Volume 68 – No. 1
President’s New Year Greeting
I would like to wish all of our members a Happy New Year. A special thank you to the club officers, Chairmen, and members for their hard work in 2012. The year 2013 offers much excitement as well as many Challenges. I encourage you to offer your support by attending our functions with families and friends. Bill Galgon, President
—2013 Celebrates our 103rd year as well as—
What is in store for our Club in 2013? AMATEUR ADULT SOCCER
DANCING AROUND
The German Hungarians have a rich and storied history in soccer that goes back to the year 1922. 2013 marks the 91st Anniversary of Soccer at our club! Our high level of play and organization will not be lost in two-thousand and thirteen! Currently our club boasts six adult teams. Two of these are Women’s teams and four are Men’s. Our adults play in Major, Under-23, Over-30 and Over-40 divisions in The United Soccer League of Pennsylvania, the Inter-County League, as well as the MSSL. Our German Hungarian Fury Women finished 6-01 and in second place in the United Soccer League fall season and have since taken the show indoors at YSC Sports in Hatboro! The Lady Dragons are currently in fifth place in the league. The Men’s team currently sits in first place in the United League with a record of 4-3-1. The team also entered both the Open and Amateur Cups. After being knocked out of both state cups the team continues on its course for the Major Division Championship. The team is led by Head Coach Michael Curley, Manager Werner Fricker III, and recently named Captain Brian Blesi.
Our Club has been a center for Culture for over one hundred years. The Cultural group is the driving force behind this need to connect with our roots and uphold the culture that we all claim together as German Hungarians. The Cultural Group is bigger than the sum of its parts. It is held together by its facets and those facets are held together by the people that have a passion for these ideals. It is the charge of Chairman Susi Hartmann to bring the Cultural Group forward and take it in directions both traditional as well as new and interesting! The Cultural Group is the heart of what we do today and is a group that strives to never waver in their progress. From the newborn to the elders who started it all, this group has no age limits! Dancing Around, our ever fitting title for this column describes exactly what the group intends to do in 2013! The dance group will also be taking on various events coming soon as fundraisers to support what they do! Find them at home and follow them all over the nation this year as we prepare for our Kirchweihfest, Gaufest in Cleveland, Ohio and the Landestreffen in Detroit, Michigan! Please Join the Family!
YOUTH SOCCER PROGRAM
The ever growing Youth Program is under the 91 Years of Soccer (1922) 74 Years since we changed our name to faithful leadership of Soccer Director Andy Weyershaeuser. With nine boys and six girls United German Hungarians (1939) teams the ages range from under eight all the 67 Years of Monthly Progress (1946) 67 Years at our Current Property (1946) way up to high school age under eighteens. Our 48 Years of the Cultural Group (1965) teams travel all over the East coast for tourna48 Years Since winning the US National ments including as far as Florida. Our Coaches Amateur Cup (1965) come from all walks of life and many of them are 48 Years in our Building (1965) former of current players on our adult teams! In 40 Years since the destructive fire of addition to that our Youth Soccer Academy is alour Clubhouse (1973) ways busy with youngsters as little as two years. 37 Years of our Schuhplattler Group (1976) 14 Years since winning the USASA Open Cup (1999) 14 Years since winning our first Prize at the Gaufest in St. Paul (1999) 6 Years since winning first Prize at the Gaufest in Hershey (2007) 6 Years since Janet and Sasha won their first prize in Einzelplatteln (2007)
January 2013
—HAPPY NEW YEAR-PROSIT NEU JAHR— Looking ahead to the New Year, good friends and neighbors everywhere are exchanging greetings and good wishes. Sharing in this pleasant custom are the friendly merchants, others who serve you and your Publicity and Editorial Committee who, on these pages, thank you warmly for being a part of this community when you participate in our Progress!
—GERMAN HUNGARIAN CULTURAL GROUP— All ages Welcome | Please Contact: Susi Hartmann @ 215-514-8536 | Email: seppnsusi@aol.com John Reiter @ 215-343-4037 | Email: jreiter5@verizon.net
WOMEN’S AUXILIARY In the words of our esteemed editor, “You know, the Women’s Auxiliary is a committee of the Club. In other organizations women are members of their own group. Our UGH women can and are involved in every aspect of the club, on every level, and they can do anything!” Under the command of Chairman Connie Reiter these Women will continue our proud traditions, with their annual events schedule. Look forward to the Spring and Fall Penny Parties, as well as many other events that will come out of the dedicated minds of the Auxiliary's members! The women who quite literally man the reign’s of their own progress, do so always with the best interest of the club at heart! These women are strong, and successful and they make a great paprikash too!