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SGAS in New Ulm

2004

The 28th Annual Symposium

April 22-25, 2004


Thirty-Six Years SGAS

SPONSORING INSTITUTIONS

Alexander Berghold Memorial Committee
Brown County Historical Society
City of New Ulm
German-American Fellowship Association Holiday Inn New Ulm
Junior Pioneers of New Ulm and Vicinity
Martin Luther College
MN Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German
Minnesota Humanities Commission
New Ulm Chamber of Commerce
New Ulm Convention and Visitors Bureau
New Ulm Turnverein
St. Olaf College


PROGRAM BROCHURE

LaVern Rippley


LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS

Jenny Eckstein
Darla Gebhard
Arnold Koelpin
Paul Kretsch
Robert Paulson
Renée Retzlaff
Colleen Stotzheim
Denis Warta


SGAS in New Ulm
28th Annual Symposium
April 22-25, 2004



ARRANGEMENTS


Location
The 2004 SGAS Symposium will be held at the Holiday Inn, 2101 South Broadway, New Ulm, MN 56073. Room rate for those attending the Symposium is $66.99 for any number of persons. For reservations, contact the Holiday Inn directly at (877) 359-2941 or by mail to Reservations Desk, New Ulm Holiday Inn, 2101 South Broadway, New Ulm, MN 56073-0597. Blocks of rooms will be held at this rate until April 1. You may also contact Super 8, $50.00, (507) 359-2400 or Microtel, $55.00, (507) 354-9800. These two motels are across the street from the Holiday Inn.


Transportation
To reach the Holiday Inn from the north:
Take 169 South to St. Peter, 99 to Nicollet and continue from this east direction on U.S. Highway 14 to New Ulm, left on Highway 37 to the Holiday Inn.

From the west: Take U.S. 14, then south on Broadway to the Holiday Inn.

From the south: Take U.S. 15 out of Iowa to the south end of New Ulm, Holiday Inn.


Meals
Banquet 1 is Friday evening, April 23, at 6:30 in Turner Hall. Welcome addresses followed by entertainment provided by the Concord Singers. Award presentations by the SGAS. Menu: Stuffed pork chop, German potato salad, cole slaw to pass, pea and cheese salad, applesauce, rolls, apple strudel and German chocolate cake, coffee. $20.00

Luncheon SGAS Business Meeting is Saturday, April 24, at noon (poolside). Menu: pasta buffet-—3 hot pasta dishes, cold pasta salad, lettuce salad with fixings, garlic bread, coffee. $15.00

Banquet 2 is Saturday evening, April 24, 6:30 in Holiday Inn. Short program, entertainment by German-Bohemian Heritage Singers. Menu: Chicken Cordon Bleu, wild rice, glazed carrots, tossed salad, rolls, coffee & small crème puffs drizzled with chocolate sauce, $20.00.


Registration
Participants and attendees may pre-register using the form in the back of this program. Registration in advance is free through the Chamber of Commerce, but is $10.00 at the door. All participants and attendees are expected to register and wear a badge for all functions. The registration table is located in the main lobby of the Holiday Inn. It is open from 5:00-7:30 on Thursday evening, April 22; on Friday from 8:00-4:00; and on Saturday from 8:30-11:30.

Gemütliches Beisammensein with Schell’s Faß (draft) beer at poolside German Café, Holiday Inn, from 7:00-9:00 p.m. on Thursday evening, April 22. Sponsored by German-Bohemian Heritage Society.


SGAS Executive Committee Meting
Thursday, April 22, 2:00-5:00 p.m. in the Board Room of the Holiday Inn.


Displays and/or Archives Booth
Located in L-shaped hall or “German Café” area of the Holiday Inn.


Tours
Saturday, 2:00-5:00, $10.00 per person per event.
Refreshments and free tour of Schell’s Brewery.

1. Cemetery tour and Berghold Way of the Cross
2. Museums of New Ulm: Brown County Historical Museum, Music Hall of Fame and walking tour of German-Bohemian monument
3. City tour


Friday. Visit Hermann Heights. The Detmold replica has been lowered for repairs. On April 23, there will be the dedication of a new plaque describing the refurbished statue. SGAS symposium attendees are invited to attend the ceremony on April 23 at 5:30 – car pool on your own. Go north on Broadway to Center Street, left up to Hermann Heights. Great photo opportunity next to the ground-level statue.



THE PROGRAM – Sessions

Friday, April 23, 8:30-9:15 a.m.
Plenary Session. Peter Wells, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota.
The Original Battle of Hermann the Cherusker, 9/9/9 A.D.

9:30 - 11:00 a.m.

Religion – Moselle Room
Moderator: William Keel
1. William O’Malley, Independent Scholar
History of a Family Bible, 1685-2000: A Quest for the Missing Link

2. William Petig, Stanford University
The First Moravian Missions in the Midwest

3. Tim Hoheisel, Kansas State University
On Earth as it is in Heaven: The Influence of Father Xavier Pierz on the Settlement of Central Minnesota, 1852-1889

Politics – Danube Room
Moderator: Margrit Krewson, Retired Librarian, Library of Congress
1. Petra DeWitt, University of Missouri-Columbia
Searching for the Meaning of Loyalty: A Study of the German-American Experience During WWI in Osage County, MO

2. Kevin Grace, University of Cincinnati
Indian Clubs and German-American Health Promotion During the Progressive Era

3. Karl Hausner, Hausner Foundation
The 1938 Munich Agreement, Delayed Justice or Appeasement?

Missions – Rhine Room
Moderator: William Roba
1. Donald Durnbaugh, Retired Professor, Juniata College
Holy Cow: The Unlikely Development of a Highly Recognized Voluntary Agency – Heifer International

2. Anthony Richter, South Dakota State University
Father Eugene Buechel and the Lakota Sioux

3. Linda Pickle, Western Kentucky University
A Pious German Catholic in St. Joseph, MN


Friday, April 23
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Music – Moselle Room
Moderator: Volker Schmeissner
 1. Jacob Erhardt, Retired Professor
The Art of Max Beckmann

2. Ann Reagan, Professor, Music and Humanities, U.S. Air Force Academy
German-American Contributions

3. Charles Barber, Emeritus, NE Illinois University-Chicago
German-American Composers and WWI Roxanne Owens

Migration – Danube Room.
Moderator: Don Heinrich Tolzmann
1. Walter Kamphoefner, Texas A&M University
Migration Selectivity on Two Continents

2. Gregory Wolf, Saint Louis University
Adelbert Heinrich Count Baudissin and German Immigration

3. Linda Fisher, Independent Scholar
Immigration in Disguise: Agnes Mersman Lake

Linguistics – Rhine Room.
Moderator: Randall Donaldson
1. William Keel, University of Kansas
Linguistic Atlas of Kansas German Dialects

2. Michael Putnam, University of Kansas
Bradley Weis, University of Kansas
Recessive Features or Phonological Nuances?

3. Myra Hillburg, Downey High School, Downey, CA
German Made in America

Friday, April 23
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.

Turners – Moselle Room
Moderator: Mary Seeger
1. Lucille Stegeman, New Ulm Turnverein, Inc.
History of New Ulm Turnverein and Frauenverein and their Impact on the Founding of the City of New Ulm

2. Eberhard Reichmann, Max Kade German-American Center, IUPUI
An Ulmer Turns Turner in Indianapolis: Theodore Stempfel (1863-1935)

3. Dr. Gertrude Pfister, University of Copenhagen
Gymnasts as the Other Sex-—the Development of Women’s Turnen in Germany (1880-1914)

Publishing – Danube Room
Moderator: William Seeger
1. Cynthia Miller, Independent Scholar
German Immigrant Press in the Midwest

2. J. Gregory Redding, Wabash College
Literary Societies in German-American Civic Life: Der Deutsche Literarische Klub von Cincinnati

3. Susan Frizzell, Independent Scholar
Goldader: Mining Both German and English for Poetic Potential

Biography – Rhine Room
Moderator: Walter Kamphoefner
1. Don Heinrich Tolzmann, University of Cincinnati
Indian Uprising

2. Martha Lockhart Nodine, Independent Scholar
Meeting Dorothy Dehner: Oral History and Biography

3. Dr. Katja Rampelmann, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Women in the German-American Freethinker Movement

Friday, April 23
3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Education – Moselle Room
Moderator: Gerald R. Gems
 1. Paul Fessler, Dordt College
Back to the Future: Comparing New Ulm’s Bilingual Education Program to Contemporary Bilingual Programs

2. Gabriel Lunte, Washburn University
Lisa Mays, University of Kansas
The Low German of Old Colony Mennonite Children

3. Dr. Annette Hofmann, Universität Münster
Between Exercise Classes and Ladies Auxiliaries: Female Turners in the United States

Neighborhoods – Danube Room
Moderator: William Petig
1. Terry Sveine, P. S. Publishing
Our Unknown Neighbors: Luxembourgers in Brown County

2. Robert Frizzell, Northwest Missouri State University
German Farmers in Little Dixie: Hannoverians and their Slave- Holding Neighbors in Missouri

3. Maurice Conner – Emeritus, University of Nebraska-Omaha
The Other New Ulm: A German Community in Texas

German Bohemians – Rhine Room
Moderator: Elfa Dona
1. Franz Soural, Independent Scholar
The Sudetens in Canada

2. Julie L’Enfant, Professor, Art-History
Nostalgic Landscapes: Anton and Wanda Gag

3. Continued

Dichterlesungen – Tyrolean Room
Moderator: Jerry Glenn
Christiane Seiler, Lisa Kahn, Geertje Potash-Suhr, Edith Borchardt, Ingeborg Carsten-Miller

View Hermann statue on the ground – arrange your own car pool. Broadway north, left on Center Street. Photo opportunity at 5:30 – followed by Banquet in Turner Hall (State and Center Street) at 6:30.

Saturday, April 24
8:00 – 9:30 a.m.

Minnesota and Iowa Germans – Moselle Room
Moderator: Jake Erhardt
1. Tammy Johnson, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville
Anti-German Sentiment in Minnesota During the Great War

2. Lisa A. S. Black, Independent Scholar
New Ulm: Germany in Minnesota

3. Carl Heinz Most, Retired German Teacher
Dr. Clair Blong, President, St. Lucas Historical Society
Lorraine Bodensteiner Kuennen, St. Lucas Historical Society
German-American Village of St. Lucas, Iowa

History – Danube Room
Moderator: Franziska Ott Allen
1. Richard Trost, Independent Scholar
Michael Reu

2. Robert Paulson, German-Bohemian Heritage Society
The Sudeten Germans and Czechs, History, Facts and Perspectives: A Challenge for Europe. Video.

3. Continued

Song – Rhine Room
Moderator: J. Gregory Redding
1. Charles Barber, Emeritus, NE Illinois University-Chicago
Still Singing auf Deutsch: The Rheinischer Gesang Verein [RGV] of Chicago, 1933-Present

2. Joseph Meyer, Historian, Concord Singers
The Concord Singers

3. Scott Seeger, University of Kansas
Heimatbestimmung

Saturday, April 24
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon

German Bohemians, Heimat – Moselle Room
Moderator: Arnold Koelpin
1. Robert Paulson, German-Bohemian Heritage Society
Unser Schönes Heimatland, Our Beautiful Homeland.” Video.

2. Continued

3. Continued

German Bohemians, Word and Clothing – Danube Room
Moderator: Giles Hoyt
1. Karen Hobbs, Independent Scholar
German-Bohemian Folk Dress Traditions

2. Continued

3. Paul Kretsch, Independent Scholar
Böhmish, The New Ulm German-Bohemian Dialect

German-Bohemian Immigrants – Rhine Room
Moderator: Dolores Hoyt
1. Linda Therkelsen, Independent Scholar
German-Bohemian Immigration from South Bohemia to St. Paul, MN

2. Robert Paulson, German-Bohemian Heritage Society
Franz Massopust, German-Bohemian Pathfinder and Founder of of New Ulm, “A Tragic Family Saga”

3. Continued

Sunday, April 25
7:00–9:30 Breakfast Buffet, Holiday Inn, $9.95

9:30–11:00 Waldler Messe, Trinity Cathedral. 605 No. State St.
The Messe will be sung in the original Bohemian/Bavarian dialect by the Böhmerwald Singers of St. Paul.

1:00–5:00 German-Bohemian Heritage Society Spring Dance. Turner Hall. 102 South State, New Ulm. Featuring local concertina and other musicians. Complimentary snacks, cash bar.
Admission $5.00.

SGAS Membership Form Symposium Registration Form
Program Questions
La Vern J. Rippley
SGAS Coordinator
St. Olaf College
1520 St. Olaf Avenue
Northfield, MN 55057
E-mail: rippleyl@stolaf.edu 		Registration Questions
Jenny Eckstein
New Ulm Chamber of Commerce
1 North Minnesota Street
New Ulm, MN 56073
(507) 233-4300
E-Mail: jeckstein@newulmtel.net


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