A six-page chapter newsletter comes out five times a year.  It is packed with genealogical tips, folklore, old letters and photos, book reviews, reports on chapter doings, and much more.  In the past two years, the newsletter has printed material on Volga German wedding traditions, Lily Pfannenstiel's life in Russia, the "Treasurers of the Czars" exhibit in Topeka, letters sent by Germans in Russia to their relatives in Kansas in the 1930's, Bishop Werth's July 2001 visit to Kansas, and much more.  Books reviewed in the newsletter have included Barefoot in the Rubble by Elizabeth B. Walter, The White Lamb by Mela Meisner Lindsey, and Alla Lizzie by Helen Eichstaedt.  All in all, the newsletter keeps members informed on numerous aspects of our German Russian history and heritage.

 The Newsletters will be posted on the side bar.  Just click on the edition that you would like to view.  The Newsletters are converted in Adobe Acrobat in order to e-mail these to our members.  If you are having trouble opening them, make sure that you have the latest version of Acrobat.

Sr. Alice Ann Pfeifer is our Newsletter editor and she welcomes any information that would be helpful to promoting our heritage for the newsletter.  Please click on her name below and e-mail your suggestions and contributions.  The newsletters are published seasonally.

 

Sr. Alice Ann Pfeifer
Editor of the
Sunflower Chapter Newsletter