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DonauquelleWinter 2016 Your Source for UDoM News to Use MaryAnnMacGillis mit vielemDank, New Year! and best wishes throughout Christmas the to Merry wish each of you a very Together withmy husbandJim,ourchildren, andOlivia,we Max would like Boards. Your are ongoingdedication andendlessefforts greatly appreciated. Lastly, Iwould liketo thankallthemembers oftheFull andExecutive family ishere withlove andsupport. that lostloves ones. May you focus that your onthegoodtimesandknow UDoM The year also brought the passingof several dear members. deepest Our —nothingwould bepossiblewithout support YOU, ourDonauschwaben Family, themembersofUDoM. remain successful and that we are able to share themtogether. Thank you for your time, volunteering and we have that madefriendships have spannedgenerations. We are andblessedthat fortunate ourevents Donauschwaben culture andtraditions that ourancestors cultivated andbrought to thisnewland. With that future generations. Regardless of thechanges, we have someconstants, to the mainly ourpurpose preserve constantly moving forward andwe mustchangewiththetimesinorder to stay relevant for our andsurvive The Cluboftoday andtomorrow isn’t thesameasClubof70,40oreven 20years ago. Time is CitizensSenior andalltheotherspecialhelpersthat decorated thehallsobeautifully. season is onceChristmas again upon us! I’d like to a special thank you extend to and Lori Chris Montezon, our seemsthat eachyear goesbyIt noexception. faster thisyear andfaster; was certainly Ican’t believe A Holiday thePresident Message from Society! German-American year asMiss wonderful continue to have a Julie, we hopeyou people. Congratulations, and meetingmany new eventsweekend every is enjoying attending area, intheMilwaukee and Societies the German Julie has already begun —JuliePatton!Club Member 2016—andUDoM Society German-American Miss essay-winners, as well as the crowning of the new dance deliciousfood, performances, wonderful Schwabenhof. wasThe spent with afternoon celebrated Day German-American at the 2nd, the On October United States. immigrationGerman-American andculture inthe Dayas German-American to celebrate andhonor President 6th proclaimed Reagan Ronald October colonies. yearsThree-hundred thisday, after in1983, American intheoriginal Settlement thirteen German on to found Germantown, Pennsylvania, thefirst families landedinPhiladelphia. These familieswent commemorates theday in1683when13German Tag, 6th and on October is nationally observed Day,German-American or Deutsch-Amerikanischer Day German-American German American Societies Societies American German her year representing May Peace,Joy,HopeandHappiness be yoursduringthisHolidaySeason Citizens. FüreinegutezusammenArbeit May youhavethehappinessofsimple this year and we look forward this yearand welookforward und Freundschoftfürjungalt. and throughouttheNewYear! Thank you for your support Thank youforyoursupport Wünschen vonHerzendieSenior to sharing 2017withyou! to sharing pleasures attheholidaysandall We wouldlike towishyou The Frauen & Jaegers The Frauen &Jaegers George &ErnaScherer and HappyNewYear. and theSchwabenhof a Merry Christmas Christmas Merry through theyear. sympathies go out to the families the Jugendgruppe Tidings of Joy It is hard to believe the end of the year and the Christmas holiday is just around the corner! We are so thankful for the support our group received throughout the year from of our UDoM Board, Club Members, family and friends. Our Maiball 2016 was a success and it is always great to see so many familiar faces at all of our performances. I know 2017 will be an even busier year. Our Jugend dancers will be getting ready for the 2017 Labor Day Jugend competition in Cincinnati Ohio. We are trying to win first place for a third competition in a row! Be on the lookout for new dances, marches and songs as we perform throughout all of next year. I would like to say thank you to all of the Jugend dancers and their parents for their dedication, support and time they gave to our dance group and club this year. On behalf of myself, my Co-Leaders Mark and Jenny Mayer, Singing Director Kristel Geyer and all the Jugendgruppe dancers, we would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! See you all next year! Kinder Korner - Carol Gdula, Jugendgruppe Director The kinder group has had a very lively year! Within the past few months, we had our trick-or- treat practice — the kinder had some awesome The 73rd Annual Holiday Folk Fair International costumes and had a great time dressing up! As for Holiday Folk Fair International, America’s premier multicultural festival and a program Folk Fair, the kids did an amazing job performing from the International Institute of Wisconsin, celebrates the cultural heritage of and it was a great way to end the year strong! We the people living in southeastern Wisconsin. This year’s theme was “Celebrate the currently have 55 children in the group and with Culture of Water,” which the Donauschwaben do all too well! Our Kinder, Jugend, our oldest at 10 years old, nobody is moving up to and Kulturgruppe had a combined total of 20+ performances over the three-day the youth group quite yet. event. We also had many wonderful volunteers working our very popular food On behalf of the Kindergruppe leaders, our booth, where we sold our famous potato pancakes, goulash, Hungarian bratwurst, Assistant Leaders Moni Weil, Katlin Schmieder and schnitzel and 1000’s of beautiful cookies! Thank you to all of our volunteers and Megan Brunner, members, and families, we would dancers who turned out to make the 2016 Holiday Folk Fair another successful year. like to wish you all a Frohe Weihnachten & veil - Article Submitted by Julie Patton Glück im Neuen Jahr!! - Kari Bruckbacher & Gina Walcher Kindergruppe Directors Word List: NEUJAHR ADVENT NIKOLAUS CHRISTKIND NUSSKNACKER Happy Holidays from the Kulturgruppe RENTIER ENGEL I would like to thank the Kultur members for their FROHE RUDOLF GESCHENK SCHAF hard work this past year. Special thanks to those GLOCKE SCHNEE who supported our group thoughout the year and HEILIG SINGEN attended our Traubenfest. We are very grateful! JESULEIN STERN We look forward to the New Year. On behalf of the KONIG STILLENACHT Kulturgruppe,we wish everyone a Merry Christmas STOCKING KRANZ and a Happy Healthy New Year! MARZIPAN TANNENBAUM MUSIK WEIHNACHT - Karen Schmieder, Kulturgruppe Director

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