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VOLUME SEVENTY | NUMBER 9 | OAKFORD, PENNSYLVANIA | SEPTEMBER 2015

—KIRCHWEIHFEST MEMORIES— Last month in the Among Our Members column, I wrote about the summer coming to an end and what that meant in club life. To me, however, as a teenager in the 1950s, it meant KIRCHWEIH. The Sport Club

would have a meeting and the boys would pick girls to be their partners or perhaps if he were clever, he’d ask the girl of his choice in advance. At that time, there were many more boys than girls, so all the girls were usually assured of a partner and would be able to participate. For those who did not have a partner, the leaders of the Sport Club would usually find one for them and all would be set. That’s how I actually came to dance in the Kirchweihs. My family had won a Strauss at the Gewerbe Club. (This was a German Hungarian Club located on 2nd Street near Lehigh Avenue.) Since my family loved the Kirchweihfests, we went to as many at the vari-ous clubs as we were able. Evidently, some adults there asked if my two cousins and I would like to participate in a Kirchweih held by the Sacred Heart Church. We said yes and eve-rything was arranged. The young people partici-pating were the members of the German Hun-garian Sport Club. We all became friends and that was the beginning. Most boys had decorated hats from prior fests, but if not, his partner would decorate one for him. It was rather simple as there usually was a green, white and red ribbon sewed to-gether as one and placed around the base of the hat with a bow tied with fake flowers and loose streamers hanging about 12 inches in the back. The boys’ outfit consisted of a black pair of slacks and a white short-sleeved shirt. Almost any girl could participate as she could borrow the white pleated skirts and a black apron. The girls also wore a “peasant” blouse, which was very popular in the 50s, and every girl had a white “peasant” blouse in her wardrobe. Silk ribbons could be bought in all sizes and colors at the “5 & 10” stores and you could make your own belt of whatever color you desired.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 GATES: 1:00pm | KITCHEN & BAR: 2:00pm

-Heimatklänge Orchestra 3-7pm

-Emil Schanta 7-11pm

-PLENTY OF ICE-COLD GERMAN BEER

-MUSIC, DANCING & SOCCER ALL AFTERNOON

-FUN GAMES FOR KIDS

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 GATES: 12:00pm | KITCHEN & BAR: 1:00pm

-Heimatklänge Orchestra 2-6pm

-PLENTY OF ICE-COLD GERMAN BEER

-GH VS. ERZGEBIRGE | 2:30pm

-GH WOMEN VS. FOX CHASE SC | 12:00pm

-FUN GAMES FOR KIDS

September 26 & 27 137th

$5.00 Admission KIDS 12 AND UNDER: NO CHARGE

#OKTOBERFEST

NOVEMBER

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—MONTHLY PROGRESS— Founded by TED KERECZMANN† in 1946

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Closing Date for Next Month’s Issue:

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

V O L U M E S E V E N T Y

—YOUTH SOCCER PROGRAM— 2015-2016 Season

BOYS TEAMS

Under—15 | H A M M E R S STAFF: Andy Weyershaeuser, Andrew Weyershaeuser

Under—13 | L I G H T N I N G STAFF: Michael Lowry, Michele Reardon

Under—12 | T H U N D E R STAFF: Martin Tray, Chris Palladino

Under—11 | T O R N A D O STAFF: Rob Salvatore

Under—10 | W H I T E L I G H T N I N G STAFF: Brandon Beaumont, James Lee

Under—8 | R A I D E R S STAFF: Rob Proll, Joe Proll

GIRLS TEAMS

Under—13 | P A N T H E R S STAFF: Cathy Ford, Jennifer Pugh, Mark Roth

Under—11 | S T R I K E R S STAFF: Sara Apanavage, R. Papendick, J. Borkowski

Under—9 | F O R C E STAFF: Stephen Thompson

Under—9 | S P I R I T STAFF: Stephen Thompson, Lindsay Rheinhold

—PICTURE OF THE MONTH— Under—13 Girls Win 1:0 in Season Opener

The Under—13 Girls, Panthers won 1:0 over Jenkintown in the Inter-County Soccer League on Saturday, Septem-ber 12 at home in Oakford! Congratulations Girls!

(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) This color was then placed at the neck and the arms of the blouse. The black vest and brocade shawl, which were an important part of this outfit, were not worn at this Kirchweih, as it was often still hot in mid September. Of course, there always was a “Rosmarein Strauss.” As the fest was held on Sunday afternoon, the strauss was prepared on Friday or Saturday night. The entire Kirchweih Group and other members would meet at someone’s house, usually the “geld herr” or his partner. Since most of us lived in Philly row houses, we all had fairly nice basements and that is where we decorated the Strauss. The girls had al-ready purchased the many yards of ribbon and were busily cutting them to the sizes needed. We had sometimes received more than one bush as a donation from an older member. Older meant anyone over 30 years of age. The boys were busy, (I could never figure out how they did this) getting the bushes together and placed on the back of a chair. We then began decorating it. German music played from a “record player” and we all were in a festive mood. Everyone wanted to help place ribbons on the Strauss, as all wanted it to be the most beautiful Strauss ever. This strauss decorating was a lot of work and many pieces of Rosmarein and rib-bon were all over the floor. Some carefully cleaned this up. Usually the father of the house brought down a “schnapps” and he drank and toasted to the Kirchweih, with the boys over 21. The mother prepared cake and sandwiches for all and when the strauss was finished and all was cleaned up, we all had a great time eating, dancing, and singing. When all was over, the “geld herr” usually took the decorated bush home as he was to bring it to the club on Sunday. The fest would be held on Sunday after-noon at our country club in Neshaminy Falls (now called Oakford). Since we expected a lot of people and our clubhouse was rather small, we would dress at a member’s home a few blocks away. The boys or our parents dropped us off and continued on to the club-house or gathered out in front already laugh-ing, joking, talking, and preparing for a great day. When the girls were ready, the couples paired up, the president of the club with the

local German Band lined up, and we all marched through the local streets to Spruce and finally a right turn into the old driveway, which was right in front of the present day garage that did not exist then. Marching down the driveway with girls hands on their hips holding a large colorful handkerchief and the boys with arms down all swinging in time together, the “geld herr” proudly car-ried the Strauss. The people all came running as the Kirch-weih Group marched to the flat, grassy area in front of the clubhouse. This is where the ceremony would take place. The Kirchweih we then called “Allgemeine” (meaning for all people) in order to differentiate between the fests which were named for a certain village. When the “geld herr” called in a loud voice “Buwe was ha’mer Heit?” The Kirch-weih had begun.

ef NOTE: This is how the sport club group cele-brated the Kirchweihfests in the mid 1950s. Other groups may have done things a little differently as we do now. All I know is, we had a wonderful time and some members of that group, their children and their grandchil-dren are still members of our club and will be participating in our November Kirchweih. Many of this group still come once in a while and remember the good times. We will be celebrating our German Hungarian Tradition-al Kirchweihfest on Saturday, November 14. Join us and bring your children and grandchil-dren to see the beautiful costumes of the girls and boys and explain to them the mean-ing of the words of the “spruch” and the meaning of the festival as we continue a proud tradition!

—KIRCHWEIHFEST MEMORIES— BY EMILY FRICKER

This photograph of one of the old “Kirchweihs” Emily Fricker remembers shows the entire Kirchweih group marching into our club property along the “old driveway” on Spruce Street. Take note of the summer style Banater costumes on the women that were described.

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—SOCCER SHORTS— We recently heard news that former Ger-man Hungarian player Woody Hartmann was appointed the assistant coach at Cairn Univer-sity in Langhorne. Congratulations Woody! On Saturday, September 12, our youth pro-gram teams began their fall soccer seasons. We wish all the teams, players and coaches luck in their leagues! The home match schedules for all our youth teams is available and up to date at the soccer website. You can access that information at www.ughsoccer.com. For those savvy with social media, you can follow what our youth teams are doing throughout the year with the hashtag #GHYouth on facebook.com and twitter. As always any team, player or fan can sub-mit news about youth soccer at the German Hungarians to the Publicity & Editorial Com-mittee through the Chairman, Michael Fricker. Committee contact info is available on page 2 of this newspaper.

—SANDWICH BOARD— The usual Sandwich Board on Tuesday nights has returned for your convenience! Thank you to those who support this endeavor

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—DANCING AROUND— The German Hungarian Cultural & Schuhplattler Groups will be taking part in the following events during the remainder of the year. If any member wishes to have more information about these dates and affairs, feel free to ask any of the dancers when you see them at the club! They will be happy to answer any questions they can, or they will point you in the direction of the person who can answer you. We know from experience that most of them have shining and happy faces and would love to talk to you. Be social, after all we are a social club! Brauhaus Schmitz Oktoberfest 7th & South Streets in Philadelphia Saturday, September 19 137th Oktoberfest United German Hungarians September 26 and 27 German American Day In Center City at Love Park Friday, October 2 | 12:00pm 45th German-American Steuben Parade Rockledge—Fox Chase Sunday, October 4 Festival Celebration Hop Angel Brauhaus (following the parade) Sunday, October 4 ArtsQuest Oktoberfest SteelStacks Saturday, October 10 | 2:00-6:30pm Princeton Elks Oktoberfest with the Heimatklänge Friday, October 16 Original Enzian Bauernball Long Island NY November 7 KIRCHWEIHFEST United German Hungarians November 14 Alpenrose Schuhplattler Verein Stiftungsfest Lancaster Liederkranz November 21 Schlierachtaler Stamm Edelweiss Ball Long Island NY December 5

(SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE)

—CLUB & BAR HOURS— The Bar Chairman recently reported the following hours of operation for the club and the bar. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - 7:00-11:00pm

Sunday— 12:00 noon - 8:00pm

—GERMAN HUNGARIAN SOCCER—

HOME OPENING WEEKEND Sunday, September 27, 2015

at

GERMAN HUNGARIANS vs. VEREINIGUNG ERZGEBIRGE MAJOR DIVISION MATCH

UNITED SOCCER LEAGUE OF PENNSYLVANIA 2 : 3 0 p m | I n G H S t a d i u m

GERMAN HUNGARIAN WOMEN vs. FOX CHASE SC WOMEN’S DIVISION MATCH

UNITED SOCCER LEAGUE OF PENNSYLVANIA 1 2 : 0 0 p m | I n G H S t a d i u m

UNDER - 15 BOYS vs. PHILADELPHIA SOCCER CLUB UNDER 15 BOYS DIVISION 1 EAST MATCH

INTER-COUNTY SOCCER LEAGUE 1 1 : 0 0 a m | O n F i e l d 3

Stepping off at 12:00pm at South Penn Ave. marching down Huntington Pike to Church Rd.

Route continues South on Church Rd. to Loney St. and east on Loney St. to Oxford Avenue

Rockledge Fox Chase

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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, October 7 Wednesday, November 4

$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! Artwork by

Sofi Walter

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PERFORMANCES BY THE GERMAN HUNGARIAN CULTURAL GROUP

IN BANATER SCHWABEN TRACHT

DECORATED ROSMAREIN STRAUSS | “SPRUCH” BY THE GELD HERR

Musical Entertainment by the HEIMATKLÄNGE ORCHESTRA | 7:30-11:30 pm

Hot Dinner Buffet, including ROAST PIG | 6:30 pm

Ticket Price: $30.00 Children Tickets (6 to age 12) - $15.00 | Tickets for Children 5 and Under – No Charge

R E S E R VAT I O N S R E Q U I R E D :

Nichole Deely | 215.806.1998 | kirchweih@ughclub.us

UNITED GERMAN-HUNGARIANS OF PHILADELPHIA AND VICINITY

4666 E. BRISTOL ROAD | OAKFORD, PENNSYLVANIA | 19053

—MAJOR DIVISION SCHEDULE—

Sun. Oct. 4—Ukrainian Nationals (In GH Stadium)

Sun. Oct. 11—at Phoenix SC (301 W. Bristol Rd | Lower Southampton, PA)

ALL USLPA MAJOR DIVISION MATCHES ARE 2:30PM UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED

Saturday, November 14