THE HIDDEN GERMAN HERITAGE IN TEXAS 2017 ANNUAL

CONFERENCE Austin, Texas

JULY 21 & 22, 2017

GERMAN-TEXAN HERITAGE SOCIETY 507 E. 10th Street – Austin, Texas 78701

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Annual Conference Program............................................page 2-4 Annual Conference Speakers...........................................page 5-9 Our Sponsors....................................................................page 10 All Conference activities are conveniently located at University Baptist

Church Meeting Hall, Guadalupe Street across from UT.

Friday & Saturday lunch at the Callaway House Cafeteria across the street from UBC. There is free parking in the Callaway House Garage

(bring your parking ticket to be stamped).

Friday eve GTHS hosted social time at the Historic German Free School.

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FRIDAY, JULY 21, 2017 – Time Annual Conference Teacher Workshop

9:00 AM

– Open for registration, information and coffee & pastries

– Open for registration, information and coffee & pastries

10:30 AM – Conference opening with Welcome and Announcements (Richard & Michael)

– Conference opening with Welcome and Announcements (Richard & Michael)

11:00 AM – German Texan Sites & Stories – by April Garner, THC (Introduction by Charles)

– German Texan Sites & Stories – by April Garner, THC (Introduction by Charles)

12:15-1:00pm

– Lunch at Callaway House for all who are registered.

– Lunch at Callaway House for all who are registered.

1:00-2:00PM

– Optional tour (30 persons) to Ransom Center to view Gutenberg Bible (Very short walk across Guadalupe St to UT campus)

– Optional tour (30 persons) to Ransom Center to view Gutenberg Bible (Very short walk across Guadalupe St to UT campus)

1:15-2:00PM

– Chris Markley in depth operational update on GTHS strategic direction and growth opportunities.

– Resources for teachers from the German Texans Mobile Tour App – by April Garner, Linda Miller, and Sue Shore, THC (Small meeting room 30 capacity)

Combined Sessions

Annual Conference Path

Teacher Conference Path

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2:00-3:00PM

– Dr. Walter Kamphoefner Reactions to WWI in W.A. Trenckmann’s Newspaper

– Ute Hoefel, German Institute for the Southwestern Houston, „Auswandern: Damals und Heute“

3:00-3:15PM

– Break

– Break

3:15-4:15 – Greg Garret, UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures. „Deutsches Ballspiel im Texas Hill country: Baseball and the Texas German Community“

– Join main group in downstairs hall for: Greg Garret, UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures. „Deutsches Ballspiel im Texas Hill country: Baseball and the Texas German Community“

4:15-4:30PM

– Closing with Announcements – information on evening event, etc

– Announcements – information on evening event, etc

6:00-8:30PM 5:30-6:00PM

– Social Time at GFS with food, drinks and live music. – Board has brief meeting at GFS

– Social Time at GFS with food, drinks and live music.

Evening Event – Historic 1858 German Free School

6:00-8:30 PM – German food buffet (Frank’s Catering) – Social time & music.

Shirley Johnson – Accordion player

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Saturday, July 22, 2017 –

Time Annual Conference Teacher Workshop

8:30 AM

– Historical Austin Cemetery Tour (optional)

– Historical Austin Cemetery Tour (optional)

9:00 AM – Open for registration, information and coffee & pastries

– Open for registration, information and coffee & pastries

10:30 AM – Dr. Kyle Wilkison The Agrarian Socialist Movement, ties to German-American Anarchists and Development of the Socialist Party

– Yvonne Franke, Midwestern State University „Screening the Wild West – German Phantasies and the New World (small meeting room 30 capacity)

11:30 AM – Announcements (other interesting sites in Austin)

– Announcements (other interesting sites in Austin)

12:00-1:00PM

– Lunch at Callaway House for all

– Lunch at Callaway House for all

1:00-1:30PM 1:00-2:00PM

Business Meeting of the GTHS

– Optional tour (30 persons) to Ransom Center to view Gutenberg Bible

1:30-2:30 PM

– Dr. Peter Buckingham “Red” Tom Hickey and the “Freidenker/Socialist” families of Stonewall County.

– Gail Cope, Founding member/Steering Committee Texas State German Contest „Field Trips to historical research on German Texas areas“ & „How to include German Texan Heritage into the Classroom“

2:30-2:35 PM

– Break – Break

2:35-3:35 PM

– Dr. Matt Tippens Turning Germans into Texans & the effects of WWI on Germans

– Marc Pierce & Alexander Lorenz, University of Texas Austin „Teaching Texas German“

4:30 PM – Closing – Closing

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April Garner This year’s conference will be kicked off by April Garner, State Coordinator of the Texas Heritage Tourism Program, who will share exciting news about the Texas Historical Commission’s new travel guide on Germans in Texas. Garner has a bachelor of arts in art from Saint Edward’s University in Austin and a master’s degree in art education with a museum education concentration from the University of Texas in Austin. As the State Coordinator of the Texas Heritage Tourism Program, Garner leads a team in developing statewide thematic mobile app tours and travel guides, and assists communities with new tourism product development. Garner also serves as primary liaison with other organizations and agencies involved with heritage tourism such as the National Parks Service, develops methods of increasing the heritage tourism potential of existing THC programs such as the Texas Historic Courthouse Preservation Program, Texas Main Street and the Historic Highways programs. Before joining the THC in 2006, Garner managed the development of two online educational websites and associated summer teacher institutes for the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Teaching Gutenberg and Teaching the American Twenties. Her husband’s mother’s family immigrated from Germany to the Fayetteville area in the 1850s.

Susan Shore works with the Texas Historical Commission’s Texas Heritage Tourism Program. Current work includes developing content for Texas Time Travel Tours, a mobile app featuring a series of thematic tours based on Texas history and heritage, and facilitating content development for the THC’s heritage tourism web sites. Prior to joining the THC, Shore developed interpretive programs for visitors of all ages at Lubbock Lake National Historic Landmark, and was a regular contributor to The Social Studies Texan, the journal of the Texas Council for Social Studies. Shore holds a BA in Theatre Education from the University of

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Wisconsin, an MA in Museum Studies from the University of Nebraska, and is a Certified Interpretive Planner through the National Association for Interpretation. Linda Miller is on her third career in education. She was a middle school classroom teacher in Lake Travis ISD for many years. While there, she received a Fulbright teaching fellowship and spent a year as an American teaching English to British kids in a comprehensive school in Oxford, England. After leaving the classroom, Linda spent her second career as an executive editor developing web and digital media curriculum resources for Holt, Rinehart and Winston, now known as Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Her third (and final!) career in education includes developing original content for the Bullock Museum’s website and now serving as the senior education specialist in THC’s history programs division. Dr. Matt Tippens – Dr. Tippens will present from his book, Turning Germans Into Texans, which describes how President Wilson’s implementation of policy designed to encourage support of U.S. entry into WWI not only resulted in suppression of civil liberties of those who opposed the war but unleashed popular resentment of German-Americans. With devastating consequences for those German-Americans who openly opposed the war and for those who chose to continue to speak their native language in public, Dr. Tippens’s book is a timely study of how one ethnic group suffered due to the rhetoric and policies enacted by the Administration. Resonant today, this episode in American history speaks to how important it is that the citizenry be knowledgeable of core democratic values and that patriotism is not dependent upon language, ethnicity, or ancestry. Dr. Tippens received his Ph.D. in History from TX Tech University and studied German at the Freie Universitaet Berlin.

Dr. Walter Kamphoefner – Dr. Kamphoefner will present, "The 'Wochenblattmann' and the Great War: Reactions to World War I in W.A. Trenckmann's Memoirs and Newspaper." William A. Trenckmann's Wochenblatt was the nearest thing to a state German newspaper in Texas. A Texas A&M classmate of Postmaster General Albert Burleson, he received the first permit nationwide exempting him from the burdensome requirement to translate all war news into English. A loyal American with a daughter serving in the military, he was nevertheless critical of the demagoguery and hysteria toward German Americans that accompanied the war. Throughout, he was a sober voice of reason and an effective go-between, mediating relations of Anglo and German Texans. Of Missouri German heritage, Dr. Kamphoefner earned his Ph.D. at University of Missouri-Columbia in 1978 and has been professor of history at Texas A&M since 1988, where he teaches in the field of immigration history. He was recognized by his peers in the Organization of American Historians as a Distinguished Lecturer for 2012-17. Currently president of the Society for German-American Studies, he has published widely in the field of immigration and ethnicity, with articles in four languages and three books out in both German and English. One of the pioneers of transatlantic linkage studies with his monograph The Westfalians: From Germany to Missouri (Princeton, 1987), he has since worked intensively with immigrant letters, but also has research interests in bilingual education and the immigrant language transition. Since arriving at Texas A&M, he has taken Booker T. Washington’s advice to

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“cast down your bucket where you are,” so that he now knows almost as much about Texas Germans as about those in his native Missouri. Dr. Peter Buckingham – Dr. Buckingham will present from his forthcoming book about “Red” Tom Hickey, prominent Agrarian Socialist activist in TX who married into a German-Texan Freidenker family also prominent socialist activists. His presentation will examine the political activism of Hickey and the Wolfe and Booer families of Stonewall County, focal point of a group of German-Texan socialists in Stonewall and Haskell Counties. He received his PhD. from Washington State University and is a professor of history at Linfield College, Oregon. Interested in the American radical tradition, his publications include Expectations for the Millennium: American Socialist Visions of the Future; Rebel Against Injustice: The Life of Frank P. O'Hare; Woodrow Wilson: A Bibliography of His Times and Presidency; America Sees Red: Anti-Communism in America, 1870s to 1980s. He is currently working on a book about the Irish radical James Connolly and his time in America. Dr. Kyle Wilkison – Dr. Wilkison will provide the background of the “radical” Agrarian Socialist Movement and the ties German-Texans/Texans had with those in the worker rights’ movement, nationally such as that of Texan Albert Parsons, affiliated with German-American Anarchists, hanged for his participation in the Chicago Haymarket Riot. Drawing from his book Yeomen, Sharecroppers, and Socialist: Plain Folk Protest in TX, 1870-1914 and from his contribution to The TX Left, which Dr. Buckingham was also a contributor, he will trace the development of the Populist movement which German-Texans such as the Meitzen family of Hallettsville were active in, which morphed, in part, into the Socialist Party. His presentation will follow this transition through the Meitzen family, 48er refugees, who became colleagues of Eugene V. Debs, co-founder of the Socialist party and Socialist presidential candidate. A small sample of the recognition his professional work has received includes being named the prestigious Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation Piper Professor award in 2014, the Fehrenbach Award, the Calvert Book Prize, the Bates Award, the Lock Award, with recognition from the American Library Association. He received his Ph.D. in History from Vanderbilt and has taught at Collin College in Plano for close to 20 years.

Christopher Markley - As of February 1st I was hired as Director of Operations at GTHS. I’ve supported the GTHS organization for many years as a member, volunteer and serving as a board member between 2009 – 2012 and again in 2016. The 5 year break between board appointments was due to a move to Munich, Germany for business. A little about me: Personal: I’m married to Manuela Markley (German native) and have two teenage daughters Saskia and Svenja (both German-Texan, ). I’m a native Texan, grew up in Lockhart, Texas and have lived in the Austin area for 20+ years. I can trace my family to one of the “Old Eighteen” defenders of the Gonzales cannon who died defending the Alamo, Jacob Darst. The only break in not living in the Austin area was from 2012 – 2015, when we moved to Munich, Germany where I worked for O2 / Telefonica Germany, similar to Verizon here in the USA. I understand

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and speak German and some Bayrisch. I have a degree from Texas State and an MBA focused in International Business. Professional: I’ve worked the majority of my career in the wireless field with Verizon, Nextel, Sprint and Telefonica Germany. I held various roles from Operations, HR, Training & Development, Logistics, Sales, Marketing and Customer Experience. I have a strong project management experience and mindset in directing highly complex and visible programs within matrix oriented organizations both locally and internationally. Adept in building and managing strong cohesive teams, both globally and culturally diverse, in fast paced environments. So knowing all of that, I’m sure you’re wondering why would I want to work for GTHS. Because I believe and see the great opportunity for GTHS as a state-wide organization and for the German Free School in Austin. Some quick examples, but there are plenty more

Our education classes in Austin are in very high demand. Most classes fill up and have waiting lists in just a matter of days after announcement is open for registration.

Our Christmas Market is nationally known with over 1,500 people attending the one day event in 2016 and is growing exponentially year over year.

Our Oktoberfest is receiving grants from the Cultural Arts division from the City of Austin, allowing for additional funds for marketing and entertainment.

Partnership with UT of Austin Germanic Studies Department, German Teachers in Texas, the German Consulate and German Language programs around Texas in an initiative called Texas German Outreach activities. More to come on this exciting program.

In January 2017, I presented to the Board a presentation that highlighted the areas of opportunity and improvement both in the short and long term. Our mission at GTHS: Promoting Awareness & Preservation of the German Cultural Heritage of Texas To achieve this mission, we have 5 main areas of focus (highlighted in the graph below), which need to be in alignment, working in sync and driving the right balance between the mission of: Awareness, Preservation and Revenue.

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Each one is unique, but connected to each other. One does not work without the other. Our goal is to strategically address and focus on each of the areas, highlighted above, to ensure we’re in sync and driving each one to success. We will expand and grow our education offerings in Austin, San Antonio and to other key locations through our German Language classes, as well as offering German Summer Camps for children. Our events will continue to expand and we’ll ensure the experience and offerings match expectations, which in turn grows and feeds the education offerings, outreach programs and membership opportunities. We’ll promote the German Free School location to offer even more events, rental services and partner with our neighbors around us. An example of these could be to hold “Fasching”, being an overflow event / catering location for Stubbs BBQ and or offer a once a month “Music In The Gardens” event on Sunday afternoons. With the right focus, transparency and mind shift this can be achieved. For me communication is KEY. This means highlighting the strategy and direction we want to take, set tangible targets / objectives and act upon them. There is a lot of work to be done, but with focus, transparent communication, utilization of our members, volunteers and Board Members strengths and areas of expertise we can get there. I welcome past and current members to reach out to me on any questions, feedback or on ideas for present and future direction and growth. Dankeschön, Christopher 512-228-9056

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– JULY 21-22, 2017 –

Speakers will focus on: how to engage with Texas German history in educational settings

Yvonne Franke, PhD, Midwestern State University “Screening the Wild West – German Phantasies and the New World” Dr. Yvonne Franke is Assistant Professor of German in the Department of Foreign Languages at Midwestern State University, a Liberal Arts College in Wichita Falls, North-Texas. She is developing a German program. Dr. Franke received her Ph.D. in German Studies from the University of Pittsburgh in 2013. Her research interests include contemporary German film and literature with a focus on Heimat, the German notion of home and belonging. She co-edited the anthology Heimat Goes Mobile – Hybrid Forms of Home in Literature and Film, which was published in 2013. Dr. Franke's own contribution to the volume deals with the meaning of home and identity in road films under the influence of American popular culture. Ute Hoefel, MS, German Institute for the Southwest, Houston “Auswandern: Damals und Heute” Ute Hoefel taught at the Gymnasium Ernestinum in Celle/Germany and St. John’s High School in Houston. In 2003, she started teaching at the University of St. Thomas/Houston and Rice University/Houston, and is currently working at the German Institute for the Southwest in Houston.

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Greg Garret, Education Specialist II, UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures Deutsches Ballspiel im Texas Hill Country: Baseball and the Texas German Community I was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, raised in Texas and graduated from Lockhart High School in 1992. The next 20 years I spent in kitchens cooking. It was hard, stressful work but I would not have traded the people I met or the experiences and knowledge I gained for the world. I attended UTSA after my father passed and received both my B.A. and M.A. from this institute. I currently work as an educator and researcher at UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures (ITC), the university cultural museum. As a member of the Education and Interpretation team I work hands on with kids and adults of all ages, giving context to the mosaic of diversity that Texas offers. I am interested in all things Texas but specialize in researching the history of baseball in the Lone Star State and its use as a social tool of inclusion by the state’s varied ethnic communities. Along with the Latino Baseball History Project and Richard Santillan, PhD, I have helped to organize and co-author a continuing collection of books by Arcadia Publishing Company that focuses on baseball in Mexican American Communities. Titles include: Mexican American Baseball in the Alamo Region and Mexican American Baseball in South Texas. There are six more books to follow. I have begun to use the platform provided by UTSA – ITC to recognize these ethnic communities with an annual baseball program. These have included: Los Peloteros (Tejano), Invisible Diamonds and Voices from the Invisible Diamonds (African American), Deutsches Ballspiel to the Texas Hill Country: Baseball and the Texas German Community (German). Marc Pierce, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies

Alexander Lorenz, Ph.D. Candidate/ Assistant Instructor of German University of Texas at Austin Teaching Texas German

Marc Pierce is an associate professor of Germanic Studies at UT-Austin, where he works mostly on historical linguistics, the history of linguistics, and Texas German. He has worked extensively on Texas German, often in collaboration with others, since arriving at UT in 2007.

Alexander Lorenz is a Ph.D. candidate in the Germanic Studies Department at UT Austin. His research interests in second language acquisition and foreign language pedagogy include grammar & vocabulary learning, instructional technologies and teaching dialect in the second language classroom. Alexander was awarded the foreign language teaching excellence award in 2016. He teaches about the Texas German language in lower-level German courses at UT.

Gail Cope, MA, Texas State German Contest, Founding Member, Member of Steering Committee. Field trips to do historical research on German Texas areas or/and How to include German Texan Heritage in the Classroom Born in Memphis, Tennessee.

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2013 MFA at Texas Woman's University Denton, Texas

2013 MA in Art History Texas Woman’s University Denton, Texas

2001-2005 Art Classes Brookhaven School of Arts, Dallas County Community Colleges Farmers Branch, Texas

1976 M.A. German, University of Texas at Arlington 1968 B.A. French and German, Peabody College of Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee Gail has been a German Teacher from 1968-200, Co-Founder of the Texas State German Contest, Co-Director and still active board member for the Regional German Contest since 1972. She is a participant in 14 German American Partnership Program Exchanges.

Honors 2000 German American Friendship Award from the Federal Republic of Germany

1999 Community Builder Award Masonic Lodge of Texas 1985 Texas Foreign Language Association German Teacher of the Year Publications

Merging Visions 2012-2016: poetry and paintings

Gerhard Richter’s Paintings of Terrorists: The Artist Confronts History, Thesis May 2013

Graduate Lecturer at the Modern in Ft. Worth September-December, 2008 Dallas Morning News January 18, 2007 Courtney Flatt From art Forms, a group forms

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Our sponsors for this year’s Annual Conference are: Arphax Publishing Co. Roots Magic Hugginson Book Co. LBJ Wildflower Center Genealogical Publishing Co. Lizz Hicks FamilySearch.org AncestorStuff.com Germania Insurance Portal to Texas History (North Texas State University) Texas German Dialect Project (Dept. of Germanic Studies UT-Austin) Texas General Land Office Mars Chocolate North America