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The officers of the AOV are:
President:
Ursula Suhr
Vice-President: Heinz Meyer
Treasurer: George Ficken
General Secretary: Elke Di Lisi
Recording
Secretary: Otto Kruse
Financial Secretary: Henry Alvestadt
Social Secretary: Erna Ficken
The Amt Osterholzer
Verein meets at Schuetzen Park, N.J.
every 2nd Wednesday at 7:30 PM.
The AOV was organized in 1873 by immigrants
from the North-German hamlet of Osterholz, now the county seat of Kreis Osterholz, which includes such town as Ritterhude,
Lilienthal, Worpswede, Hambergen and Pennigbüttel.
In the early days the two neighboring hamlets, Osterholz and Scharmbeck,
were still independent, but in 2003 they will celebrate their 75th anniversary as a single town.
Our AOV in America is
therefore older than the city of Osterholz-Scharmbeck in Germany. In fact, our Amt Osterholzer Verein is 130 years old this
year.
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