February 2015 - German American Club

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The officers for 2015 were sworn in during the Officers Ball on January 10th.
They are Miguel Mata, president; Mark Meadows, vice president; Christine
Philips, finance director; and Kathy Wilds, executive secretary.
Please be sure to join us this month for
Kaffeeklatsch—Feb 1 Page 4
Masken Ball/Damen Ball —Feb 8 Page 8
Kehraus—Feb 17 Page 6
Roaring 20’s Ball—Feb 28 Page 9
The 2015 Officers and Board
Jay Vandersloot
Steve Borbas
Miguel Mata
Mark Meadows
Kathy Wilds
Christine Philips
John Waldrop
Michael Begay
Walter Kirsch
Chairman of the Board
Vice Chairman
President
Vice-President
Executive Secretary
Financial Director
Director-at-Large
Director-at-Large
Director-at-Large
362-1733
265-7088
620-3666
296-1328
265-2082
710-3972
298-5893
304-1668
296-7980
The 2015 Committee Chairs and Coordinators
Kay Blemel
Membership Input:
Kathe Mirabal
Alex Mirabal
Open Position
Gloria Casale
Membership
293-5620
kay_blemel@mgtsciences.com
German Culture
836-6182
German Culture co-chair
205-3793
Entertainment Contracts
Functions Coordinator
286-8567
gloria.casale@gmail.com
514-7185
John Waldrop
Newsletter Editor & Web
298-5893
Newsletter Input:
gacmagazine@live.com
NOTE: Deadline for Newsletter Input: 15th of each Month
Other Positions and Associate Groups
Miguel Mata
Kenny Blemel
Rosalie Pfeiffer
Open Position
Carolyn McKenna
Luisa Gignac
Kathe Mirabal
Norita Callahan
Kathe Mirabal
Steve Borbas
Edith Henderson
Norita Callahan
Casey Denhollander
Past President
Elferrat Chair
Greeting Cards
Volksdance Teacher
Decorating Coordinator
Decorating
Kaffeeklatsch
Irish American Society Rep
Front Door Coordinator
Hungarian Club Rep
St. Andrew Scottish Society
Dinner Ticket Sales-GAC
Rio Grand Jazz Society
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620-3666
991-6997
299-3951
298-4555
881-4847
836-6182
298-2708
836-6182
265-7088
798-9422
298-2708
266-3148
Voice of the President
Dear Members,
Getting ready to leave for GAMGA so this will be short.
Despite the cold weather, we gave a warm welcome to 2015 at our
New Year’s Eve party.
We had great food and lots of great music and dancing. Thank you all
for braving the elements to welcome in the New Year with your friends
and fellow members.
Thanks, also, to those who attended the Officer’s Ball. A good number
of you turned out to congratulate and welcome your officers for 2015.
We have a good group of people and I think 2015 will be a good year.
Help us make it so.
Coming up in February, we have Masken Ball/ Damen Ball on the 14th
with Jim Brauer and Die Schuncken Bub’n followed by Kerhaus on the
17th with Walter Kirsch providing music for your listening pleasure.
Please join Prince Jens and Princess Britt in celebrating the last two
Fasching events for 2015.
Also, in February, we have the Roaring 20’s Ball on the 28th featuring
Joe Sais and Showcase. Check your magazine for details of these and
other upcoming functions.
See, I told you this would be short. I’ll be back next month with a report on the festivities of GAMGA (wait-- what happens in ‘Vegas, stays
in ‘Vegas). See you at the club.
Miguel Mata
Sent from Windows Mail
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Kaffeeklatsch
The kaffeeklatsch will be held on Sunday, February 1st this month at
3pm. Call Kathe Mirabal at 836-6182 if you wish to participate.
Thank you for all the kind thoughts and beautiful cards I received while
I was in the hospital. Hope to see you at the kaffeeklatsch.
Kathe Mirabal
“Calling all Dancers”
It’s time to start thinking about Vienna Ball on April 11th. We
will again be performing Die Fledermaus, the Polonaise, and,
hopefully, a few new dances. I need a minimum of 8 couples and
a maximum of 20 couples. You don’t have to be a professional
dancer, but knowing and understanding basic commands such
as right and left and forward and back would be helpful. You
must also be able to commit to the 8 or 9 practices starting in
February.
If you are interested or have questions, please call me, Sheri
Kraemer, at 271-2634 or 620-7768. We will meet at the club on
Monday, February 2nd at 7pm to go over general information
and to set up times and dates for practice.
I thoroughly enjoyed last year and look forward to working with
all of you again this year.
Sheri Kraemer
OOPS!
The following attendees at the Royal Ball were inadvertently left out of
the January newsletter:
1974-1975 Arthur Barrett
1980-1981 Dennis and Rosalie Pfeiffer
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We Send Cards!
Please notify Rosalie Pfeiffer, at 299-3951,
if you know of any Club Member who should receive a
greeting card, i.e., get well, sympathy, congratulations, etc.
Cultural Exchange Library
The bookcases in the hallway hold the
library contents.
Donations of cultural books,
videos and DVDs will gladly be accepted.
Borrowing will be on an honor
basis. If you borrow from the library please
return the items in a timely fashion
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Come witness the demise of Prinze
Jens Peters
and support his lovely Prinzess Britt
in her quick recovery afterwards
Ceremony will commence at 7pm
Meal served from 5:30-7:00pm
Chef Surprise
For only $10.00
First Come First Serve
Please make checks payable to
Elferrat
No reservation needed
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GAC Prizengarde members in the North American Garde Group
Hyunju Blemel (1st on end left back row),
Lauren Kelley.(2nd from the end left back row)
and Katie Begay (4th from left back row)
For more on GAMGA see pages 14-16
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German American Club
Damenball/Maskenball
Saturday, February 14th
Door Fee: Members $10
Music by: Swing Shift
From 7:00 ‘til 11:00
Meal prepared by Miguel Mata and Bruce Miller
MENU
Normandy Chicken
Smashed Potatoes
Vegetables
Salad
Dessert
Meal Served from: 5:30 to 6:45PM
Meal $10.00 per person
Attire: Costume or Smart Casual
Please make meal reservations by
February 11th, call 888-4833
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German American Club
Roaring 20’s Ball
Saturday, February 28th
Door Fee: Members $10
Music by: Showcase
From 7:00 ‘til 11:00
Meal Served from: 5:30PM to 6:45 PM
Prepared by Sheri Kraemer & Miguel Mata
MENU
Onion marinated
Potato croquettes
Vegetable
Salad
Dessert
Meal: $10 per person
Please make meal reservations by
Wednesday, February 25th
888-4833
Attire: Smart casual or costume
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Upcoming Activities
Events and Dates are Subject to change
March
3rd Goodbye Dinner—Elferrat
8th 1848 Hungarian Revolution
10th Elferrat Meeting
14th St. Pat’s Day—Jim Brauer
28th Western Night—Paul Pino
April
4th Private Party-Madie M
11th Vienna Ball—Jim Brauer
25th Fiesta—Paul Pino
May
2nd Maifest—Swingshift
16th Sock Hop—Showcase
July
18th Luau—Roger Burns
August
8th Member Appreciation—
Showcase
9th St. Stephan’s Day
15th Private Party—Madie M
22nd End of Summer Bash—
Paul Pino
September
5th Winefest—Swingshift
19th 50th Anniversary Party—
Jim Brauer
June
6th Strawberry Fest—Swingshift
7th Hungarian Picnic
13th Private Party-Madie M
20th TBD
Jazz Sunday
February 15th, 2:00 pm ‘til 5:30 pm
GAC Members Welcome!
Join us for some great music & dancing!
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ESSEN UND SPRECHEN
This month we will gather at 6:30pm on the second
Wednesday, February 11th, for our monthly Essen und
Sprechen Treffen (gathering) at the Haru Restaurant (Japanese,
Sushi, Chinese) 1035 Juan Tabo Boulevard Northeast,
Albuquerque, NM 87112, 505-200-9253 (which is on the west
side of the street a little north of Lomas, and is across from
Wendy’s). Those at the dinner each month vote on where to
go the following month. In January we had 13 in attendance.
Come join together at our monthly Essen und Sprechen
practice your German and socialize over dinner in German
(with some English).
Please, PLEASE, reply by the prior Sunday, February 8th, to
Jay by email to JayVandersloot@yahoo.com or call at 505-362
-1733 to let us know whether you will be there, so we will
know how large of a table to reserve. With such large groups
as we have been having we need to reserve a table.
Cigar Evening
Maker’s and Macanudo
Friday February 27th
4pm—7pm
Bring your favorite cigar (BYOC)
And enjoy your favorite bourbon or
whiskey on this relaxing evening
We have Bushmills, Maker’s Mark,
Jim Beam, Wild Turkey and others
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Thank You to the 50 plus GAC Members and Associate Members for attending GAMGA 2015 at the Tuscany Suites and Casino in Las Vegas,
Nevada.
I am happy to report that we had the best representation of Edelweiss am Rio
Grande members and Associate Members to date for GAMGA
What did we do at GAMGA 2015, you ask?
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We kicked the weekend off with dancing. “ALL” GAC and Associate
members dressed in fiesta attire for the masquerade party. We won the
GAMGA 2015 Group Costume Contest !!!
 We celebrated with our Prinzenpaar and Prinzengarde as a group at the
Hofbrauhaus.
 We honored our GAC Karnival Group Prinzenpaar Jens and Britt Peters
and celebrated karnival in grand fashion
 Our very own GAC Prinzengarde led by Funkenmariechen Alexandra
Mirabal performed at their first GAMGA
 Dieter Fox was honored as the GAMGA Verdienstorden for 2015
 We took the opportunity to enjoy the sights and sounds of Las Vegas
throughout the weekend.
We had a great time celebrating in the 60 degree plus Las Vegas weather
Special Thank You to:
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GAC Karnival Group 2014 – 2015 Prinzenpaar Jens and Britt Peters
Everyone who attended and participated together as a group, making this a
Very Special weekend for Prinz Jens and Prinzess Britt Peters
 Junior Prinze Jacob Begay and Junior Prinzess Lauren Kelley for attending
 The GAC Prinzengarde for performing in Saturday evening’s events and
representing in the first ever North American Prinzengarde.
 Alexandra Mirabal (Funkenmariechen), Lauren Kelley, Aurora Genne,
Katie Begay, Alex Begay, Insun Blemel and Hyunju Blemel
 The GAC Mariachi Quartet - Bruce Miller, Peter and Insun Blemel, and
Albert Deimer You were instrumental in our winning the costume contest.
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John Waldrop for taking photos and allowing us time to submit for February’s
GAC newsletter.
Our next event is the Masken / Damen Ball on February 14th 2015.
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Music provided by our very own Jim Brauer.
Please RSVP early. (look for more info in this newsletter)
I encourage everyone to attend in business / formal attire with masks.
Looking forward to a great night.
Viva La Karnival,
Kenny Blemel
Elferrat Chairman
2014-2015
Winners of the Group Costume Contest
These and other GAMGA photographs may be seen on our website at www.edelweissgac.org
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Edelweiss Attendees at the 2015 GAMGA Festival
1.
Jens and Britt Peters (Prince and Princess)
2.
Jim and Carol Rehbein
3.
John & Karin Waldrop
4.
Norita Callahan
5.
Heidi Meisen
6.
Carol Meeks
7.
Rosalie Pfeiffer
8.
Fritz and Carol Eberhardt
9.
Bruce and Cindy Miller
10. Miguel Mata
11. Sherry Kramer
12. Ken and Kay Blemel
13. Maria Blemel
14. Peter and Okmi Blemel
15. Hyunju Blemel (Prinzengarde)
16. Insun Blemel (Prinzengarde)
17. Aurora Genne (Prinzengarde)
18. Alex Mirabal 2013- 2014 Princess (Funkenmariechen – Prinzengarde
Leader)
19. Michael and Kathleen Begay
20. Jacob Begay (Junior Prince 2014 – 2015, Prinzengarde)
21. Alex Begay (Prinzengarde)
22. Katie Begay (Prinzengarde)
23. Lauren Kelly (Junior Princess 2014-2015, Prinzengarde)
24. Gunter Reinke
25. Elisabeth Daddio
26. Dieter Fox
27. Irma Thacher
28. Kathy Mueller
29. Roland Mueller
30. Liz Frey
31. Carol Frey
32. Kenny Blemel
33. Sherry Tucker
34. Albert and Tricia Deimer
35. Paul Nigrey and Maggie Athaf (Drove up from Lake Havasu and joined in
the fun at Hofbrauhaus)
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Birthdays , Anniversaries, Membership
Geburtstage - Herren
(Men’s Birthdays)
Geburtstage-Damen
(Ladies’ Birthdays)
Sal (Celerino) Archuleta
Martina Bright
Art Barrett
Gloria Fischbach
Valentin Garcia
Lydia Hernandez
Larry Jones
Lillian Henson
Walter Liske
Diana E. Jiron
Wallace S. Muenzenberger Jr,
Dottie Kohler
Mel Perea
Breda Liske
William & Erik Rooyakkers
Vikki McCormack
Jeana Norris
Berta Parker
Rosalie Pfeiffer
Kathy Wilds
Anniversaries
Fred & Dona Absher
Jonathan & Sylwia Evans
Richard & Ottilie Golby
Membership : Updated
as of January 2015
Total
310
Males
148
Females 162
Couples
92
Singles
126
Life Members 14
Hans & Betty Lou Gonzales
Jens & Britt Peters
Charles & Rosalie Volz
John & Karin Waldrop
Hans & Lorraine Zahari
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Mon. thru Thur. Night
Friday Day
Friday Night
Saturday Day
Saturday Night.
Sunday Day Only
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Call Miguel at 620-3666
or
Michael at 304-1668
For more information
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Security
Use of Kitchen
Use of Linen Table Cloths
Cleaning
$135 extra per guard
$100 extra
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GAC member to rent the club.
If you have been a member for more than 3 years, you
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