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Page 2 LUXEMBOURG NEWS OF AMERICA August, 1987
Editor
MARY ANN LULLING HUGHES
5204 Brown Street
Skokie, IL 60077
Phone: (312) 675-5204
Pres. & Business Mgr.
Jack Keefer
15 N. Waverly Pl.
Mount Prospect, IL 60056
Phone: (312) 253-8221
Secretary
Helen M. Keefer
(312)253-8221
Vice-President.Nicholas Colling
Treasurer. .George J. Meyers, Jr.
Directors
STEVE HEINZ JOHN LANG
JOHN MIXES JOHN MURPHY
Regional Correspondents
Eastern States. Madeleine Jablonski
52-35 39th Avenue
Long Island City, N.Y. 11104
Chicago Area Phillip Steffen
2135 Balmoral Ave.
Chicago, IL 60625
Grand Duchy
of Luxembourg Maria Hubert
12 Rue Giselbert, Luxembourg-Ville
FERNAND EMMEL
3, allee Drosbach — L-1423 Howald
Editorial Contributor
JOAN M. THIRY
7348 N. Ridge Ave.
Chicago, IL 60645
Phone: (312) 262-2234(5)
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day weekend, on Sunday and
Monday. It included rides for the
kiddies and games of skill and
chance for the adults. The above ad
mentions the location of the event
as "Karthauser and Ebert's"
combined groves on High Ridge,
(Ridge Avenue) near Pratt Blvd. in
Rogers Park. The festival was held
at this location until 1924, when it
was moved to Klein's Grove at
Lincoln and Devon Avenue, in
Tessville, IL (now Chicago) Much
of the above type of information
will be printed in the souvenir
edition of the 100th Anniversary of
the Grand Lodge.
News From Southern
California
Continuing a long tradition,
Honorary Consul General Marie-
Anne Pitz-Palmatier and her
husband hosted a Luxembourg
National Day lawn party at their
home on Sunday, June 21. Some 70
local Luxembourgers attended for
an afternoon of food and wine.
Two videotapes depicting business
opportunities and life styles
in the Grand-Duchy were shown
continuously, attracting much
attention and approval. Mrs. Pitz-
Palmatier raised a toast to their
Majesties the Grand Duke and the
Grand Duchess, and the Luxembourg
national anthem was
When in Luxembourg, by all means visit
the monopol-scholer department stores
999 monopol
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The youngest and most fashionable
stores in Luxembourg extend a hearty
welcome in 9 stores
2 in Luxembourg-City — 1 in Esch/AIzette
1 in Bettembourg — 1 in Differdange
1 in Dudelange — 1 in Petange
1 in Ettelbruck — 1 in Differdange/Fousbann
played. Visiting from the Grand
Duchy were on this occasion film
producer Paul Thiltges and film
director Paul Kieffer who were in
Los Angeles at the invitation of
the American Film Institute (see
below), Serge and Tessy Goedert,
Therese and Fernand Siuda and
Claude Schaal. Later, the honorary
Consul General sent a cable to the
Grand-Ducal Palace conveying
best wishes for the good health of
their Majesties and for the
prosperity of Luxembourg.
The American Film Institute
"European Community Film Festival"
was held for the first time
this year in Los Angeles. The
Luxembourg entry "Gwyncilla,
Legend of the Dark Ages" was
shown to an appreciative audience,
twice, on June 22.
Producer Thiltges and director
Kieffer were in the audience to
answer questions on the filmmaking
process. On the same day,
the Consulates General of ten
European Community nations
represented in Los Angeles
Luxembourg National
Holiday In New York
New York, June 23,1987. Consul
General of Luxembourg and Mrs.
Nicholas V. Didier gave a
reception today to celebrate
Luxembourg's National Holiday.
It was held at the showroom of
Villeroy & Boch in New York City
at Madison Avenue and 26th
Street. This location was quite a
departure from previous settings.
It afforded the guests a new view of
New York City from the showroom
windows on the 41st floor.
As happens every year at the
National Holiday celebrations,
acquaintances were renewed and
recent trips to Luxembourg were
reminisced about. New Yorker
Luxembourgians seem to be
paying visits to the "Old Country"
on every possible or feasible
occasion. A buffet of special
delicacies was provided, including
salmon mousse, beef Stroganoff
with rice, and Paschteitchen — a
Luxembourgian specialty that
might be described as a pate en
croute. The wine offered was
another Luxembourgian product
together gave a reception in honor
of the Festival. Attending were
members of the press, Festival
representatives, and various
nationals.
Mrs. Marie-Jose Deutsch, a
scientist at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena, traveled
with her family recently to
Luxembourg where she delivered
a paper on "Sequencing Challenges
of the Voyager Spacecraft
at Neptune" to the Association des
Ingenieurs et Industriels, June 16.
En route, Mrs. Deutsch spoke on
the same subject before an
interested audience in Washington
D.C.
Ann Iwach, M.A, also a member
of the L.A. Luxembourg community,
is a doctoral candidate in
General Linguistics and Literature
at the University of Southern
California. Her research involves
field work on the languages of
Luxembourg.
Marie-Anne Pitz
Hon. Consul General
of Luxembourg
— Bernard Massard. First class
liquor and soft drinks were also
provided. As a final treat, delicious
cake and coffee were offered.
The display of Villeroy & Boch
china and glassware exhibited in
the showroom is spectacular. The
dinner and breakfast sets come in
a variety of designs ranging from
traditional to modern. The "Vieux
Luxembourg" collection — offwhite
with tiny blue flower sprigs -
is, it seems, a prize possession of
many households of immigrants
from Luxembourg and even of
those of their U.S. - born families.
Mr. Didier, greeting the guests,
announced that the Luxembourg
government had decided earlier
this year to split up the functions of
the Consul General in New York
and that of its Permanent
Representative to the United
Nations — this in order to better
serve Luxembourg's interests. He
said that he is now Luxembourg's
first full duty Consul-General in
New York and that Ambassador
Feyder is its first full-fledged
Permanent Representative to the
United Nations.
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'L.B.A. 100th Anniversary — October, 1987.'
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