| |
Newsletter
I NOVEMBER 2011
|
LETTER FROM THE ISF DIRECTORS
Dear International Friend,
As Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November (Nov. 24, 2011). It has been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863, when during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26, 1863. However, the tradition actually goes back to when the Pilgrims gave thanks to God for guiding them safely to the New World. The very first Thanksgiving feast lasted three days, providing enough food for 53 pilgrims and 90 Native Americans. The feast consisted of fish (cod, eels, and bass) and shellfish (clams, lobster, and mussels), wild fowl (ducks, geese, swans, and turkey), venison, berries and fruit, vegetables (peas, pumpkin, beetroot and possibly, wild or cultivated onion), harvest grains (barley and wheat), Indian corn, and squash.
So we look forward to our own special ISF celebration of Thanksgiving with you, our International friends, on Saturday, November 12th. We thank God that He has allowed you to come to Pittsburgh. Even if you have had to move away we still want you to know you will always be part of our international family.
--Terry & Pam Tiberio, ISF Directors
November 12th ISF Thanksgiving Gathering
We would like to invite you to our ISF Thanksgiving Gathering. This gathering will be on Saturday, November 12th at 7:30 PM in the Ballroom of the William Pitt Union. The William Pitt Union is located in Oakland on the corner of Bigelow and Fifth Avenue. To get to the Ballroom, use the entrance on Fifth Avenue and go to your right.
We hope you will come and please especially invite your friends. This will be a time for a “traditional thanksgiving meal” with all the trimmings. There will be special music and an interesting lecture. There will also be special children’s activities in the Kurtzman Room. We hope to see you and remember that it’s all free! |
December 2nd Annual ISF Christmas Banquet
Also, make plans now to attend this wonderful annual Christmas event. This will take place on Friday, Dec. 2, 2011 @ Soldiers & Sailors 7:30 PM in the 3rd Floor Grand Banquet Hall. This banquet has become a tradition as one of the larger International Christmas events of the year here in Pittsburgh with between 400 and 700 in attendance. However, it's impossible to have this event without you coming and inviting all your International friends. Please feel free to use the poster on the other side to advertise this event. Let’s once again make this a big and exciting ISF Christmas Banquet! Remember it's all free.
|
|
INTERNATIONAL CHRISTMAS BANQUET!
-- All Are Invited!
Friday
Evening - December 2nd 2011, 7:30 PM
Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall, front entrance view
3rd Floor Banquet Room
Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall
Fifth Ave. & Bigelow Blvd., Oakland, Pittsburgh
Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall, panoramic view |
|
ISF OCTOBER GATHERING (October 7th, 2011)
85 present, from 11 countries: Australia, Bosnia, China, Egypt, France, Holland, India, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and, USA.
Hope to see you at the ISF International Christmas Banquet on December 2nd at the Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall in Oaklnad
|
|
|
|
