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The Bukovina Society of the Americas NEWSLETTER The Bukovina Society of the Americas NEWSLETTER P.O. Box 81, Ellis, KS 67637 USA Vol. 17, No. 3 September 2007 Editor: Dr. Sophie A. Welisch Assistant Editor: O.M. Windholz Board of Directors Rebecca Hageman Laura Hanowski Kurt Rein, Ph. D. [email protected] [email protected] Martha McLelland, President Wichita, Kansas Regina, SK,Canada Baldham, Germany Hays,Kansas Juliet Honas Ortfried Kotzian, Ph. D. Wilfred Uhren Web Site: www.bukovinasociety.org O.M. Windholz, Vice President Ellis, Kansas Augsburg, Germany Tulsa, Oklahoma Webmaster: Werner Zoglauer Assistant Webmaster: Rebecca Hageman Hays,Kansas Ralph Honas Edward Al Lang Sophie A. Welisch, Ph. D. [email protected] [email protected] Joe Erbert, Secretary Ellis, Kansas Sycamore, Illinois Congers, New York Ellis, Kansas Shirley Kuppetz Paul Massier Werner Zoglauer Membership Dues: Art Honas, Treasurer Ellis, Kansas Las Vegas, Nevada Naperville, Illinois Lifetime $150.00 Ellis, Kansas Norma Lang Van Massirer Annual $15.00 Ralph Burns Ellis, Kansas Crawford, Texas Ellis, Kansas International Board Steve Parke Irmgard Ellingson Michael Augustin Pueblos West, Colorado Grafton, Iowa Leonberg, Germany Doug Reckmann Eileen Goetz Ayrton Gonçalves Celestino, Ph. D. Portland, Oregon Hays, Kansas Curitiba, Brazil BUKOVINA PEOPLE AND EVENTS state who stop to see the museum and connect with their heritage. We do not hear from all of them, but Robin • The annual meeting of the Bukovina Society of the Schoenthaler (Arlington, MA), who, after signing up for Americas, Inc., pursuant to the by laws and the require- membership, sent an email noting, “I hope you convey to ments for a Kansas not for profit corporation, was held on Mr. [Joe] Erbert and Mr. [Ralph] Honas our deep apprecia- Sunday, July 22, 2007, at the headquarters in Ellis, Kansas. tion for being willing to open the museum for us. We were Terms on the Corporate Board of Directors expiring at this very moved by the displays and the resources. On the way time were those of Irmgard Ellingson, Norma Lang, back to Boston I read many of the Society’s newsletters on Raymond Haneke and O. M. Windholz. All were re- the plane.” elected to another term except Raymond Haneke, who • The Bukovina Society welcomes Paul E. Hodel (El Dorado, asked to step down. His term was filled by the election of CA) as our latest life member, number 163. Eileen Goetz. Bernie Zerfas also resigned whereupon the • The Canadian Banking System has made a rule change Board appointed Shirley Kuppetz to fill the unexpired effective June 30 of 2007. Any Canadian check with hand- term. Database Manager Becky Hageman reported that written or typed “USD or US Dollars” will NOT be there are 480 current Society members including forty-one processed as US funds but as Canadian funds. In order to from the eleven foreign countries of Australia, Austria, be cashed without expense to the Society, a Canadian Brazil, Canada, Germany, Israel, Poland, Spain, Sweden, check must indicate payment in US currency against a Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. The General Fund specific US bank; this information is already printed on the stands at $2,128.50 and the Lifetime Endowment Fund checks of banks with a US affiliation. In order to avoid an at $26,801.91. Earnings from the Lifetime Endowment expense for the Society, we respectfully request our Cana- Fund are transferred to the General Fund annually. No dian members to consult their bank for specific details outstanding liabilities were reported. Following the concerning such transactions. Checks not properly ex- annual meeting, the Board of Directors convened to elect ecuted will be returned. the following officers for the ensuing year: Martha McClelland, President; O. M. Windholz, Vice President; Joe Erbert, Secretary; and Art Honas, Treasurer. BOARD RETIREMENTS • Presentations related to the Western Kansas immigration by O. M. Windholz (Hays, KS) and lives of the Bukovina Germans will be on the program at the Oktoberfest German Heritage again this year. The Two charter members of annual Oktoberfest is scheduled for September 15-16, 2007 the Bukovina Society since at the Ellis County Fair Grounds in Hays, KS. Irmgard its founding in 1988 have Ellingson and Steve Parke will present their topics begin- elected to step down after ning at noon on Saturday the 15th: Irmgard on the many years of faithful Lutheran Swabians followed by Steve Parke on the service. Ray Haneke has German Bohemian Catholics. Oktoberfest information is served terms as President available at: http://www.midwestdeutschefest.com and Vice President, was • The Bukovina Society has frequent visitors from out of Bernie Zerfas, left and Ray Haneke, always available for meet- at their retirement meeting. ings and work sessions and 1 frequently opened up the headquarters for visiting groups and visited Steve Parke in Pueblo, CO as well as Frank Augustine’s individuals. I met Ray years before the founding of the Society daughter, Henrietta Rupp and her family in Denver. Before through local business and community organizations. At a very returning to Germany on June 8 we spent a few unforgettable large turnout of Bukovina Germans assembled by Paul days touring the Rocky Mountains. Polansky in September of 1988, Irmgard Ellingson and I sought individuals to serve on a committee to form the Society. Ray Back home our heads and our hearts were replete with multi- was the first person to be considered. He was a man who never faceted impressions and lots of pleasant memories. And to all said “no.” our North American friends, named and unnamed, who participated in the success of our trip: a heartfelt thanks for the Bernie Zerfas was the first Treasurer for the Society and warmth and hospitality you extended to us in the States. continued in that capacity until his last meeting this past July. The organizational meeting of the Society was the first time we met and I enjoyed working with him through the years. He THE LONG JOURNEY was also present for any meeting, work detail, or event of the by Sophie A. Welisch (Congers, NY) Society. Both men gave generously of their time, talent and treasure to their families, church, and communities. They will This essay, prompted by a gift from a serve as an example to us all. close relative, will attempt to reconstruct in broad terms, the life and times of its previous owners, as destiny propelled PROMISE FULFILLED them from country to country and from by Michael Augustin (Leonberg, Germany) shore to shore. The gift: a 12” painted wooden statuette of the Madonna and The long-term subscriber may perhaps recall the article in the Child in a wooden case (see Fig. 1); the December 2001 issue of this publication about the trip, which family: that of Christoph Reichhardt, Frank and Juanita Augustine (Ellis, KS) undertook for the who, with his wife Magdalena Kohlruss, purpose of visiting their relatives in Germany. Not only were crossed the Carpathian Mountains in many friendships established at that time but the idea of paying 1835 and, with twenty-nine other Frank a visit on the occasion of his 80th birthday also surfaced. families from the Bohemian Forest, Fig. 1, Our Lady of His birthday fell on May 31, 2007 and indeed a group of five became among of the founders of the Help (brought to Brazil by Adolf Wolf relatives from Germany undertook the journey to the United village of Bori in Bukovina. in 1887) States to join Frank in celebrating this landmark occasion. Besides myself, the author, there were my aunt Traudl Grill As may be inferred from the name of the region, the Bohemian and her husband, Ludwig as well as my first cousins Regina Forest in the early 1800s was a thickly wooded land with Schiessl from Salzweg near Passau and Franz Augustin from lumbering and glass production among its principal industries. Straubing. This was the first American trip for all except for During the long evenings the villagers literally whittled away Regina and me. their time making furniture, household utensils and toys out of the abundance of wood in their back yards. And prominent I departed one week prior to the others and visited my friends among their carvings were religious artifacts for a Sophie Welisch in Congers, NY as well as Werner Zoglauer Herrgottswinkel (God’s corner) in their living quarters. From and his daughter Kathy Cardwell in Naperville, IL. Werner, the time of the Counter Reformation the inhabitants of the Kathy and I then drove from Naperville to Kansas City where Bohemian Forest had manifested an outwardly strident form of we met my German relatives as well as Becky Hageman of Catholicism characterized by massive processions, pilgrimages, Wichita, KS. After a short stay the group continued to Ellis on celebrations of religious holidays, and displays of religious icons May 29. Here almost all the members of the Bukovina Society’s in homes and fields. Among the most popular of these were St. Board of Directors had gathered to receive us and to honor Johannes of Nepomuk, the patron saint of Bohemia, the Werner Zoglauer. Oren Windholz, former President of the Madonna and Child, and nativity scenes. Society, recounted Werner’s special services as the Society’s webmaster, the site’s international recognition, and its role in We can only imagine that when the thirty families from the the recruitment of new members. Bohemian Forest set out in response to Emperor Francis I’s recruitment of families to settle in his easternmost territory of The celebration of Frank’s birthday on Thursday proved to be Bukovina, they took with them only a few meager possessions. only one of the festivities on the docket. Each day the visitors At this time railroads were as yet unknown and the colonists from Germany were invited to a social gathering.
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