Since 2010 a specific effort has been underway to develop and maintain an archive of our materials digitally. Please check your homes, parents homes, files, storage, and that basket you keep in the bathroom to see if you have any issues we are missing we can use to complete the series.
Ruth Kreutzer Herbert submitted these photos of her father's member cards from 1960 and 1961. You will see each card is signed by President Wenzel Osti and Financial Secretary Michael Ebner Jr..
In 2005 Emily Fricker shared some history of our newsletter including the names of every editor!
In 1966 a subscription fee was added for the Monthly Progress newspaper which divided some members of the club!
What ever happened to Fred Schnabel's Saloon?
In part IV, we discussed the various buildings that our club has called home and the names we gave them. Now this month we will finally tell the story of how our club went from the Banater Männerchor to the United German Hungarians of Philadelphia and Vicinity.
A club is not a building. It is not a field or a stadium. It is not a bar, a dance floor or a grove. A club is a social gathering of people around common feelings, ideas or goals. You, the members are and always were the club. Naturally, a club needs a gathering place and we have had a variety that we have given numerous names.
In Part II, we expanded the definition 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.
