P.O. BOX 373, RIPON, CA 95366 (mailing address)

110 N. MANLEY ROAD, RIPON, CA (location only)

Email: riponswissclub@aol.com www.sjvscriponswiss.com

Jan-March 2020 NEW YEAR - NEW DECADE - OLD TRADITIONS - AND “20” TIMES THE FUN!

SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY SWISS CLUB

NEWSLETTER

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2020 is going to be an awesome year to graduate and to help make it even more

memorable you can apply for a Scholarship!

The San Joaquin Valley Swiss Club will be awarding $500 Scholarships to direct

descendants of SJVSC members. Applicants must have a parent or grandparent

who has been a member in good standing for the last three years. In order to re-

ceive more information and a scholarship application, please contact Scholarship Chair - Gary

Marchy at 209-537-0630 or email g1marchy@gmail.com Applications are due by February 29, 2020

HAPPY 2020!!! Looking forward to a great LEAP YEAR of fun activities, so take this moment to see just what new activities

to LEAP into if you haven’t done so before! Look within the newsletter for more details. Fasnacht—February 8th with a

Roaring 20’s theme—come dressed for the fun (look on Amazon for some costume ideas) Wine Tasting, BlackJack, Poker,

hopefully Craps this year and heavy Appetizer’s makes this a very fun night!! For those lucky enough to be graduating in

2020 - SCHOLARSHIPS- once again $500 Scholarships - applications due Feb 29th. Jass Parties Feb 16/Nov 8 - we want

to get to 50+ players this year, so come have an afternoon of fun - young and old alike! Don’t know how to play? We can

teach you - and there’s a JASS APP too! Schwinger Dinner - March 14th once again a night full of food and fun to help sup-

port those Schwingers! Get those Dues paid by March 31st!! Swiss Echoes Concerts April 18th and October 17th, and

this year is the 30th Pacific Coast Swiss Singing Festival and Yodeling Festival in Pasadena, CA - June 25-28th. Our

Schwingfests will be June 6th and August 29th, Support the Championship this year in Newark on Sept 4th; Kids Swiss

Camp and Members BBQ - July 25th, What new project will they be taking on for the Swiss Club? Always a fun time at the

BBQ! Stanislaus Swiss Club will be celebrating 100 years of their club this year and we are hoping that we can help them

make it spectacular. Of course we will have the 11th annual Oktoberfest “Oktober 3rd”, better start working on getting

those Lederhosen now! Ending the year with the Swiss Echoes Christmas Dinner Dec 6th and the Children’s Christmas

Party, Dec 13th. Save the dates - the calendar is on the back. Also, if you can step up to help be in charge of an activity - or

would like to help, please email Chris at riponswissclub@aol.com or come to any of the meetings—2nd Wednesday of the

month at the Swiss Hall. We want to get to know you and it’s always fun stepping up, just for one event, if Erika and I can do

the newsletter all year, you can surely help at one event!!

Wonderful decorations by the Swiss Echoes

provide a great backdrop for Santa and the

Kids for the Children’s Christmas party filled

with games, songs and crafts and gifts from

Santa too!

President’s Message

Happy New Year! Happy New Decade! We are starting the 3rd decade of the 21

st Century. Where has the time

gone? I must be having fun since I will be your President for the 4th year. Time has gone fast, because I have had so much good help.

Who has more fun than the Swiss? The people who will come to the events we have planned for this year.

The Fasnacht/Mardi Gras with a Roaring 20’s Theme starts the year off with a masquerade, food, wine tast-ing and all the gambling you want to do until the end of the evening. Get your tickets now so we know how many to plan for (See the ad).

The Jass Party, Sunday, Feb. 16th, is put on by Joe Beeler and his crew. This is an event you will not want to miss. Food will be prepared by our Vice Presidents Mike & Sylvia Berchtold.

The Schwinger dinner/dance is always a sell out event, so get your tickets as soon as possible. You can join in on all the fun of the auctions and raffles as well as a wonderful dinner and dance.

Don’t forget a dinner put on by the S.J.V.S.C. fol-lowed by the Swiss Echoes Concert in April. There is always great entertainment, food and dancing.

Come and join the fun and if you want to have more fun, volunteer to help at the events. We need people to set up and put away tables, chairs and/or benches, sell script & meal tickets, help in the snack kitchen and plan and serve meals at some of the functions. Last year we had lots of volunteers. Most of the vol-unteers have been doing the jobs for years so we could use some new blood. Please call Billy Leah Berchtold at 209-982-4167 to volunteer at any of our events. She would like to thank all the volunteers from last year. Tony Berchtold, President

SJVSC Membership Totals 685!! We added 30 regular, 19 spousal and 1 social member in 2019. However, 8 of our members passed away, and quite a few dropped their member-ship BUT we are very PROUD of what we do to inspire others to be-come members!

Welcome to the following new mem-bers: Sarah and Steve Lewis of

Ceres; Marlene and Jack Ebert of Bakersfield; Tren-ton Phillips (our new caretaker) of Ripon; and Edwin and Della Genasci of Modesto!!

Congratulations to Marge Imfeld, our newest Honor-ary member. It’s a big job and commitment. Thanks for all you do Marge!!!

Who’s turning 90 this year: Hedy Ash, Louie Auf-dermaur, Margo Imboden, Henry Long, Pius Scheu-ber, Frank Schmidig, Sr. (Pleasanton), and Frank Zumstein. Happy birthday to you!

If you had a birthday in 2019 and on that birthday you turned 70, your dues will be one-half of the regular dues price starting in 2020 and you are now a “paying lifetime member”!! (But you must be in good standing with the Club for 5 years to get this privilege!)

DUES ENVELOPES will be mailed with this newslet-ter. If for any reason you don’t receive an envelope for dues or you have questions about your dues, please contact me immediately at cathyq@quinnlaw.net or 209-602-4366. You can mail your dues to: SJVSC P.O. Box 373 Ripon, CA 95366

IMPORTANT NOTICE!!! LATE FEE FOR DUES: Last year we approved an increase in the late fee for payment of dues. If you pay your dues AFTER MARCH 31, there is a $20 late fee. So if you pay your dues on or after April 1, please send in your payment of $60 for regular mem-bers and $40 for paying lifetime members. Please feel free to contact me for any questions you have about your membership! Cathy Quinn, Membership Officer

The Swiss National Baseball team is looking for baseball players from the USA who may be interested in joining their team. In-terested persons would need a Swiss passport.

Please contact Chris Byrnes (christopher.byrnes@ubs.com or wehntal.baseball@hotmail.com)

directly if interested.

MARGE IMFELD - HONORARY MEMBER

It’s fitting starting 2020 that Marge Imfeld becomes our 20th Honorary Member of the SJVSC. Marge has been our Financial Secretary for the past 10+ years and keeps us in check with pay-ing bills, filing taxes and pre-senting our Profit and Losses each meeting. She has

been an invaluable member of our Club and we ap-preciate all of the volunteer hours that she has given attributed to our Swiss Club. A very well deserved induction to Marge. Next time you see her, congratu-late her and thank her for her continued service to our club!

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Join us for a

Prime Rib, Shrimp & Älplermagronen Dinner

Saturday—March 14, 2020 at the Swiss Club

Doors Open @ 5:00 pm - Dinner @ 6:30 pm Donation $50.00 per person

Gun Raffle - Raffle - and as always the Delicious Dessert Auction

Tickets on sale now

Ted Betschart 209-537-1965

Don Widmer 209-982-1512

or 209-915-4245

Raffle Prize Donations Appreciated

Want to make a dessert for auction -

Call Heidi 209-607-1157 or

riponswissclub@aol.com

Swiss

Echoes

Concert

And SJVSC Rippli Dinner

SAVE THE DATE: April 18th 2020

More information to come in the

April Newsletter

Have some unleashed singing talent?

Just want to be part of the Singing group?

Come and join the Swiss Echoes.

Practices start

Tuesday nights from 7-9 pm

February 24-April 14th for the Spring

Concert and again

May 5—June 16 for the Sängerfest

Contact Steven Olmstad

209-957-1485 for more info

FASNACHT- ROARING 20’S

CASINO NIGHT

FEBRUARY 8TH

COME IN YOUR FAVORITE 1920’S COSTUME

WINE, APPETIZERS AND UNLIMITED CASINO PLAY

$50.00 TICKETS INCLUDES WINE TASTING

$40.00 NO WINE TASTING (BUY YOUR OWN DRINKS)

CONTACT SYLVIA BERCHTOLD - 209-712-1117 or Sylvia.villa@gmail.com

Amazon can give you some great ideas for a look!! But you don’t need to dress up.

Don’t be an “Upstage”, “Bluenose” or a “Wurp”, Be an “Oliver Twist of the Party”, a

“Sockdollager” and “Know your Onions!”

Get out your “Mazuma” and get ready to be only slightly “Zozzled”

We need 10-12 (past/current) Schwinger’s to help serve at the Dinner/Put away tables - your

ticket price will be $25 but you must call Ted/Don to line this up prior to the Dinner.

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FALL SWISS JASS PARTY November 14th was well attended with 36 Jas-sers and 2 at the Beginner table. Thank you to Joe & Theresa Beeler for their organization of the day. Sammy Beeler MC’d the day and kept everyone on track. We had a new König this year with Gery Wagner at 128 points, and Char-lene Ott as the Königin with 120 points. Those

in the money: Joe Beeler Jr, 112, Isabella Zumstein 112, Anna Bucher 111, Nicholas Ott 106, June Betschart 105, Carl Aufdermaur 102 and Rosmarie Tan-ner 100 points. Soup and sandwiches were served for lunch and just a fun time with lots of Door and Raffle Prizes! Katharina & Regina Beeler sat with Erika Rob-inson and Chris Schallberger learning how to play, and we are pretty confi-dent that they will be able to play with the winners and hold their own at the table to vie for the title in February. Yes, Jass is a complicated game. but it is also a lot of fun to play. There

are some app’s that you can download to your phone to learn. They offer Swiss Cards or just regu-lar. The Swiss version plays with a single deck, and has 6, 7 and 8 added in. We play with a double pinnacle deck and only 9, 10, J, Q, K and A are used. We also don’t have the Obenabe and Undenufe. If nothing else - download the app and then show up to learn it how we play, or just show up - we will show you how to have a fantastic day of cards, food and prizes !

Children’s Christmas Party - Forty four kids came to see Santa on Sunday, December 8th. Everyone brought delicious food to share. A wonderful time was had making special crafts set out by Marge & Erika Betschart, singing Christmas songs and of course what every-one anxiously awaited - seeing Santa and getting a gift special-ized for them. Santa’s helper Kim Widmer does an amazing job in organizing this event making it especially fun. Thanks Kim & Don Widmer, Ted & Marge Betschart, Erika Betschart, the Swiss Echoes for the Stage Decorations, Mike & Sylvia for all of the Kitchen help, and Swiss Miss Hartley Silva for help-ing throughout the event. Of course it wouldn’t have been as

special without the help of Gary and Dena Bry (aka Santa and Mrs. Claus). THANK YOU FOR YOUR

DONATIONS FOR THE CHILDRENS

CHRISTMAS PARTY

Rosie Omlin, Max & Dar-lina Hofstetter, Richard & Josephine Fernandes, Dan & Cathy Quinn, Carl Schali, Rosemary Ott, Joe & Liese Ott, Don & Kim Widmer, Ralph & Sil-via Nelson, Tony & Chris Ott, Mario Butzner, Jr.

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“JASS PARTY” Sunday, Feb 16, 2020

Doors Open at 12:30 pm

Jass Begins at 1 pm

$10 per player includes lite lunch prepared by Mike and Sylvia Berchtold and served between 8th & 9th

round about 2:30 pm. No host bar.

Beginners are very welcome to come and learn and just join in the fun.

At the culmination of the day around 4:30 we will award prizes to the Jass König or Jass Königin!

Come join us to visit or play. It’s a great way to continue our Swiss traditions.

DOOR & RAFFLE PRIZES

Annual Echoes Christmas Party A hundred and thirty guests enjoyed great food, friendship and fun at the annual Swiss Echoes Christmas Dinner held on Sunday, Dec. 1st at the Rip-on Swiss Hall. The decorations were sure to put us into a Christmas mood as we awaited the celebration of the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. This was probably for everyone the first Christmas celebration of the month, alt-hough it’s never too early to celebrate what Christ did for us all. The tables had red tablecloths, lovely poinsettias and rosemary plants, peanuts and tangerines just like in the old days when Santa came to our homes in Swit-zerland, & Lindt treats. The stage looked like a welcoming living room com-plete with decorated fireplace & toys, with room for the baby Jesus. Copper-spur caterers provided delicious Prime Rib and BBQ Chicken dinners, in-cluding red potato mashed potatoes, fresh cut green beans, mixed green salad with vinaigrette dressing, and lovely soft white rolls with butter to de-light everyone’ s taste buds. The wonderful appetizers and homemade Swiss cookies and desserts were enjoyed by all. The meal was topped off with an unending supply of red or white wine, sparkling ciders and water.

Before the end of the festivities there was entertainment by the always-exuberant Annabel Murata and her niece (and piano tuner/technician) Christina Scroggins as they sang beautiful duets of “Walking in a Winter Wonderland” and “Holly Jolly Christmas”. We could’ve listened to them for hours! Swiss Echoes officers were introduced and thanked with gifts for their service. Everyone became an honorary Swiss Echoes member with a Christmas caroling sing-along led by Agnes. Sing-ing practice starts again on Tuesday nights, starting Feb. 18th for anyone who wants to join! See you at the next Swiss Echoes Christmas Party on the first Sunday of December! Articles by Barbara Masterson

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Swiss Echoes Fall Concert 2019 The annual Swiss Echoes Fall Concert once again was a successful performance with about 100 people in attendance enjoying the “Cabaret Night”. We took an imaginary trip to Luzern to the hotel Rösli as we listened to songs about “Mys Schätzli” (My Sweetheart), “Junge Lieb und Junger Wein” (Young Love and Young Wine) and sang about eating the delicious “Birrewegge”. Katharina Beeler played her clari-net to accompany this song. On the way we noticed the beautiful fall colors in “Herbstgold” and heard about all the work it takes to feed a lot of people in a hotel in “Luzerner Puurechilbi”. Another food song by

the exuberant Annabel Murata, “I love Swiss Food” (and it loves me!) was a fun tune she wrote herself and managed to include a few other singers parading in with sausages, macaroni, fondue, cookies and chocolate. She even had the audience singing along! It was contagious. Then special guests, the “Kapelle Kariott” en-tertained everyone with three pretty tunes on the accordion (Charlotte Ott), the soprano saxophone (Theresa Ott), the piano (Helen Ott), the bass (Nick Ott), and the Ratchett (Carl Ott). After all that food and entertain-ment it was time for bed, but, alas there was a dream – “’s Träumli” about a cannibal and a kiss on a bench that did not happen. Oh well. We learned that there is absolutely nothing better than singing in, “Es goht nüd übers” and finally in the finale we learned about the town of Kufstein in Tyrol in,”Das Kufsteiner Lied” which was also a sing-along, no doubt a fa-miliar tune to all. Besides all that fun there was real eating, a raffle and dancing too. The Swiss Club served a delicious sausage dinner before the concert, there were some wonderful raffle prizes and there was danc-ing entertainment from the Ron Scheiber and Mike Inderbitzen Orchestra. The fun-filled evening was a delight for all! We hope to see everyone in April 2020 for the next concert!

West Coast Swiss Wrestling Association

This past year we had a total of 26 Eligible

participants in the Perpetual Trophy for

2019. Only one Schwinger attended all 6

Schwingfests, Steven Widmer. Based on

the Perpetual Trophy points system our

2019 Winner was Andrew Betschart; 2nd

place Steven Widmer, 3rd Place Jakob

Schallberger, 4th Place Dustin Gwerder

and 5th place Steven Schonenberger.

WCSWA would like to see the following for 2020 -- look-

ing ahead to the 2022 Basel Eidg. -More youth participa-

tion and attendance at more Schwingfest in the West

Coast not just club level; Implementation of Selection of Schwinger's to attend 2022. We are not sure how many Schwinger's the

Schwingerverband will invite to attend, but it will be for American Swiss Wrestlers, including Oregon & Washington Club's. Imple-

mentation of a plan for Basel is being looked at to include Perpetual Trophy placings from 2020-2022 year, attendance in Oregon/

Washington Schwingfests and possibly not limited to attendance at Schwingfests in Switzerland. All of this is in consideration with a

plan to be formulated during the year. It is encouraged that wrestlers attend Schwingfests in Switzerland to help them prepare and

understand what it takes to compete at the Eidg. level with Schwinger's in Switzerland. Also looking for inspiration from those who

attended previous Eidg to inspire our youth to participate and compete. Thank you for your participation in the WCSWA and keep-

ing our culture of Schwingen alive. Please contact us via email at WCSWA@gmail.com. Arnold Ambiel - President WCSWA.

2020 SCHWINGFEST SCHEDULE

April 4 Imperial Valley Swiss Club- Holtville, CA

June 6 SJVSC Spring Schwingfest—Ripon, CA

June 13 Swiss Sportsmen’s Club of Tacoma -Bonney Lake, WA

June 20 San Diego Schwingfest - San Diego

July 4-5 Lewis-Pacific Swiss—Frances, WA

July 11 Portland Swiss Club– Portland, OR

July 18 Sierra Swiss Club—Truckee, CA Aug 8-9 Swiss Sportsmen’s Club of Tacoma - Bonney Lake, WA August 29 SJVSC—Ripon Fall Schwingfest Sept 5 CHAMPIONSHIP Newark Swiss Club—Newark, CA

The United Swiss formed a SWISS NIGHT at the Shark Tank,

in San Jose, CA on November 23rd. As you can see there

were many in attendance to rally on the Sharks. Great Swiss

Pride! Hopefully they will do it again next year and more will

attend.

BUEBE SCHWINGERS RIPON FALL 2019

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Strolling down memory lane. . . . Do any of these look familiar? Answers on the bottom of the page.

Does anyone have any info about the Turnabout Dances that took place in the 1940’s and have photos?

It would be fun to do a story about that in the next newsletter. (If anyone wants any of these photos let

us know.)

Swiss History

Ellis Island How many of you or your ancestors came to the US via Ellis Island? It’s easy to do a passenger search at

the website https://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/. Within a few minutes I was able to determine my dad, Alois

Bucher (Lodi), came to New York on April 26, 1950 on the Queen Elizabeth. Looking a little more I found

family Alois, Anna, Erwin and Rita Bucher from Turlock arrived on the ship Maasdam on March 21, 1955.

The records go back to the 1800s so you might be able to find your ancestors. If you need help, email us or

call Erika at 209-747-2427. Anyone recognize the address listed below?

Weddings

2020 is a special year for the Stanislaus County Swiss Club, as it marks our 100th anniversary. Dur-

ing the coming year, we will be hosting special events to commemorate this historic milestone. See the

calendar on the back page. The grand event will be held Labor Day weekend Sunday September 6th

2020. If you're at all interested in Switzerland and your Swiss heritage, this event will be something

you won't want to miss. The idea of forming a Swiss Club started in a wine cellar with Swiss immi-

grants. They formed the club in 1920 and the mission statement at that time was to hold a Swiss Na-

tional Day celebration on August 1st, marking Switzerland's federal charter of 1291. The Swiss picnic

as it is known has been held on Sunday, Labor Day weekend for all these years. Legend or rumor has

the first picnic held at a train loading ramp somewhere near the banks of the San Joaquin River, the

longest running south to north river in the central valley of California. We look forward to our 100-

year celebration. If you have anything to add to our celebration, please contact Ed Sciarini. 209-545-

3603 The motto of the Stanislaus County Swiss Club over the years has been, Uno-Per-Tutti, and Tutti

-Per Uno One for All, and All for one.

Stanislaus Swiss Club– Celebrates 100 years in 2020

7 Answers: Neil & Betty Van Duyn, Adolf & Theresa Beeler, Joe & Agatha Senn, Wendel & Erna Trinkler, Carl & Paula Ott

Submitted by Stanislaus Swiss Club

OBITUARIES

Member VICTORIA “VICKI” AGNES (VOGEL) BIDDULPH after years of fearlessly battling metastatic breast cancer she moved on to her heavenly home on November 5th, 2019 at the age of 60 years old. Vicki was born on November 8th 1958 in Manteca, CA to Walter and Dolores Vogel. She graduated from Sonoma Valley High School in 1976. Vicki then at-tended the Santa Rosa JC, became a licensed electrolysist and went on to start her own busi-ness. Shortly thereafter, Vicki met, and fell in love with, the late Barry Biddulph. They mar-ried on October 26, 1991 and had two children, Jessica and Harrison. Vicki had a warm and welcoming spirit and her smile lit up the biggest of rooms.

Vicki is lovingly survived by her son: Harrison S. Biddulph, her daughter and son-in-law: Jessica Zetina Bid-dulph and Roberto Zetina Monarrez, her father: Walter J. Vogel, her mother: Dolores F. Vogel, her brothers: Walter Vogel Jr. and Anthony “Tony” Vogel, her sister in-laws: Cindy R.Vogel and Markey Martin, her brother in-laws: Ben Hoff and Kemp Biddulph, as well as, her nieces and nephews: Katie and David Aguilar, Tess and Justin Maynard and their boys, Noah and Eli, David Vogel, Trevor Martin, Hunter Martin, and Keile Martin.

FRANK LIENERT, JR., lifetime member of Sacramento, CA passed peacefully with his children by his side on November 10, 2019 at 78 years old. The son of the late Frank and Ma-rie Lienert of Woodland, CA. He spent his early years on the family dairy before ‘moving to town’. At the age of 22 his backyard hobby of beekeeping became the start of ‘Lienert’s Qual-ity Honey’, which he actively managed until the time of his passing. He married the love of his life, the late Joan DiMaggio, on February 13, 1971. They were blessed with three children. Lisa (David), Jody (Robert), and Frank (Beckee) as well as seven grandchildren, Dominic, Elizabeth, Michael, and Maria Hinton; Noah and Colton Thompson;

and just recently Giacomo Lienert. Frank is also survived by his loving siblings, MaryLou Haslemann, Joe Lienert, and Anne Strong as well as numerous cousins, nieces, and nephews. Frank was a dedicated parent volunteer for over seventeen years at All Hallows Catholic School, where he hosted many a crab feed and made lasting friendships. He enjoyed attending many SJVSC dances and listen-ing to Ländler music. For the past 40-plus years you could find Frank every Sunday morning at the Farmers’ Market selling honey.

LOUISE (KÜTTEL) SCHULER, 88, lifetime member passed away Saturday, October 13th 2019 in Escalon, CA. She was born November 23, 1930 in Switzerland. She married Martin Schuler in 1951 and moved with him to his established Dairy in Escalon. They worked to-gether on the dairy and had Walnut and Apricot trees, and later Almond trees. Louise liked to cook and loved her garden. Louise is survived by two sons, Martin & Deborah of Escalon, and Arnold of Escalon; 5 grandchildren, Janele, Melanie, Wendy , Jake and Angela and 9 great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband Martin in 1993.

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For all DEATH ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS please contact Chris Schallberger at 209-607-1157 / riponswiss-

club@aol.com PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE AND CONTACT NAME. Please note if you would like Crests/Flags

at the services and or to rent the Swiss Hall, please ask Chris and she will direct you to those individuals.

We dearly miss those members we lost in 2019. Please take a moment to reminisce the joy

that they shared with all of us. Pete Zumstein, Otto Egli, Otto Lochmann, Josephine Klinger,

Geri Lochmann, Edward Lambert, Heidi Britschgi, Walter Ulrich,

Louise Schuler, Frank Lienert, Jr, and Victoria (Vogel) Biddulph.

SWISS FLAGS AT THE ST. STANISLAUS CE-MENTARY There has been a yearly spotting of a SWISS ELF that puts up Swiss Flags at the Swiss gravesites at the St. Stani-

slaus Cemetery for Thanksgiving that stay up through Christmas. Thank you to the Swiss Elf (from LaGrange - we think) who takes this on for at least the past 6 years. It makes many Swiss who have relatives there very touched and happy during the holidays. Thank you Heidi Betschart for sharing this.

DONATIONS TO THE MEMORIAL FUNDS IN MEMORY OF

Walter Ulrich

Dan & Cathy Quinn Fred & JoAnn Kaufman Ozzie & Nancy Berchtold #Carl & Cookie Aufdermaur Joe & Theresa Beeler Leo & Jolene Omlin *Butch & Evelyn Betschart Alice Hafer Rosie Ott Antoinette Betschart Charlotte Egli Barbara Chiapale Pearl & George Sieler *Karl & Kathy Omlin *Leo & Charlene Ott Johnny Marchy Sandy Marchy Neil & Cathy VanDuyn *Tony & Jeanne DeSimoni Paula Ott Johann & Milga Buehlmann Marian Goncalves *Betty Ott Walter Ott

Ed Lambert

Lena Lambert

Josephine Klingler

Alice Hafer

Pete Zumstein

Alice Hafer

Otto Egli

Alice Hafer Glen & Karin Inderbitzin

Louise Schuler

Frank & Pat Gwerder Chris & Jeanne Küttel Frank Zumbach

Johann & Milga Buehlmann

*Nita Wagner

Paula Amarel

Frank Lienert, Jr.

Louie & Susie Beeler George & Pearl Sieler *Nita Wagner *Leo & Jolene Schuler *Darrell Corti *Bob & Marge Imfeld *Edward & Anne Strong *Frank & Pat Gwerder *Charlotte Egli *Karl & Kathy Omlin *Carl Denigris

Vicki Biddulph

*Michael & Susan Howe # Denotes: Kids Swiss Camp * Denotes: Scholarship

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Thank you for your contributions to the Memorial Fund.

KIDS SWISS CAMP UPDDATE

Mark your Calendars now for the 3rd ANNUAL KIDS SWISS CAMP on July 25th 2020. Ap-plications will be included in the next Newsletter. We will have a maximum number of participa-tions again. We are also looking to have a KIDS SWISS GAME day in March. Watch for emails in reference to this to be sent out next month. A fun day to come and learn some Swiss Games.

SPECTACULAR SWITZERLAND WITH HEIDI

September 18-26 2020

+ 3 Day Extension Sept 26 - 29 2020

The Imperial Valley Swiss initiated this trip and Heidi Ambiel has got it going. Stunning mountains and lakes - overnights in Zurich, Geneva, the Gruyere area, Grin-delwald, and Lucern. The highlight of this visit is the

time in the mountain resort of Grindelwald, in the vicinity

of Eiger, Mönch and Jung-frau; an unforgettable rack

railway trip to the “Top of Eu-rope”, a high Alpine wonder-

land of ice and snow. Trip will include: Bus / Hotel and some meals. Airfare not included. Open to all ages.

Those interested contact Heidi Ambiel at 831-662-8709 or see our website

www.sjvscriponswiss.com

2019-2020 SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY

SWISS CLUB OFFICERS Officers were re-elected at the December General

Meeting. Please step up and help them with their posi-

tions.

President: Tony Berchtold (209) 982-4167

1st Vice President: Paul Carmona 209-456-3438

2nd Vice President: Mike Berchtold (209) 982-4167,

Sylvia Berchtold (209) 712-1117

Treasurer: Marguerite Sigrist (209) 599-7528

Financial Secretary: Marge Imfeld (209) 531-7574

Corresp. Secretary: Chris Schallberger (209) 607-1157

Membership: Cathy Quinn (209) 602-4366

Memorials: Peggy Kaelin 209-599-2352

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Trustees: Andrea Imfeld, Tony Ott & Don Widmer

Newsletter: Chris Schallberger (209) 607-1157

& Erika Robinson (209) 747-2427

Website: Natalie Collins riponswissclub@aol.com

Hall Rental: Tom Berchtold (209) 202-9272

Caretaker: Trenten Phillips: (321) 370-9493

OTHER SWISS CLUB INFORMATION

AELPLER GRUPPE NEWARK SWISS CLUB, NEWARK, CA Feb 9 Jass Party & Fondue Dinner Mar 22 South Bay Hike April 18 Folklore Event May 3 Semi-Annual members meeting June 14 United Swiss Societies Kid’s Camp June 28 East Bay Hike Aug 1 United Swiss Societies – Swiss National Day Sep 4/5 CHAMPIONSHIP Fall Schwingfest Sep 27 North Bay Hike Nov 1 Annual Member’s Meeting Nov 7 Metzgete Dinner Dec 5 Member’s Annual Christmas Dinner Www.aelplergruppe.com IMPERIAL VALLEY SWISS CLUB www.ivswissclub.org (Schwingfest 4/4/20)

PENINSULA SWISS CLUB Sandra Scanferla-Eidam 408-348-6911

GOLDEN GATE SWISS CLUB, SAN FRANCISCO Stephen Steiner 650-341-7684 SWISS CONSULATE GENERAL Pier 17 Suite 600; SF 94111 415-788-2272 LEWIS PACIFIC SWISS SOCIETY, FRANCES, WA Adrian Cook 360-942-7703 www.lpss.info/ (Schwingfest July 4/5 2020) MONTEREY COUNTY SWISS-AMERICAN CLUB Roseann Pisoni Secretary PO Box 185 Gonzales, CA 93926 SACRAMENTO SWISS HELVETIA VEREIN CLUB www.sacramentoswiss.com SAN DIEGO SWISS CLUB Tony Odermatt 619-507-9754 (Schwingfest 6/20/20) SIERRA SWISS CLUB Feb 15 - Fondue Party April 25 - Jass Party July 18 - Schwingfest Oct 17 - General Meeting Dec 5 - Christmas Party Urs Gwerder 530-587-8316 PORTLAND SWISS CLUB, PORTLAND, OR Joanne Odermott 503-640-9675 (Schwingfest 7/11/20) STANISLAUS COUNTY SWISS CLUB Celebrating 100 Years (see page 7 for details) Ed Sciarini - 209-545-3603 Jan 19 - Dinner/Dance Feb 15 - Annual Crab Feed April 19 - Dinner & Dance May 17 - Membership Dinner/Dance June 6 - Annual Picnic Sep 6th - Grand Celebration Oct 11 - Dinner & Dance Nov 8 - Dinner & Dance Dec 13 - Annual Meeting Christmas Dinner/Dance SWISS SPORTSMEN’S CLUB OF TACOMA, WA Earl Gratzer 253-875-9679 (Schwingfest 6/13 & 8/9)

Contact Tom Berchtold at 209-202-9272

SJVSC Year 2020 Calendar of Events

Feb 8 (Sat) Fasnacht / Casino Night

12 (Wed) Monthly Meeting

16 (Sun) Spring Jass Party

29 (Sat) Scholarship deadline

Mar 11 (Wed) Regular Monthly Meeting

14 (Sat) Schwinger Dinner/Dance

Apr 8 (Wed) Regular Monthly Meeting

18 (Sat) Swiss Echoes Spring Concert/Dinner

May 13 (Wed) Regular Monthly Meeting

16 (Sat) Spruce up the Hall/Grounds Day

June 6 (Sat) Spring Schwingfest

10 (Wed) Regular Monthly Meeting

July 8 (Wed) Regular Monthly Meeting

25 (Sat) Kids Swiss Camp

25 (Sat) Annual Members BBQ

Aug 12 (Wed) Regular Monthly Meeting

29 (Sat) Fall Schwingfest

Sept 9 (Wed) Regular Monthly Meeting

Oct 3 (Sat) Oktoberfest

14 (Wed) Regular Monthly Meeting

17 (Sat) Fall Swiss Echoes Dinner/Concert

Nov 8 (Sun) Fall Jass Party

11 (Wed) Regular Monthly Meeting

Dec 6 (Sun) Swiss Echoes Christmas Dinner

9th (Wed) ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 13th (Sat) Children’s Christmas Party

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