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1883 Annual Report of the German Society of the City of New York . German Society of the City of New York. 1884. Wust, Klaus (1984). Guardian on the Hudson: the German Society of the City of New York, 1784-1984. New York. ISBN 9780917968112. {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ; Wenner, George (1903).
The Order of the Sons of Hermann (German: Orden der Hermannssöhne) is a mutual aid society for German immigrants that was formed in New York City on July 20, 1840, [1] [2] and remains active in the states of Connectict, California, Ohio, and Texas today. [3]
At the Ladies’ Aid Society a group of women from Cleveland met and organized a "blanket raid" to collect blankets for the troops of soldiers. Months after the women organized the raid, they connected with other local groups to create the Soldiers' Aid Society. The organization was financed by private donations to care for the sick and wounded.
The American College of Sports Medicine was founded in 1954 [2] as the "Federation of Sports Medicine" in New York City at the Hotel Statler on April 22, as part of the afternoon program of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation (AAHPER). The following year, the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) was ...
Ana Oliveira & the New York Women's Foundation. Address: 434 West 33rd Street; The New York Women's Foundation was established in 1987 as a voice for women and a force for change. The Foundation's vision combines hands-on philanthropy with community-driven projects addressing the needs of low-income women and girls.
Peter Max Wagner was at the center of these efforts in New York and is credited with shepherding the society's founding. [3] Organizers were careful to select an "assimilated" name that would not draw the ire of anti-German sentiment [4] and, by 1945, the American Aid Society was assembling and sending shipments to refugee camps in Germany and ...
Women in German Yearbook 1 (1985): 1-28. Clausen, Jeanette, and Jeannine Blackwell. “Yellowed Pages, Virtual Realities: Publication in Women in German's Past, Present, and Future.” Women in German Yearbook 20 (2004): 1-12. Joeres, Ruth-Ellen, and Marjorie Gelus. “Musing Together at Year Twenty.” Women in German Yearbook 20 (2004): 215 ...
Membership was originally limited to women who were descended from a member of the Society of the Cincinnati or of an officer in the Continental Army or Navy who died while in service. There were 200 members as of 1923 and the secretary's address was 271 Madison Ave #1408, New York 10016.