Founding of the Sacramento Helvetia Verein on March 1, 1892.
Three able, strong and healthy men with names:
Johann Schärer from the canton Aargau,
Albert Bürgi from the canton Aargau,
Karl Schiller from the canton Schwyz.
They took the courage to gather signatures to establish a Swiss Club in Sacramento. It took much effort and honor to find 20-30 signatures, which agreed to found a Verein.
We are thankful, that these three Swiss, accomplished the founding of a club. Thereafter every registered candidate, was notified to have a small meeting on March 13, 1892 at Ebner's Hotel to discuss any further business.
LADIES SOCIETY 1922-2011
1922, May 11th, the Swiss Ladies' Society officially opened their first meeting, to cultivate friendship and sociability and to strengthen the appreciation of Swiss heritage in Sacramento.
When the men and women's clubs merged, the society dissolved on December 7, 2011 when the Ladies held their last meeting at the Turn Verein Hall and joined the men for the first official Men's and Women's Helvetia Verein Meeting.
December 2011
With a majority vote, Ladies' Society President, Kathy Omlin and Men's SHV President Ed Lambert merged the two separate clubs into one. The Sacramento Helvetia Verein is a club for both men and women with Swiss Heritage or married to a spouse of Swiss Heritage.
