Delaware Sängerbund and Library Assn., Inc.Wilhelm Hauff novella for the screen. The romantic story is set in the forest region of the Spessart with Schloss Mespelbrunn as background

Delaware Sängerbund and Library Assn., Inc. 49 Salem Church Road Newark, Delaware 19713 Founded 1853 Phone: (302) 366-9454 Incorporated 1924 Web Site: http://www.delawaresaengerbund.org

March 2020 Newsletter

The Next General Membership Meeting will be held 8:00PM on

Monday, March 9th, 2020

A Message from our President: Freunde, With Spring comes property clean-up. I would ask over the next months or so that you consider coming out on a work day and help us take care of this beautiful facility. Technical skills are not necessary to maintain our grounds and building and keep it at a level of excellence. Let Richard know you are willing to help. The next few weeks offer an opportunity to enjoy entertainment and food to your heart’s desire. Sign up and attend any or all of these great offerings by the Entertainment Committee, EVTG, Ladies, and House Committee. See you there! Tschüß, Don Sturmfels, President

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February 2020 Special Elections:

Congratulations to Monica Elischer for being elected into the Membership Secretary

position for the 2020-2022 term!

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DSB Committee Chairs, please have your newsletter postings submitted

for the March 2020 Newsletter by Friday, March 13th, 2020

To have information or a flyer posted in the newsletter, on the Delaware Sängerbund’s Facebook page, or in an email blast,

please contact the Communications Secretary, Morgan Schulz, at [email protected]

Thank you!

mailto:[email protected]

Delaware Sängerbund and Library Assn., Inc.

Singers Come out and join the Singers as they rehearse and prepare their spring programs! They will travel to the Cannstatter in Philadelphia on Sunday, March 1 to join other choruses in a Liederabend of song and fellowship. The bus will leave the DSB at 2:00p.m. and return by 9:00p.m. There may be extra bus seats for interested members so check with Dr. Fritts for availability.

The Delaware Saengerbund’s 167th Stiftungsfest (Anniversary) will be held on Saturday, March 21 at 7:30p.m. All members are encouraged to join in the celebration of our club as the oldest continuing ethnic club in Delaware. The Singers (Saenger) are preparing a special program and invite you to come and enjoy their voices in song.

A quote about songs by a Netsilik Eskimo named Orpingalik offers an interesting perspective: “Songs are thoughts sung out with the breath when people are moved by great forces and ordinary speech no longer suffices”. If you enjoy singing, join the chorus on Wednesday evenings at 7:30p.m.

Ladies of the D.S.B.

The Ladies will be doing Friday night food on February 28th, the first Friday of Lent. The menu will be grilled cheese, soup and dessert. We will also be serving food at Stiftungsfest on March 21st. Please come out and support the Ladies for these 2 events.

The Ladies are planning their annual trip on Wednesday April 29th. Destination will be a stop at Kitchen Kettle shops in Intercourse PA, then on to Dutch Apple Dinner Theater for lunch and a show, Guys and Dolls and our final stop on the way home will be for wine tasting at Britain Hill Winery in Quarryville. Please see Ann Schmalbach, AnnMarie Blaasch or Judy Ariganello for more details if you are interested in joining us.

If you would like to find out some more about the Ladies and what we do in the kitchen, you can volunteer to help out at one of the General Meetings. Men are welcome to help too. If you would like to help us, please see AnnMarie Blaasch or Judy Ariganello. Also, we always welcome new members so come to one of our monthly meetings. Our next meeting is Monday March 30th at 7:30 pm in the VSR. April meeting will be on April 27th.

Judy Ariganello, President - Ladies of the DSB

DSB PROPERTY COMMITTEE

MEETING – MONDAY, MARCH 2, 2020, 7:30 PM – DSB LIBRARY

WORKDAY – SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 2020 – 8:30 AM


Enzian Volkstanzgruppe

Thank you to all of you who attended the Sweethearts Dinner on February 16th!

Join us on Thursday nights for both Children and Adults’ practice.

Children begin rehearsing at 7:30 PM and the Adults begin at 8:30 PM.

Meetings are the first Thursday of the month at 8:00pm in the von Steuben Zimmer.

Good Luck to our Kindergruppe members participating in the Mid-Atlantic Jugend Einzel

on Saturday, March 7th at the Lancaster Liederkranz, hosted by the

Alpenrose Schuhplattler Verein of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Germanic Genealogy Group

Meetings of the Genealogy Group take place on Sunday afternoons in the von Steuben Room. They will begin at 3:15 pm. Meetings are open to all members. We invite you to attend our programs. March 15, Sunday 3:15 pm - Lloyd Maier will share efforts to connect with a Genealogy Group in Germany. The idea is to create a relationship where information can be exchanged to the benefit of both groups. April 19, Sunday 3:15 pm – We will look at Emigrant documentations – both exit and entrance paper required – considering all import sites in USA and export sites in Europe. There is no leader. Come and share what knowledge you have of your family and their travels to be in America. We also invite you to tell of and perhaps show items that your immigrants took the trouble to bring with them, and that still are treasured by the family.


Celebrating 30 years of Reunification of Germany

Deutschland: Bundesländer Germany's 16 Federal States

October 2020 celebrates the 30th anniversery of the Reunification of Germany. Most of Germany's 16 Bundesländer (states) are relatively new creations, formed after 1945, and then reformed with some alterations at the time of the reunification.

Saarland – The smallest of the Bundesländer in Germany. It borders Luxembourg and France. It was actually under French control after WWII until 1957.

Culture Committee

Sunday, March 29, at 3:30 p.m. in the Library “Das Wirtshaus im Spessart” Kurt Hoffmann, known for the many movies he directed in the 1950s, adapted the Wilhelm Hauff novella for the screen. The romantic story is set in the forest region of the Spessart with Schloss Mespelbrunn as background. In color, German with English subtitles, starring Liselotte Pulver and Carlos Thompson in the title roles. Be sure to see the two flyers about the upcoming bus trip to the Kutztown Folk Festival! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

KIDS EASTER PARTY Saturday April 4th, 2020 – 1-3 PM in the Deutsche Halle

Please bring your own basket for the egg hunt!

Sign up by March 29, 2020 using this tear-off form or emailing [email protected]

Name: Age:

DSB Member Name:

Phone Number: Number of Adults Attending:



Doors Open:

6:30 PM








Kutztown Folk Festival—Yoder’s Bus Trip The Kutztown Folk Festival is a 9-day event and we’re going to be visiting it on its first day, Saturday, June 27th. We’ll leave DSB’s parking lot at 8:00 a.m. via a Wertz Motor Coach arriving in Kutztown a little after 10:00 a.m., rain or shine. We’ll be there for almost 3 hours checking out their quilts and other handmade items, the entertainment, the food, and listening to their Pennsylvania Dutch dialect, actually a mix of English-Deutsch language. Then we’ll hop back on our air-conditioned bus at 1:00 p.m. and head towards Yoder’s in New Holland, PA, at about 2:00 p.m. for either a delicious smorgasbord all you can eat lunch or an a la carte menu selection. Once you’ve finished eating, instead of sitting around, you might want walk off lunch and visit their country store. We’ll leave Yoder’s Restaurant & Buffet at about 3:45 p.m. and arrive at DSB by 5:00 p.m. The DSB-subsidized trip includes the bus trip and admission to the Kutztown Festival for $10 per member. Non-members are $15. Food is at your own expense, including at Yoder’s. Due to the very reasonable pricing of this trip, we expect seats to sell out quickly. To reserve your seat(s), please call Don Thureau on his cellphone at (302) 897-4568. If no answer, please leave a voicemail message with your name, phone number and number of seats. Don will call you back to confirm the reservation. Payment will be requested as you board the bus. For expediency purposes, cash only, and please have exact change for this trip. Your $10 (or $15) per seat will be your admission on the bus. Please be on time. If you need to cancel your reservation, please let Don know ASAP since we will likely have a waiting list. If you do not cancel and are a “no-show,” you will be asked to send a check payable to DSB, and mailed to the DSB, to the attention of the Culture Committee. Thank you for your understanding.

This trip is organized by the Delaware Saengerbund’s

Culture Committee and sanctioned by the Board of Directors


Calendar of Events:

Date: Day: Event: Time: Place:

05 MAR THU CULTURE COMMITTEE MEETING 7:30 PM Boardroom

07 MAR SAT DELAWARE STATE POLICE PIPES & DRUMS FUNDRAISER 5:00 PM Deutsche Halle

09 MAR MON GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING 8:00 PM Deutsche Halle

14 MAR SAT CORNAMUSA USA 7:00 PM Deutsche Halle

15 MAR SUN GERMANIC GENEALOGY GROUP MEETING 3:15 PM von Steuben Room

17 MAR TUE ST. PATRICKS DAY PARTY 12:00 PM Bauernstube

21 MAR SAT DSB STIFTUNGSFEST 6:30 PM Deutsche Halle

29 MAR SUN “Das Wirtshaus im Spessart” 3:30 PM Library

30 MAR MON LADIES OF THE DSB MEETING 7:30 PM von Steuben Room

04 APR SAT KIDS EASTER PARTY 1:00 PM Deutsche Halle

05 APR SUN SKAT TOURNAMENT 9:00 AM von Steuben Room

13 APR MON GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING 8:00 PM Deutsche Halle

19 APR SUN GERMANIC GENEALOGY GROUP MEETING 3:13 PM von Steuben Room

27 APR MON LADIES OF THE DSB MEETING 7:30 PM von Steuben Room

29 APR WED LADIES BUS TRIP TBA

02 MAY SAT SINGERS SPRING CONCERT 2:00 PM Deutsche Halle

01 JUNE MON LADIES OF THE DSB MEETING 7:30 PM von Steuben Room

06 JUNE SAT MID ATLANTIC KINDERFEST TBA DSB Grounds

27 JUNE SAT KUTZTOWN FOLK FESTIVAL BUS TRIP 8:00 AM DSB Parking Lot

29 JUNE MON LADIES OF THE DSB MEETING 7:30 PM von Steuben Room

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Delaware Sängerbund 49 Salem Church Road

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Delaware Sängerbund and Library Assn., Inc.Wilhelm Hauff novella for the screen. The romantic story is set in the forest region of the Spessart with Schloss Mespelbrunn as background