About Trenton Donauschwaben
GERMAN SCHOOL
We formed our first Kindergruppe in September, 1957, which gave way to a German School for children shortly thereafter. Throughout the 1960’s and 1970’s, up to 60 students were enrolled in 5 grades covering everything from der, die, das to the works of Nicholas Lenau and Adam Mueller-Guttenbrunn. Currently, our German School meets each Friday evening and all elementary and middle school youngsters are invited to attend. Besides the school, our dance group has been an important element in keeping our youth involved at the club. Our Jugend Tanzgruppe was enormously successful throughout the 1970s and 1980s with up to 12 couples performing in places like Milwaukee, Washington, D.C. and the Catskill Mountains of New York. In the last several years, our dance group combined with that of the Philadelphia Donauschwaben in a joint venture that has been a big plus for both clubs. In addition, frequent canoeing, camping, hiking and skiing trips have been and remain an exciting part of the club’s schedule of events geared toward the young (and the young at heart!).
Some of our activities are directed specifically at our older members. Since 1980, our club has had an adult German language program. Many active members have come from the ranks of the adult student population and the school remains vital to our club’s mission. The semester runs from April through October and anyone interested in attending can contact the club for more information. More recently, we started an "AutoKlub" for the car aficionados among us. Since its inception in 2003, the group has grown steadily in size and many of its members play an active role in the club. Since 2005 we have joined with our neighbors at the German American Society to host a successful car show that attracts well over one hundred cars and many hundreds of spectators.
In 2007 our club joined the Donauschwaben Villages Helping Hands web site (www.dvhh.org) in order to help the organization promote our Donauschwaben history and genealogy. We are grateful to the many dedicated and hard working members who have made it possible for the Trenton Donauschwaben to enjoy so much success over the years. Thanks to them, our club is doing well and looking to the future with optimism. Because of them, we remain committed to being a meeting place for all to enjoy… and a place where the spirit of our ancestors lives on.
AUTHENTIC GERMAN RECIPES
Share Your Donauschwaben Recipes!
Our last cookbook, which was printed a number of years ago, was a great success for our Club and a great fundraiser. We are down to only two copies left. It was decided at our last officers meeting to put together a second cookbook with traditional cultural recipes of Donauschwaben (German, Austrian, Hungarian, etc.) origin. If you have such recipes in your collection, passed down from your parents, grandparents, etc. please forward them to Christa (Tindall) Pullion, who has agreed to coordinate this project. Thank you Christa! Her email is: cpullion@outlook.com.
We sincerely thank you in advance and hope to make this an even better cookbook than before.
