Verhovayak Lapja, 1951 (34. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1951 / Verhovay Journal
PAGE 4 Verhovay Journal October 17, 1951 Verhovay Journal Journal of the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Ass’n. OFFICE OF PUBLICATION 79U7 West Jefferson Ave. Detroit 17, Mich. PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association Managing Editor: JOHN BENCZE Editor: JOHN SABO Editor’* Office: 436—442 FOURTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH 19. PA. Telephone: COurt 1-3454 or 1-3455 All articles and changes of address should be sent to the VERHOVAY FRATERNAL INSURANCE ASSOCIATION 436—442 FOURTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH 19, PA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: United States and Canada ....................................... $1.00 a year Foreign Countries ....................................................... $1.50 a year Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Detroit, Michigan under the Act of March 3, 1879. Pennsylvania Fraternal Congress to Observe 50th Anniversary Dr. Joseph Remenyi, professor, author, to address representatives of 75 societies at golden jubilee banquet on November 13 in William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh. — Coloman Revesz to preside at two-day convention. The Pennsylvania Fraternal Congress, to which our Association is affiliated, will hold its 40th annual convention on which' occasion it will celebrate its 50th anniversary. The session will convene Tuesday, November 13th, at 10 a. m. in the Monongahela Room on the 17th floor of William Penn Hotel. Pittsburgh, and conclude on the following day, November 14th. The meeting will hear outstanding speakers from various parts of the country and hear reports from the various committees. These reports should go a long way in helping societies better themselves in all phases of the fraternal insurance field. The members of the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association will be proud to learn that the head of this one-millionmember state-wide organization made up of 75 affiliated societies is our National Secretary Coloman Revesz. Mr. Revesz has been a very active worker for the Congress, and his ability, leadership and popularity were recognized even more so at the recently concluded Convention of the National Fraternal Congress in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Revesz is now a member of the Executive Committee of the National Fraternal Congress, a position comparable to membership on the Board of Directors of our organization. The Pennsylvania group is the largest fraternal congress in the country. The 75 societies affiliated with the congress represent practically all nationality groups and in this respect its character is similar to that of the United Nations. The organization was founded in 1901 to unite all fraternal benefit societies of Pennsylvania for the purpose of mutual interest, information, improvement and benefit and for concerted action in harmonious, united and loyal effort for the prevention of all things tending to injure their progress. The two-day program will be opened with the National Anthem to be sung by a member of Verhovay Branch 285, Miss DeLoris Randall, who will be accompanied on the piano by Mr. Joseph Rozmarin. The Session will be addressed by the following: Artemas E. Leslie, Insurance Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Oscar A. Kottler, the Deputy Insurance Commissioner; the Hon. David L. Lawrence, Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh; the Hon. Blair F. Gunther, Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania; Homer W. Teemer, Secretary-Treasurer of the Insurance Federation of Pennsylvania; Luke F. Hart, Supreme Advocate of the Knights of Columbus and President of the National Fraternal Congress; R. D. Robinson of the Maccabees Life Insurance Society, first Vice- President of the Pennsylvania Fraternal Congress; Dr. Herbert B. Kennedy, Medical Director of Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society of Omaha, Nebraska; N. K. Neprud, Vice-President of Lutheran Brotherhood, Minneapolis, Minn.; Vendel S. Platek, President of National Slovak Society and President of the Fraternal Societies of Greater Pittsburgh; Charle.i E. Pierson, Managing Editor of the Pittsburgh Press daily newspaper. A Memorial Service will be held on Tuesday afternoon, with the Very Reverend Peter M. Kreta, priest of St. Mary’s Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of McKeesport officiating. Requiem Service responses will be by the Russian Orthodox Church group. National Fraternal Congress Elects Coloman Revesz to Executive Committee The National Fraternal Congress of America at its 65th annual convention, held on September 24-27, 1951, at Hotel Morrison in Chicago, 111., singularly honored the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association by electing its National Secretary, Mr. Coloman Revesz, present President of ihe Pennsylvania Fraternal Congress, to its Executive Committee. The group of Officers and Executive Committee Members elected by the Convention are shown in the above picture. From left to right, standing, are: Foster F. Farrell, Secretary-Treasurer, and directors R. Geo. Lansford, Lendon A. Knight, Coloman Revesz, Joseph Spencer, Robert Bigelow; and sitting: Agnes E. Koob, Director, Ernest R. Deming, Vice-President, Luke E. Hart, President, S. HI Hadley, Installing Officer and John P. Stock, past President of the National Fraternal Congress of America. This is the first time in the history of American fraternal societies of Hungarian origin that one cf our officers has been elected to the Executive Committee of the National Fraternal Congress. We of the Verhovay are proud to offer our sincere congratulations and best wishes to Mr. Revesz upon his election. Highlight of the Convention will be the banquet to be held Tuesday night, beginning at 7 p. m., in the Urban Room, 17th floor. Mr. Coloman Revesz was successful in engaging an illustrious American-Hungarian university professor and noted author as the chief speaker. Dr. Joseph Remenyi, Professor of Comparative Literature, Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, will address the assembly, speaking on the subject “Rediscovering America.” Dr. Remenyi is not only a recognized authority on world literature, but also a teacher, novelist, poet, essayist, critic, editor and translator. With a cosmopolitan background of life, work and study in Europe and our own Midwest America, his first interest is introducing Americans to Europe and Europeans to America through the "great literature of both continents. He met America long before he left his native Hungary by reading Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. As an American “by decision” he has returned the favor, being the first to translate for Hungarian readers the works of Emily Dickinson, Stephen Crane, Henry James and Herman Melville. His courses in comparative literature, which he calls “an aesthetic league of nations,” constitute one of the few such educational programs available in the United States. This year he is attempting something new in teaching when he embarkes upon a “Study at Home with Television” program televised from Western Reserve University. Following the dinner, the delegates will be enterta’ned by the Pittsburgh D'strict Russian Orthodox 50-Member Male Chorus under the direction of Igor Soroka. This entertainment will be furnished by the courtesy of United Russ'an Orthodox Brotherhood of America, whose president. George Lesko, recently addressed the Verhovay delegates at the National Convention. The Rev. Joseph Altany, pastor of St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church, Munhall, Pa., will offer grace at the banquet. The importance of this Convention is evidenced by news coverage services to be provided by the large fraternal publications such as The Fraternal Age, The Fraternal Monitor and the National Underwriter. Reporters of these publications will cover the entire proceedings. The National Officers of our Associat’on take this opportunity to invite those Verhovay members as well as non-members who may wish to attend the banquet which will be held at 7 p. m., Tuesday night, November 13th. Tickets for this dinner can be secured by writing the Home Office, 436 Fourth Avenue, (Continued on page 5)
