1963-1966 |
The relationship, for unknown reasons,
becomes dormant.... |
1962 |
|
Pinneberg receives
37 air-mail packages with 587 kg (1295 lbs) of clothes from
Rockville, destined for homeless inhabitants of storm-flooded
Pinneberg and surroundings. |
1960 |
Mr. Roger Farquhar, editor of the Montgomery County Sentinel,
visits Pinneberg. Rockville
students Mary White (16) and Donna Lower (17) are guests of the Dr.
Schütze and Dr. Schubert families for an eight-week sojourn in
Pinneberg.
Herr Jürgen Ziegler, now an ardent
DAGRP-RSCC supporter and former Principal of the German School in
Potomac, attends a student conference in Washington, DC and mentions
to his host family in Silver Spring, MD that, as far as he knows,
his home town of Pinneberg has a sister city relationship with a
town called "Rockville". He spends his first Thanksgiving in
America with Rockville Mayor Alexander Greene and family. |
1959 |
US General Counsel Bailey presents Pinneberg an oil painting with a
Rockville motif by Rockville artist Vilma King. |
1958 - Bürgermeister Glissmann
Visits Rockville |
Invitation to the welcoming ceremony |
Mayor Glissmann (center) and (to his right) Mayor Hovsepian attend a
ceremony at a new shopping center. |
Bürgermeister Glissmann places a wreath in remembrance of Memorial
Day, a gesture of friendship that continues today. |
Pinneberg presented Rockville with 210 rose plants during his visit. |
1957 - The Rockville-Pinneberg
Partnership Begins |
Mayors Henry Glissmann (L) and Dickran Hovsepian,
Founding Fathers of the Pinneberg-Rockville Sister City relationship |
The official Rockville Sister City Resolution |
The official Pinneberg Proclamation |