Gauverband Announcement

Gauzeitung issues beginning with November 1996 (Volume 10) through December 2008 (Volume 20) are now available online, along with Volumes 21-25 (2009-2013) which were already online. The Volume 10-20 issues are scanned from printed copies. Each volume has an index to what is in each individual issue, along with links to the issues. The index and issues can be read online, downloaded, or printed. Volumes 1 to 9 will be scanned and uploaded at a future time, probably the beginning of 2017.

It's already time to start on the next issue of the Gauzeitung! October 1 is the deadline to submit articles, short announcements, and pictures. Send them to Gauzeitung@yahoo.com.  Were you at the Lechgaufest or Bayerischer Löwe in Steingaden this summer? Here's an easy way to share your impressions with your fellow Gau-NA members. Click on the Survey link and fill out the short form.

The Gauverband Nordamerika established the Paul Ulrich Sr Scholarship Program at the request of and support by the Ulrich Family and other contributions to provide financial assistance through annual scholarships to university, college, trade school, or independent study to students involved in the promotion of Bavarian and Tyrolean cultural heritage.  If you are interested in participating in this opportunity, please review the eligibility guidelines on the attached document and, if eligible, complete and submit the attached Application Fo

“God Bless Bavaria: Trachtler in Amerika” is the title of a 7-page article in the Summer 2016 issue of the Bavarian journal MUH. Remember the Bayerischer Rundfunk radio article about our Gaufest last year done by Barbara Leidl? That was the start of the MUH article, with Editor Josef Winkler augmenting the text with information gleaned from the Gaufest issue of the Gauzeitung.

Results from the Bayerischer Löwe are in! Full results of the competition are now available at this LINK (added on 7/31 from Rudy Leschke).

Group: SVEV D’Oberlandler Milwaukee – 9th

In the 14-16 age group:

• Caleb Weber, 14th
• T J Jenssen, 3rd
• Aana Rase, 2nd

In the 17-34 age group:

The minutes to the 2016 Delegates Meeting held in May in St. Paul, Minnesota, are now available at this link:  2016 Delegates Meeting Minutes.  An email was sent to the Verein addresses of record notifying the Vereine that the minutes have been published and are available on the website. The minutes can be downloaded, read on-line, or printed.