Category: New Years Greetings

You are invited to celebrate 100 years of Northfield Rotary in 2025. More information will be coming soon! Northfield Rotarian Brett Reese talks about RI President Holger Knaack and Paris Graphic Designer York Penno (https://www.go-starpeace.com) visiting in May of 2022 for Rotary Conference, Democracy Under Fire (https://www.peaceconference.us) Special thanks to: https://www.reunioneatdrinkgather.com Music and Video by […]

On Christmas Eve 2017, we received, right out of the blue, a dinner invitation from Dr. Wolfgang Plenio, north Germany’s last great humanist and philosopher. In 1973, Wolfgang was my Latin tutor in secondary school, and since then we have stayed in close touch. One of our most rewarding times together was in 1999, when […]

Moin-Moin, dear friends, deutsche Uebersetzung s. bitte unten, The end of one year and the beginning of a new one affords us an opportunity to reflect - with thanks - on the events of 2015. In Thuringia, we were fortunate to locate a railroad box car that had been used to transport prisoners to concentration […]

Moin-Moin, dear friends, deutsche Uebersetzung s. bitte unten, The end of one year and the beginning of a new one affords us an opportunity to reflect - with thanks - on the events of 2015. In Thuringia, we were fortunate to locate a railroad box car that had been used to transport prisoners to concentration […]

2013 Happy New Year’s Greetings! It was March 30, 1996, in the waiting room of the hospital in Sioux City, Iowa. A worried looking pastor approached me with the words, “Mr. Reppmann, I’m sorry to have to tell you your wife might not survive.” It was a terrible moment. Only a few yards from where […]

2013 Happy New Year’s Greetings! It was March 30, 1996, in the waiting room of the hospital in Sioux City, Iowa. A worried looking pastor approached me with the words, “Mr. Reppmann, I’m sorry to have to tell you your wife might not survive.” It was a terrible moment. Only a few yards from where […]

Subject: Happy New Year - alles Gute fuer 2007! Moin-Moin!Gitta and I would love to see you - maybe you join our group visit to Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and southern Denmark from Sept. 15-25, 2007. (Info I & Info II)Vielleicht gibt es Interesse mit uns im Rahmen einer US-Gruppenreise den 125. Geburtstag von Holstein, Iowa zu […]

Moin-moin! Gitta and I wish all our friends near and far a happy new year in 2006. Both of us can look back on an eventful 2005. It was most difficult for Gitta to be away from Northfield for nine solid months, the longest time since we started our waffling between Minnesota and Flensburg. But […]

1983: Nearly 50 US Low German friends from Holstein, Iowa on a heritage tour to Germany.

1982: Six months research trip to the USA and founding of our 'tiny' book publishing house.