GAHS President, Jim Martin (left), presents an annual grant check to the University of Missouri – St. Louis German Culture Center’s Director, Larry Marsh, on Friday, June 08, 2018.The German American Heritage Society of Saint Louis (GAHS) is a self-funding, not-for-profit organization that provides both annual and periodic grants to selected area German cultural programs and organizations including: Student Abroad Travel Programs for the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Webster University, St. Louis University, and Southern Illinois University- Edwardsville. Other recipients include: the Missouri Deutschheim in Hermann, MO., the St. Louis Strassenfest German Garden at the Missouri Botanical Garden; and the St. Louis Public Library German Archive. (photo courtesy of the UMSL-GCC)