Jasper-Pfaffenweiler Partnership Milestones
September 1984
39 people from Jasper visit Pfaffenweiler and inquire of their interest in forming a partnership.
May 1985
41 people from Pfaffenweiler visit Jasper for official signing of partnership document.
April 1986
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3 students from Pfaffenweiler attend Jasper High School for one month.
June 1986
5 students from Jasper High School attend Staufen Gymnasium for one month. All of them stay in Pfaffenweiler.
Fall 1986
Jutta Eisenring from Staufen comes to Jasper for the school year.
April 1987
23 students from Staufen Gymnasium, the high school near Pfaffenweiler, attend Jasper High School for one month - three are from Pfaffenweiler.
Matthias Hilger of Pfaffenweiler begins training at Indiana Desk Company in Jasper.
June 1987
19 students from Jasper High School attend Staufen Gymnasium for one month - three stay in Pfaffenweiler.
July/August 1987
52 people from Pfaffenweiler Batzenberger Winzerkapelle (brass band) attend/perform at Jasper Strassenfest .
Fall 1987
Sonja Hueppe from Pfaffenweiler comes to Jasper for the school year.
October 1987
Sister Cities of Jasper receives award of merit from Gov. Robert D. Orr.
Fall 1988
Justin Vaughn of Jasper goes to Germany for the school year.
Voelker Boehm comes to Jasper for the school year.
September 1988
About 90 people from Jasper visit Pfaffenweiler to attend the Schneckenfest (Snail Festival) and participate in official dedication of Partnership Stone.
1989
Christine Gutgsell of Pfaffenweiler becomes the first of three girls to work as au pairs for Kris and Steve Dills of Jasper. Ester Kotterer of Pfaffenweiler lives with the Dills for six months in the winter of 1989-90, and Karin Ludwig from Hartheim lives with them during the summer of 1991.
February 1989
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Clemens Hueppe of Pfaffenweiler begins training at Kimball Electronics in Jasper.
April 1989
21 students from Staufen Gymnasium attend Jasper High School for one month - three are from Pfaffenweiler.
May 12, 1989
Matthias Hilger of Pfaffenweiler weds Kathy Kunkel of Jasper.
June 1989
19 students from Jasper High School attend Staufen Gymnasium for one month - three stay in Pfaffenweiler.
Fall l989
Priscilla Fischer comes to Jasper for the school year.
November 1990
First delivery of Pfaffenweiler wine -- 1200 bottles of Mueller- Thurgau and Rulander -- made to Jasper for sale in Buehler supermarkets.
1991
Martina and Claude Eckert with the help of Martha Rasche, write a diary of the first five years of this Partnership.
August 1991
Miriam Steible of Pfaffenweiler begins six months of working as a nanny for Bob and Sherrie Reeves in Jasper.
Fall l991
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Esther Scholz spends the semester at Jasper High School.
October 1991
20 Students from Staufen Gymnasium attend Jasper High School for one month - seven are from Pfaffenweiler.
May 1992
Darren Patterson participates in work exchange program in Germany ; after his internship ends, he lives in Pfaffenweiler for three weeks.
June 1992
20 Students from Jasper High School attend Staufen Gymnasium for one month- seven stay in Pfaffenweiler.
September 1992
Jasper-Pfaffenweiler Partnership leads to Celestine- Wagshurst connection.
October 1992
23 Students from Jasper High School attend Staufen Gymnasium for one month- six stay in Pfaffenweiler.
June 1993
24 Students from Jasper High School attend Staufen Gymnasium for one month - six stay in Pfaffenweiler.
August 1994
80 people from Pfaffenweiler attend Jasper Strassenfest and participate in dedication of Partnership Stone in front of Jasper City Hall .
October 1994
20 Students from Staufen Gymnasium attend Jasper High School for one month - nine are from Pfaffenweiler.
June 1995
15 Students from Jasper High School attend Staufen Gymnasium for one month - nine stay in Pfaffenweiler.
About 45 People from Jasper visit Pfaffenweiler to attend the Steibickfest (Stone Quarry Festival) to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Jasper-Pfaffenweiler partnership.
January 1996
Alexandra Eckerle of Pfaffenweiler begins working for Stens Corporation in Jasper.
July 1996
Verena Frey of Pfaffenweiler arrives in Jasper through an agriculture exchange program; she works in the floral department at Buehler's Buy-Low.
Summer 1996
SDR, one German Public Television selects the Pfaffenweiler resident emigration of 1847 to Jasper story/history for a national documentary program. The 30-minute film is produced and filmed in Pfaffenweiler. German Public Television provides an English language version of the film to Sister Cities of Jasper in exchange for the English text of the original film and two chairs from Jasper Seating.
Matthias Hilger begins writing bi-weekly columns about Pfaffenweiler for The Herald, the Dubois County daily newspaper.
October 1996
30 Students from Staufen Gymnasium attend Jasper High School for one month - seven are from Pfaffenweiler.
1997
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Jasper Partnership Commission formed. Its primary objective is to provide a central point for Sister City-related activities and to strengthen communications with Pfaffenweiler.
The Herald begins sending its issues each week to Pfaffenweiler.
March 1997
Yvonne Michel of Pfaffenweiler begins job-shadowing at Jasper Memorial Hospital .
June 1997
28 Students from Jasper High School attend Staufen Gymnasium for one month - seven stay in Pfaffenweiler.
July/August 1997
13 people from Pfaffenweiler attend Jasper Strassenfest to commemorate the 150-year anniversary of Pfaffenweiler residents' immigration to Jasper.
October 1997
Simone Hoferer comes to Jasper from Pfaffenweiler to begin training at Jasper Furniture, a division of Kimball International.
Members of the Jasper German Club and other area residents who speak German begin holding monthly " Stammtisch " ("Table for the Regulars") at the Schnitzelbank Restaurant.
January 1998
The Pfaffenweiler newsletter, S'Gmeiblaettle (Community Paper), begins arriving in Jasper each week via e-mail.
July 1998
51 people, including stone carvers and alpine horn group, from Pfaffenweiler attend Jasper Strassenfest.
October 1998
21 Students from Staufen Gymnasium attend Jasper High School for one month- five are from Pfaffenweiler.
June 1999
18 students from Jasper High School attend Staufen Gymnasium for one month - five stay in Pfaffenweiler.
June 2000
Jasper contingent travels to Pfaffenweiler to celebrate 15th anniversary of Partnership.
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