William Penn Life, 1974 (9. évfolyam, 1-4. szám)

1974-10-01 / 4. szám

of August when most vacationers are home and looking for that final summer fling, before it is “business as usual”.

The short business meeting held in the Vespremis' cool and beautiful recreation room, restricted to members only, was exciting and businesslike , producing much in the way of future activities. A Flower Fund, by wav of member assessments, for future deaths in the immediate families of club members produced excellent results.

The next meetings will be held in October at the Joseph and Ethel Demeter home. And if all goes well, the Christmas Party in December will be hosted by Gabor and Kathy Takaes in their Dearborn Heights home.

We extend our sympathy at this time to those of our members whose aged parents recently passed away. To Louis and Joseph Gross, who lost their 84 year old mother, Mrs. Amelia Gross, a long-time William Penn member. And to Louis Lucas whose 87 year old mother, Mrs. Mary Lucas, died recently. May they rest in peace after a long and useful life.

Fraternally;

Jolán Lucas, the Ferret

STATEMENT OF CONDITION WILLIAM PENN FRATERNAL ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION, INC.

SEPTEMBER 30, 1974

BALANCE AS OF

DECEMBER 31, 1973 $64,323.55

1 \ C O M E :

Donation .................$8,480.69

Bond Interest 3,931.94

Savings Account Interest 25.3.11 12,665.74

TOTAl.......................................$76,989.29

DISBURSEMENTS:

23 Scholarship Grants $150.00 .. $3,450.00

BALANCE AS OF

SEPTEMBER 30, 1974 $73,539.29

A S S E T S

Bonds ..........................................$68,646.95

Savings Account............................. 4,526.12

Checking Account..............................221.39

Accrued Interest Receivable ...........144.83

TOTAL ASSETS AS OF

SEPTEMBER 30, 1974 ..............$73,539.29

D O N A T IONS

Branch 17, Lorain, Ohio..................$100.00

Branch 189, Alliance, Ohio lOO.(X)

Mike Kara ..........................................50.00

Helen Nemeth 15.(K)

IN MEMORY OF

Mr. MICHAEL MIKULA

Branch 76, Philadelphia, Pa................$10.(X)

BARBARA SÁNDOR

Branch 13, Trenton, N.J.........................10.(X)

CASPAR PAPP, JR.

László E. Kereszti ..................................5.00

JOHN A. JESSO

Jesso Family...........................................15.00

ETHEL BUJDOS BILL SABO HENRY LUBAS CHRISTINE CUNTALA PAULNEMYO ROSILAND PAGANA

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hrabar 30.00

JOHN INGLESBY

Branch 13, Trenton, N.J.........................10.(X)

MARY SAMOK

Branch 226 McKeesport, Pa..................15.00

D \NE WERT “LEFTY”

One of the amazing things in this “enlightened age is that there are still people around who attempt to change a child from a left-handed to a right-handed person.

Being right-handed or left-handed isn’t a “habit” — it’s as natural as having blue or brown or green eves. It's a characteristic determined bv how the embryo develops into a baby.

Humans are born with one side of the brain more fully developed than the other. If the side of the brain that controls the right side of the bodv is more fully developed, the person is naturally right-handed because the right hand is then easier to use.

If the more fully developed side of the brain is the side that controls the left part of the body, the person is left-handed and no amount of effort to change the person is going to change that basic fact.

Any child should be encouraged to use the hand for which he or she shows a preference. To do otherwise can cause emotional problems if a child is told to use

a hand that just won’t function as well as the other one.

A few rare people are ambidextrous - have brain sides that are developed alxwt equally so that there may be no particular preference for using one hand over the other. In such persons, habit and not inherited characteristics usually make one hand easier to use than the other.

Most persons are right-handed and there are many implements,such as scissors, that are designed for right hand use and are more difficult for the “lefty.” That, however, is a very poor reason to say to a child using the left hand, “No, no, use vour other hand.”

Parents should prevent problems — not cause them. Let “lefty” alone.

THE DYING PERSON

The family that decides a dying member should be “protected" from the knowledge that death is near, often is just kidding itself and doing the loved one a great disservice.

We are not being mature if we do not accept the inevitability of death and consider how we would prefer to meet it — in ourselves and in others. Death with dignity, close to people who care, should be everyone spreferred end to life. To deny anyone that opportunity by trying to cover up facts is not rational or kind.

Sure, there is the rare exception in the person who is not emotionally able to face death. In almost all cases, such persons can face it with surprising strength once it is “talked out.’

After all, who reallv is being kidded when knowledge of a fatal illness is attempted to be withheld? Seldom the dying person, because the signs are too obvious to miss. All that happens is that the patient and loved ones play a big game of pretense and in playing the game, prevent the discussions and open display of feelings that should take place.

Physicians often must abide by the wishes of the family but the circumstances are rare indeed when the physician does not feel that the dying patient should be told the facts. By experience, he has found that it is far kinder to do so. Various studies shown that most persons want to know when they are dying, and they want to talk about it in their own way and in their own time.

Grief? Yes. Don’t bother pretending otherwise. Share it in a mature way with your loved ones. Talk it out, for the benefit of all concerned.

At this moment, death may seem very, very far away. You can do everyone concerned a favor by having a family discussion about death so that feelings can be brought out in the open and weighed.

The thoughtful, mature family prepares for a birth in the family. It prepares for a death, too. Before the crisis.

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