William Penn Life, 2001 (36. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
2001-06-01 / 6. szám
ranch News m Branch 18 Lincoln Park, Ml by Barbara A. House We at Branch 18 are busily planning your upcoming events. Watch your mail for your invitation to our annual picnic on Aug. 5. If you don't get one, let me know. All members are invited. We will have food, games, music and prizes. If you want anything alcoholic to drink, please B.Y.O.B. in a nonglass container. Hope to see many members there. Nice to see so many members at the Lakatos concert in Hazelwood. Wasn't it a magnificent show? Special hello to Walter and Margaret Bugielski. So nice to see you. Thanks for the pictures. I loved them. Special thanks to Emilia Blair and Bill Imry for their help at Veterans Hospital. Many thanks also to Bill for getting all those members to our meetings. Without you it would not happen. Thank you, Frances Tressic, for choosing the WPA. It was wonderful to speak to you. Congratulations to Carol and Doug Truesdell on their new grandson Michael, a new WPA member. Congratulations also to La Verne Exner, a very proud grandmother. Her granddaughter Janice graduated magna cum laude from U. of M. Super! Welcome, Endre and Arlene Csornán, to the WPA family. Great to have you aboard. Congratulations to Mandy and Donny on the great news. A new WPA member in January. Condolences to all our deceased members' families, especially the families of Mary Barna and John Segedy. Remember also Helen and András Breznai on the death of their son John. You are in our prayers. Thanks to my mom, Irene Korpák, for packing all the soap and wash cloths for our Operation Christmas Child (OCC) campaign. She also made six boxes. Thanks also for doing our picnic invites. Thanks most of all for baby sitting Gabby all those many times we're gone. We love you. Thanks to all your Branch 18 officers for selling all those raffle tickets. You did a super job. I hope some winners of that raffle at the Annual Bowling Tournament were from Michigan. Genevieve Molnár dropped off a whole bag of goodies for our OCC drive. Many are hand made. She did this many times last year. Thank you very much. Get well to all our members, especially Anna Nagy, Gizella Ressler and Helen Fekete. Get well also to my special friend, Vice Chairman of the Board Lou Fodor. Enough already. Happy birthday to my brother Joe Gall. I love you. Also to Betty Holguin, Victor Bomora, Joe Baranyi, Gerry Davenport, Frank Radvany, Debbie Evans, Bob Kapinus and Father Angelus. May you all celebrate many more. Happy anniversary to Betty and A1 Vargo. Congratulations also on your new granddaughter. You are very special people. Here are upcoming events that may be of interest to you: • The Hungarian American Cultural Center's Gypsy Festival, Aug. 12. Music, entertainment, booths, food and refreshments. Cost is $5 per person. • St. Stephen Day Mass and dinner, Aug. 19 at Holy Cross Hungarian Catholic Church. Mass begins at 10:30 a.m. • St. Stephen Festival, Aug. 19, Toledo, Ohio. This is a giant festival that goes on for blocks. Please support these events. Our Soaring Eagle trip will be held Oct. 28 to 29. Cost to members is $25. Non-members pay $125. The fee is non-refundable. Our group will be limited to the first 40 people who pay their fee. As you know, Soaring Eagle is a five-star hotel. You will receive a coupon book with dining coupons, Among those participating at the “Freedom Day" celebration held in March at the Philadelphia Hungarian Club were: (front, l-r) Rebecca Tokár and Julie Tokár; (back, l-r) Jack Tokár, Janos Kiss, Zoltán Szabó, Sándor Kocsis and Korvin K. Kalman. money, etc. I need your reservation and payment by June 15. The schedule for our branch meetings for the remainder of the year is as follows: June 8, Sept. 14., Oct. 26, Nov. 16 and Dec. 7. We meet at 7:00 p.m. at the Hungarian American Cultural Center. Of course, Bill Imry will help you to remember. For all your life insurance needs, call me at (313) 383-4472 or (313) 294- 3997. Or, send an email to me at tbhouse@home.com. You can also call me if you have news to share. Have a wonderful summer. I know I will. My mom and I are going to Hungary. Can't wait. Branch 28 Youngstown, OH by Kathy Novak Congratulations to all the lucky winners at the bowling tournament. As always, a very festive and enjoyable time was had by all there. Best of luck to all the high school and college graduates. Hoping many of our readers were able to see the talented students of the Partium Hungarian Christian University Choir perform while touring North America. A group of 22 people from Youngstown traveled to Ligonier, Pa., to watch the choir William Nn Lib. June 2001 17
