Sister Cities News

Get Together in Magdeburg

Dr. Uwe Küster, Bill Purcell und Bob Bogen A delegation from Nashville was in Magdeburg in early May on the occasion of the “Magdeburg 12hundert” festivities marking the city’s anniversary. Along with Mayor Bill Purcell, we welcomed Doug Berry (President of Sister Cities of Nashville), Marion and Bob Bogen, Marietta Shipley, Bill Patrick and Marc Looney. Following a reception given by Saxony-Anhalt Minister President Wolfgang Böhmer, there was a get together for all the supporters of the Magdeburg-Nashville Sister Cities relationship.

The get together arranged by the Dialog Center took place at the Cafè am Fluss directly on the Elbe. The reunion was properly celebrated in a sociable atmosphere. Chairman Uwe Küster presented gifts as signs of our solidarity and even the theater magdeburg shone with a specially prepared cake given the first cut by Bill Purcell. Apart from the Nashville delegation itself, the approximately seventy supporters present included US Consul General Fletcher M. Burton, Magdeburg Mayor Lutz Trümper, city anniversary patron Edzard Reuter and former Magdeburg mayor Willi Polte.