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Memories of Tubingen

When

Tuesday June 2, 2015: 7:30pm to 9:00pm  Add to Calendar /   Add to Google Calendar

Where

Malletts Creek Branch: Program Room

Description

Since 1965 Ann Arbor has established six sister city relationships.

Tubingen, the first community invited to be a sister city, was compared to Ann Arbor by someone who had lived in both places “like twins raised in different countries. There is the university, the students, the river, the mills.”

On December 9, 1965 the official charter of the Tubingen and Ann Arbor partnership was presented to City Council, followed by a concert of Christmas carols sung in German by Ann Arbor High School students. Visits between the two areas started as soon as the decision was made.

Join us as several participants from both countries in this long-standing partnership reminisce about this 50 year relationship and their visits between both cities. A reception for this year’s visiting delegation from Tubingen will follow this presentation.

Speakers include:
• Ute Bechdorf, Director of the Deutsch-Amerikan Institute of Tubingen;
• Carolyn Melchers, local resident who, as a young Pioneer High School German teacher went on an early trip to Tubingen and met the man who would become her husband;
• Josie Parker, Library Director;
• Marianne Rauer, who moved to Ann Arbor from Germany after WWII and who has been very involved in the Sister City Program;
• Grace Shackman, local Ann Arbor historian;
• Ingrid Sheldon, Former Mayor of Ann Arbor

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