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P U B L I S H E D B Y T H E U N I T E D G E R M A N - H U N G A R I A N S O F P H I L A D E L P H I A A N D V I C I N I T Y
VOLUME SIXTY-NINE | NUMBER 8 | OAKFORD, PENNSYLVANIA | AUGUST 2014
—STEUBEN PARADE BANQUET— Friday, September 26 | 7:00pm
At the Cannstatter Volksfest Verein 9130 Academy Road | Philadelphia, PA 19114
Live Music & Dancing
$55.00 per person
FOR RESERVATIONS AND INFO CONTACT: Kathi Noel | 215.368.3221
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—ECUMENICAL SERVICE— Saturday, September 27 | 10:00am
St. Matthew’s Church 3001 Cottman Avenue | Philadelphia, PA 19149
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—44th ANNUAL PARADE— Saturday, September 27 | 12:00 Noon
MAYFAIR SECTION OF PHILADELPHIA | FRANKFORD AVE.
FROM RHAWN ST. TO COTTMAN AVE
Appearances By:
MISS GERMAN-AMERICA, Luisa Martini AND HER COURT: 1st Princess, Danika Gottbrecht. 2nd Princess, Brittany Mann
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—LEGENDS OF SOCCER— German Hungarian Legends Bring Home a
Win in 2014 Exhibition Match On Saturday, August 2, the Legends of Soc-cer once again took the field. In Franklin Square, NY on the second field of the HOTA Bavarians at Plattduetsche Park, the Gemuet-lichen Enzianer hosted the German Hungarians for the traditional friendly soccer match be-tween friends. We arrived around 12:00pm and after a few snacks and some happy chitchat between the clubs, fans and players alike, the Legends stepped on the field to begin an exciting and competitive but fun soccer game. Though Gemuetlichen scored early on, both sides fought hard to win the game. In the end, the German Hungarians won the game with a score of 6-4. Following the match, both clubs shared a picnic in the HOTA Bavarians clubhouse area. Food and beverage were served and all en-joyed a great time. The German Hungarians would like to thank the Gemuetlichen Enzianer for hosting a great event and allowing us to be together in both sports competition and social friendship. We look forward to the next time!
HOSTED BY THE BAYERISCHER VOLKSFEST VEREIN & THE UNITED GERMAN -HUNGARIANS OF PHILADELPHIA AND VICINITY
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 GATES: 1:00pm | KITCHEN & BAR: 2:00pm -Joe Kroboth 3-7pm -Heimatklänge Orchestra 7-11pm -PLENTY OF ICE-COLD GERMAN BEER -MUSIC, DANCING & SOCCER ALL AFTERNOON
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 GATES: 12:00pm | KITCHEN & BAR: 1:00pm -The Jolly Bavarians 1-5pm -Heimatklänge Orchestra 5-9pm -PLENTY OF ICE-COLD GERMAN BEER -MUSIC, DANCING & SOCCER ALL AFTERNOON
ICE-COLD GERMAN BEER
—FEST SEASON COMMENCES— Coming off a great summer and having seen some great soccer has been fun for all I am sure! A great slogan developed by our Federation and our top U.S. league “for club and country” became the cry of clubs, ama-teur and professional, across this nation. As an afterthought, the slogan made me think of other reasons we do the things we do. The things we do outside of our daily lives. Think about it. For club, for country, it could be for tradition, for heritage, or just for fun with family and friends. The last is most important. When we were kids, they took us every-where. Sure, we danced here at the club for all the events, we played soccer here every week and it was important to attend every-thing. We learned not just the game or the traditions but we learned to become good young people. We were also taught to be proud of who we were. They made us un-derstand how important that reputation is.
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—KIRCHWEIHFEST—
Jetzt liewi Gäscht macht mir die Freid v’rgesst alli Sorche, Khummer un Neid feijert mit mir unser Kherweifescht un ruft mer zu aus vollem Hals ganz fescht
Buwe was hamm’r heit? KHERWEI!!!
-From Gustav J. Flanders' “Mir feijre…!”
Young people! Ask your parents and ask your grandparents to read you this poem and tell you about this fest. Then on the first of November you can experience it for your-self at our Kirchweihfest! We will celebrate!
Saturday, November 1
PERFORMANCES BY THE CULTURAL GROUP
IN BANATER SCHWABEN TRACHT
Decorated Rosmarein Strauss | “Spruch” by the Geld Herr
HEIMATKLÄNGE ORCHESTRA
THE MOST IMPORTANT TRADITIONAL GERMAN HUNGARIAN EVENT
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—MONTHLY PROGRESS— Founded by TED KERECZMANN† in 1946
Published by the United German-Hungarians of Philadelphia and Vicinity
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Editor: MICHAEL FRICKER
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President: JANET MALOFIY 14 Sugar Maple Lane | Horsham, Pennsylvania | 19044
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Closing Date for Next Month’s Issue:
AUGUST 20, 2014
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—ENCOURAGEMENT— A Word of Persuasion From WF Jr.
When you put on the uniform or the tracht, you could always look down at the GH crest on your chest and think of how proud you were just to be a part of this all. On Sept 27, we hold our Oktoberfest. The fest goes on through Sunday the 28. We ex-pect all to attend and continue the proud traditions of fun, great food and drink. The new soccer season kicks off with many games on our grounds. We also need your support of the Philly German-American Steuben Parade. Come participate with us and celebrate your pride of club and heritage! We are as a club deeply committed to the re-birth and future success of the parade. For those who are not able to march, we need you on the street in Mayfair. Bring a chair; wear your club colors or tracht. We as a club and a community need you as spectators to make the parade a success. I promise you that there will be great things coming of this parade and celebration in the future, but we need everyone’s support now to make that happen. And do not forget we all return together to the club, to celebrate Oktoberfest!
Werner Fricker Jr. Past President United German Hungarians
Vice Chairman Steuben Day Association
Parade information can be found online at: www.phila.steubenparade.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/phila.steubenparade
Twitter: www.twitter.com/PHILLYSteuben
Online Media: Philly Fun Guide: 44th Parade
Philly Fun Guide: 44th Banquet
MARCH FOR HERITAGE AND PRIDE! MARCH FOR FUN AND CULTURE!
—CLUB NIGHT-PATIO NIGHT— Join Us for Our Usual Fun & Camaraderie on
These Great Summer Nights!
PAVILIION BAR OPEN FOR BUSINESS FOOD AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE
MUSIC! | SOCCER! | FUN! |6:30pm Games will take place under the GH Stadium lights.
Please see www.ughsoccer.com for schedules.
Mark your Calendars for the Third Friday of Each Month!
Join Us On: Friday, August 15
Friday, September 19
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: Cindy Proll | 267.566.7239 | [email protected]
—WEEKLY SANDWICH BOARD—YOU GET A SANDWICH! YOU GET A SANDWICH!
SANDWICHES FOR EVERYONE! Active members will already know that the Kitchen Committee has begun a regular Tues-day night sandwich board served from 6:30pm in the clubhouse for $5.00. Chips and a pickle are included. Please see the website or our social media sites for menus. Or you can just stop by and be surprised!
—BAYERISCHER ECKE— Join the Bavarian Club for their dances, which begin at 7:00pm to 11:00pm unless stated otherwise. On Saturday, August 16 enjoy the Emil Schanta Band for the SOMMER NACHTS TANZ as you dance the summer night away. On Saturday, October 18, enjoy the HERBST TANZ, again with Emil Schanta. On Saturday, November 15, the Joe Weber Band will play music for the BUNTER ABEND and on Sunday, December 7, Maria and John will play music for the LADIES CHRISTMAS PARTY at 2:00pm. Reservations are necessary for this beautiful Christmas tradition. Wednesday, October 22 join them for the LADIES PENNY PARTY at 6:30pm. Sunday, October 26 we invite our members to attend the SEMI-ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING at 4:00pm.
—PICTURE OF THE MONTH—
Youth bond at Legends of Soccer. L to R: Karina Fricker, Stevie Paul, Mikaela Malofiy, Kristen Reiter, Elizabeth Killian & Brian Killian.
—U.S. ADULT SOCCER NEWS— USASA’s Region I Sweeps all 3 National Cups The National Cup Finals weekend is the culmination of a sometimes ten month long amateur soccer competition. In US Soccer, the National Cups are the responsibility of the United States Adult Soccer Association which is divided into four regions and fifty-four state associations. The US Amateur Cup, the Werner Fricker Open Cup and the Gerhard Mengel Over-30 Cup Champions for 2014 were three teams from Region I. Region I consists of fourteen state associations governing Connecticut, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, Mary-land, Massachusetts, Washington D.C., Vir-ginia, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont, and West Virginia. The 2014 National Cup Finals took place in Salt Lake City, Utah at Lone Peak Park and Rio Tinto Stadium during the weekend of July 25 through 27. This weekend the semi-finals and the finals of the three national cups were played. On July 26 Greek American Atlas of New York won the US Amateur Cup over Guadala-jara FC of Denver. The Greeks finished the final match with a score of 4-2. On July 27 the Maryland Bays won the Werner Fricker Open Cup with a score of 3-0 over Des Moines Menace. The Gerhard Mengel Over-30 Cup was won for the third straight year by Christos FC of Maryland with a score of 1-0 over Olympic FC. Congratulations to our fellow Region I teams on their success at the National Cups! —SCHEDULE OF EVENTS—
136th OKTOBERFEST—Sept. 27-28 -MUSIC, DANCING & SOCCER ALL AFTERNOON -ICE COLD BEER & HOT GERMAN FOOD
Rocktoberfest—October 11 -ROCK ON!
Schocktoberfest—October 25 -A HOLLOWEEN PARTY WILL BE SCHOCK-ING!
KIRCHWEIHFEST—November 1 -THE MOST IMPORTANT TRADITIONAL EVENT -CULTURAL GROUP IN BANATER TRACHT
Fall Penny Party—November 19 -WIN MANY PRIZES WITH THE WOMEN’S AUX.
Trachtenfest—November 29 -AN EVENING OF ETHNIC GERMAN PRIDE
Club Christmas Party—December 12 -A SPECIAL EVENT OF CHRISTMAS CHEER FEA-TURING OUR CULTURAL GROUP, A NATIVITY SCENE AND A VISIT FROM SANTA
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—GETTING TO KNOW YOU— Lest we forget that we are a social institu-tion, this featured column is presented. The German Hungarians are a community and a community requires members. In an effort to bring together our member-ship, staff writer Karina Fricker has taken upon herself the task of “Getting to Know You!” These short biographies will help us all to get to know one another better. Therefore, if you see one of these faces you did not know before stop, smile and say hello. You may make a new friend for life! MICHELLE PAUL, 21 is a very active member
of our Cultural and Schuhplattler groups. She currently attends Bloomsburg University, majoring in Early Childhood and Special Educa-tion. Michelle plans to be a teacher at an elementary school nearby after she grad-
uates. Although she lives at school, Michelle comes home for most events to support the club and to see her friends! Her parents Steve and Christina intro-duced Michelle to club life as a baby. Her father, Steve Paul, is the Chairman of the Board of Governors. He has worked on many committees throughout the years. Steve and Christina were also members of our soccer program and cultural groups during their youth and young adulthood. Michelle plays soccer for our German Hungarian Women, Fury, coached by Barry Harvey. This team won the United Soccer League of Pennsylva-nia Women’s Division 2013-2014 Champion-ship! We are proud of this team’s success and Michelle’s part in it! She and her younger brother, Stevie, age 16, have been involved in our club’s dance groups since childhood. Michelle describes everyone at the club as a family that will al-ways be there! We all love to spend time with each other, especially while dancing. In Cleveland, Ohio at Gaufest in the summer of 2013, Michelle and her Einzel partner, Alex Blank placed eighth in all of North America. She has also performed with the United Ger-man Hungarians at multiple Gaufests. Michelle has traveled to many places with us including Detroit, Cleveland, Mansfield, and she’ll be traveling to Germany and Austria with some other members in the fall. She is not only a dancer and a soccer player, but she is a very social member and also a won-derful friend to so many of us!
Karina
—BEHIND OUR NAME— In the July Issue, we expanded the defini-tion of German-Hungarians as an ethnic group. With an eloquent passage from Rudy Rack we described the feeling of community these people gathered around in America. Then in 1922, our athletic club formed and in 1930, it took on the familiar name. Club Business Advances The more and more I conceive and re-search this story I find that while it began as a history of our club name, it is also hard evidence of the unique “American Dream.” Today college academics and their learned professors have condemned the “Dream” as a myth. As a club and as individuals we know this to be untrue. We know because we live the “American Dream.” Evidence of this is in the numerous busi-nesses that supported and were supported by our club. Look for yourself in the souvenir books we hold so dearly. The advertisements in these books are interesting. Our members, their families and friends were business peo-ple. They were accountants and they sold insurance and real estate. Many were car-penters, plumbers, and electricians. They were painters and paperhangers. They were bakers, butchers, and restaurateurs. Maybe they sold beer? Maybe they made shoes, fur coats or hats? Some sold cars or fixed them. A few did printing of “EVERY DESCRIPTION,” and the number of machinists is too many to count. With this consistent and large contin-gent of business people in the city of Phila-delphia and so many that were of German-Hungarian extraction it is clear why they may have banded together. Rack the ever present historian wrote, “In May of 1933 a group of members of the BANATER MAENNERCHOR who were en-gaged in private enterprise banded together, secured a charter, and founded the GERMAN-HUNGARIAN BUSINESS MEN’S ASSOCIA-TION...To avoid any misunderstanding, let it be clearly understood that this was not a section of BANATER MAENNERCHOR but an entirely self-sufficient group, even though the majority of its members retained their mem-bership in BANATER MAENNERCHOR.” In this formation of a group we will see that business, club or otherwise has an im-portant role in the development of the club we are today. Thirteen years after its found-ing the “Business Men’s Association,” would make a great contribution to where we are today. In 1933, it would still be six years until the Banater Männerchor changed names.
Michael
ENTERTAINMENT REVIEW:
—A CULTURAL EXHIBIT— At the invitation of Fred Gauss, a group of people met from the three clubs, the Phila-delphia Donauschwaben, the Trenton Do-nauschwaben and the United German Hun-garians on Wednesday, March 5, 2014. The meeting was to discuss planning of events in commemoration of the 70 years since the end of World War II and the end of the life of the Ethnic Germans in the Danube River Ba-sin of Eastern Europe. At this initial meeting, three events were decided upon. The first would be a Cultural exhibit at the Philadelph-ia Danubia, the second would be a Trachten-fest at the United German Hungarians and third a Taste of Everyday Life at the Trenton Donauschwaben in January of 2015. After multiple additional meetings, many e-mails, phone calls and individual planning the event opened on Friday evening, June 13 at 7:00pm, continuing on Saturday and Sun-day from 12 noon to 6:00pm both days. The main preparation for the event began on Monday, June 9 at 5:30pm until about 10:00pm, and continued each day at 5:30pm until the opening. The intake of artifacts, memorabilia and photographs was conduct-ed in a different way than ever before: Each item was catalogued and photographed as it was dropped off. The final exhibit consisted of well over 600 items depicting the lives of Schwowe, Zipser and other ethnic Germans before, during and here in the United States, after the expulsion from their homelands in 1944. I would like to make a mention of thanks to the following for their diligence in carrying out the event: Joe Brandecker, Bill Galgon, Janet Malofiy, Rosalie Matico, Fred Gauss, Dennis Bauer, Hans Martini, Eva Martini, Anna Martini, Mi-chael Fricker, Werner Fricker Jr., Lisa Fricker, Werner Fricker III, Nichole Blank Deely , Alex Blank, John M Blank Jr., Dan Galgon, Kim Walter, Emma Walter, Mike Rakszawski, George Brenner, Elizabeth Reape, Andy Franz, Susan Hartmann, Ross Matico, Chris-tian Matico, Rosevita Hoehisch, Doris Leisch, Adam Dickmann, Karina Fricker, Michelle Paul, Marlene Novosel. In addition to the Exhibit, there were two brief talks on Saturday and Sunday, a person-al story by Andy Franz and a Power Point on language and the mother tongue by Marlene Fricker. The event was a cultural success. It could have been better attended. The most suc-cessful part of it was that a small group of
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—’EXHIBIT’ CONTINUED— first and second generation Americans of German ancestry spent a multitude of hours over a week’s time, planning, collecting, ar-chiving and displaying a living history of their forefathers, and in that time having the chance to bond and share the interest that is their common thread. Thanks to those peo-ple, and you know who you are!
Marlene Fricker
—WOMEN’S AUXILIARY— Dates & Information
Please join the Women’s Auxiliary for coffee, cake, social time and a short meeting! At 6:00pm cake and coffee will be served. The meeting will begin at 6:30pm. The dates for these gatherings will be the fourth Wednesday of each month.
Wednesday, August 27 Wednesday, September 24
Wednesday, October, 22
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: Marlene Fricker, Chairman | 215.275.4991
—LOOKING FOR TALENT— Publicity & Editorial Committee Seeks New
Monthly Progress Staff Writers Open Position: YOUTH SOCCER REPORTER, to cover all youth teams on a monthly basis as well as social goings-on within the program. This staff writer will be assigned to the “Soccer Shorts” column with a byline. Please contact the chairman if interested at [email protected] or 267.736.4390.
Michael Publicity & Editorial
—CORNER KICKS— Forward Lauren D’Andrea Brings Home the United Soccer League “Golden Boot” Award
The United Soccer League of Pennsylvania at a recent meeting awarded one of our own the league award for most goals in the 2013-2014 Women’s Season. Lauren D’Andrea, star forward for our German Hungarian Women, Fu-ry, scored eighteen goals this season in nine games! Congratulations
Lauren, the German Hungarians are proud of you! We reported in May that our Women won the league division with 33 points and 11 wins with only one loss. The men’s “Golden Boot” was won by Erz-gebirge’s Artie Taylor who scored 8 goals this season.
—MAJORS CORNER— Team Staff Announces Pre-Season Schedule
Sun. Aug. 17 — Danubia Tournament 12:35pm vs. West Chester 2:20pm vs. West Chester O-30 3:30pm vs. Phoenix SC 4:40pm vs. Danubia
Tue. Aug 19 — 8pm vs. Penn State Abington
Sun. Aug. 24 — 2pm at Danubia (Tag Der Donauschwaben)
*All Pre-Season games listed are at the club unless otherwise noted. Schedule is subject to change. Please see facebook and our web-site for updates.
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—SCHNITZEL NIGHT—
Every first Wednesday of the Month - 5:30pm to 7:30pm
A Delicious Schnitzel Dinner (Includes Two Side Dishes Plus a Salad, Bread & Butter and Coffee or Tea)
Wednesday, September 10 Wednesday, October 1
Wednesday, November 5
$10.00 for adults | $5.00 for children (Dessert is Available for Purchase | Fully Stocked Cash Bar)
Have a great dinner with the Schnitzel-Boy at the UNITED GERMAN HUNGARIANS
Schnitzel! The Favorite Treat!
For Little Boys & Girls to Eat!
UNITED GERMAN-HUNGARIANS OF PHILADELPHIA AND VICINITY
4666 E. BRISTOL ROAD | OAKFORD, PENNSYLVANIA | 19053
—ROCKTOBERFEST—
FEATURING THE MUSICAL TALENTS OF:
Bigg Romeo Philly’s #1 Party Band
Saturday, October 11 Gates Open 6:00pm | Music 7:00pm
FOOD & DRINK
FUN FOR ALL AGES!
More Information Will Be in Future Issues.
Lauren D’Andrea awarded the 2013-2014 Women’s “Golden Boot” by League President Blair Thomson
