Verhovayak Lapja, 1952 (35. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1952 / Verhovay Journal

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Verhovay Journal

March 19, 1952

Verhovay Journal

Journal of the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Ass’n. OFFICE OF PUBLICATION

7907 West Jefferson Ave. Detroit 17, Mich.

PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association- Managing Editor: JOHN BENCZE • Editor: JOHN SABO

F.ditor’i Office:

<36—412 FOURTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH 19, PA.

Telephone: COurt 1-3454 or 1-3455

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OFFICIAL COMMENT

WELCOME, NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS!

The Board of Directors will hold its semi-annual meeting beginning March 17.

This will be the first regular meeting of the 1951 Conventionelected members of the Board of Directors.

The Board of Directors regularly convenes twice a year at the Home Office in the spacious room reserved primarily for it but sometimes used for purposes not related to the Board. These regular meetings are held in March and in September, and the duration of a Board of Directors meeting is usually one working week.

The Board of Directors is responsible to the Convention alone. By analogy the National Officers are accountable both to the Board of Directors and the Convention.

The above paragraph tells explicitly the very high place held by the Board of Directors in the official life and formal functions of our Association.

For this reason it is well for all our members to familiarize themselves with the duties of the Board of Directors and to know the men who make up the Board membership.

The Board of Directors of the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association has a normal complement of 12 members, but since the 1947 and the 1951 Conventions there has been an added member, making 13, in the person of Henry Gross, former president of the Workingmen’s Sick Benefit Federation which merged with our Association in 1947. The Convention has given this special honor twice to Mr Gross because of his valuable experience in fraternal life insurance and because of his popularity among the members.

There is not enough space here to detail the sundry duties and functions of the Board of Directors. In the English Constitution and By-Laws of the Association, on Page 18, under Section 10 and titled The Jurisdiction of the Board of Directors, and continuing for several pages (same page and section in the Hungarian version), you may acquaint yourselves with a detailed description of all that is required of the Board of Directors.

As pi'eviously stated, the Board of Directors regularly comes to the Home Office every six months. Sometimes for extraordinary reasons the Board must come to the Home Office between intervals for a day or two. But whenever possible anything of a serious nature coming between regular Board meetings and requiring immediate attention is settled through correspondence with the individual members of the Board. It is easy to see here that in effect the Board of Directors is on duty at all times, and this is equally true of the National Officers.

Although the Board of Directors is an authority higher than the National Officers and so is the overseer of the National Officers, it does in no wise come to the Home Office to flaunt its superior authority and jurisdiction over the National Officers. Rather it comes to advise and to collaborate, and to settle matters that are within the scope of Board functions and can not be given finality without Board approval. The Board of Directors can and

does sometimes deem it necessary to overrule the opinions, etc. of the National Officers, but when it does this it is done in the sincere interests of all Association, certainly not to humble the National Officers.

The Board of Directors divides its members into committees, this to facilitate and expedite the various businesses on hand.

When the members of the Board come to the Home Office in Pittsburgh they do have not have in mind a junket or a vacation. They are well aware of the graveness of their position. They know that in four years the next Convention shall call them to account for their Verhovay stewardship. There can be no levity an the Board of Directors.

The compensation received by the Board of Directors is certainly no inducement to join the august Verhovay Board No one can ever accuse a Verhovay Director of being guilty of opulence in so far as his Verhovay position goes.

And of course if the angels themselves were on the Verhovay Board of Directors, they too would not escape the occasional negative fault finding and criticisms levelled at the poor mortal Directors who are doing their heart’s best.

Now let us consider the gentlemen who constitute the Board of Directors.

They are:

Dr. Andrew Kovács, Vice-President, Cleveland, Ohio; Julius Macker, Vice-President, Detroit, Mich.; Gay Banes, McKeesport. Pa.; Aloysius C. Falussy, New York, N.Y.; Henry Gross,Pittsburgh, Pa.; Alexander Gvulay, Los Angeles, Calif.; Albert Ibos, New York, N. Y.; Coloman Kolozsvarv, Cleveland, Ohio; Stephen Lang, Bethlehem, Pa.; Richard Phillips. Detroit. Mich.; Joseph Turner. Youngstown, Ohio; John Vizi, Logan, W. Va.; Louis Vizi. Scalp Level. Pa.; Members of the Board.

Note the splendid geographic distribution of these men to give fair representation.

Now consider their diversified occupations which also give the membership better and more qualified representation. The Board of Directors is comprised of a miner, steel workers, tradesmen, several business men, three professionals consisting of a physician and two lawyers, and retired men. The origin of Verhovay has not been forgotten for we have a bora fide coal miner, John Vizi of Logan, W. Va. Is this representation on the Board not true democracy?

All the Directors function for the territory from which they come including Henry Gross who was elected a Director at large.

Some af these Directors are veterans of several terms, such as Vice-President Macker and Director Louis Vizi who have completed three term. Some have come bacji after an absence of a term. And this Convention, as others in the past, produced three absolutely new Directors. Although popular and competent Directors are reelected Convention after Convention, there is aiways an influx of new blood to activate further gains and progress in the Association.

Verhovay Directors are not accidentally made. They were and are very active, hard working, make themselves liked, in other words they are Verhovay conscious not part of the time but all the time. The Dictatorship is their reward—and challenge.

This article is a success if it makes you readers reaiize how very vital the duties and functions of the Board of Directors are.

May the members of the Board of Directors see clearly on the four year Verhovay road ahead, and may all the members give them the boost they deserve in their sincere endeavors to do only their very best for their beloved Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association.

A SALUTE TO THE NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS!

OFFICIAL NOTICE

^ 1

Emery Sobony is no longer connected with our i

Association as manager of Branch 45, Cleveland, Ohio.

Members are requested to make payments of

monhly dues at the regular branch meetings or at *

the Verhovay office located at 3609 Lorain Avenue, |

^ Cleveland 13, Ohio.

The office hours continue as they have been.

^ All insurance matters should be referred to this

^ office.s;

Payments by mail should be forwarded to: Verhovay Branch 45, 3609 Lorain Avenue, Cleveland 13, Ohio.

^ JOHN BENCZE

$ National President

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