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Page 4A, The Hondo Anvil Herald, Thursday, April 21,2005
Rotary hosts German professionals
Giving a c jwboy-style salute with their Stetsons and a chorus of "Howdy, Y'all!", five visitors from Ger-
many greeted Hondo/D'Hanis Rotary Club members Thursday. Pictured from left are team leader Manfred
Grabsch, Andreas Hellriegel, Ingo Mayer, Nina Kienzler, and Gitte Kallfass. The visitors were part of a
Rotary International business exchange program from District 1930 in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.
Thursday turned into an in-
ternational day at the Rotary
Club of Hondo/D'Hanis meet-
ing as the local club greeted five
visitors from Germany and one
from The Netherlands. Neither
knew the other was to be
present. (The visit of John
D'Hanis of The Netherlands is
related in a separate story.)
The German visitors are par-
ticipating in a Rotary business
exchange program and are led
by a long-time Rotarian,
Manfred Grabsch, from District
1930 in Baden-Wurttemberg,
Germany, located near the
French and Swiss borders.
Grabsch explained the GSE
exchange program. Participants
must be professionals between
the ages of 25 and 40 who are
not involved in any way with
Rotary. The German partici-
pants are spending several
weeks in the United States as
guests of Rotary. An exchange
team from Texas will be leav-
ing soon to go to Germany.
Grabsch, a retired college
teacher of English and geogra-
phy, joined Rotary in 1975 and
currently serves as his club's
Youth Committee chairman. He
is married and has two children,
ages 21 and 23.
The non-Rotarians included
Andreas Hellriegel, 28, who
works in marketing for a machine-
building company in Baden.
Ingor Mayer, 32, is a civil
engineer specializing in envi-
ronmental engineering and is
currently doing research on
water treatment, specifically on
sedimentation in water tanks.
Nina Kienzler, 28, is assistant
to the president of a small clock
manufacturing company and,
she said, although she grew up
in the middle of the Black For-
est, her company does not make
cuckoo clocks.
Gitte Kallfass, 30, is an assis-
tant to a managing director in the
banking industry.
Both ladies said they had
grown up in the tourism indus-
try because of their parents.
They were interested in tourism
in the United States, as well as
seeing how companies operate.
Only Ingor had not been to the
United States before, but Texas
was a first-time experience for
all.
Asked by a Rotarian what
suprised them most, Ingor re-
plied, "The wide-open country-
side, friendly people, and big
trucks." He said he had an op-
portunity to drive a two-ton
truck and it was "pretty cool."
The team leader explained
that Texas is two times as large
as Germany, but has one-fourth
the population. The group had
already visited San Antonio,
New Braunfels, Boerne,
Fredericksburg, San Angelo,
Del Rio and Uvalde. They said
it was especially interesting to
them to see the German influ-
ence in the various cities.
Still on their agenda were the
District Rotary Conference in
Corpus Christi and a week-long
stay in San Antonio.
That afternoon Rotary mem-
bers put together a tour of the area
for the visitors, coordinated by
. Ann Peden. Keith Lutz arranged
for a vehicle for the tour and Irvin
Still was the driver. Cindy and
Marvin Ivy invited the guests to
their ranch to feed the longhorn
cdttle. Their "must-do" list in-
cluded seeing longhorns.
"I wish you could have seen
their faces as they wandered into
the herd and started feeding
them," said Ann.
They then took a short tour
into the countryside on foot and
stopped at the Ivys' hilltop coun-
try home for refreshments.
According to Peden, one of
the men remarked, "This is real
Texas, not just buildings."
"They really wanted to go to
Bandera, so Irwin drove and I
was the tour guide," said Peden.
"We stopped at the FLR dude
ranch for the girls who were in-
terested in tourism and resorts,
then stopped in town. They did
a walking tour and took lots of
pictures.
"Andreas wanted to go to a
real Texas bar, so we took him
and the group to the Silver Dol-
lar and the Bandera Saloon. The
saloon had two horses out front
that they thought were for the
tourists. Imagine their surprise
when two patrons finished their
drinks and rode away.
"They met and visited with
several patrons, including a man
who worked at one of the
ranches. He was straight out of
"central casting" - handle-bar
mustache and all.
"They were running late to go
back to Uvalde, but Irwin and I
could not get them to leave." she
said. "All in all, it was a success-
ful day. We all had a good time."
Rotarian Oliver Reinhart introduces his guest, John D'Hanis.
Conference will blaze the trail
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San Antonio - "Blazing the
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will be the topic of the 2005
Texas Conference on Aging to
be held April 24-27 at the Omni
Hotel in San Antonio. The con-
ference is devoted exclusively
to successful aging and effec-
tive service delivery for mid-life
and older adults.
This will be the 24th confer-
ence sponsored jointly by the
Texas Association of Area
Agencies on Aging, the Depart-
ment of Aging and Disability
Services, AARP, and the Texas
Association of Aging Programs.
Those attending may choose
from 29 workshops offering a
variety of education opportuni-
ties. With stimulating work-
shops, motivational plenary ses-
sions, and numerous networking
opportunities, the conference is
sure to engage and inspire.
For information, visit the website:
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John D’Hanis visits
namesake community
For only the second time in
the more than 150 years since
the founding of the town of
D'Hanis has someone with the
surname of D'Hanis visited the
community.
John D’Hanis (pronounced
dah-nee) of Oostzaan, The
Netherlands, spent Wednesday
night at the Koch Hotel Bed and
Breakfast.
Owners Hilo and Candy Del
Bosque contacted historian
Oliver Reinhart who took the
visitor on a tour of the area.
D'Hanis joined Reinhart at
the Hondo/D'Hanis Rotary
Club meeting Thursday before
leaving for the airport on his
way to San Francisco and then
heading home to The Nether-
lands on Sunday.
Having discovered on the in-
ternet several years ago that
there was a town bearing his
name, D'Hanis pledged to him-
self, "If I ever get a chance, I
will visit."
His opportunity came when
he was scheduled to attend a
business conference in San An-
tonio. At the close of the con-
ference. "I rented a car and
came over," he told the
Rotarians.
The first person with the
D'Hanis name to visit the com-
munity just a few years ago was
from Belgium.
The man whose name the
town bears never set foot there.
D’Hanis ISD Board of Trustees names
Chief Executive Officer finalist
The D’Hanis Independent
School District Board of Trust-
ees, at its meeting on April 14,
named Pam Seipp, of Fort Davis
ISD to be the finalist for their
chief executive officer’s posi-
tion. By law, the Board must
now wait 21 days before voting
to hire Mrs. Seipp.
The Board has followed a
lengthy process in determining
the finalist. In January, the
Board hired the Texas Associa-
tion of School Boards (TASB)
to direct the search. TASB con-
sultants came to the district and
met with staff and community
groups to discuss desired char-
acteristics of the new chief ex-
ecutive officer. A profile was
developed from the minutes of
these meetings. This profile was
the yardstick used by the Board
and consultants in evaluating the
applicants for the position.
The TASB consultants nar-
rowed the applicant pool to four
for the first round interviews.
After the first round of inter-
views, the Board invited two
applicants back for a second in-
terview. After the second round
of interviews, a committee of the
Board visited in the Fort Davis
ISD prior to the Board voting
unanimously to name Pam
Seipp their finalist. The Board
is scheduled to vote to offer a
chief executive officer’s con-
tract on May 5, 2005.
Pam Seipp is Assistant Super-
intendent in the Fort Davis ISD.
In this position she is respon-
sible for many of the operations
in the 350 student district. She
started her career as a chemis-
try teacher and then became a
principal before becoming assis-
tant superintendent
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