Tentative Agenda

Note:  All activities will take place at the Cypress

 	  Center (Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede

	  grounds) 17 Ave S.E. 

Friday, September 5, 2003

4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.	Registration

7:00 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.	Opening Ceremony & Address

7:15 p.m. - 8:15 p.m.	Speaker:  Ronald J. Vossler -

	Senior Lecturer, University of North Dakota.

8:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.	Entertainment

·	Light lunch and no host bar service will be available.
·	Silent Auction items will be displayed.

Saturday, September 6, 2003

9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.	Registration

9:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.	Opening Session

9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.	Presentation - Don Schmidt,

		 Author/Researcher.

10:45 a.m. - Noon	Presentation - Dr. Helmut Harder,

		 Professor emeritus, Canadian Mennonite 

		 University.

Noon - 1:00 p.m.	Lunch

1:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.	Breakout sessions/workshop -

		 Bessarabian Backgrounder - Hebert Schultz

		 and panel from Germany 

2:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.	Break

2:30 p.m. -3:10 p.m.	Breakout sessions/workshop -

		 How to get started with your family

		 history - Uwe Krickhahn, Medicine Hat 

		 Genealogy Society

Saturday (continued)

3:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Breakout session/workshop -

		 The importance of material culture and its

		 preservation - Preserving your Heritage.

		 Donny White - Medicine Hat Museum & Art 

		 Gallery.

1:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Films/Videos, Resource room

		 displays.

6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.	Cocktails

7:00 p.m.	Banquet

8:00 p.m.	Keynote Speaker - Right Honorable Edward 

		Schreyer

9:00 p.m.	Entertainment & Dance

Sunday, September 7, 2003

10:00 a.m. Ecumenical Service followed by brunch

Note: Library/Reading Room, displays will be

	  available throughout the Festival.