William Penn Life, 1998 (33. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1998-07-01 / 7. szám

WILLIAM PENN LIFE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE WILLIAM PENN ASSOCIATION, 709 BRIGHTON RD, PITTSBURGH, PA 15233 Volume 33, Number 7 Address Correction Requested July 1998 Golfers: It’s time to head to Harrisburg HARRISBURG, PA - The WPA’s annual slate of summer fraternal activities continues this month with our 15th Annttal Golf Tournament. The 18-hole event will be played Saturday, July 18, at the Dauphin Highlands Golf Course in Harris­burg. The deadline for entries has passed, and by now all golfers and guests should have made their ho­tel reservations. All that remains to be done is for you and your family to have a safe journey to Harris­burg, prepared for a fun-filled weekend. The fun will start Friday, July 17, with the annual golfers recep­tion at the Harrisburg East Holiday Inn. The evening will feature plenty of good food and beverages, along with the annual putting contest for the benefit of the William Penn Fra­ternal Association Scholarship Foundation. While golfers take to the course Saturday, non-golfmg guests-espe­­cially children—can enjoy the hotel’s large swimming pool or its five-hole pitch-and-putt course. Or, for a great day of family fim, take the children to nearby HersheyPark amusement park and the world-famous Hershey choco­late factory. While it’s too late to enter the tournament, it’s not too late to get in on some of the fun of the tourna­ment. Tickets for the benefit raffle to be held at the golf dinner are available by calling the Home Of­fice toll-free at 1-800-848-7366. Prizes include a golf getaway week­end for two, basket of cheer, mi­crowave oven, 2.3” portable color television, four HersheyPark tick­ets, WPA wallet with money, two dozen golf balls and golf umbrella. Tickets are available for a donation of one dollar each. All proceeds benefit our scholarship foundation. The scholarship foundation will also receive proceeds raised by the hole sponsorship program. Indi­viduals, branches, businesses and groups are welcome to be named as hole sponsors for the tournament in exchange for a $100 donation. Two sponsors may also share sponsorship of a single hole for a donation of $50 each. The name of each sponsor will be placed at the tee of the hole. For more informa­tion on hole sponsorship, call George S. Charles Jr. at 1-800-848- 7366, Ext. 121. We remind all golfers that we will be awarding prizes to the men’s and women’s low gross and low net champions. Prizes will also be awarded to the winners of various skill shot contests to be conducted during tournament play. For the longest drive contest, prizes will be awarded to both men and women in two age brackets: (1) golfers ages 18 to 59; and (2) golfers age 60 and older. The skill shot contests are open to all golfers. The hole-in-one contest, how­ever, is open only to golfers age 18 and older who are life-benefit mem­bers of the WPA as of July 1,1998, with at least one year’s premium paid. Hole #15 will be designated as the official hole-in-one hole with a prize of $15,000. If no one scores an ace on that hole, the eligible member who gets closest to the pin on that hole will win $500. A prize Continued on Page 2 Student roster for Hungarian Language Camp nears limit PITTSBURGH - The Ninth An­nual WPA Hungarian Language Camp will be held in a few weeks. But, in one way, the camp can al­ready be considered a success. Only one opening remains on the student roster. Language camp organizers are excited about the nearly full house and are eagerly awaiting the opportunity to wel­come students to Penn Scenic View. Any WPA life-benefit member age 18 or older wishing to fill the final seat in our Hungarian Lan­guage Camp should call the Home Office immediately. Anyone call­ing after the class has been filled will be put on a waiting list in the order in which their call was re­ceived. The camp will be held Aug. 2 to 8 at Penn Scenic View in Rockwood, Pa. The cost for the week is $200, which covers lodg­ing, all meals, 25 hours of instruc­tion and learning materials. For more information or to make a reservation, call the Home Office toll-free at 1-800-848-7366. WPA joins fraternal system in effort to build two homes with Habitat for Humanity NFCA 98 AMERICUS, GA - For the eighth straight year, the National Fraternal Congress of America (NFCA) and its member frater­nal benefit societies, including the WPA, have promised to make dreams come true through its National Cause program. The NFCA National Cause was estab­lished in 1991 to generate financial sup­port and volunteer service for two organi­zations: Habitat for Humanity International in Americus, Ga., and Jubilee Ministries in Washington, D.C. This year, the WPA is joining the NFCA in an effort to build two homes with Habi­tat for Humanity. The homes will be con­structed during a six-day “Blitz Build” in Americus the week of Aug. 23 to 29. In just a week’s time, volunteers from NFCA member societies will turn a foundation on a dusty lot into a home ready for a deserv­ing family. The NFCA plans to complete one of the two homes by the Saturday, Aug. 29, dedi­cation. The second home will be dubbed the “Amateurs’ Home,” which will be com­pleted at a more leisurely pace and allow first-time volunteers with little or no build­ing experience the opportunity to learn as they go. Any unfinished work on the Ama­teurs’ Home will be finished after the blitz build by the Habitat staff. The WPA is supporting this year’s Na­tional Cause through money and volun­teers. The WPA has donated $300 towards the NFCA’s eoal of $60.000 for the project. Our Association will also sponsor Home Office employees Joan Rectenwald and John E. Lovász as construction volunteers. Since adopting Habitat as a National Cause, the NFCA has raised more than $381,000 for five Habitat home building projects. In addition, NFCA member soci­eties and state fraternal congresses have contributed another $9.7 million and sup­ported 2,346 Habitat homes around the world. NFCA, Habitat officials and the two future homeowners broke ground for this year’s blitz build on April 9. The homes will be located in Habitat’s Easter Morn­ing Community in Americus. This 65-acre subdivision was given its name because its first 20 homes were built during Easter Week 1998. The NFCA’s two homes, lo­cated on a tranquil cul de sac, will join more than 140 others to be built in this commu­nity by the year 2000. The future owners of the NFCA-spon­­sored homes-Mattie Smith and her four children, and Betty Smith (no relation) and her six children—will be receiving a “hand up” not a “handout.” Like all Habitat homeowners, they secure a no-interest mortgage through Habitat and must con­tribute hundreds of hours of volunteer la­bor on Habitat projects. For more information about the blitz build and volunteer opportunities, call Anthony E. Snyder, NFCA Communica­tions Coordinator, at (630) 355-6633. T

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