William Penn, 1956 (39. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1956-01-04 / 1. szám
For You and Your Family THE MOST WONDERFUL OCCASION EVER GIVEN BY THE WILLIAM PENN FRATERNAL ASSOCIATION 1. National Bowling' Tournament 2. National Fellowship Days 3. National Honeymoon Special 4. A Chance to Visit a Foreign Country What a wealth of titles and sub-titles! What a wealth of refreshment, adventure and practical education for you readers who will exercise your wisdom to participate at the 1956 William Penn National Tournament-Fellowship Days next May 12-13! Every year we try to pick out an individual specific reason why the particular Tournament-Fellowship City for that particular year should be visited for its own special attraction, after ■ considering the primary features of the bowling and the fraternal program. This year it is Buffalo, New York. Buffalo, of course, has within its own confines many attractions, as you will read from the pertinent stories appearing in the William Penn until the big yearly event and as you will see from the reproduced pictures of this great American city of the East. But as the friendly and fair-minded citizenry of Buffalo will concur, the most famous attraction of the Buffalo metropolitan area is Niagara Falls, New York and Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, no more than 23 miles from downtown Buffalo, truly one of the natural wonders of the world, a sight stupendous, fascinating and literally mesmerizing to the awed onlooker. Next to the magnificent cataract in attraction is Canada, our peaceloving neighboring country to the north. Yes, the Peace Bridge, that mighty span connecting the two giant democratic lands, was rightly named, for no soldiery is needed to stand in constant threat at either border. Then too there is Fort Niagara, also just a few miles front sprawling Buffalo, a reminder of America's past back to the 18th Century Revolutionary War days. Although it is not our intention to neglect stressing the Tournament itself and the Fellowship Days program itself, you who have been to our past Tournament-Fellowship Days events know fully well that year after year our big national bowling match and the equally big social program are guaranteed entertainments. Who has to sell bowling to a bowler or a bowling enthusiast? Who has to sell entertainment to the socially inclined? Come to think of it, who has to sell breath-taking Niagara Falls to the lover, the honeymooner, the sight-seer? Or who has to sell Canada to the adventurer, the traveler? This is a very easy write-up ■— no convincing Or persuasion required. It is obvious that all our recommendations are self-selling, self-advertising — their own best agents. Go back to the numbered sub-titles. This year we can kill at least four birds with one stone. The sportsman, the fun-seeker, the romanticist and the traveler all can join together and go with the William Penn caravan to the William Penn 13th Annual Bowling Tournament and Fellowship Days in Buffalo, New York, locale par excellence. As for geographic convenience, Buffalo can boast that, as consider these mileages from typical William Penn cities to Buffalo: Akron, Ohio — 212 Ashtabula, Ohio — 135 Cleveland, Ohio — 189 Columbus, Ohio — 338 Detroit, Michigan — 254 Erie, Pennsylvania — 90 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — 296 New York, N. Y. via Thruway — 391 Philadelphia. Pennsylvania — 384 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — 244 Toledo, Ohio — 303 Youngstown. Ohio — 184 To these let us add the fact that Buffalo is readily' accessible by railroad and air as well as 1 y superior highways. Frankly, wo can not be hyperbolic in urging you to visit Buffalo and its many attractions — BUT TO MAKE YOUR VISIT IN CONJUNCTION WITH TH*E 1956 TOURN AMENT-FELLOWSHIP DAYS MAY 12-13. GO! GO! GO! Aside to our Team Captains and League Secretaries: The entry blanks will be ready the tatter part of January. Please remember that they must be returned no latter than March 4, 1956. OUR 70th ANNIVERSARY FEBRUARY 21, 1956 The date was February 21, 1886 — when thirteen humble but magnanimous Hungarian coal miners joined together in Hazleton, Pennsylvania for their mutual protection, thus forming the nucleus of the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association, the parent organization of our William Penn Fraternal Association. Yes, from the little acorn the mighty oak grows; from the efforts of a few selfless Magyars has developed the flourishing William Penn Fraternal Association, largest and most widespread of all Hungarian American societies. Then: 13 members with only a pittance of wealth. Now 90.000 members with assets of $24,000,000. In our partieuar field, the field of FRATERNALISM, we have through the decades paid out millions of dollars to our widows, our orphans and our members. We have transcended the aforegoing by contributing bountifully from Association, branches and members to the needs of charity and to the succor of other less opulent Hungarian American organizations engaged in altruistic work. We have extended this aid to American social, welfare and charitable groups also. In all our activities we have always kept aloof from show for the sake of show, from ulterior motives, from Machiavellian tactics, from the negative which could harm or destroy the positive. Finally, in peace and in war, we as a society and as its members have, collectively and individually, served our country loyally and well, and we have fostered the living spirit of true Americanism. For this we have gained the tremendous respect of our fellow Americans. Indeed we have much reason to be proud of our society and our membership. In particular, we are most jubilant for the recent tremendous stride in our organization — the Rakoczi- Verhovay merger which brought together two old and great Hungarian American societies to form the new William Penn Fraternal Association. In the light of all these happy revelations, we sincerely request that our members, in attending church services on February 19th or February 26th, raise their hearts prayerfully to God in thanksgiving for the many blessings He has bestowed on our society and in petitioning Him to give divine guidance to its future. Our Directors and our National Officers have decided that this 7Uth anniversary will be fittingly commemorated in our official publication, the Hungarian Jubilee Edition appearing Feburary 1st and the English Jubilee Edition published February 15th. We have asked leading citizens of our country as well as prominent Hungarians and William Penn members to contribute messages to these anniversary editions. Our February (Continued on page 21 ATTENTION BOWLING TEAM CAPTAINS AND BRANCH MANAGERS Entry blanks for the 13th Annual William Penn National Ten Pin Bowling' Tournament will be ready for distribution by January 27, 1956. Each bowling team captain should NOW notify his Branch Manager that his team intends to participate in the Buffalo, N. Y. National Event on May 12-13. BRANCH MANAGERS WHO' HAVE BEEN SO NOTIFIED SHOULD THEN IMMEDIATELY ORDER THE NECESSARY ENTRY BLANKS FROM JOHN S4BO, NATIONAL AUDITOR AND TOURNAMENT ADMINISTRATOR, 436 FOURTH AVE., PITTSBURGH 19, PENNSYLVANIA.
