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Einen umfangreichen Spielbericht findet man auf der Virgin Guards Homepage oder im GA-Artikel vom 01.07.2009.

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On the 16th of August the German-American Dialog Centre organized a reception in honor of mayor Bill Purcell in the Otto-von Guericke museum Lukasklause. As you know, the Nashville Promenade ends there. Approximately 120 friends and interested people of the city partnership Magdeburg-Nashville joined the occasion. Chairman of the German-American Dialog Centre, Dr. Uwe Küster, Lord mayor Dr. Lutz Trümper and chairman of the Otto-von-Guericke company, Prof. Kattanek have been among the guests and spoke some greetings. Mayor Bill Purcell was very grateful for this warm welcome. For the opportunity of his visit here in Magdeburg he was given a special press part of the local newspaper VOLKSSTIMME, about which he was especially happy. On sides of the Otto-von Guericke Company there was a nice presentation of the famous hemisphere-experiment.

On the following Friday, August 17th, mayor Bill Purcell met Lord mayor Dr Lutz Trümper to a talk in the Magdeburg city hall. They were accompanied by deputy mayors Beate Bröcker, Dr. Klaus Puchta and Jörn Marx. All of them visited the plenum of the city-council afterwards. Later that afternoon Bill Purcell visited the library together with Dr. Uwe Küster and our friends from Nashville. There they informed each other about the project America@yourlibrary and the Nashville-Info-Point. After ending this point they went on to a tour through the Virtual Development Training Centre (VDTC) of the Fraunhofer Institute, a virtual three dimensional novelty in the Elbe Dome. At the round flight in a double-deck airplane, type Antonow 2 and aslo called “the Red Baron”, Bill Purcell, Doug Berry and Bob Bogen experienced their ister city from another perspective. In the evening there was a “Get-together” in the “Montego Beach-Club”, located in the science-harbour of Magdeburg. Our member Ralf Todzi, master confectioner, has made a torte with a picture of Bill Purcell on it.

Saturday the 18th, began with a panoramic Elbe-cruise of the White Armada on MS “Saxony-Anhalt”. He thus had the chance to get learn about Magdeburg by land, water and air. For this day Sabine Schlunk, who works in Nashville, took part on this program along with her mother. The family Kühne has prepared a romantic lunch for our friends at the castle of Wanzleben. In the afternoon Bill Purcell, Doug Berry and Bob Bogen have joined to watch a training of the Virgin Guards. The culminating final of the program has been the Balloon magic and the Night Glow in the Elbauenpark. These unforgettable experiences will surely stay in or minds. We thank our friends from Nashville for their stay and greatly look forward to continuing the good collaboration. On this very point we would certainly also like to thank all of the kind helpers during the stay of our Nashvillian friends.

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Bob Bogen is one of the “spiritual fathers” of the Magdeburg-Nashville Sister Cities relationship. When he was a Nashville city councilman, the now 79 year old introduced the resolution to enter a Sister Cities relationship with Magdeburg to the Nashville city council on October 15, 2002.

Bob Bogen has been coming to Magdeburg regularly since 2002. He decided to live and work in his sister city in2005. He studied for two semesters at Magdeburg’s Otto von Guericke University and taught English courses for students at the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences and at Magdeburg’s adult education center.

Bob Bogen is an active ambassador with much commitment and heart, promoting the Magdeburg-Nashville Sister Cities relationship wherever he goes. In Nashville, he looked after the young men from Magdeburg performing their alternative service there. After the Magdeburg city council resolved to name a street “Nashvillepromenade”, Bob Bogen actively campaigned for a street in Nashville’s Germantown to be named for Magdeburg.

In addition, he was actively involved in the theater project “das treffen – the other side”. His sincerity and warm-heartedness make him a guarantor of the Sister Cities relationship between Magdeburg and Nashville. His endearing motto “Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch” will never be forgotten by the many Magdeburg residents who have gotten to know him.

Bob Bogen is an avowed fan of Magdeburg who is closely linked to his Sister City Magdeburg on which he as Magdeburg ambassador has always kept an eye despite the distance across the Atlantic and will continue to do so in the future. His involvement was fundamental to the transatlantic bridge that has bestowed this special friendship and internationality on us residents of Magdeburg. This bridge is being supported and further developed by many individuals on both sides of the Atlantic who are shaping this Sister Cities relationship with their personal involvement and daily filling it with life. Bob Bogen is one of these “bridge builders”.

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