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Club Spotlights
Wharton Club of Germany/Austria Holds First Karneval event
In February 2007, the Wharton
Club of Germany/Austria inaugurated
a Karneval event that it hopes will
become an annual tradition. After
months of organization, Christian
Mayer, W’03, procured 25 soughtafter
tickets to the exclusive Rote
Funken Ball. The Rote Funken (red
sparks) are one of the oldest traditional
Karneval organizations in Cologne, so
their official Karneval balls are by invitation
only.
The evening started with a group
dinner in the Maritim Hotel restaurant
overlooking the river, where alumni
from across generations and guests chatted
with each other and exchanged fond
memories about their time at Wharton.
After the dinner and group picture, the
Wharton crew stormed into the party
venue and mingled with other Karneval
guests.
The ball not only involved the parading
of all-out costumes by the attendees,
but also dancing and singing
along to the classic repertoire of popular
Karneval bands such as Die Black Fööss
and Die Höhner, not to mention the
consumption of the local beer, Kölsch.
The alumni with the best endurance
were still dancing beyond
4 a.m. Without a doubt, the fun will be
repeated next year.
— Yin Yin, W’05, C’05, WG’06,
and Christian Mayer, W’03
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