This meeting used to be held at a park and originally included grilling hamburgers. In more recent years we had gone to buying fried chicken, but it with our aging membership, and fewer children attending to play in the park, it was decided to save funds and hold the "picnic" at our usual meeting location. As usual, our meeting began with prayer and food.
This is also a wonderful social time...
Our featured speaker and new member told her
Breit family history with familiar names and places interjected now and then with humor.
On display at the meeting was a very special quilt that a long-time member had made when she was but a girl of 13, sometime between 1933-35. The pattern came from a design in
Capper's Weekly.
Here's the Kansas block....
Then we had a short business meeting for the Election of Officers since we won't be having an October meeting. Our president report that at convention our chapter was awarded a ribbon in recognition of our 30
th year as a chapter.
A part of every convention are stories written by members about their German from Russia heritage. The society gathers these stories and
publishes them with a new publication arriving during the convention. Stories written by several of our chapter members are in this issue.
Certificates are also issued to members that win the storytelling contest.
After receiving her certificate she shared with us a Family Circus cartoon that appeared in the paper just the day before...
...so you can read it...
Another member that attended the convention then gave us highlights...
We finished up the program with German music and song which, with a recent addition to our membership, we plan on having more of.
Visit
AHSGR to learn more about the Germans from Russia society.
This is also a wonderful social time...
Our featured speaker and new member told her Breit family history with familiar names and places interjected now and then with humor.
On display at the meeting was a very special quilt that a long-time member had made when she was but a girl of 13, sometime between 1933-35. The pattern came from a design in Capper's Weekly.
Here's the Kansas block....
Then we had a short business meeting for the Election of Officers since we won't be having an October meeting. Our president report that at convention our chapter was awarded a ribbon in recognition of our 30th year as a chapter.
A part of every convention are stories written by members about their German from Russia heritage. The society gathers these stories and publishes them with a new publication arriving during the convention. Stories written by several of our chapter members are in this issue.
Certificates are also issued to members that win the storytelling contest.
After receiving her certificate she shared with us a Family Circus cartoon that appeared in the paper just the day before...
...so you can read it...
Another member that attended the convention then gave us highlights...
We finished up the program with German music and song which, with a recent addition to our membership, we plan on having more of.
Visit AHSGR to learn more about the Germans from Russia society.
2 comments:
Looks like a good time!
You know, Rick is 1/4 German and 3/4 Polish...
Hi, Anita! I figured that Hohl was a good old German name. : ) How many generations back did they come over from Germany? Did they settle in Kansas? There's several German communities around Kansas, the one's up NW each have a little different dialect of Low German that they speak/spoke. They're loosing their "mother tongue" because the children didn't pick it up to keep it going.
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