San Francisco East Bay Chapter of the M.I. Hummel Club

While living in Germany from 1979 to 1981, an interest in German culture was sparked in Pam Turpen. Years later when Pam saw an ad for the Grandpa figurine, she joined the M.I. Hummel Club so that she could get the certificate to buy it. She asked about joining a local chapter and was sent information about starting one. The first meeting of our chapter was held Dec. 9, 1995 at Coco's in Dublin, California. There were eight charter members, four of whom are still members.

Making New Friends, HUM #1073, was assigned as our club's "motif figurine". Our specially designed Chapter pin is shown at the bottom of this page. If you would like to order a pin, click on the pin for an order form. The cost is $6 per pin, including shipping.

Our meetings are normally held on the 2nd Saturday of each month in one of our member's home. A topic of interest to the group is prepared by that member. The topic for the next meeting can be found in the latest newsletter listed below. The meetings are open to anyone. If you would like to attend a meeting, need additional information or want to join our chapter, contact the President or Secretary/Treasurer whose names, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses are listed at the top of this page. Chapter dues are $15/year. FUN is our objective and Hummel figurines help us achieve that goal!

Trips are taken to a variety of places of interest. A four day trip was taken in 1999 to the Hummel Museum in New Braunfels, Texas and the Texas Interchapter Conference. In September 2000, we attended the Ninth Northwest Local Chapter Conference, "Fanfare Northwest" held in Leavenworth, WA. 2001 found us at the M.I. Hummel Convention, September 6-9 in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2002, we participated in the 10th Northwest Regional Chapter Conference held in Eureka, California. As a group we also attended the 2003 M.I. Hummel Convention in September held in Anaheim, California. Some members attended the 11th Northwest Local Chapter Conference held in Lake Tahoe, NV sponsored by the High Sierra Chapter. A large number of our band of "Merry Wanderers" attended the 2005 National Convention in Boston, MA. In October, 2006 our chapter hosted an Inter-Chapter Conference in Oakand, CA. September 2007 found many of our members at the Hummel National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. Our merry band of travelers also took a trip to Germany, which included a visit to the Goebel factory and Berta Hummel Museum.

If this type of club is of interest to you and you would like to join our group, click on this link for a Membership Application.

Our Local Chapter, along with five other Northwest Regional Chapters, held an Inter-Chapter Conference from October 6-7, 2006 at the Oakland Airport Hilton.The events began with the playing of "Berta Bingo" on Friday evening - including an ice cream dessert. Saturday had some wonderful guest speakers - Robert L. Miller, Brenda and Randy McKenrick, and Joan Ostroff, Ambassador for the M.I. Hummel Club presented some interesting topics. A "Swap and Sell" session was held on Saturday afternoon. Generous door prizes, including Hummel figurines, were given away to the attendees. The "Grand Door Prize" awarded at the Saturday evening banquet was Jumbo Sweet Music, Hum #186/III. The Saturday Banquet had an "Oktoberfest" theme, including German Dancers for entertainment. The picture to the right shows the grand prize winner, Ingrid Sheipline, with the German Dancers, "Almenrausch Schuhplattler", and George Gavrell, the chapter president.

Six of our chapter members attended the Hummel National Convention held in St. Paul, Minnesota. We took a tour of the area and saw many historic and interesting things. St. Paul was the birthplace for Charles Schultz, the creator of Charlie Brown, so the city has many bronze "Peanuts" characters scattered throughout the streets and parks.

There was a fun charity drawing booth and we won lots of prizes. Also, there was a live charity auction and between the two events, $30,000 was raised for the St. Paul Children's Hospital. The seminars were outstanding with good topics very well presented.

Thirteen members and guests of our chapter had a marvelous trip to Germany in October. Some of the places they visited were Munich, Nymphenburg Palace, Berta Hummel Museum, Hohenschwangau, Linderhoff Castle, Oberammergau, the Convent of Siessen at Bad Saulgau, Ulm, Marklin Museum at Geoppingen, Stieff Museum at Grengen/Brenz, Dinkelsbuehl, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Coburg, the Goebel Factory in Roedenthal and Nuremburg. The highlight for everyone was seeing the production of Hummel figurines in the Hummel factory

[If you would like to order one of these pins, click on the pin to
download an order form. The cost is $6.00/pin including shipping.]

M.I. HUMMEL, HUMMEL and M.I. HUMMEL CLUB in signature and block forms, are registered trademarks of W. Goebel Porzellanfabrik GmbH & Co., KG, Germany. M.I. Hummel figurines, plates and bells are copyrighted products. (c)Goebel 2002

http://www.mihummel.com	The official M.I. Hummel & Hummel Club site
http://www.swiftsite.com/hummel-preciousmoments/acshummel.html	Great Hummel resources
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/hummel.asp	An interesting site with Hummel figurines