William Penn, 1956 (39. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1956-10-03 / 10. szám

October 17, 1956

FACE 7

William Perm

Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting

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of the Tournament Administrator and National Auditor, John SABO, re the 1956 National Bowling Tournament and Fellowship Days held in Buffalo, N.Y.

The Committee discusses that part of the National Auditor’s and National Secretary’s Repoit, which deals with the inttoduct.ion of the new C.S.O. Rates, Plans and Membership Certificates. The Committee is advised of the factors which caused the delay of the issuing the new Certificates and Riders, and foremost among these, was, not receiving the necessary approval from the various States to which we had applied for approval. Secondly, the delay caused by the printer in preparing the necessary forms to be used in connection with the issuance of the new Certificates. Since the new rates had been given out to the full-time men and also the part-time men, and business was being written on this basis, and the Association could not issue the Certificates to the applicants, an emergency session was held by the Staff, in conjunction with the Legal Counsellor, as to what method could be found to assure these applicants that they were insured. The result of this conference was, that a Binding Receipt was formulated. However, due to the emergency that existed, it was the opinion of the Staff and the Legal Counsellor, that the Binding Receipt would be evidence for the member that he was insured with the Association. On the basis of these facts, the Committee approves the action taken by the Staff and the Legal Counsellor. The action taken is approved by the Board.

The Committee discusses the New York Insurance Department’s objections to our present By-Laws.

On properly made and seconded motion, the Committee ratifies the action taken by the National Secretary, wherein he informed the New York Insurance Department that appropriate provisions are being made to the By-Laws amendments, to be submitted to our next Convention for adoption, — to reduce the 2-year membership requirement to 1-year, as a qualification to be either a District or Convention delegate. Page 18, section 30, 35a and 36a of our By-Laws.

The Committee discusses further, Section 30, 35a and 36a of Chapter III of our By-Laws, relative to New York’s objection to the ineligibility of members of the Board of Directors, the Auditing Committee, National Officers, etc. to be District Delegates and Convention Delegates.

Due to the fact, that under Section 32 of the present By-Laws, the Board of Directors, the National Officers and the Auditing Committee Members of the Association are present at the Convention with the same rights and privileges as delegates, it is the opinion of this Committee, that should the New York law prevail, it could happen that certain Officers or Directors could be present at the convention as a delegate of his Branch or District, and also as a National Officer or Director and therefore would have two votes at the convention.

In further connection with the letters from the New York Insurance Department pertaining to their objections to our By-Laws, on motion properly made and seconded, the Board recommends that the Legal Counsellor of the Association and the National Secretary personally call on the New York Insurance Department to discuss the aforementioned letters and to bring back recommendations to the next Committee meeting.

Upon a motion duly made and seconded, the Committee recommends the adoption of the following rules to be used when amending the By-Laws in the future, in order to clarify the terminology relative to Quorums:

Two-thirds of the whole Board shall constitute a quorum at any regular

or special meeting of the Board of Directors.

A simple majority of those present shall carry a motion.

Recommendation of the Committee is approved by the Board.

On motion duly made and seconded, the Committee unanimously approves the action taken by the National Secretary in replying to Item 3, of the New York Insurance Department’s objections to our By-Laws, Section 37, Page 3C, entitled JURISDICTION OF THE BOARD.

The Committee acknowledges with thanks the Report of the National Secretary on his appearance at the national convention of the Ameiican. Hungarian Catholic Society in Cleveland, Ohio on July 25-26-27, 1956.

On motion properly made and seconded, the Committee acknowledges the Report of the National Secretary in connection with the hearing: at the New York Insurance Department in the Emery FLORIAN Income Protector matter.

The following resolutions were adopted by the Board concerning Maiming Benefits:

1. Former Rákóczi Sick Benefit members shall be entitled to a maximum of $400.00 in Maiming Benefits, the same as former Verhovay members.

2. Former Rákóczi members, who have withdrawn all their Sick Benefits shall be entitled to remain members of the Maiming Benefit Class by paying $1.2G per year in advance for this coverage, to make this uniform with the former Verhovay practice.

In compliance with the request of the Board of Directors, the Committee arranged for an appropriate Dinner, in honor of those Board members and

National Officers, to whom the ILLUSTRIOUS Citations will be awarded. The Dinner will be held at the Fort Pitt Hotel, in the Norse Room, on Wednesday, September 12th, 1956, at 7:00 P.M.

On a motion properly made and seconded, it is unanimously approved by the Committee, that the Association continue its practice of recognizing only M.D.’s and D.D.S.’s in connection with any Sick Benefit or Income Protector or Hospitalization claims that come in to the Association. Approved.

On a motion properly made and seconded, the Committee unanimously recommends that the medical examination fee be increased from $5.00 to $7.50. regardless of the amount of insurance applied for, due to the fact that the application for membership has been considerably lengthened and contains many more questions. Approved.

If it is necessary to re-examine an applicant or a member claiming benefit of any kind, it is within the jurisdiction of the Chief Medical Examiner, National Auditor and National Secretary to tell the applicant which Doctor he must go to for re-examination.

On motion duly made and seconded, the Board unanimously resolves that the amount of Maiming Benefit a former Rákóczi member may receive for the same loss of limb, etc. shall he equal to the amount received by the former Verhovay members. This ruling is to be retroactive to January 1, 195C.

Since the Finance Committee instituted the thought of budgetary control,

this Committee unanimously resolves that this item on the agenda be turned o\er to the Finance Committee for discussion, and at the time of discussion on this matter, John SABO, National Auditor shall attend the Finance Committees’s meeting.

On motion duly made and seconded, the Board unanimously resolves that due to the cost differential between publishing a magazine-type publication and a newspaper-type publication, the Association continue to issue to its members the tabloid-type monthly publication presently in use.

On motion duly made and seconded, the Board unanimously authorizes the Staff to advertise for bids for the printing of the WILLIAM PENN publication in tabloid form. The Staff is authorized to open these bids and bring forth their recommendations to the Spring Board Meeting for action.

Since the present printing contract expires June 30, 1957r provisions must be made for printing our publication from July 1, 1957 on.

On motion duly made and seconded, the Board unaniomusly adopts the following resolution:

Effective January 1, 1958, the following rules shall be in effect in awarding the ILLUSTRIOUS citation and emblem:

1. Any duly elected Branch Officer, who, for 15 years has served consecutively in the same office, or for 20 years in a combination of offices, shall be eligible for citation.

2. The request for citation must be submitted to the Home Office Staff

by a Director, Branch President, Branch Manager, Field Supervisor or the Branch Meeting itself.

3. Effective immediately, all presentations of citations should be mado by the Branch, at its meeting or public function if at all possible. The nearest Director, other than the local Director shall make the presentation, :i public function warrants it a National Officer may be present too.

4. National Officers and Directors shall be eligible for the citation award after having served 12 years in office.

On motion duly made and seconded, the Board unanimously approves the awarding of the citations to the following ILLUSTRIOUS Branch Officers, who had met the necessary qualifications:

Geza Horvath — Branch 135 R

Stephen Bodnar — Branch 317-V

Stephen Csabi — Branch 36-V

Moses Bokor _ Branch 345-V !

Frank Radvany — Branch 13-V

On a duly made and seconded motion, the Board unanimously approves the granting of a Scholarship Loan to Julius TELEGDY, Branch 296-V, since all the required data were presented to the Board and everything was found to be in proper order and form.

In connection with the Scholarship Loans, the Board unanimously agrees that we continue to grant Scholarship I.oans to qualifying members, on the

same basis as we have heretofore given them.

On a duly made and seconded motion, the Board unanimously resolves that the Sports Allotment Program be modified to the extent that in the future, financial aid be rendered to those Branches only, which participate in bona fide sports programs, and which is approved by the Board of Directors.

Eligibility for a Sports Allotment shall be based on the requesting Branch’s fulfillment of the necessary requirements as determined by the Association, such as payment of 12 full monthly dues to the Association for all new business. The Sports Allotment which the Branch can receive shall be based on New Business written, as follows:

For $25,000.00 New Business written, a $ 75.00 Sports Allotment

For 40,000.00 New Business written, a 125.00 shall be made

For 50,000.00 New Business written, a 150.00 ”

For 75,000.00 New Business written, a 175.00 ”

Maximum $300.00 in any one year.

Since the qualification for receiving a Sports Allotment shall be based on new business written, this new program shall become effective January 1, 1957, based on 1956 new business production. All requests for Sports Allotments received by the Home Office between September 15, 1956 and December 31, 1956 shall be decided by the Staff.

The letters of Joseph MILLER, Jr., Branch 59-V, and George MODOCK, aie presented to the Committee for action. The Committee acknowledges the letters, but on the basis of the Actuary’s report presented and accepted by the Board at its Spring meeting, the Committee regrets but cannot take any further action at this time.

It is resolved by the Board, that the Home Office be authorized to pay pro rated amounts of cash surrender values to those members who cash surrender their Certificates, rather than continue the present practice of paying the amounts of cash value on the anniversary date of the Certificate only. All cash surrenders received on or after October 1, 1956, shall be eligible for this new system.

The Committee listens to the Actuary’s Report with reference to special miner’s sick benefit policies. It is the recommendation of the Committee, that this be referred back to the Staff, who, together with the Actuary, will work out final details to present to the Spring meeting of the Board, for final adoption.

The Board designates the following Directors to represent the Association, in the following citation awards:

Director LANG will represent the Association at the Frank RADVANY Illustrious Citation presentation in Trenton, N. .1. at Branch 13-V.

Director VASSY will represent the Association at the Stephen CSABI Illustrious Citation presentation in Detroit, Mich, at the 50th Anniversary* Banquet of Branch 36-V.

Director KORMONDY will make the presentation of the Illustrious Citation to Geza HORVATH at Branch 135-R, Nixon, N. J.

Director MOLDOVANY will make the presentation of the Illustrious Citation to Stephen BODNAR at Branch 317-V, Wharton, N. J.

The request of Branch 482-V for Sports Allotment. The Board cannot comply with their request as allotments for group branch efforts cannot be recognized. Allotments can only be made on individual branches meeting their production quotas.

Vice President MACKER incited the Home Office Staff, Members of the. Board of Directors and the Auditing Committee members to the 50th Anniversary celebration of Branch 36-V in Detroit, Mich.

At this time, the Board calls upon Director IPOS, Chairman of the

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