Carey, Pamela
– Being part of the pioneering group in Reutlingen had its advantages and disadvantages: living in Eningen unter Achalm, and commuting on the Strassenbahn provided a much different experience than living in the PH’s Studentenwohnheim rooms. We lacked cooking facilities, and daily interacted with life in a small village. We were very visible. There was a great deal of push-pull on the academics that first year. We students lobbied for a 4-day academic week, to better take advantage of weekend travel opportunities. Originally, several of us already had completed more credits in German than were planned for the Reutlingen group, but fortunately Dr. Annemarie Christiansen, who really deserves credit for both imagining a different study abroad concept for American students, and made the Reutlingen center work, stepped in with a serious course studying the German Novella form, with associated instruction in music, augmented by heart-in-mouth tours of the Alb in her peppy VW (her driving a startling mix of German and American influences), and regular feedings. She was a mentor to many of the Reutlingen program directors, and acknowledged with an honorary degree at the spring, 1982 Valpo commencement. We have never completely left Reutlingen and the German experience behind: we returned in 1978, again in 1981, and 1986; in 1991 and 1994, our sons climbed the Achalm with us. Now we have professional colleagues in Tübingen, and return to the area regularly. In 1996, the visit included a stop at Dr. Christiansen’s grave in Würtingen. In 2013, Paul was elected to the “Leopoldina,” the Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften, which meets in the north, but is an additional draw and connection. Annette Seidenschnur Mahler, who lives in Madison but has a son, daughter in law, and most important, granddaughter in DC, is a regular visitor; Betty Uhlig was also able to join us a few years ago for an Important Birthday. We live just outside DC, and would love to hear from others in the group (pamsieving@gmail.com) We are not the only Sievings to have taken advantage of the Reutlingen opportunity; Paul’s cousins Cathy (R5) and Corinthia (Kink, R13) followed us. And Goethe, as always, says it best: Wir lernen die Menschen nicht kennen, wenn sie zu uns kommen; wir müssen zu ihnen gehen, um zu erfahren, wie es mit ihnen steht.
Chambers, Marshall
Crisp, Naoma
Engelken, Marilyn
Hartmann, Susan
Heitner, Joyce
Jacobsen, Dennis
Klug, Charlotte
Kvetko, Daniel
Larsen, David
Malvik, Jenny
Schenkey, Mary
Schider, Connie
Schreiner, Paul
Seidenschnur, Annette
Sieving, Paul
– Being part of the pioneering group in Reutlingen had its advantages and disadvantages: living in Eningen unter Achalm, and commuting on the Strassenbahn provided a much different experience than living in the PH’s Studentenwohnheim rooms. We lacked cooking facilities, and daily interacted with life in a small village. We were very visible. There was a great deal of push-pull on the academics that first year. We students lobbied for a 4-day academic week, to better take advantage of weekend travel opportunities. Originally, several of us already had completed more credits in German than were planned for the Reutlingen group, but fortunately Dr. Annemarie Christiansen, who really deserves credit for both imagining a different study abroad concept for American students, and made the Reutlingen center work, stepped in with a serious course studying the German Novella form, with associated instruction in music, augmented by heart-in-mouth tours of the Alb in her peppy VW (her driving a startling mix of German and American influences), and regular feedings. She was a mentor to many of the Reutlingen program directors, and acknowledged with an honorary degree at the spring, 1982 Valpo commencement. We have never completely left Reutlingen and the German experience behind: we returned in 1978, again in 1981, and 1986; in 1991 and 1994, our sons climbed the Achalm with us. Now we have professional colleagues in Tübingen, and return to the area regularly. In 1996, the visit included a stop at Dr. Christiansen’s grave in Würtingen. In 2013, Paul was elected to the “Leopoldina,” the Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften, which meets in the north, but is an additional draw and connection. Annette Seidenschnur Mahler, who lives in Madison but has a son, daughter in law, and most important, granddaughter in DC, is a regular visitor; Betty Uhlig was also able to join us a few years ago for an Important Birthday. We live just outside DC, and would love to hear from others in the group (pamsieving@gmail.com) We are not the only Sievings to have taken advantage of the Reutlingen opportunity; Paul’s cousins Cathy (R5) and Corinthia (Kink, R13) followed us. And Goethe, as always, says it best: Wir lernen die Menschen nicht kennen, wenn sie zu uns kommen; wir müssen zu ihnen gehen, um zu erfahren, wie es mit ihnen steht.
Steffen, Nancy
– On my first day back to VU Sophomore year my roommate, Valerie, said to me, “Come with me to Germany Spring semester.” I thought there was no way I could afford to do this. Also, I had only had two semesters of German. But somehow, I did it. This was one of the best experiences of my life. Living at a small inn where the host family did all they could to make us feel welcome, shopping at the local stores in Eningen, taking the streetcar and walking to the Hochschule, and enjoying weekend trips to sights all over Europe were all part of this wonderful experience. I’ve always been grateful to the university for making this possible.
Steinbach, Julie
Sulzer, Valerie
Timmerman, Marilyn
Uhlig, Elizabeth
Adam, Peggy
Bouman, John
Finfrock, Charlene
Fuchs, Ruth
Halter, Dale
Hastings, Nancy
Lachmann, Richard
Luepke, Brian
Rodden, Pixie-Dee
Schmoldt, Ralph
Luepke, Brian
Wanger, Linda
Boltz, Carol
Bruening, Delores
Cook, Linda
Dorsch, Thomas
Garrison, William
Hutter, Carl
Kleiman, Larry
Kolatalo, Ihor
Kruto, George
Mangerson, Mark
Massardo, Elizabeth
Meyer, Daniel
Mugge, Joel
Orr, T. Scott
Petterson, Paula
Root, Phyllis
Schlundt, Ronald
Schueler, Carrie
Wildauer, Leonard
Dudley, Loren
Freund, Richard
Funk, Alfred
Goss, Philip
Hansel, Hans
Hein, Nancy
Herron, Ruth
Jahn, Philip
Kohls, Carol
Kolb, Kathryn
Kruse, Judith
O-Brien, Dennis
Siek, David
Sump, Gretchen
Voth, Mark
Werling, Paul
Young, Dorcas
Zink, Peter
Brunmeier, Allan
Dallman, Roger
Elseroad, Dave
Finke, Marcia
Fisher, Ruth
Hackbarth, Randy
Johnson, Sally
Johnson, Randall
Krenz, Rebecca
Kretzman, O.P
Kowert, Ellen
Kimbrough, Judith
Lehr, Karl
Meyer, Susan
Mikkelson, Dennis
Nekarda, Carol
Sieving, Cathy
Sherwood, Arlyn
– “Reutlingen was my last semester at Valpo so I graduated the second day after we got back. I was off within two weeks to library school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I got my Masters in Library Science in June 1971. I finally got word that I was hired by the Illinois State Library and moved to Springfield in late February 1972. Little did I suspect then that I would be in Springfield for 41 years. I worked in reference, cataloging, documents and even supervised for 3 1/2 years. I worked the last 28 years of the 40 as the full time map librarian. I picked up another MA, in literature, in 1980 at the University of Illinois at Springfield, then called Sangamon State University. Ralph Booth and I got married in February 1999. I retired in June 2012. Ralph passed away in May 2013. I moved back to northern Illinois in October 2013, to the same county I left but not the same town. I now volunteer, a lot, for local libraries and historical societies. Would love to hear from anyone of the r5 gang!”
Tribble, Phillip
Wells, Richard
Zirngibl, Bob
Bauer, Richard
Bouman, Helene
Cates, David
Craven, Susan
Glaser, Karen
Kamnetz, Rosi
Kasten, Karen
Korby, Debbie
Lueth, George
Mau, Deborah
Ohm, Suzanne
Pflueger, Kenneth
Pippenger, Wayne
Schlimpert, Donna
Schutter, Linda
Stout, Alvin
Weber, Charles
Wiederanders, Jay
Bostelman, Linda
Brink, Carol
Bultemeier, Kaye
Decker, Dee
Deterding, Jane
Doty, Stephen
Garwood, Dan
Goodlander, Candace
Haas, William
Inai, Dawn
Kristo, Claudia
Lachmann, David
Lambert, Ronald
Leal, Ann
Lee, John
Lohmann, Laurens
Perschbacher, Susan
Simon, Tom
Ziebell, Steven
Zimonja, Fredrich
Anderson, Donald
Betker, Betsy
Bork, Jeffrey
Cebra, Stephen
– Touring the many interesting locales throughout central Europe. Visiting East Germany. I still have the flag….
