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Making It At The Smithsonian, Walter Angst
Making It At The Smithsonian, Walter Angst
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Once I had a job at the Smithsonian Institution, I had to wait a whole year until my position opened, in January of 1968, and even then my position had first to be approved by Congress as at that time there was a hiring-freeze. I got hired as a "specialist for restoration" with Exhibits. We were a department of two people out of about 800. In order to justify my grade, I passed a mid-level exam, which was rather tough, as it was meant to be administered to generals, admirals, high level administrators, and Ph.Ds. Gordon, my supervisor, had difficulties …
Growing Up
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
I was born in Zlirich, right after the First World War, on October 16, 1919. I basically grew up as an only child, because my sister Irma is six years younger. My early childhood memories are happy ones. I remember all kinds of adventures with a band of other, mostly older children, involving such stunts as illegally riding down the rails into an immense clay pit in open rollingtrucks. It is a wonder we survived unscathed.
Enduring Apprenticeships, Walter Angst
Enduring Apprenticeships, Walter Angst
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Since I was two years older than my school chums and knew that I could not afford to go on to higher education, I quit secondary school after the second year. My dream was to become a graphic artist, devising posters. My father was afraid for me: if I would indulge in an artist's life, I surely would go to pot! He proposed instead that I learn the trade of a barber or, as a concession, a cabinet-maker. Consequently, I was apprenticed to a master cabinetmaker who promptly dismissed me after a few weeks as being too weak. After a …
Gaining A Measure Of Success, Walter Angst
Gaining A Measure Of Success, Walter Angst
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
In the spring of 1943, I was able to win a job with a large firm at the Zlirich branch of the "Therma" company. The main plant was in Schwanden, Canton Glarus, and produced electrical bakery ovens, household stoves, as well as refrigerators and air conditioning systems. I was hired as a heliographist, for the copying of technical drawings. Very soon I advanced phenomenally within the firm and for eight years I worked in various positions. I served in the office of chief engineer, kept the time-clock records, did the payroll, supervised the travels of the service personnel, and administered …
From Zurich's "Therma" To Washington's Smithsonian: Autobiographical Sketch Of A Mid-Twentieth Century Swiss Immigrant, Walter Angst
From Zurich's "Therma" To Washington's Smithsonian: Autobiographical Sketch Of A Mid-Twentieth Century Swiss Immigrant, Walter Angst
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Both my parents were city dwellers displaced from rural Switzerland. In fact, all my grandparents came from agricultural villages. Yet, they all were "armigerous," that is, entitled to use armorial bearings, which is not unusual back home. My father, also called Walter, grew up in Btilach, at that time a small town in the Canton of ZUrich. He was a stone mason like his father, who ran a grave-stone business. I hardly knew my grandfather, who fell to his death from the steeple of one of the two churches while working on a Gothic window. What I do remember and …
Moving To The United States, Walter Angst
Moving To The United States, Walter Angst
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
In July of 1951, I emigrated with my family to the United States. Today, I shudder when I think of our daring decision to abandon all familiar life, to bundle up two babies and a few belongings, and to trust our luck in a strange country. After all, I had only a vague promise of a job as cabinet-maker, only rudimentary knowledge of English, no money to speak of, and no prospect of getting help from anyone. Why did I change continent, language, culture, profession, home, and leave friends and relatives? The question has often been asked of me. Usually, …
Getting Re-Established, Walter Angst
Getting Re-Established, Walter Angst
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
My very first job was with a cabinet-maker called Marx, who had a tiny shop on 6th and K streets in Washington, D.C. He had three other young fellows working for him, one of whom spoke French. He could explain things to me. But coming from precision-minded Switzerland, I was not used to the sloppy ways these guys were doing cabinet work. And when I witnessed how they felt perfectly at ease banging an actual nail between the fence on a circular saw and the body of its grooved (metal) table, I was horrified. After three days I quit.
A Letter Of Johann Grob Of St. Imier To His Parents, Written In Jersey City On June 10, 1866, Johann Grob
A Letter Of Johann Grob Of St. Imier To His Parents, Written In Jersey City On June 10, 1866, Johann Grob
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Ms. Elisabeth Fowler of Oak Park, Illinois, found Johann Grob's letter among her family papers. "I have never heard how we got the copy over here," she wrote, "but we did have a cousin (in my father's generation or maybe a bit older) who used to go back and forth to Switzerland." Although it is not known who has translated the 3 document nor where the original might be, the letter sounds authentic and reports valuable details about Grob's ocean crossing and his first weeks in the United States.
Zwischen Deutsch Und Englisch Bilingual Puns
Zwischen Deutsch Und Englisch Bilingual Puns
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
GRANDMOTHER'S PUNS Grandmother Joss had a quiet sense of humor and was not above having a little fun with the language: In Bensenville the church bell was rung at 5 p.m. every Saturday afternoon to remind us that the following day would be Sunday and our presence in church would be appreciated. Grandmother's usual comment was: "Ah, die Kirche bellt schon."
Memoir Of The First International Gerster-Castor Reunion Basel, Switzerland, 1987, Richard J. Caster
Memoir Of The First International Gerster-Castor Reunion Basel, Switzerland, 1987, Richard J. Caster
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Two hundred and fifty years have elapsed since Hans Georg Gerster, a Swiss from the village of Gelterkinden in the Canton of Basel, emigrated to the New World. Pietist leanings and his quest for citizenship in this new land were strong inducements for him to embark on the Rhine from Basel in July, 1736. With him were his mother, Elsbeth Sparr of Herzogenbuchsee, and his three-months pregnant wife, Eva Gysin of Holstein. Arriving in Rotterdam, they boarded the Princess Augusta, and set sail for the New World via Cowes, England arriving safely after being shipwrecked off shore, at Penn's Landing, …
New Heraldic Creations And My Fourteen-Point Ethical Code, Walter Angst
New Heraldic Creations And My Fourteen-Point Ethical Code, Walter Angst
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Most of my contemporaries have many misconceptions about all things heraldic. Most people - if they even know what we are talking about - consider heraldic designs disdainfully as pretentious, superfluous, even silly, or at best arcane frills having to do with royalty. They are wrong. Armorial bearings are an expression of such things as sovereignty, of individuality, of beauty, of sagas, history, past glories and civic achievements. Just fancy our villages and resort places back-home: how poor would they be if they could not display their panoply of colorful community flags fluttering in the alpine breeze. Even here in …
List Of Publications By Walter Angst, Walter Angst
List Of Publications By Walter Angst, Walter Angst
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
1. "Heraldry in a Republic," The Augustan, Book Two (1973): 183-184.
2. "Heraldic Plan for Redesign of the State Flags," Smithsonian 4, No. 4 (1973): 18-25.
3. "Sovereignty, Identity, Morality," The Augustan, Book Five (1974): 638-639.
Samples Of Walter Angst's Heraldic Creations *
Samples Of Walter Angst's Heraldic Creations *
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
* These illustrations are inadequate black and white reproductions of some of the splendidly colored pictures that appeared in the Smithsonian 4 (July 1973): 22, 23, 24.
The Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting Of The Sahs, Dr. Arnold Price, Ms. Selina Sutter
The Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting Of The Sahs, Dr. Arnold Price, Ms. Selina Sutter
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
A. Minutes of the Meeting, Arnold Price
The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Swiss American Historical Society was held at the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, October 24, 1987.
A Review Of Walter A. Maggiolo, Techniques Of Mediation. New York: Oceana Publications, 1985, Lukas F. Burckhardt
A Review Of Walter A. Maggiolo, Techniques Of Mediation. New York: Oceana Publications, 1985, Lukas F. Burckhardt
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Walter Maggiolo is an old friend of mine from my stay as a labor and cultural attache at the Swiss Embassy in Washington, D.C. Our mutual understanding for our ways of thinking is based on our 17 experience of many years in mediating collective labor conflicts between management and unions. Whereas he acted as a General Counsel of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service in Washington, D.C., I was the permanent Secretary of the Conciliation Office (Einigungsamt) in Basel. Only by reading his book did I become fully conscious of the close similarities of our experiences, in spite of the …
Front Matter, Leo Schelbert
Front Matter, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
No abstract provided.
1887 Bern, Kansas 1987, Erdmann Schmocker
1887 Bern, Kansas 1987, Erdmann Schmocker
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Only the chirping of the chickadees all around the passing farm fields broke the silence of the evening as we neared the place of our destination -- the village of Bern, Kansas.
Meeting Fred Anderegg, Leo Schelbert
Meeting Fred Anderegg, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
It all started in June 1987. Michigan Today had arrived in the mail, a University of Michigan newspaper that carried some pictures of wonderful Byzantine mosaics. They had been photographed in the monastery of St. Catherine on Mt. Sinai, a community that had survived some fifteen hundred years and harbors numerous treasures brought there to be hidden from the ravages of turbulent times.
Titles Relating To Fred Anderegg: A Bibliographical Note, Leo Schelbert
Titles Relating To Fred Anderegg: A Bibliographical Note, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
A. Articles by Fred Anderegg
(1) "Agar Plate Photography," Photo Technique (October ~940), 2 pages, with four illustrations.
(2) "Aerial Negatives and Prints, Their Classification and Preservation in the United States," Transactions, American Geophysical Union 28, No. 4 (August 1947): 523-527. (Notation, p. 527: 11Manuscript received May 7, 1947; presented at the Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 30, 1947; open for formal discussion until January 1, 1948.")
Fred Anderegg's First Eight Decades
Fred Anderegg's First Eight Decades
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Fred Anderegg: Of Course He's On Edge, He's A Second-Story Man, Suzanne Ramljak
Fred Anderegg: Of Course He's On Edge, He's A Second-Story Man, Suzanne Ramljak
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Fred Anderegg's conversation is full of colorful anecdotes, which is to be expected from a gregarious archeological photographer whose job has been to take the ideal picture, in less than ideal circumstances, all over the globe.
On Becoming An Archaeologrical Photographer, Fred Anderegg
On Becoming An Archaeologrical Photographer, Fred Anderegg
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The normal and simplest way to become an archaeological photographer is to take courses in photography and some in archaeology--then go out in the field with a good director and get practice.
Aphorismen Von Jacob Bernays C. 1844-1888 (Posthumously Published 1988), Jacob Bernays
Aphorismen Von Jacob Bernays C. 1844-1888 (Posthumously Published 1988), Jacob Bernays
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.
A Journey With Obstacles, Jens Jensen
A Journey With Obstacles, Jens Jensen
The Bridge
Jens Jensenwas born May 2, 1892 on a farm outside of Olgod, Denmark in central Jutland. When he was nine years old his mother died (of pregnancy toxemia), leaving five children. Jens Jensen then lived with his neighbors and relatives Kirstin and Hans Christiansen. He worked on the farm which required much labor since the Christianden family took on, in addition, the operation and management of a nearby creamery (Lindbjerg).