William Penn Life, 1976 (11. évfolyam, 1-4. szám)

1976-07-01 / 3. szám

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singing of our National Anthem accompanied by Mickey and his orchestra.

Rev. Imre Kovács, Pastor of United Church of Christ, Springdale, Pa. offered the Invocation. The guests then enjoyed a really fine dinner, efficiently served by the catering staff of the William Penn Hotel. During the dinner, we were entertained with excellent Hungarian music provided by Arpad Nagy violinist, accompanied by Dorothy and Casey.

Following the dinner, there was a very short commemoration program. Guests at the headtable were introduced. After this the only speech of the evening was delivered by our National President, Mr. Elmer Charles, who briefly recalled the accomplishments of the past 90 years of the Association, paid tribute to all of those dedicated people who contributed to the growth of the William Penn Association, to those who are presently active in the promotion of the Association and finally a pledge that the present administration will turn over to the succeeding generation a viable and progressive Association to continue serving the needs of its membership.

Members of the Official Family were first introduced: Elmer Charles, National President; John P. Balia, National Vice- President and Mrs. Balia; National Vice- President Louis L. Varga and Mrs. Varga; National Secretary and Mrs. Albert J. Stelkovics; National Treasurer and Mrs. Julius E. Somogyi; Director and Mrs. Frank Bero; Director and Mrs. Stephen Danko, Director Zoltán B. Emri; Director and Mrs. Michael Hegedűs; Director and Mrs. Albert G. Kertesz; Director and Mrs. William Kohut; Director Stephen Lang; Director and Mrs. Stephen Lesco; Director and Mrs. John Sabo; Director Frank J. Wukovits; Helen Nemeth, Chairlady Auditing Committee; Emma Beganyi, Secretary Auditing Committee and James Beganyi;

90th Anniversary . . .

Charles and Eloise Fabian; Louis and Ethel Fodor; Michael and Ann Hrabar; Michael and Zita Kara; Gus G. Nagy, Vice-President Membership Service and Mrs. Nagy; Gay B. Banes, General Counsel and Mrs. Banes; Gregory M. Lang, M.D., Medical Director and Mrs. Lang.

From our Sister Fraternal Benefit Societies: St. George Catholic Union, Perth Amboy, N.J., Director László Kozma and Helen Kozma, also Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Tamas; Croation Fraternal Union, President and Mrs. John Badovinac; Greek Catholic Union, George Batyko, President and George Zifchik; National Slovak Society, Secretary and Mrs. John Surovy; Polish Falcons, President and Mrs. Walter Laska, Secretary Bemie Ragalski, Vice-President Jean Hartman; Greater Beneficial Union, President and Mrs. Frederick Schwesinger, Sales Director and Mrs. Leicher; Serb National Federation, Pete Zifkovics, Field Manager and Mrs. Zifkovics; Michael Stivoric, President Greater Pittsburgh Fraternals and Mrs. Stivoric; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Balaban, Thomas & Co.; Mr. Richard J. Phillips, Vice- President of A. Maston & Co., Inc.; Sheriff John C. Peck, Westmoreland

County and Mrs. Peck; Louis Antal,

President UMW of A, Local No. 5; Anthony Waskiewicz, President ITELCDS and Mrs. Waskiewicz.

The Home Office Staff members introduced were: Mary Allen and Bud; Ernest Bendzsuk and Lillian; Helen

Erdeky; Frances A. Furedy; Irma

Kozma and Steve; Eva Lehoczky and Leslie; John Lovász and Florence; Rose Rapagna; Gerry Robison and Bob; Marie Tady; John Tusai and Kathy; and George Charles Jr. Also it was a pleasure to have with us some of the retired Home Office Employees: Margaret Beres and Sándor, and Anna Green.

From Queens, New York the newest member of our agency force, Lee Wargo, Branch 648.

Also introduced were Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Gero of Federal, Pa. who on the

Ernie L, Könnyű

Mr. Ernie L. Könnyű, son of Mr. and Mrs. László Könnyű, Branch 209, St. Louis, MO has won the Republican nomination as Congressman to the U.S. House of Representatives from the 13th Congressional district in the State of California.

To our knowledge he is the only person of Hungarian background who is running for Congress in the United States.

We congratulate Mr. Könnyű and wish him well, certainly it is about time that the citizens with Magyar ethnic background have one of their own as a representative in the Halls of Congress.

We urge all Hungarians in the 13th Congressional district of California to help elect Mr. Ernie Könnyű as their next Congressman.

50th anniversary of the former Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association, played the lead roles in a stage production titled “The Great Heritage”.

Mr. Rezső Mikola, on behalf of the Magyarok Világszövetsége, presented to the William Penn Association a herendi porcelain statue depicting a coal-miner which is symbolic because the William (Continued on Page Four)

Messrs. Fohl, Charles, Danko, Lesco, Lang, Somogyi, Nagy, Sabo, Balia.Standing: Messrs. Bero, Kohut, Radvany, Toma, Varga, Balia, Kertesz, Sabo.

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