William Penn Life, 1993 (28. évfolyam, 1-11. szám)

1993-02-01 / 2. szám

February 1993, William Penn Life, Page 3

Stamp honors Hungarian aerospace pioneer

From Testvériség

WASHINGTON — Dr. Theodore von Kármán, the Hungarian-born scientist known as the "architect of the Space Age,” was the subject of a commemorative stamp issued la., i year by the U.S. Postal Service.

The multicolor commemorative was released to post offices across the land on Aug. 31,1992, coinciding with the opening of the World Space Congress in Washington, D.C.

Von Kármán is considered one of the great research engineers of the 20th century, and was instrumental in the development of the U.S. space program. He is credited with pioneering the use of mathematics in aeronautics, a field that had been largely empirical beforehand.

He was one of the first George Washington laureates of the

American Hungarian Foundation in 1961. The first major bequest received by the Foundation was made by von Kármán.

The marginal inscription on the full stamp sheet reads, in part: "A gifted aerodynamicist and engineer, he was called the 'architect of the space age’ .... His discoveries enabled supersonic flight and the landing on the moon by U.S. astronauts.”

Born in Budapest in 1881, von Kármán showed such a natural facility for mathematics at an early age that his father, a university professor himself, feared he would become a freak, and steered him toward engineering.

After studying at the University of Göttingen in Germany and the University of Paris, he became director of the Aeronautical Institute at Aachen, Germany. He served the German military in World War I and led the develop-Penna, enacts law governing fraternals

HARRISBURG, PA — Gov. Robert P. Casey signed Dec. 15 legislation governing the structure, organization and operation of fraternal benefit societies. The bill, Senate Bill 186, brings Pennsylvania laws governing fraternals into line with those of other states.

"The new law will help fraternal benefit associations upgrade operations to meet higher standards and help them continue to assist their policyholders as well as the community at large,” Gov. Casey said.

Fraternal benefit societies, like the William Penn Association, are non-profit organizations which use a local branch system to perform charitable work and provide insurance programs for members.

Under its provision, the new Pennsylvania law:

• requires fraternal benefit societies to establish reserves in accordance with standards applied to commercial life and accident and health insurers;

• authorizes fraternals to establish separate accounts in order to offer variable benefits;

• requires contracts issued by fraternals to have the same provisions of contracts issued by commercial life and accident and health insurers;

• brings agents for fraternals within the general authority and requirements of the insurance laws rather than only the provisions set forth in the fraternal act;

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ment of the first helicopter able to maintain hovering flight.

After his first visit to the U- nited States in 1926, von Kármán was invited to become director of the Guggenheim Institute of Technology, and became a U.S. citizen in 1936. He shortly became a leading proponent of solid-fuel rockets, and was a cofounder of the present NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1944.

President Kennedy presented him with the first National Medal of Science in 1963, recognizing his contribution to the theoretical and practical development of the U.S. space program. Von Kármán, who never married, died shortly afterward, on May 6, 1963, prepared, as he said, "for the other side of space.”

The von Kármán stamp is the third issue in U.S. postal history honoring prominent Hungarians. The first was the Joseph Pulitzer stamp in 1947, and the second was the Louis Kossuth stamp issued in 1958 as part of the Champions of Liberty series.

These stamps, significant as they are for collectors, are not rare, however, having been printed in the usual quantities of U.S. commemorative issues.

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William Penn Fraternal Association Scholarship Foundation, Inc.

ELIGIBILITY RULES FOR 1993 SCHOLARSHIP GRANTS

The Board of Directors has established the following rules governing eligibility for scholarship recipients:

a) The student applying for a scholarship grant must be a life benefit member of the William Penn Association for three years as of January 1 of the year for which application is made. A life benefit member is one who is insured for life or endowment benefits.

b) A parent or grandparent of the applicant must be a life benefit member of the William Penn Association, or the student must be a child of a deceased member.

c) Students may apply for scholarship grants only if they have been accepted by or are currently attending an accredited college, university or school of nursing. A transcript of the applicant’s scholastic record must be attached to the application.

d) Scholarship grants will be awarded to full-time students only.

e) Since the awarding of scholarship grants is based primarily on the financial need of the applicant’s family, the parents of the applicant must file a confidential financial statement on a form provided by the Scholarship Foundation and be willing to provide any and all other information which may be required.

f) All applications must be postmarked no later than May 21, 1993. Those postmarked later will not be considered.

g) Grants are awarded for a two- or four-year period. In order to be considered for scholarship grants in ensuing years, the student must notify the President of the Scholarship Foundation, by letter postmarked no later than May 21,1993, that he or she wishes to continue receiving the scholarship grant. In addition, the student must submit his or her scholastic record for the previous semester and proof of enrollment for the continuing term as soon as such documents become available. However, the letter requesting renewal of the grant must be sent even if the scholastic record and proof of enrollment are not available by May 21,1993.

h) We suggest that a student’s application or renewal letter be sent to the President of the Scholarship Foundation via certified mail so that there is no question as to the mailing date or receipt of same at the Home Office.

i) All applications and renewal letters must be submitted by the student seeking the grant. Any request for a grant submitted by a parent or guardian will not be considered.

j) Applications for scholarship grants must be made on forms furnished by the Scholarship Foundation. All necessary forms may be obtained by contacting your local Branch Coordinator or by writing to the following address:

E. E. Vargo, President

William Penn Fraternal Association Scholarship Foundation, Inc.

709 Brighton Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15233

k) Scholarship grants will be awarded by the Executive Committee of the William Penn Fraternal Association Scholarship Foundation, Inc., once each year. Grants will be paid directly to the applicant provided he or she is a member in good standing on the date the grant checks are issued.

Deadline for Applications May 21,1993