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Jasper-Pfaffenweiler Partnership Milestones

September 1984

39 people from Jasper visit Pfaffenweiler and inquire of their interest in forming a partnership.

May 1985                                                              

41 people from Pfaffenweiler visit Jasper for official signing of partnership document.

April 1986

 

Mary Jo Meuser and Fritz Gutgsell with students.
Mary Jo Meuser und Fritz Gutgsell mit studenten.

3 students from Pfaffenweiler attend Jasper High School for one month.

June 1986

5 students from Jasper High School attend Staufen Gymnasium for one month. All of them stay in Pfaffenweiler.

Fall 1986

Jutta Eisenring from Staufen comes to Jasper for the school year.

April 1987

23 students from Staufen Gymnasium, the high school near Pfaffenweiler, attend Jasper High School for one month - three are from Pfaffenweiler.

Matthias Hilger of Pfaffenweiler begins training at Indiana Desk Company in Jasper.

June 1987                                                                                                               

19 students from Jasper High School attend Staufen Gymnasium for one month - three stay in Pfaffenweiler.

July/August 1987                                 

52 people from Pfaffenweiler Batzenberger Winzerkapelle (brass band) attend/perform at Jasper Strassenfest .

Fall 1987

Sonja Hueppe from Pfaffenweiler comes to Jasper for the school year.

October 1987                                                                                                         

Sister Cities of Jasper receives award of merit from Gov. Robert D. Orr.

Fall 1988                  

Justin Vaughn of Jasper goes to Germany for the school year.  

Voelker Boehm comes to Jasper for the school year.  

September 1988

About 90 people from Jasper visit Pfaffenweiler to attend the   Schneckenfest (Snail Festival) and participate in official dedication of Partnership Stone.

1989

Christine Gutgsell of Pfaffenweiler becomes the first of three girls to work as au pairs for Kris and Steve Dills of Jasper. Ester Kotterer of Pfaffenweiler lives with the Dills for six months in the winter of 1989-90, and Karin Ludwig from Hartheim lives with them during the summer of 1991.

February 1989

Maypole in Jasper, Indiana.
Dedicated October, 1985

Clemens Hueppe of Pfaffenweiler begins training at Kimball Electronics in Jasper.

April 1989

21 students from Staufen Gymnasium attend Jasper High School for one month - three are from Pfaffenweiler.

May 12, 1989

Matthias Hilger of Pfaffenweiler weds Kathy Kunkel of Jasper.

June 1989

19 students from Jasper High School attend Staufen Gymnasium for one month - three stay in Pfaffenweiler.

Fall l989

Priscilla Fischer comes to Jasper for the school year.

November 1990

First delivery of Pfaffenweiler wine -- 1200 bottles of Mueller- Thurgau and Rulander -- made to Jasper for sale in Buehler supermarkets.

1991

Martina and Claude Eckert with the help of Martha Rasche, write a diary of the first five years of this Partnership.

August 1991

Miriam Steible of Pfaffenweiler begins six months of working as a nanny for Bob and Sherrie Reeves in Jasper.

Fall l991

Matthias and Kathy Hilger's Wedding Picture

Esther Scholz spends the semester at Jasper High School.

October 1991

20 Students from Staufen Gymnasium attend Jasper High School for one month - seven are from Pfaffenweiler.

May 1992

Darren Patterson participates in work exchange program in Germany ; after his internship ends, he lives in Pfaffenweiler for three weeks.

June 1992

20 Students from Jasper High School attend Staufen Gymnasium for one month- seven stay in Pfaffenweiler.

September 1992

Jasper-Pfaffenweiler Partnership leads to Celestine- Wagshurst connection.

October 1992    

23 Students from Jasper High School attend Staufen Gymnasium for one month- six stay in Pfaffenweiler.

June 1993

24 Students from Jasper High School attend Staufen Gymnasium for one month - six stay in Pfaffenweiler.

August 1994

80 people from Pfaffenweiler attend Jasper Strassenfest and participate in dedication of Partnership Stone in front of Jasper City Hall .

October 1994

20 Students from Staufen Gymnasium attend Jasper High School for one month - nine are from Pfaffenweiler.

June 1995

15 Students from Jasper High School attend Staufen Gymnasium for one month - nine stay in Pfaffenweiler.

About 45 People from Jasper visit Pfaffenweiler to attend the Steibickfest (Stone Quarry Festival) to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Jasper-Pfaffenweiler partnership.

January 1996

Alexandra Eckerle of Pfaffenweiler begins working for Stens Corporation in Jasper.

July 1996

Verena Frey of Pfaffenweiler arrives in Jasper through an agriculture exchange program; she works in the floral department at Buehler's Buy-Low.

Summer 1996

SDR, one German Public Television selects the Pfaffenweiler resident emigration of 1847 to Jasper story/history for a national documentary program. The 30-minute film is produced and filmed in Pfaffenweiler. German Public Television provides an English language version of the film to Sister Cities of Jasper in exchange for the English text of the original film and two chairs from Jasper Seating.   

Matthias Hilger begins writing bi-weekly columns about Pfaffenweiler for The Herald, the Dubois County daily newspaper.

October 1996

30 Students from Staufen Gymnasium attend Jasper High School for one month - seven are from Pfaffenweiler.

1997

Scene in Pfaffenweiler

Jasper Partnership Commission formed. Its primary objective is to provide a central point for Sister City-related activities and to strengthen communications with Pfaffenweiler.      

The Herald begins sending its issues each week to Pfaffenweiler.

March 1997

Yvonne Michel of Pfaffenweiler begins job-shadowing at Jasper Memorial Hospital .

June 1997

28 Students from Jasper High School attend Staufen Gymnasium for one month - seven stay in Pfaffenweiler.

July/August 1997

13 people from Pfaffenweiler attend Jasper Strassenfest to commemorate the 150-year anniversary of Pfaffenweiler residents' immigration to Jasper.

October 1997

Simone Hoferer comes to Jasper from Pfaffenweiler to begin training at Jasper Furniture, a division of Kimball International.     

Members of the Jasper German Club and other area residents who speak German begin holding monthly " Stammtisch " ("Table for the Regulars") at the Schnitzelbank Restaurant.

January 1998

The Pfaffenweiler newsletter, S'Gmeiblaettle (Community Paper), begins arriving in Jasper each week via e-mail.

July 1998

51 people, including stone carvers and alpine horn group, from Pfaffenweiler attend Jasper Strassenfest.

October 1998

21 Students from Staufen Gymnasium attend Jasper High School for one month- five are from Pfaffenweiler.

June 1999

18 students from Jasper High School attend Staufen Gymnasium for one month - five stay in Pfaffenweiler.

June 2000

Jasper contingent travels to Pfaffenweiler to celebrate 15th anniversary of Partnership.

Jasper (Rathaus) City Hall