Fraternity-Testvériség, 1964 (42. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1964-08-01 / 8. szám

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FRATERNITY

REV. DARÓCZY BE GRANTED RELEASE FROM HIS DUTIES AS SUPERINTENDENT AND TREASURER, AS WELL. UPON MOTION, THE COMMITTEE WAS PRAISED FOR ITS FINE WORK AND THE RECORDING SECRETARIES WERE INSTRUCTED TO MAKE MENTION OF THIS FACT IN THE MINUTES.

68. The President appointed the following delegates to serve as a Nominating Committee: Mr. Gazéi Veszprémi, Rev. Matthias Daróczy, Rev. Árpád George, Mr. Emery Király, Dr. Tibor Csikesz, Mr. Andrew Kurimai, Mr. Ambrose Czikay, Mrs. Helen Syposs, Mr. Zoltán Szabó, Mr. Stephen George, Mrs. John Rigó, Mrs. Stephen Bayer, Mrs. Irene Sakalo, Mrs. Alex Kayatin, Mr. Joseph Dula, Mr. Emery Perczel, Mrs. Ilona Kemes, Rev. Béla Bacsó, Mr. Ernest Sala, Mr. Andrew Szabó, Mrs. Palma George, Rev. Desmond Parragh, Mr. Károly Kish, Mr. Tibor Dolinszky.

69. The President announced that each member of the Convention will receive a picture of the new Kossuth House as a gift. Additional prints are available at 25 cents each.

70. The President recessed the Convention at 12:40 P. M. until 2 o’clock in the afternoon.

71. The afternoon session was opened by the President at 2:30 P. M.

72. The Rev. Desmond Parragh, Secretary of the Finance Committee, presented the Committee’s report. Mrs. John Rigó was chairman; the Rev. Szabó (Los Angeles) co-chiarman; Dr. István Robert, secretary of the sub-committee for the Controller’s Department, and Mr. William Aros, secretary of the sub-committee for the Treasurer’s Department.

73. The Rev. Parragh presented the following recommendations of the Finance Committee:

a) That the eminently satisfactory reports of Mr. László Eszenyi, Controller, and Mr. Paul St. Miklóssy, Treasurer, be accepted as presented and that they be relieved from further responsibility for the past quadrennium.

THE CONVENTION UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED THE RECOMMENDATION.

b) That the present branch deduction system be changed to a percentage system, giving 6% deduction to the sectionalized branches and 7 or 8% to the individual branches; the new system to go into effect as of January 1, 1965, at which time all monthly expense allowances, etc., be eliminated; the new system to be revised annually by the Supreme Council.

AFTER LENGTHY DISCUSSION, CLARIFICATION BY THE CONTROLLER AND STATEMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT BÉKY TO THE EFFECT THAT THE NEW SYSTEM WOULD ONLY RAISE THE BRANCH DEDUCTIONS AND THAT NO BRANCH WOULD RECEIVE LESS THAN PREVIOUSLY, THE CONVENTION UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED THE RECOMMENDATION WITH ONE “NAY” VOTE.