Martin E Senger, BA, Assistant Director of the Office of English Language and Global Training
March 2025
We continue to meet at the Erie Yacht Club. We are back upstairs! Meetings begin at 6:00 pm with a social hour and dinner, followed by our program/speaker.Our Dinner Menu:
Our dinner will be a choice of either Chicken Marsala or Salmon Piccata, with Leek and Potato Soup, Mashed Potatoes, Green Bean Almondine, Brownie Sundae, Coffee, Tea, Rolls and Butter.Our Guest Speaker:
Martin E Senger, BA, Assistant Director of the Office of English Language and Global Training
Martin is the Assistant Director of the Office of English Language and Global Training at Gannon University. He attended the soon-to-be-closed Blessed Sacrament grade school, Mercyhurst Prep, and Edinboro University. After receiving his BA in Russian Language, he moved to the former Yugoslavia to do humanitarian aid worked for three years, where he started teaching English to the people there. He worked with several international aid organizations to provide English lessons for those emigrating out of the war zone or those looking to increase their abilities to work in an international job field with English. After living in Bosnia, he moved back to Erie, met his wife, and started teaching ESL. He prepared immigrants to become American citizens at GECAC for ten years. In 2011 he started teaching English to global students at Gannon University, and has seen the program grow considerably. He has been an amateur genealogist since the early 90s.Topic:
For reservations; please E-Mail the Torch Club Secretary at secretary.erietorch@gmail.com.
German Immigration to Erie
"German Immigration to Erie"
"I have been an amateur genealogist since the early 90s. I consider myself very lucky, genealogically-wise, because all of my family lines have been in Erie for over a century, and some are even approaching the 200-year mark for residence. So I started wondering; what brought them and other families to Erie in the 1800s?"
His talk tells their story.
Please join us on March 5th, 2025 at 6:00 pm, for our pre-dinner cocktail and chat time and remember to bring your friends and acquaintances. Reservations are required.
Please remember to make your reservation at secretary.erietorch@gmail.com.