Naturalization Day Collection, 1948-1957

Call number:  MG-315

1 box     1 folder    .25 cubic ft.

Repository:  LancasterHistory.org (Lancaster, Pa.)

Shelving Location:  Archives South, Side 8

Description:  Collection contains programs for Naturalization Day banquets. Most list names of new citizens; some include place of nativity for each.

Creator:  Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.)

Conditions for Access:  No restrictions.

Conditions Governing Reproductions:  Collection may not be photocopied. Please contact Research Staff or Archives Staff with questions.

Language:  English

Source of Acquisition:  Programs were collected by the Lancaster County Historical Society unless otherwise noted.

 

Folder 1     Banquet Programs

Insert 1  Banquet Programs

Fourth Biannual Naturalization Day Dinner, arranged by the Americanism Committee, American Legion Post 34. Held at Wiggins Plantation Room, Lancaster.  Lists officers and committee members. New citizens: Bertha Schwarz, Theresa Weiss, Ada Beatrice Tuck, Rose Mary Reisinger, Anna Maria Kroiss, and Joseph Avila Ricard. 19 March 1948.

Fifth Biannual Naturalization Day Dinner, arranged by the Americanism Committee, American Legion Post 34. Held at Hotel Brunswick, Lancaster. Lists officers and committee members. New citizens: Elaine Neilsen Acri, Andres Barrera, Kathleen Mary Bennett, Evelyn Pearl Dulaney, Michael Elias, Herta Ellis, Edna Fasig, Freda Blythe Feldser, Valerie Edith Nora Frank, Gladys Mary Fritsch, Phyllis Irene Graybill, Teresa Herr, Teresa Josephine Kelly, Irene Lilian Kilgore, Mrs. Elly Kinter, Joan Lilian Kramer, Ivy Madge Krick, Catherine Angela Lehman, George Clements McAulay, Theresa Pichler, Anna Maria Salerno, Bessie Satulsky, Margarete Pauline Schonert, Eileen Marriott Shertz, Mary Vafias, Willy Walter Wallentine. 5 November 1948.

Sixth Biannual Naturalization Day Dinner, arranged by the Americanism Committee, American Legion Post 34. Held at Hotel Brunswick, Lancaster. Lists officers, committee members, and supporting organizations. New citizens: Petronilla Goldman, Helen Clark Simpson Caldwell, Roger Louis Asso, Gerald Julius Brady, Helen Evelyn Metzger, Valerie Edith Nora Frank, Mireille Andrea Goda, Joan Marjorie Heinecke, Bessie Tompkins, Sarah Helen Patricia Cyms, Winifred Victoria Ganse. 25 March 1949. Gift of Bertha Cochran Landis, April 1949.

Seventh Biannual Naturalization Day Dinner, arranged by the Americanism Committee, American Legion Post 34. Held at Hotel Brunswick, Lancaster. Lists officers and committee members. New citizens: Eileen Theresa Johns, Edith Henrietta Metzler, Kathleen Irene Kauffman, Jorgen Erling Heje Larsen, Frances Zercher, Gerard Johan Evenwel, Miss Jean McLennan Ballentyne, Stefania Schnupp, Giovanna Lombardo, Yvette Jeanne Adrienne Harner, Ada Ellen Townsend. 18 November 1949.

Eighth Biannual Naturalization Day Dinner, arranged by the Americanism Committee, American Legion Post 34. Held at Hotel Brunswick, Lancaster. Lists officers and committee members. 10 March 1950.

 

Insert 2  Banquet Programs

Twelfth Semi-Annual Naturalization Day Dinner, arranged by the Americanism Committee, American Legion Post 34. Held at Wiggins Restaurant, Lancaster. Lists officers and committee members. New citizens: Mary Andreadis, Erica Aronsohn, Fritz Aronsohn, John G. Enck, Joseph Feilmeier, Helen Frangakes, Grace H. Frey, Elizabeth S. Hoff, Eileen Hoover, Beatrice Kauffman, Paul Loos, Dorothy Murr, Anne L. Obetz, Stylianos N. Pangas, Joan Wendt, Sarah M. Yablon, Lemonia Zimnis. 21 February 1952.

Thirteenth Semi-Annual Naturalization Day Dinner, arranged by the Americanism Committee, American Legion Post 34. Held at Hotel Brunswick, Lancaster. Lists officers and committee members. New citizens: Adele Baer, Leopold Baer, Lilian Calender, Frank Capp, Henry Cornies, Michael Henry De La Blanchetai, Maria Fulginiti, Werener Hesse, Leila Bott Hinman, Katharine Luise Hetherington, Tina Klaassen Kohl, Rosa Kock Landis, Mary Ellen Lawton, Hilda Powell Priddy, Anna Katharina Reichard, [Andrew] Schwankel, Nellie Lawton Vogel, Theresia Maria Weimar. 14 November 1952.

 

Insert 3  Banquet Program

Fourteenth Semi-Annual Naturalization Day Dinner, arranged by the Americanism Committee, American Legion Post 34. Held at Hotel Brunswick, Lancaster. Lists officers and committee members. New citizens: Andre Baranowicz, Ingeborg Karin Dodson, Constance Donecker, Emil C. Klein, Renate Longer, Helena Moscovic, Vilem Moscovic. 20 February 1953.

List of persons scheduled to final naturalization, 20 February 1953, includes the above names as well as Anna Braun, Ilse Edith Booth, David J. Sawatzky, and Helen Sawatzki. Persons to be given an examination separately: John Alexander Sullivan, Mary Irma Nissley, Savina Stankowski, Calliopi Flouras, and Beatrice Maude Meck. This list shows address and place of nativity. Letterhead of Charles D. Mease, Prothonotary of Lancaster County.

Photocopy of newspaper article, “Forster to Talk at Dinner for New Citizens.” No date.

 

Insert 4  Banquet Programs

Seventeenth Semi-Annual Naturalization Day Dinner, arranged by the Americanism Committee, American Legion Post 34. Held at Hotel Brunswick, Lancaster. Lists officers and committee members. New citizens: Vassilios Alevizatos, Anna Aron, Nandor Aron, Sister Teresa Brendan, Susie Cave, Maria Luise Herr, Inora Marge Lauris, Bennie Levine, George Musselman Lichty, Anna Malamata, Eileen Audrey Widlake Manuel, Viktoria Muckenthaler, Max Obstbaum, Pearl Obstbaum, William Pfannebecker, Peter Pronko, Gisela Emma Ross, Nicholas Roumeliotis, Lily May Snyder, Theresa Cherven Szymanski, Panagiotes Gerges Vekios, Anna Weinberg, Stefan Weinberg, Sister Antonia Westner, Grace Bigg Woolfolk. 12 November 1954.

Nineteenth Semi-Annual Naturalization Day Dinner, arranged by the Americanism Committee, American Legion Post 34. Held at Hotel Brunswick, Lancaster. Lists officers and committee members. New citizens: Elena A. Hamby, Mary S. Anthofer, Cretel Sulyok, Ernest Sulyok, Enoch B. Frey, Laszlo Birinyi, Margit Birinyi, Ernest O. Grava, Luise P. Grava, Amalie F. Claesges, Berta M. Ehrlich, Gretel Sawadsky, Abram Sawadsky, Katharina Krockenberger, Fricis Borsteins, Suzanne J. Loeffler, Helga A. Dieffenbach, Bernardus A. Carlee, Mary Kast, Michael J. Brady, Christopher W. Brady, Patrick J. Brady, Monique M. Rhoads, Harry Blake, Settimia Marrancone, Michael Anthofer, Mary Drasch, Elizabeth M. Zepp, Marie M. Conner, Jurgen Jaschek, Gunta Puzulis, Herta Puzulis, Janis Puzulis, Serhej Kajko, Christian Tsai, Marianne Rendler, Elizabeth W. Ehrlich, Stanley A. Hoshowsky, Alberts Rekis, Polina Hasircoglu, Lilli Kintzi, Hedwig Schwankl, Pansy W. Griffiths. Names include place of nativity. 18 November 1955.

Twentieth Semi-Annual Naturalization Day Dinner, arranged by the Americanism Committee, American Legion Post 34. Held at Hotel Brunswick, Lancaster. Lists officers and committee members. New citizens: Marc Joseph Besso, Lucija Elizabete Vitols, Hildegard Read, Anszel Drezner, Karl Dietrick Linde, Eliza Cukurs, Karlis Cukurs, Harue Kato Peters, Deszo Csoka, Josefa Maria Drobitun. Names include place of nativity. 17 February 1956.

Twenty-second Semi-Annual Naturalization Day Dinner, arranged by the Americanism Committee, American Legion Post 34. Held at Hotel Brunswick, Lancaster. Lists officers and committee members. New citizens: Jonathan R. Ernst, Frank P. Farkas, Molly Farkas, Aleksandra Garklavs, Arvids P. Garklavs, Patricia Grava, Elizabeth Hershman, Nicolae Jacubovschi, Helmut Hoffman, Sonja T. Leanza, Arturo Lietuvietis, Emma Lietuvietis, Elsa V. Norbergs, Karlis H. Norbergs, Regina A. Norbergs, Kinus K. Rote, Karen H. Satterthwaite, Alice Schikaneder, Maria Schmalhofer, Hans E. Tillberg, and Janis Trops. Names include place of nativity. 15 February 1957.