnitzel.The

Cost is $ 25.00 for Members and 27.50 for non Members.

There is a $ 10.00 transportation fee for the Bus per Pereson

Roundtrip very good price’

Iternational Ball for SPIFFS is on April 18. 2015 at the

Casino in Gulfport. Tickets are $ 40.00per Person which

includes Dinner.

Hope some of you can make it.

Your Sunshine Lady Ilse Kerney

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NEW YEAR AT PINELLAS Happy Anniversary To

George & Christel 53 yrs. Joe & Krista 47

HAPPY BIRTYDAY TO

GERHARD KERN 99 YEARS YOUNG

Wir Sprechen Deutsch

Deutshe Waren Sind Angeboten

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PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS THEY SUPPORT US & OUR

NEWSLETTER MENTION YOU SAW THEIR AD HERE!

www.thegermandeli.net

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

1995 East Bay Dr. Largo, FL 33771 (Between Highland & Keene)

(727) 586-1980

German Deli Homemade Sausages

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German Beer & Wine

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German ImportsGerman Imports

Baked Fresh Daily

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German Breads & Rolls

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Feb. 7 Sepp & Heinz Valentines Dance Feb. 8 Kinder Fasching Feb. !4 Frank Svet Orchestra & Vanessa Faschings Dance Costumes please Feb. 21 Cathy;s Lorelei Heimat Abend Feb. 28 Manni Daum Black & White Dance March 7 Sepp & Heinz Valunteer Apreshiation Night March 14 14. Jeanne Zube Spring Dance March 21 Manni Daum Annpversary Dance March 28 Sepp & Heinz Bavarian Night We reserve the right to change the Enter-tainment Chairman Willy Frueh

Dress code: no Shorts, Lederhosen OK Doors open at 6:00 pm. Dancing starts at 7 until11:00 pm. Our Kitchen is open 6 until 8:00 pm. Bar is open until closing time 11:00pm. For additional information and/or reservation please call Bob Courtney 727-238-8201 Come join us for a fun filled Evening

German Courses!

Our "German Beginner I and II"

courses are going well and students

are progressing fast! We are work-

ing hard each week on speaking,

listening, reading, and writing

skills - while having fun with fel-

low students. We are planning on

starting new courses by end of Feb-

ruary - so mark your calendars!

***New soon: Spanish!***

Location: German American Society

in Pinellas Park.

CALLING on all children - our

"Kindergruppe" will start February

14!

"Kindergruppe": Playgroup - songs,

crafts & conversation for kids! Ag-

es 3 to 8 years. Saturdays, 2:30 -

4:00 pm. Ages 3 - 8. 6 weeks.

ENROLL NOW:

727.755.3459

pegasus.scholar@gmail.com

--

Birgit Nessmann www.languagesfor.us

(727) 755-3459

Counter Help 6—8:30 pm. If you would like to help once a 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 see our coordinator

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DELICIOUS CAKES & KUCHEN

If you have sampled some of the deli-

cious cakes at the club lately, you know

what I am talking about. If you haven’t,

than you are missing out on the most

delightful desserts. The cakes were

baked and donated in this past year by:

Ilona Drews Martha Reiter

Gorden Westermann

Marion Fritz– Mathew

Thea Tegge Erika Noeding

Geri Brown Alma Smith

Anna Pfister Kate Riemer

Elisabeth Selleck Anneliese Wehry

Lillie Sdao

Manny thanks go out to our wonderful

bakers.If you would like to share one of

your special cakes with the club, please

sign the CAKE DONATION list by the

kitchen door or please come and see me.

It would be so nice to share the baking

with more of our wonderful members,

so we could have a larger variety to

samble. Yor cake coordinator,

Booster List - 20145

Dulmovitz, Frank &Geraldine Skrapits

Frueh, Willy & Dorita

Hugo Hintz

Kirschbaum, Elfrida

Wally Jaeger

Ilse Kearney

Helmut & Ilona Drew

Robert Evelyn Cunningham

Werner Vogt

Horst Gebbeken

Birgit Nessman & Vinay Mulinti

Greta Perry

Wiley Seals

Lillie Sdao

Erdodi, Steve & Maria Schneider

Tegge, Thea

Noeding Otto & Erika

Bob & Marga Courtney

Our new Board of Officials

Anne Boortz President. Bob Courtney 1st.Vice President., Raymond

Torrent recording Secretary, Ilse Kearney Treasurer, Financial Sec.

Connie Fowler, Vesta Loucks, Scholarship, Sunshine Lady

Ilse Kearney, 2. Vp. George White., Greta Perry Correspondent

Secretary, Entertainment and Newsletter Willy Frueh

Directors. 2015

Woody Matthews, Marion Matthews, Gordon Westermann ,

Don Fowler, Wyley Seals, Anton Pichler, Katie Riemer, Wolfgang

Riemer,

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We are your German speaking Realtors! Please check

www.SouthBeaches.info Find up to date information about

Pinellas County Real Estate

We also specialize in Short Sales!

Anne Hensel Manny Bag-

inski Broker Realtor

727-410-7777 727-399-

9990 AnneSouthBeaches@gmail.com MannySouthBeach-

es@gmail.com

Clubhouse Rental Members and friends might not be

aware that they can rent the Main

Hall or back Hall for special occa-

sions such as weddings, receptions,

parties memorials,meetings and

other events.

Tell your friends!!!

club members receive a reduced

price not offered the general puplic.

Hold your next gathering at the club!

For reservation, call Peter Laub

1-202-550-8314

MOVING? NEW PHONE NUMBERS? NEW EMAIL? Tell us your news! If you don’t see it, it’s

because we don’t know. Email

w.fr FIND A MISTEAK?

Mistakes serve a purpose. We try to publish something for everyone. We know

some people like to look for mistakes.

DON’T FORGET!! Membership Meeting 1st Thursday

DUES - Jan. 1st BOOSTER donation anytime!

Scholarship A $2.000.00 scholarship will be awarded to a deserving individual, to be paid over a four year period, $500.00 per year. Applications are available from the Scholarship Committee members February through May or our Website: www.germantampa.com. Follow the link. The completed application must be returned to the Committee no lat-er than May 31. For a student to be considered for the Scholarship he/she must be recommended by a club member in good standing. If you have a child, grandchild, great- grandchild or know of a worthy young person, please recommend him/her for the scholarship. For more information talk to any Committee member. Chair-woman: Vesta Loucks

Raymond Torrent

Surpriced everybody

With a nice little Song

At our Dance two weeks

ago Thank you Raymond

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 4 5

Membership

Meeting

7 :30 PM

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SEPP &

HEINZ

VALENTINES

DANCE

8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Frank Svet

Orchestra

Fasching with

Vanessa

15 16 17 18 19 20 21

Cathy;s lorelei

Heimat Abend

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German Ser-

vice

Grace Luth.

Church 1812

Highland Ave.

Clearwater

3 PM

23 24 25 26

Board

Meeting

7:00 PM

27 28

Manni Daom

Black & white

Ball

February 2015

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FROM THE DESK OF SUSANNE NIELSEN

Feb 7,9,2014 , Die Zauberfloete ( The Magic Flute) , Opera Tampa, sung in German, English supertitles, www.operatampa.org,

exquisite production at Straz Center (see interview Maestro Lipton, reviews www.germanradioshow.com ,audio/blog Feb

10,2013)

Feb 8,2014, (Sat) 8:00 pm,Il Trovatore, Verdi,premiere ( Feb 8-March 22th) , Sung in Italian with English supertitles,11 Perfor-

mances: February 11, 14, 19m, 22, 24, March 4m, 8, 11, 16, 20, 24

www.sarasotaopera.org , (meet other members in lobby for a drink at intermission )

Sat Feb 8, 2014, St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts Tour of newly installed collection, coffee and French pasteries at Cassis Café Feb 15,2014 (Sat) 8:00 pm, Opera Sarasota: THE Barber of Seville , (through March 21st) www.sarasotaopera.org , (meet other members in lobby for a drink at intermission )

Feb 19th 2014,(Wed) Fashings-Fest with German American Social Club of New Port Richey: 2:00 pm – 7:00 pm, Dar-lington Rd, Polasky Clubhouse, dress code costume please, reservations: Christine Tetro 727-938-7603 for tickets February 28,2014 Friday, 5:00 pm: Tampa Museum of Art: (German language guided visit) show TBA DINNER at German Restaurant optional ( German Bistro) following the exhibition visit.

Hello Members and Hello Friends, It has been a busy month so far. Günter Braun was under the weather for some time with the flu and a cold typically for the winter season. I am so glad he is feeling better again. It is nice to see you at the dance. Anton Pichler was only for a few days in the hospital to have his heart repaired! Yes Tony was a super star, he was in and out of the hospital so fast and now he is dancing at the club already. Between you Tony and Don Fowler, you both make me wonder! It is nice to see Leni and Heinz come back down to St. Petersburg. Yet I was informed by Leni, she has to go back home and home is in Illinois by the end of February because of medical check-ups and appointments. Naturally Heinz will go back with her. Anyhow I am glad you both could come to Florida. We at the club enjoy your company. A quick update on Hayde! She is doing much better. Matter of fact, she and Herbert have come to the club for a couple of weeks already. Helen Sverak’s memorial was on Saturday January 24, 2015. A few of our members came to the Fountains Assisted Living Home to honor Helen. Thank you to all! Update on Helmut Beck! He is in the Apolo Nursing Facility now. Helmut is looking good and sure eats well. Best wishes to you Helmut. A hello is going out to Margot and George Carpenter. We love to see you at the club again. Please come and get your fill of Polka Music. And that should be it for this month. Please if you know of anyone being ill; give me call so the person can be acknowledged. Wishing you all a healthy and joyful Fasching season. Es ist des Menschen würdiger, Sich lachend über das Leben zu erheben, Als es zu beweinen. Um das Menschengeschlecht macht sich verdienter, Wer es belacht, Als wer darüber Tränen vergießt. Seneca

Your Sunshine Lady Ilse Greetings Members and Friends, I have the tickets for the Heritage Fest now. We are celebrating on March 22, 2015 a Sunday the Heritage Fest and on the Saturday before March 21, 2015 the Heimat Abend. The Festivities are taking place in Maitlands which is a few miles north of Orlando and before Casselberry. Sauerbraten or Jägerschnitzel will be served at the Heritage Day. Tick-ets are $25.00 for club members and $27.50 for non-members. We are reserving a bus again for the event which makes it a nice easy and comfortable ride to and from. We the German American Society Pinellas are asking for a $10.00 per person donation helping to defray the bus expenses. You can purchase the tickets on Saturday night during the dance or by calling me at: 727-527-6281. Please leave a message should I not answer in person. Your UGASF Delegate Ilse

February 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!!

The Bierstube Personel our Bierstube is doing great

Come to our Football Party

We will have Snacks and Drink so come and enjoy good Fellowship