Once again we held the end-of-year celebration in conjunction with the Dal King’s German Society – with great food and many awards.

Book prizes were presented to students at each level of the language classes, and additionally a kind of ‘mini-Oscars’ was held for the students of Dr Daniela Roth’s Intermediate German class, where awards (golden bunnies) were presented for categories such as ‘Best Performance’, ‘Best Costumes’ and ‘Most Humorous’.

The 2025 Mader Award was presented to Henry Leitch, who will use it to fund a semester at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität in München (Henry is shown here, right, with Nick Kinley, left).

A special guest in attendance was Suzanne Rix, the German Honorary Consul for the maritime provinces—and an alumna of the Dalhousie German Program.  Thanks for your support, Suzanne!

Der Käsekuchen vom Gingerbread Haus hat sehr gut geschmeckt!

Mirjam Held with Alexia and Margot, two of her students from the Accelerated Beginner German course, GERM1010.

The celebration culminated with the AGM and elections for the executive for the German Student Society. Pictured here are the outgoing executive: VP: Erin Inglis, President: Alevia Doyle, Olivia McDonald (2024/25 DAAD Young Ambassador), Treasurer: Cuen Eng, and SMU Rep: Gerrit Godfrey. (Missing: Tasha Moller, Events Coordinator: Adeeba Khan).

And here are the Executive members for 2025-2025:

Bryn Stewart - Co-Communications

Emily Schneider - Co-President

Mia McDonald - Co-President

Henry Leitch - Co-Communications

Gerritt Godfrey - SMU representative

Afif Katrib - DASSS Representative

Alexia Wheeler - Event Planner

Congratulations to all our grads – we’ll miss you!