The Sons Of Hermann Hall

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Member Since: 9/15/2006
Band Website: sonsofhermann.com
Band Members: The Sons of Hermann is a not-for-profit Fraternal Life Insurance company, also referred to as a Fraternal Benefit Society. We hope you will join our family and become involved in some of our many events, groups, and committees. Here are a few of the many benefits of being a member of our family. An example of a benefit for Sons of Hermann members is that they can rent the hall at a discount.~~~THE DALLAS HOME ASSOCIATION CORPORATION: The Home Association is the corporation which built and manages the Dallas Hall, and is owned equally by the two lodges that share the Hall, Columbia Lodge 66 and Dallas Lodge 22. The Home Association Board of Directors is composed of an equal number of representatives from the two lodges. They are responsible for the operation and maintenance of all aspects of our historic building and also make decisions to establish policy. Home Association meetings are held the fourth Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm. Members are welcome to attend but may not vote and may not speak without recognition from the chair.~~~ Grand Lodge Sons of Hermann P.O.Box 1941, San Antonio, TX 78297 515 South St. Mary's Street, San Antonio TX (800) 234-4124, (877) HERMANN www.texashermannsons.org~~~The Grand Lodge Sons of Hermann sponsors summer youth camps, bowling tournaments, retirement home for senior citizens, insurance programs, and many more fraternal benefits for our members. They publish a monthly newspaper called Hermann Sons News to share happenings with all members.****** LODGE MEETINGS: COLUMBIA LODGE 66: Meetings are held at 3:00 pm on the first Sunday of each month, unless that conflicts with a national holiday.~~~DALLAS LODGE 22: Meetings take place the fourth Sunday of every month at 2:00 pm. ****** Please Join Our Family! Office hours at the hall every Thursday from 7:30-9:30 PM. The following member agents will be delighted to help you join or provide more information about the many benefits of a Sons of Hermann membership: Craig Taylor (972-254-0199): Dotty Simon; Pete Baerwaldt (214-538-9119), Chad Windham (214-631-0331)
Influences: MONTHLY EVENTS: The HOME ASSOCIATION hosts FIRST FRIDAY HAPPY HOUR on the first Friday of each month. Members receive complimentary keg beer, $1 bottled beer or wine and $1 pizza slices. Every Friday from 5-7 pm we have $1 beer for members. Lodge 22 hosts BUNCO every other Saturday at 2:00 pm at the Hall, except during the summer.****** LODGE MEETINGS: COLUMBIA LODGE 66: Meetings are held at 3:00 pm on the first Sunday of each month, unless that conflicts with a national holiday.~~~DALLAS LODGE 22: Meetings take place the fourth Sunday of every month at 2:00 pm. ****THE DALLAS HOME ASSOCIATION CORPORATION The Home Association is the corporation which built and manages the Dallas Hall, and is owned equally by the two lodges that share the Hall, Columbia Lodge 66 and Dallas Lodge 22. The Home Association Board of Directors is composed of an equal number of representatives from the two lodges. They are responsible for the operation and maintenance of all aspects of our historic building and also make decisions to establish policy. Home Association meetings are held the fourth Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm. Members are welcome to attend but may not vote and may not speak without recognition from the chair. ~~~~~~~HISTORY OF THE HALL: The Sons of Hermann Hall in Dallas has a long and colorful history. The two Texas Sons of Hermann lodges in the hall today are Dallas ..22 and Columbia ..66.~~ Dallas Lodge ..22 was chartered in 1890 as Uhland lodge ..22. Columbia Lodge was chartered in 1893. In 1910 the then four Dallas lodges (out of necessity and, more importantly, unity) pooled their resources and built the hall at 3414 Elm. The grand opening was held in April of 1911. The Dallas Sons of Hermann Hall is a Texas Historic Landmark. We are very proud of it and hope you will visit soon.~~~We are very fortunate to have many life-long members of both lodges willing to share their memories of the Hall in days gone by. We hold the stories told by these members, some of whom first visited the hall as infants, as precious and priceless. The Historical Committee is assembling an extensive collection of Sons of Hermann Hall memorabilia. From Folk Hero to Fraternalism The Order of the Sons of Hermann was organized in New York City in 1840 by a small band of men of German descent. This marked the founding of the nation's oldest fraternal benefit society. Hermann, for whom the order was named, was an early folk hero known as Hermann the Cherusker (the latter is the name of the ancient German tribe to which he belonged). He also was known historically by the name the Romans gave him - Arminius - and Webster's Biographical Dictionary lists him as Arminius.His story is one of the great stories of all time. After his capture by the Romans, he was pressed into military service in the Roman Army and became a splendid military leader. However, when the Romans became particularly oppressive to his people, Arminius forsook the glories of Rome to organize German tribesman for a military victory that was to shake the ancient world.~~ Roman legions were considered invincible in those years, but Hermann's tribal forces defeated three Roman legions in the Battle of Teutoberger Forest in 9 A.D., when Hermann was only 27 years old. Historians say his victory was the beginning of the end of domination by the empire of the Ceasars over Germany as well as the British Isles.~~ Hermann's heroics for his people were not without extreme cost to him. In vengeance, the Romans captured his pregnant wife and took her off to slavery in Rome. A son was born to his wife in Rome and had to remain a slave for the rest of his life. Hermann never saw his wife again or his son. Hermann died 12 years after his great military victory.~~ Today a monument topped by his statue stands as tall as a 16-story building on a wooded hilltop near Detmold, Germany. There are also statues of Hermann in New Ulm, Minn. and at the entrance to the German village of Spassberg at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio.~~ From the small beginning in New York City, the Order had grown to 800 members in six Northern states by 1847, and at a convention held in Milwaukee on Christmas Day 1848, a Grand Lodge, with offices in New York City, was organized. the newly created national Order adopted the motto "Friendship, Love and Loyalty." This motto lives on in the hearts and good works of the members of the Order of the Sons of Hermann in the State of Texas. ~~ The first permanent settlers of the Texas Hill Country were pioneers who had come to Texas from Germany in 1845 and 1846. After establishing such towns as New Braunfels, Fredricksburg, and Comfort, a number of these settlers moved into San Antonio, which already a been a frontier community of long standing. these settlers formed a society and social life of their own in San Antonio. It was a society which welcomed the extras which the Order of the Sons of Hermann was soon to offer and thereafter perpetuate.~~ The National Grand Lodge sent John Lemnitzer of Rochester, N.Y., and Jakob Goll, also from the Northern United States to San Antonio, and they helped the San Antonians establish the first Hermann Sons Lodge in Texas - Harmonia Lodge No. 1 - in 1860. The lodge was fully chartered on July 6, 1861. The Order gave the pioneers much in the line of mutual interest and protection, and the movement took off in other communities.~~ On March 27, 1890, with the Alamo, the Cradle of Texas Liberty, as a backdrop, Texans from newly formed lodges in Austin, Taylor, Temple, Waco, La Grange, Brenham and Houston met with Harmonia Lodge representatives to form the Grand Lodge of the Order of the Sons of Hermann.~~ Within a year after this Grand Lodge Convention in San Antonio, 92 additional Texas Hermann Sons lodges were established.~~ Harmonia Lodge No. 1 in San Antonio was the first Hermann Sons lodge anywhere to add life insurance on a non-profit basis to the benefits for its members. This was first proposed in 1873 and put into effect within approximately two years.~~ Since 1921, the Order of the Sons of Hermann in Texas, with its Grand Lodge in San Antonio, has been completely autonomous and independent of any National Grand Lodge affiliation. In 1921, when the Texas Hermann Sons Order went on its own, it already was stronger financially and had more members than all other Sons of Hermann lodges in all other states combined.
Sounds Like: These are some of the artists and bands that have played at the Sons of Hermann Hall Some are famous, some are not but we are proud to have featured every one. Note: An asterisk * is next to a member (or band that includes one or more members) of the Order of the Sons of Hermann of Texas. Is a band or artist you've seen at the Sons of Hermann Hall missing from this list? If so, please send an e-mail to this site . Please include the name of the artist and the approximate date you saw them and we'll add them. (Eventually.) Note: For space reasons we can only list the band or headliner, not every member of every band. Sorry! Josh Alan Tommy Allsup Tommy Alverson Dave Alvin Ann Armstrong & Steve Hughes Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets Emilie Aronson Stephen Ashbrook Asleep at the Wheel The Asylum Street Spankers The Austin Lounge Lizards Marcia Ball Pete Barbeck and 7th Son Mandy Barnett The Barn Stompers Lou Ann Barton Andrew Baxter, Jr. Eddie Beethoven Annie Benjamin Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys Clay Blaker The Blazers Blue Lisa & the Howling Dogs * Blue Mountain Mike Shane Borden & The Deisel Kings Libbi Bosworth Boys Named Sue BR-549 Doyle Bramhall Brave Combo Briefcase Blues Band Jim Brissen Marti Brom Junior Brown Hash Brown The Browntones Bob Brozman Ed Burleson Paul Burlison Rocky Burnette The Burning Squirts * Brian Burns Elvis T. Busboy Johnny Bush Janna Britton & Abbeville Sumter Bruton Paul Byrd Joe King Carrasco Cafe Noir Chip Campbell Hayes Carll The Carpetbaggers Cartwrights Damon Carroll Band * Peter Case The Celebration Swing Orchestra Kasey Chambers Changes Guy Clark Christy Claxon Slaid Cleaves Roger Clyne & Peacemakers Code Blue Cowhide Cole Revue * Cold Blue Steel Danny Collder Brave Combo Dana Cooper Count Blue The Cowbillys Cowboys & Indians * Crawdaddies Roger Creager Amy Crenshaw & The Crosstown Boys Alvin Crow & The Pleasant Valley Boys Mac Curtis Kelly & Becky Cutler* Mary Cutrafello [DARYL] * Ronnie Dawson Jesse Dayton Jimmy Dawkins The Dead Reckoners Kevin Deal Todd Deatherage Teisco del Ray Geno Delafose The Derailers The Dixie Chicks Richard Dobson* Domestic Science Club Travis Down Band Roger Drake Huelyn Duvall Fred Eaglesmith Rev. Robert Ealey Tim Easton Don Edwards T. Tex Edwards & The Swinging Cornflake Killers Eleven Hundred Springs* Joe Ely Jon Emery George Ensle Randy Erwin The Ex-Husbands Rosie Flores Four Mile Mule Steve Forbert Steve Fromholtz The Front Porch Boys Robbie Fulks Beth Garner Jimmie Dale Gilmore Jeff Glover* Good Medicine The Gourds Mike Graham Pat Green The Groove Slaves Arlo Guthrie Macon Greyson Tricia Haines Nathan Hamilton Wayne 'The Train' Hancock Butch Hancock James 'Slim' Hand The Hangdogs Andrew Hardin John Hartford Alan Haynes Ty Haynes Blues Band Homer Henderson Terri Hendrix Hepcat DeVille* Sara Hickman Dan Hicks & his Acoustic Warriors High Noon Hillbilly Café James Hinkle Tish Hinojosa Hippie Gumbo The Hockshop Hepcats* Eric Hokanon The Horton Brothers Brian Howser Ray Wylie Hubbard Doug Hudson & Denise Franke Huey's Swing Thing Buddy Huffman The HumbleTime Radio Show Cornell Hurd Allen Hurt & The Heart Of Texas Band Jack Ingram Inner City All Stars Wanda Jackson Davin James The Jive Bombers JMAC* Jay Johnson Joe Jonas Andrew 'Jr. Boy' Jones Foscoe Jones Tutu Jones Fred Kallar Robert Earl Keen Hal Michael Ketchum Killbilly* Sid & Billy King Bill Kirchen & Too Much Fun Freddy Steady Kirk Bob Kirkpatrick The Knitters Lady Blue Jimmy LaFave The Lakewood Rats Michael Landschoot Jim Lauderdale Rene Lawrence* Christine LeDoux Kim Lenz & her Jaguars Keri LePai The Levee Singers Betty Lewis The Light Crust Doughboys David Lindley The Bad Livers The Lonelies The Lonesome Strangers John Lord Los Super Vatos Joey Love & Blues Xpress Lost Highway* The Lost Prairie Dogs The Lucky Pierres* Johnny Mack Lloyd Maines Doc Mason & The Homebrew Band Houston Marchman Will T Massey Mark McCord James McMurty Little Jack Melody The Merchants of Venus Tift Merritt Mesa Buddy Miles Rhett Miller T-Roy Miller Chuck Milner Miss Marcy Lu Mitchell Steve Mitchell Mitchell-T and the HBÂs Johnny Moeller Katy Moffatt Smokey Montgomery Sister Morales Mike Morgan & the Crawl Slake Morris & Steve Rhodes Tom Morrell & the Timewarp Tophands Bill Morrisey Trish Murphy Auggie Myers Sam Myers Frankie Nola* Salim Nouralla Gary P. Nunn Tim & Molly O'Brien Chris O'Connell Kim O'Connor The Old 97's David Olney The Omans (Oh Man's!)* Sonny Boy Ord The Paladins Lucky Peterson Phranc Patrice Pike Shawn Pittman Ponty Bone & the Squeezetones Groovey Joe Poovy The Potatos The Praha Brothers Mary Ann Price Toni Price Ray Price Buck Ramsey Willis Alan Ramsey The Ranchero Brothers Leon Rausch Donny Ray Ford The Red Elvises The Red Dirt Rangers Kimmie Rhodes Kim Richey Slim Richey The Road Kings* Rob G. & the Latin Pimps Charlie Robison Bruce Robison The Rockin Riders Lisa Rodes & Roar Ted Roddy The Rotten Rubber Band Peter Rowan The Royal Crowns Daryl Lee Rush Shake Russell Tom Russell Doug Sahm Salt Lick The Sea Serpents The Sharecroppers Ray Sharpe Shaver The Silvertones Sir Douglas Quintet The Skeletons Slick 57 Slobberbone Darden Smith Holland K. Smith Randy Smith Todd Snider Son Volt The Sorrelle Brothers Band Ronnie Spears Ronny Spears Max Stalling Julie Stone The Straffers J.B. Strutt Blues Band Jim Suhler Gene Summers The Sun Rhythm Section The Susans The Sutcliffes The Swamptones* The Tailgators Johnny Tanner Barry & Holly Tashian Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez Larry Joe Taylor Paul Taylor Cricket Taylor Aubrey Teeter Ten Degrees Texas Sharecroppers Texas Slim Texas Topcats Hank Thompson Gene Tobin Band Kenny Traylor Trout Fishing in America Marc Tuton Ian Tyson Steve Valentine Townes Van Zandt Lou Vargo Jimmy Vaughan Volunteer Fire Ants The Walker Sisters Chris Wall Don Walser Amazing Walter Dale Watson Gillian Welch Kevin Welch Jim White Wilco Rusy Weir Webb Wilder The Wildwoods Andy Wilkinson Christopher Williams K.M. Williams Lew Williams Mike Williams Jeff Williamson* Kelly Willis Kim Wilson Carolyn Wonderland Chris Zalez Zen Bubba Zyde-max Zydeco Blanco Zydeco Faux Pas*
Record Label: The Music Of The Sons Of Hermann Hall- Volume One
Type of Label: None