Gauverband Announcement

Issues of the 2010 Gauzeitung are now available online—in color! If you click on the link below, you can access the 2010 issues (Volume 22). The highlights of each issue are listed along with links to the individual issue. Year 2009 was added last year but the link is below if you’d like to take a look. In time, issues before 2009 will be added. The links to each year are also posted under “Publications, Gauzeitung.”

Volume 22 - Calendar Year 2010

Volume 21 - Calendar Year 2009

Happy New Year!  It's time to start planning for the 2012 Delegates Meeting, to be hosted by Bayern Verein Newark, on May 5-6, 2012.. The link below takes you to the information that was recently mailed to all the Vereine. It includes a cover letter, hotel reservation info, checklist, Verein registration information, Request for travel information, Carnation order form.  All are due to Bayern Verein by March 15, 2012. 

2012 Delegates Meeting

Note: Schedules, agendas, and proposals for general sessions, administrative meeting, and Vorplattler meeting will be mailed and added to the website at a later date.

Gerhard Hinterbrandner, Ehrenvorstand of the Altbayerisch-Schwäbisch Gauverband, died today (January 2) in Lechhausen. He and his wife, Marianne, attended the Gaufest here in North America in 1997 in Delaware. Marianne is the current Vorstand of their Gauverband.  We join his family and friends in mourning his passing. May he rest in peace.

More information can be found in the next few days on the Trachtenverband’s website, www.trachtenverband-bayern.de.  Click on "read more" for a short tribute with photo.

Lower rates good through March 15!

Bayern Verein Newark, Inc. is pleased to announce a revised lower rate for hotel accommodations for the upcoming Gauverband Nordamerika Delegates Meeting to be held on Saturday May 5 & Sunday May 6, 2012. To take advantage of this rate and guarantee room accommodations at the hotel please consider making your room reservation as soon as possible; this special rate has been extended to March 31, 2012!

The following letter was mailed to the Vereine in late November by the Gauschriftführer:

Dear Friends:

As a reminder, the next Delegates’ Meeting will be hosted by the Bayern Verein Newark and will take place from May 5 – 6, 2012 at the VFW hall in Kenilworth, New Jersey.  To prepare for this meeting, please:

The summary of the responses to the 2011 Gaufest questionnaire is available.  We had 22 Vereine respond to the paper copies that were sent out and 40 entries on the online survey.  Comments on each survey have been summarized and arranged to provide a better flow and eliminate redundancy.  A number at the end of each comment indicates that the particular comment (or similar comment) was submitted by multiple respondents.  From the comments, there were certain particular items that seemed to be important to people as they were mentioned in several sections of the questionnaires.  We feel the online survey worked very well for the first time we used it and the way the results were presented made it very easy to create that particular section of the report.  Click on this link to read the summary:  2011 Gaufest Questionnaire Results