SWISS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY PHILADELPHIA

SBS NEWS

Annual General Assembly Meeting 2012

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Cannstatter Volksfest Verein, Philadelphia, PA

Invitations will be mailed shortly!

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 Congratulation

The Swiss Governement and the General Consulate of Switzerland in New York choose Mrs. Christine Pfister as the new Honorary Consul in Philadelphia.

We congratulate our member Christine to her new assignment and welcome her as our new representative.

Christine Pfister takes the place of retiring Honorary Consul Franz Portmann who served the Swiss Community for many years.

We thank Franz Portmann for all his support and wish Christine Pfister great success in her new position.

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Sad News

Our society mourns the passing of Mr. Johann Buerkli. Mr. Buerkli had joined this society in 2009 along with his wife Isolde.

Mr. Johann Buerkli died on Thursday, February 10, 2011.

The society extends deepest sympathy to Mrs. Buerkli and her family.

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Sad News

My dear Friends,

with enormous sadness I like to inform you, that my dear husband Stan suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage on Friday, January 21, 2011.

Excellent neurological surgeons tried everything to safe his live at Albert Einstein Hospital.

Surrounded by his loving family, Stanton Pressman passed on peacefully on Tuesday, January 25, 2011 without ever regaining his consciousness.

A memorial service date will be announce later and his burial will be private.

I will forever miss him,

Helen Phillips and Family 

"Celebration of Life" information (PDF)

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The Maurice Rohrbach Fund (Swiss American Cultural Exchange)

co-sponsors a great performance by the Swiss Mime Group

Mummenschanz

Saturday, December 18, 2010 at 2:00 pm

Download Invitation (PDF)

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Our society celebrated its 150th Anniversary on Saturday, October 16, 2010 at the Torresdale Frankford Country Club in Philadelphia.

The Gala dinner was well attendend and our members and guests enjoyed great food, entertainment and dancing.

The Directors of the Board thank all sponsors, advertisers and especially the attending members, friends and guests for supporting this special event.

A picture gallery is in the making, so we hope you check back in the near future.

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Sad News

Our society mourns the passing of Mrs. Linda Carilli - Webb, daughter of our longtime members William and Charlotte Webb.

Memorial Service:

Saturday, November 7, 2009, 11:00 AM at the Community Center, 16 E Main Street, Moorestown, NJ.

The family requested that no flowers be sent.

The society extends deepest sympahty to the Webb family.

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 Annual Meeting 2009 at the Cannstatter Volksfest Verein.

(March 28th 2009)

The annual meeting was a great success with 60 attendees. It was a great pleasure to welcome the Ambassador, Mr. Christoph Bubb and his wife Regula. Among our members were also the honorary consul Mr. Franz Portmann and his wife Rosemarie.

The area Swiss Clubs were represented by Ms. Monica Rieder, President of the New Helvetic Society and Mrs. Silvia Brooks, President of the Swiss Club of the Jersey Shore.

Our entertainment was again arranged by our Vice President, Dr. Frank Muggler. We all enjoyed the accordion playing by Michael Skweir and the performances by the Franklinville/Schwarzwald Men's Chorus and the Duo Julia and Guy Rothfuss. As a surprise we also had the joy of listening to Kathleen Echols, a young soloist. Their pianist was Beth Casmas.

The president, Dolf Herger, presented the Commemorative Ethnic Heritage Coin, created in 1976 by Dr. Frank Muggler, to the Ambassador.

The members reelected all previous directors and added Mr. Alfred Kessi as a new member to the board of directors. The finances are in good shape dispite the financial problems in the banking sector. The dues will stay at $3.00 per member and everyone was asked to support next year's 150th Anniversary of the society.

All in all, we all enjoyed the excellent food and the camaraderie with members and guests.

I'm looking forward to see you all at our next annual meeting and encourage you to come forward helping us to arrange a special event to celebrate our 150th Anniversary.

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Sad News

 Our Society mourns the passing of Mr. Tony (Anthony) Ranjo. Tony became our 100th member during our Annual Meeting in March.

He died on Tuesday, July 8th at the Grand View Hospital. Tony would of celebrated his 86th birthday in October.

Our condolence goes out to his wife Vreni and her family.

Tony will be in our memories.

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