William Penn, 1957 (40. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1957-12-04 / 12. szám

December 18, 1957. PAGE 11 William Penn LEDGER ASSETS -Sept. 30, 1957 Real Estate — Home Off Bids’. & Eastern Dist. Off. Bidg Less Reserve..................................................................................... 726,753.73 Mortgage Loan Account ................. 2,099,091.62 Branch Real Estate Account ...................................................... 35,542.12 Loans and Liens ........................................................................... 779,960.63 Bond Account ............................................................ 21,737,601.86 Stock Account ............................................................................ 301,148.09 Cash Account ................................................................................. 139,259.47 Savings Account ......................................................................._ 78.752.03 Airlines Account .........................................................................._..... 425.00 Petty Cash ......................................................................................... 1,000.00 Ledger Assets as of September 30, 1957 .........................................$ 25,899,534.55 JOHN SABO National Auditor JULIUS E. SOMOGYI National Treasurer December birthdays: Mrs. Leona Alper, Mrs. Henry Au­­lerman, Barbara Joan Beres, Mrs. Stephen Debrey, John Erdosy, Jr., John Erdosy III, John G. Érsek, Olga Marie Gacsi, Victoria Gloner, Eugene Gruenwald, Mrs. George Hegyi, László Horvath, Mary Theresa Kane, Leo­nard J. Kovács, Joseph Lendvay, James J. McBride, James McBride III, Samuel Molnár, Robert Peresz­lényi, Mrs. Andrew Rahora. Joseph Rosenthal, Joseph J. Schmidt, Erna Szarka, Mrs. Francis Szerdahelyi, Ar­thur Weiss, John S. Swain. Arlene Anna Toth, Bruce Carl Sivak, Do­rothy Joy Sivak, Mrs. William Sle­­venski. January birthdays: Gabriel Alper, Mrs. Alexander Ara­nyi, Charles Bauman, John Birken­heuer, Barbara A. Britton, James A. Britton, Mrs. Edward ChmieleWski, Rudolph Effinger, Margaret Fabian, Louis .Lohn Fenessy, Julius Gloner, Theresa Goschler, Mrs. Arthur Gui­­mes, Paul Gyuraki, Mrs. Harry Hum­mel, Mrs. Marty Kehoe, Irene Marie Lebesko, Paul G. Lichtner, Stephen Mate, John Matics, Barbara McGro-SPORTS CLUB IDEAS Since the annual December meet­ing of Branch 36-V will not be held until after the current deadline, I will be unable to report the details of that important meeting until the January issue. This doesn’t bother me too much since it gives me additional time to go woolgathering about my pet project — the Detroit WILLIAM PENN SPORTS CLUB. How does one go about discussing 4 iie advantages of a Sports Club with comprehension and coherence? How does one try to overcome the pro­blems connected with its efficient or­ganizing? The idea of a Sports Club l.as been a vague and misty dream in the Detroit area for at least four­teen years — ever since the first Na­tional Bowling Tournament. Too many reasons have been given on the inadvisability of such a club in the vast and spread-out confines of De­troit and its 44 suburbs. (Not that they couldn’t be overcome if any one ever stopped to analyze the pro­blems!!) The most important objection seems to be that the prospective Sports Club members live too far from one another, scattered over a wide terrain involving ás many as twenty and thirty miles. In the smal­ler William Penn communities, dis­tance is of no consideration, since one can almost walk from one end pan. Mrs. Edward J. Papp, Robert D. Progner, Sharon Rooney, Julia Rost, Wesley I1'. Schival, Mrs. Robert Stackhouse, Anthony Thomas, Willi­am G. Wolf, Jr., Alex York, George Zorgo Our best wishes for the future for all of you. * * * Namedays are more revered in Hungary than birthdays. And so we salute the Josephs, Johns and Ste­phens in this holiday season! * * * Our first meeting in the New Year (1958) will be Saturday, January 11th. Dues may be paid before 8 p.m„ and then we ask that you stay for a short meeting after that hour. Ad­dress: 1144 N. Fourth Street. * * * Yours truly hopes you all have a pleasant Christmas, and here’s wish­ing you a completely happy 1958. Cordially and fraternally yours, L. LOUIS HORVATH 2107 Market Street Philadelphia 3, Pa. LOcust 8-1789 of town to the other. * Yet, on closer study, the matter of distance in the Detroit area is negli­gible for the simple reason that a large majority of men, women and students travel many miles to and from work and school every day c( the week. Take our #2 son Larry, for example. For the three years of his high school days he traveled 12 miles each way to and from school by bus. Now, as a freshman at Wayne State University, and the proud pos­sessor of an ancient “bomb” or, jalopy, he travels a round distance of more than thirty miles per day to school and to his part-time job. Luke, my #1 man, travels as much as a hundred miles some days in his job as a refrigeration and air-condition­ing technician. When there is a party on tV:e other side of this vast metropolis we think nothing of hop­ping in the family car and traveling . the great distances. After all, we must remember that the MOTOR CITY is on wheels__ Far more important is the lack of proper facilities namely, a WILLI AM PENN fraternal home, where mem­bers could meet one another casually or at special social functions. William Penn activities are held in several different locations, many of which are pretty far from our homes, yet they always seem to be well-attended. How much more convenient, and liabit-forming, a fraternal home of our own would be ? Since distance can be overcome, a main objective should be a definite location for the membership. So far as I can see at the present time, this dream seems as far into the future as the first human engineered moon satellite. Maybe my grandchildren will be able to brag about the beautiful new WILLIAM PENN FRATERNAL HOME. The most important prolim, in my personal opinion, is the giant-sized job of getting the membership to­gether long enough to organize a Sports Club. In the first place, please remember that a Sports Club is net for bowlers alone. In the Water Won­derland State of Michigan, sports is an all-year round habit, for example, fishing from early spring on to ice­­fishing in the winter months. Ski­ing and skating at the marvelous winter resorts throughout Michigan are always well-attended (and I may say, by many of our own William Penn members). We have baseball fans (and not only those who attend the games at Briggs Stadium — we actually ha\e William Penn baseba'I players — ask George Marton, cap­tain of the branch bowling team). We have golfers who would probably like to challenge other fraternal members. We have also a growing group interested in boating on the Detroit Rivei and connecting water­ways. Nicholas Horvath earned his Skipper’s license from the Coast Guard for sail boats a couple of years ago. Then there are the “stink­­boat” (boats which use gasoline and do not have to depend entirely on the whims of nature and a “fair wind”) owners, and the large number of families, who own smaller boats and canoes, many of them William I’enn members. The eager member­ship from age six to age sixty are all learning to bowl, from the Bantam and Hot “N” ToT Leaguers to classic and major league champions. You niime it and >ve have it in Michigan, and among our more than 8,000 Wil­liam Penn Detroit membership. Im­agine, if you could gather all these sports lovers into one gigantic group — men, women and children all working together and helping one another to raise funds for their re­spective hobbies!! How do we get these members to­gether? First of all, discard the old­­fashioned and out-dated notion of several branches in one city all fight­ing one another, not cooperating, and making a mess of the idea of fra­­ternalism. If a member-to-member personal poll were taken, the ma­jority would vote for one branch and several chibs, where they could meet and enjoy the company of others with like desires. The members who at­tend the bianch meetings regularly are not well-enough qualified to vote their branches’ independence since only a dozen or so people usually at­tend these meetings, and those few often have selfish motives which in­fluences their vote to merge into one huge branen. Here we are in Detroit and area, the largest district in the Association, and what are we doing to project our fraternal spirit to the rest of the city? Not a doggone thing. We each keep to our tight little groups, suspicious of every move towards progress and the idea of fraternalism is discarded on the rubbish heap of indifference. I could go on and on in this vein, but the object of these articles is not to criti­cize but to suggest. BOWLING TEAMS ... NOTICE .. Plan now for some extra-special social event to be held sometime after the first of the year — for the benefit of the bowlers who are plan­ning to participate in the National Bowling Tournament in Philadelphia next year. Possibly ä dance, with tasy-to-make refreshments. A sug­gestion made was a “Farsangi Bál’ just before the Lenten season. My Hungarian dictionary states that “Farsangi” means “carnival,” or some sort of Mnrdi Gras affair. Plan the affair, the place, time and enter­tainment. The branch officers and members are behind you and will cooperate, let’s go!! * * * NEW MEMBERS: Mrs. Steve Toth (nee Helen Lu­kacs, daughter of District Manager Stephen Lukacs) presented her fa­mily with a brand-new son, born October 4, v, eight nine pounds. The new addition, eighth grandchild o* Mr. and Mrs. Lukacs and third ehild of Helen and Steve, was born at Oakwood Hospital, is the proud owner of the name Mark Stephen Toth. Congratulations to the Lukacs and Toth families. Tibor Penzes and his wife Eva, re­cently from Hungary, are the proud parents of Susan, six pounds, boro just about a year after the revolu­tion in Hungary. Happiness has truly come to the Penzes family, who are now free, new parents and all Wil­liam Penn members. Congratulations! Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hunter, whose youngest ’.vas born July 22, are all new William Penn members — along with baby David, his parents and brothers Thomas. Bcbby and JoseDh Welcome to the William Penn family. In Monroe, Michigan, Mrs. Frank Nagy became the latest member, making her family 100% William Penn, along with her husband and five children. You see. it grows on you — Pop first, then Mom and the cnildren —• a family project — to become William Penn“ members. I hope those Nagy youngsters will be at the Christmas party. * ijc ❖ And so to rest . . . and the very merriest of Christmas greetings to all of you. May the New Year be bright and happy and make us one united William I’enn branch. Pop and I and the boys will be spending our first Christmas Eve at home since we became a family — in 1934. Family tradition had it that the children visit their rarents and in-laws on Christmas Eve. Skip said he was married now and wanted to come home to Pop and Mom. Larry wanted to spend his first Christmas at home in his nineteen years of 1 i f e. So again tradition is broken — to make way for progress and complete family unity — Lucas family unity. Again, may God be good to all of you in the holiday season ahead! (Note new telephone number.) Your old FERRET 12t'96 Rosedale Avenue . Wyandotte, Michigan AVenue 3-0905 MARCH OF DIMES $ MOTOR CITY NEWS BRANCH 36-V — DETROIT, MICHIGAN By Jolán Lucas

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