The business cards for our board members are finally completed and have been distributed. I lost the original jpeg file and had to re-draw the logo from scratch, but everybody seemed pleased with the way the cards turned out.

The board decided to offer the German Movie Night event only quarterly.

The next film night will be on 1 November 2008.

The next committee meeting for the planning of a Christkindlmart has been set to 12 November 2008.

The ballots for a new club logo have produced a winner:

In democratic fashion, the majority of our members present at the last meeting, have selected the colorful bridge motif from among six logo choices.

I think this logo makes apparent part of the mission of our association:

To foster a cultural exchange between two countries. 

A bridge is a powerful symbol that connects and transcends and patches where there is a gap. I hope that our bridge is on a strong footing and proves to be a dependable and lasting pathway of friendship, engagement and support for our members and the community in which we live.

 

Christkindlmarkt Project

The next meeting to work on the Christkindlmarkt Project will be on the 27th of March 2008 at 7:00 PM. The meeting will take place at 1917 Franklin St. Olympia, WA 98501.

Anyone interested in supporting this project and volunteering is invited to attend. Please call or email to let us know you're coming: (360)789-7505            sandy.nelson@comcast.net

Susanna Haynie has offered her talents in the public relations sector and is looking for members' personal impressions, recountings and memories of what a Chrsitkindlmarkt means to them. If you have memories to share, please send Susanna an email: susanna.haynie@gmail.com

If you have any pictures or photos of a Christkindlmarkt, please attach those as well.

 

Advertising

Advertising links on our web site's "Resources" page will now be available for sponsors for a fee of $50.00 per year. If you offer services, or know someone who offers services that are of particular interest or value to the members of our association, such as German products, restaurants, or German-speaking service providers, please contact us. The fee is a minimal amount to pay to show affiliation and support for our organization and to gain exposure to our site's visitors. Even though this website is still a web infant, it has grown in popularity. Here are some visual statistics of our site visits from the past 7 days:

Please help make our site even more popular by sending the link www.germanclubolympia.com to anyone you think might find value in our site and by posting it on any blogs or forums you participate in.

I just bought our very own domain name of www.germanclubolympia.com. I tried to see if I could find our little web site by googling "german club olympia", but our site didn't pop up. I figured that Google didn't place value on our content since it was in German, so I re-wrote all the text in English and then re-submitted the site to Google. Now we'll just have to wait and see if that will make a difference. The more visitors our site gets, the better we'll be noticed by the search engines, so please come to the site often and share our site address with other Germans you meet.

I've also added an easy portal to the bottom of the main page for members to join our yahoo group. The name of the group is.....

You guessed it: germanclubolympia

By joining the group, you can receive and send messages and announcements to all members at one, or to individual members. The group is private and moderated, so no unwelcome spammers can get in. So please, if you have a moment, join in, so you can keep current on what's new and what's happening.

Nach langen Jahren des Haderns, habe ich endlich den Schritt unternommen unseren Deutschlub offiziell zu etablieren. Das erste Organisationstreffen fand am 11. Januar bei mir Zuhause statt. Eingeladen war jeder, dessen email Adresse ich hatte. Erschienen sind Heidrun, Angelika und Simone. Zu viert haben wir uns fuer einen Club Namen entschieden, haben die Vereinsstruktur ausgearbeitet und haben einen Vereinsrat gebildet. Viele Clubs fingen im kleinen Ramen an einem Kuechentisch an, und haben sich dann zu einer unetbehrlichen, wertvollen Einrichtung etabliert. Ich hoffe, dass es bei uns auch so sein wird. Letztendlich ist ein Verein nur so gut wie die Einsatzbereitschaft, die Ideen, Talente und Tatkraft der Mitglieder. Das Potenzial ist auf jeden Fall geschaffen, dass unser Verein, der uebrigens der erste etablierte Deutschclub in Olympia ist, eine wertvolle Einrichtung fuer ihre Mitglieder sowie fuer die Kommune wird.