** 1955Uni courses: 8. Fachsemester - Summer 1955
August vacation: On Jean Widmer farm, Montbeliard, Franche Comte, France, to practise French.
Uni courses: 9. Fachsemester - Winter 1955/56
May. Jugendfreizeit at Eysseneckstr.54, Frankfurt, Mennonite retreat.
August. MVS work camp at LaBarme, Flumet, Megeve, France.
November: Attend peace retreat at Vredeshiem, Netherlands, with Bärbel.
News full of Hungarian uprising.
December 3: Best birthday I ever had - Engaged to Bärbel Kittler at Torney (she was born in Danzig April 5, l933, daughter of Horst Kittler(1910-1946) and Elfriede Fast Kittler(l910-2002)
Uni courses: 10. Fachsemester - Summer 1956
Uni courses: 11.Fachsemester - Winter 1956/57
Uni courses: 12. Fachsemester - Summer 1957
August 9 - 17: VI. Mennonite World Conference in Karlsruhe. We help as translators, interpretors.Names remembered: H.H.Janzen, Ernst Crous, Harold S.Bender, Theo Glück, Gerhard Hein, Abraham Braun, Peter J.Dyck, Paul Schowalter, Kurt Kauenhoven, Richard Hertzler, Pierre Widmer, Fritz Stauffer, Richard Wagner, Benjamin H.Unruh, Cornelius Wall, Bernhard Harder, Johannes Foth, Hans-Jakob Galle, Heinrich Bartel, Otto Wiebe, Heinold Fast, H.W.Meihuizen, Ernst Harder, David Schroeder, John Howard Yoder, Cornelius Krahn, John Wichert, Ulrich Hege, Fritz Hege.
Uni courses: 13. Fachsemester - Winter 1957/58
Uni courses: 14. Fachsemester - Summer 1958
July 25: I finally graduate with a Diplom in physics (M.S) with my thesis: Die Vielfachstreuung des Lichtes im Bereich kleiner Winkel in Analogie zur Vielfachstreuung von Elektronen in Metallfolien
(Small angle multiple scattering of light).
Profs examining:
August 8: Happy day - married to Bärbel Eva Kittler at Standesamt Niederbieber, Mama Margarete Goertz, B.'s employer Hans Eggert witnessing.
August 9: Happier day - church wedding at Mennonitengemeinde Torney, Peter J. Dyck officiating. Honeymooning at Sylt island with stopover at Krefeld, Hamburg (job interview there at Philips Labs).
My first paper appears in Mennonitische Geschichtsblätter 1958,48-49.
Apply for job, get interview at OSRAM labs in München and Augsburg.
October 1: Get job at Philips(Aldephi) Zentrallaboratorium at Aachen (Radio antenna research). Dr.Pannenborg, Dr.Schiefer, Herr Lens.
November: Get transferred to Philips main lab at Eindhoven, Netherlands, for internship. Dr. VanAlven. Write paper on light scattering for Zeitschrft für Physik (I am not proud of it).
Visit with Lex van Gilse, Doopsgezinde domine at Eindhoven.
April : Return to Aachen, rent furnished house Am Beverbach 7. We start first house keeping. The ownser, "Tante Pia", a widow, lives upstairs.
August 10: Our daughter Claudia Bärbel Goertz is born in Oma Elfriede Kittler's home.
I start writing articles for vol.4 of Mennonitisches Lexikon and send them off to editor Gerhard Hein in Berlin. My main interest is West Prussia where I feel that some topics have not been covered adequately. Since nobody else seems to want to write better articles, I decide, "Do it yourself". The war events, lost home country, my life being spared through the years convince me that the history of West Prussian Mennonites deserves to be told. If noone else will tell it, I myself should try to do it. No excuse for not trying. Herbert Wiebe, Kurt Kauenhoven, Gustav E.Reimer are my examples to follow.
July 1: My monthly salary at Philips Zentrallaboratium Aachen is changed to
August 31: Our son Dirk-Uwe Paul Goertz is born at Neuwied Krankenhaus.
We get word that National Bureau of Standards, Boulder, Colorado wants to hire me. FBI inquires at neighborhood about my Communist etc. character. I get offer of employment from NBS, of pay for moving family, furniture. I accept and quit Philips employment per September 30. We go to Frankfurt for US visa, contract signing, lie detector test. I am told that "no lie detector test, no employment contract".
October: Movers come and pack our belongings from Aachen, Am Beverbach 7.
November 3: A MATS air transport plane takes us four from Frankfurt airport.
November 4: Touchdown at McGuire AFB, one week at NYC Hotel Alamac, processing. Sister Eva (Goertz) Smirnoff, widow of Feo Berkhemer who lives in NYC, visits us.
November 11: Touch down at 11:11 AM at Stapleton airport, Denver. What a beautiful country, mountains, clear air. Louis Vogler of NBS takes us to Boulder, helps us find an appartment. We rent furnished half-duplex on 7th St, find snow on ground.
November 13: Start new job at National Bureau of Standards, Boulder, Colorado, 83.Radio Propagation Enginering Div.,60.Tropospheric Analysis Section. GS 11, $7560 p.a.
December 1: We rent unfurnished 3 BR house 235 S.38th St, Martin Acres,Boulder from Mr.Pirch; wait for our furniture to arrive from Aachen, Germany. Live in an empty, unfurnished house for two weeks. Since Bärbel has German driver's licence, Dick Abbott gets learner's permit, driver's license for her. I get learner's permit with Bärbel as main driver. We attend First Mennonite Church in Denver, Bud Bishop pastor. Furniture arrives from Germany on December 15, 1960.
April: I borrow $500 from the NBS credit union and purchase a Buick 1954 car. I take physics courses at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Courses taken in the fall semester 1961-62 at CU:
December 3:Guests Don and Pat Wismer of Arvada Mennonite Church.
December 14:Guests Roland and Elisabeth Sunderland on way to Panama. I am refused admission as a regular graduate student at CU. I buy a short wave receiver kit which will serve me for more than 25 years. We decide not to have a TV set in our home.
March 31: Guests Donna and Orie Voth of Boulder.
April 1:We purchasse 3BR house 3005 Dover Drive,Boulder, $17000,assume 4.5% deed of trust(mortgage), second deed of trust financing.
April 22: Guest Marcus Bishop,Pastor, First Mennonite Church,Denver.
May 4:Guests Mr.and Mrs.M.J.Wedel,2610-6 St,Boulder.
May 20:Guests Manfred Kaminsky (Friedrichs-Kolleg) and family from Hinsdale,IL.
June 9: Guests Mr.and Mrs.John B.Toews, Frau Helena Toews, leaving for Calgary.
July 1: Guests Mr.and Mrs.Willis Kanagy, Manitou Springs,CO.
July 8: Guest Rosemary Wyse,Archbold,OH.
July- August: We visit the Mennonite World Conference in Kitchner, Ontario, pick up Oma Kittler, return by way of Kaministiquia,ONT; Marion SD, Badlands
September 2: We show Oma Kittler LaJunta, CO where Renate Kittler was as an MCC exchange trainee.
September 9: We visit Colorado Springs Zoo with Oma Kittler.
September 23: We visit Grandby Lake, Monarch Lake.
Course taken in the fall semester 1962-63 at CU:
December 3: Guests Walter and Martha Dyck, Arvada,CO.
December 4: Guests Fritz and Lena Hille, Berlin.
ecember 14: Guest Traudel Krewson-Butz, Worms.
January 13: Guests Charly and Celia Fliginger, Hurley, S.D.
January 15: Night guests Irmgart Tyart,Lemgrabe;Elsbeth Lörcher,Schwenningen; Klaus-Martin Regier,Segeberg,Holstein.
February 12: Guest Jürgen R.Meyer-Arendt,Boulder.
August 1962-June 1963: Oma Elfriede Kittler, Torney, stays for Elke's birth. We take Oma Elfriede Kittler to Arizona (Tucson, Grand Canyon), California (Upland, Sequoia Nat.Park,Sacramento), Nevada, Salt Lake City. (Our Buick broke down in Bakersfield CA with the differential shot).
May 13: Daughter Elke Margarete Goertz born in Boulder.
I take my PhD preliminary exam, pass, admitted as a degree student.
May 26: We visit Ivan and Ann Holdeman, Denver,CO.
August 1: Guest Delbert Wiens, Tabor College.
August 10: Night guests Mr.and Mrs.Harold Obermeit, Hutchinson,KS.
August 16: Guest Myrtle Funk, Aberdeen, ID.
August 20: Guests Mr.and Mrs. John Bertsche,Chicago.
October: Internhip at Martin-Marietta Co. in Orlando, Florida. We explore Florida.
November 30: Guest Thelma Harms, of Clinton, OK.
December 28, Guests Wolfgang and Susanne Kortals;Bob, Marlies, Christian Stueart, of Boulder.
Courses taken in the fall semester 1963-64 at CU:
January 18: Guest Martin Sedlacek, Wien.
March 8: Guests Erwin & Priscilla Boschmann, Boulder.
March 30: Guests David & Anna Boschmann, Asuncion, Paraguay.
May 3: Guests Mr.& Mrs.Melvin Snyder,Heidi,Siegfried,Olaf,of Widefield,CO.
September 12 - 19: Guests my sister Eva(Goertz) & Sergej Smirnoff from Long Island City. Sergey recuperates from heart bypass surgery in Houston,TX (Dr.deBakey).
September 26:I leave for Iceland to meet Bärbel & children who return from a summer trip in Germany.
September 27 - October: We explore left-hand traffic Iceland with rented VW. We start a Schulverein and German Saturday School for children in Boulder. I take my second PhD comprehensive exam at CU, pass. At this time, NBS laid off many workers. I get research assistanceship with Dr.M.Mizushima at CU, continue research at NBS with Dr.Yardley Beers doing microwave spectroscopy of gases. If I had not tried to take the comprehensive exams and taken NO for an answer when I applied for graduate admission, this would have been the end of my physics education. The graduate assistanceship is funded by the US National Institute of Health.
Courses taken in the fall semester 1964-65 at CU:
Courses taken in the spring semester 1964-65 at CU:
April 6: Guest Dr.Gerd Schiefer, Aachen, Philips, my former section chief.
June 30: Guests H.& R.Bresinsky, Boulder.
July 4: We visit the Great Sand Dunes, CO.
July 17: Guest Ernst Harder, Montevideo, Urugauy.
July 25: We start our Canada trip-Grand Tetons, Yellowstone Nat.Park.
July 26: We visit Abe Plenerts, Dillon, MT; Glacier Nat.Park.
July 27: We visit in Coaldale,Alberta: Eduard Claassens,Hellmuth Dycks; in Coalhurst, AB: Hugo Kerbers, Paul Schulzes.
July 28: We visit in Vauxhall, AB: Henry and Edna Neufelds.
July 29: We visit in Rosemary,Alberta: Ernst Regehrs.
July 30: We visit in Didsbury, AB: Bergthal Menn.Church.
July 31: We visit in Edmonton, AB: Frieda Claassen.
August 1: We visit in Calgary: Georg Boldts, Otto Bartels, Franz Cornelsens, Hans und Suse Goetzkes, John and Lilian Toews.
August 2: We visit in Vernon, BC: Hans and Wally Wiebes.
August 5-6: We visit in Agassiz, BC: Hans Andres (formerly of Powarben), Siegfried Bartels.
August 7: We visit in Aldergrove, BC.:Abraham A.Harders, Leo Ewerts.
August 8: We visit in Vancoucer, BC: Erwin Cornelsens, Helmut Lemkes. .
August 13-14: We visit Mr. and Mrs. Cooper, Salt Lake City; Mormon library.
August 15: We return to Boulder,pick up Elke at John and Anna Reimers.
Courses taken in the fall semester 1965 at CU:
courses taken in the spring semester 1966 at CU:
April: We show Oma Kittler Arizona, Mexico (Puerto Penasco)
April 28: Guests Jürgen & Irmgard Hille, Boulder.
May 7:Guests Hugo & Eldora, Shari Hildebrand, from Arvada Menn.Church,CO.
May 14: Daughter Frauke Ida Goertz born in Boulder, CO.
June 17-19: We visit Yellowstone Nat. Park.
October: Omama Margarete Goertz visits from Kaministiquia,Ontario
October 22: We visit Mennonite Historians Meeting in St.Louis,MO.
Courses taken in the spring 1967 at CU:
Formal employment with NBS Boulder ends. I continue using their facilities for thesis research supported by a grant of the National Institute of Health to the University of Colorado.
May 12: Guest Manfred Kaminsky (Königsberg Fridericianer) from Hinsdale,IL.
June 5: John & Lilian Toews visit from Calgary,Alberta.
July 4: Bob & Marlies Stueart visit from Boalsburg, PA.
July 10: Darrel & Lois Dawes visit from Upland, CA.
December 11 :Our daughter Gudrun Elfriede Goertz born in Boulder.
January 17 : Gudrun dies after heart surgery at Denver Children's Hospital. Dick Abbott offers to pay for my thesis typing, being a pauper I accept.
March 3: Henry A.Goertz visits from Peabody, KS (no relation).
Thesis:"Microwave spectrum of vibrationally excited allene and chloroform at around 4mm".
July 8: I.G.Neufeld visits from Fresno, CA
July 16: Cornelius & Hilda Krahn visit from North Newton, KS.
August 2: Walter & Martha Dyck visit from Henderson, NE. Waynesboro, Pennsylvania
Waynesboro PA regionWe move to Pennsylvania with Buick, one-axle trailer, rent house at 147 West King St, Waynesboro. I start fall semester at Penn State University, Mont Alto, a 2-year branch campus, teaching physics-mathematics.
October 30: Alvin C.Burkholder visits from Upland, CA.
November 10: Elisabeth R. Arnold visits from Chambersburg (Mont Alto Campus).
November 27: Dale Mueller visits from Hagerstown, MD.
We purchase green frame house, 22 Strickler Avenue, Wayne Hights, $9000.
July-August: Bärbel, children Claudia, Dirk, Elke, Frauke visit Oma Kittler at Torney, Germany.
June 20: Mr.& Mrs.Robert Kleppinger visit from Charmian neighborhood.
June 27: Calvin & Celia Lehman visit from Dolton, OH.
October 11: Jan Maarten Koeman visits from Hilversum, Holland.
January 16: Howard & Ruth Musselman visit from Ortanna PA.
May 8: Pastor Harold & Pauline Lehman visit from Maugansville, MD.
June 12: Erwin & Priscilla,Heidi,Tonja Boschmann visit from Indianapolis.
December 6: Steve & Elisabeth Priest visit from Chambersburg (Mont Alto).
December 31: Mr.& Mrs.George Barker visit from Waynesboro.
September 4: Karl & Rosa Konkel visit from Chambersburg, PA.
December 3: We transfer membership from Arvada (CO) MC.(Peter Ediger,Pastor) to Northside Mennonite Church, Hagerstwon MD (Harald A.Lehman, Pastor).
Claudia and Elke are baptised.
April 14: A.Loyd & Mary Swartzentruber visit from Harrisonburg, VA.
April 29: Peter Ediger visits from Arvada, CO.
May :We purchase duplex, 108-110 North St,Waynesboro,live there a month, $8000.
May: We purchase brick house on Sunshine Trail, move, $21000.
May: We sell duplex 108-110 North St on easy terms, $14000.
July 8: Peter J. Dyck visits from Akron PA.
July 13: Ida ("Bibi" Goertz) Laschütza leaves for Freiburg after visit.
August 16: Donna & Orie Voth, Kathy, Tim visit from Boulder CO.
August 22: Marge & Peter Ediger, Joe, Janice, Duane visit from Arvada, CO.
September 15:John & Kathryn Eshelman visit from Greencastle,PA.
February 2-8: B.'s sister Karola (Kittler) & Martin Finke visit from Köln.
April 28: Brother Peter Goertz visits from Kaministiquia, ONT, Canada.
July 14: Howard & Ruth Musselman visit from Ortanna PA.
August 1: Our son Hans-Peter Adalbert is born at Waynesboro Hospital.
December 27: Lois Hesse & family visit from Hagerstown, MD.
December 27: Loren & Nancy (Hesse) Lehman visit from New Market, VA.
December 31: E. & Bettina von Oertzen visit from Reifenberg.
January 1: Helen D. Schroedter visits from Waynesboro.
March 8: Frank Epp visits from Waterloo, ONT, Canada. Penn State University refuses to grant tenure, I lose my job in May. Fall semester: I get one year appointment at Shippensburg State College to teach physics.
February 15: Amos and Hazel Baer visit from Hagerstwon MD.
March 28: Donald & Ellen Martin visit from Hagerstown MD.
Easter: Tante Erika Ella (Schukat) Säckl visits from München, Germany.
June 26: Amos Baer killed in truck accident.
July 18: Clayton & Mabel Gehman, Lydia Keener visit from Hagerstown,MD.
July: I get my first reading glasses prescribed (astigmatism).
I get part-time fall semester appointment in math department at Shippensburg.
The lean year: No employment anywhere.
March 19: Walter & Martha (Harder) Dyck visit from Donvers, IL.
April 17: Donna J. Voth visits from Boulder, CO.
July 31: Walt and Dorothy Davis visit from Tulsa, OK (Boulderites).
September 21: Scott & Sherry (Beam) Hesse visit from Chambersburg.
Get winter-spring-trimester appointment at University of South Florida,Tampa.
Get fall-semester appointment at Slippery Rock State College for physics, but am asked to teach chemistry, because one of their chemists died and hiring freeze for replacement. Teach Chemistry for Nurses, Inorganic Chemistry Lab.
July: I visit Mennonite World Conference in Wichita,KS; go on to Salt Lake City genealogical library (LDS).
August 8: Horst Quiring visits on his way home from Wichita to Korntal.
August 10: J.Virgil Miller visits and returns to Saudi Arabia.
August 17: Heinold Fast family visits and returns home to Emden, Germany.
Get winter-spring-trimester appointment at University of South Florida, Tampa.
July 22: Joe & Brenda (Barnhart) d'Hoostelare visit from Williamsport, MD.
September 16: Doug & Carole(Strong) Smith,Valerie,Rachel visit from Hagerstown.
November 11: Hege & Luvinia Martin visit from Hagerstown MD.
November 26: Erwin Boschmann visits from Indianapolis (Boulderite).
Get winter-spring-trimester appointment at University of South Florida, Tampa.
May 10: Our son Dirk & Kri
January 10: Elisabeth Sunderland, children visit from Springfield, VA.
February 28: Peter J. Dyck visits from Akron, PA.
March 15: Richard & Lois(Schwindt-Hesse) Kesselring visit from Williamsport
March 27: Walter & Martha (Harder) Dyck visit from Normal, IL.
March 27: John & Kathy (Penner) Hostetler visit from MCC Akron (Frankfurters)
April 18: Martha & Stacy
Teaching positions are difficult to find. I look beyond the borders. Get one-year appointment at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica.
October: We fly with Air Jamaica to Kingston.
Physics faculty at University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston: Anthony A.Chen, head; M.N.McMorris,P.N.Chin, J.F.Lodenquai, M.Y.Shams from Pakistan, P.D.Stephens, A.S.Waugh from India, Vijai Dixit from India
Jamaica visitors- Xmas-New Year: Our daughters Elke and Frauke.
January 4: Bev Ott, Peace Corps volunteer.
January 23: Christoph & Elisabeth Müllerleile from Oberursel.
Februar 10: Gerda Wilhelm, German; Graham Branwhite, Australian.
April 28: Pater Francis Friesen from Seaford Town, former German settlement.
May 3: Iris & Stanley Rainford from Kingston.
May 15: Faith Ho from Kingston.
May 29: Anu & Visai Dixit from Kingston (Indian national, Physics faculty)
June 6: Anthony & Rheta Chen from Kingston (physics faculty)
June 8: Nancy Boerman from Alameda CA.
June 13: Peter Habermann from Swainspring.
June 17: Ron & Elaine, Nathan, Joshua Braun (MCC Jamaica) from Winnipeg MB.
June 21:Arun & Swati Waugh,Arati,Poojan from Kingston(Indian,physics faculty)
June 24: Hazel & Georg Prüfe from Kingston. He is German, she Jamaican.
June: We return to Waynesboro PA from hot, humid Kingston,Jamaica. Hege and Luvina Martin from Hagerstown MD pick us up at Baltimore Airport.
July 23: Christoph & Elisabeth Müllerleile,Ursula,Christine from Oberursel.
August 18: Roy & Leona Showalter from Maugansville MD visit.
September 4: Otto & Vivian Spielbichler from Silver Spring MD, Swati Waugh.
December 24: Graham Branwhite, Gerda Wilhelm from Jamaica returning to Australia. Will they ever get married? (Yes, in Australia).
January to May 1985: String of appointments at West Chester University, West Chester, PA. Physics faculty: Russ Rickert, Harold Skelton,Frank Smith.
June 5: Guests Ezra & Alice Beachy from Tampa FL.
August 14: Peter J.& Elfriede Dyck from Akron PA (Our Silberhochzeit visit).
August 25: Oma Elfriede Kittler returns to Torney(Our Silberhochzeit visit)
January 16: Guests Calvin & Celia Lehman from Dalton OH.
November 3: Guests Milton & Grace Yeager from Hagerstown MD.
November 18: Martha J.Rohrer, CNM. from Shippensburg.
December 29: Ella Gauger from Möckmühl.
I take courses at FernUniversität Hagen (Boolean Algebra, Logic Circuits.
January to May 1988: String of appointments at Shippensburg University, Shippensburg PA. Physics faculty: John Korn, Gary Bitner, Robert Winter, Donald Morningstar.
July 19: W.Clayton Gehman from Hagerstwon MD visits.
August 29: Harald & Pauline Lehman from Maugansville,MD visit. ** 1987
April 10: I undergo lithotripter treatment for right kidney stone at Geisinger.
May 1: Guests Renate(Kittler) & Ulrike HaAugust 26: Guests Ruth & Karsten König from Hannover, Frau R.Konkel from Chambersburg PA.
December 12:I receive blue issue of Menn.Geschichtsblätter, am
unhappy
about its low level contents. I write to editor Heinold Fast about
articles generally too long, some too polemic (H.J.G.), unnecesesary
(Kobelt), H.J.G. impossible as a coeditor. I am thinking of resigning as
Beisitzer and member of the Mennonitischer Geschichtsverein to protest.