Come join the AHSGR Sunflower Chapter as we
celebrate 30 years as a chapter. Registration begins at 3:00 p.m. in
the Schenk Building at the Ellis County Fairgrounds. Come early and
have a beer and enjoy the fine music and look over displays.
Brent
Mai, our speaker, has the honor of serving as the university
librarian and director of the
Center for Volga German Studies at Concordia University in
Portland, Oregon. He has authored numerous articles and books on the
subject of Volga German migration from Germany to Russia. He has also
translated more than 100 nineteenth century censuses of the German
colonies along the Volga. A native of Sharon Springs, Brent has
traced his father�s family from Russell and Barton Counties in Kansas,
back to the colony of Kratzke, southwest of Saratov in Russia, and
further back to the village of Spachbrucken, southeast of Darmstadt in
Germany. Brent holds degrees from Bethany College in Lindsborg,
George Washington University in Washington, D.C., the University of
Texas at Austin, and Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. He and his
beautiful wife have three children. He will be speaking about the
Volga Relief Society and the relief that it brought to the human
suffering of the Volga Germans during the 1921 famine in Russia.
Our meal will consist of a traditional Volga
German wedding meal of roast beef, chicken and noodles, galuskies,
mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, coleslaw, tea/coffee and of
course a birthday cake.
The evening will continue with a memorial service
to “Unsere Leute” and a dance with the Wes Windholz Polka Band!
Tickets will be
available at the April 11 meeting or you may pick them up from Kevin
at the St. Joseph Parish Service Center, Jerry Braun, or
in Ellis, Leonard Schoenberger.
TICKETS
WILL NOT
BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR
or send a check made out to the "Sunflower
Chapter" for $20.00 per ticket to:
Kevin Rupp
2301 Canal Blvd
Hays, Ks. 67601
785-625-6638 or 785-625-7356
Leonard Schoenberger
808 Monroe
Ellis, Ks. 67637
Jerry Braun
2223 Felten Dr.
Hays, Ks. 67601
