Bethlen Naptár, 1956 (Ligonier)
The work of six decades
142 BETHLEN NAPTÁR Rev. Endre Sebestyén placing wreath on congressman Brick’s memorial in 1937. Indiana, by Abraham Lincoln Brick, a representative in Congress. Upon his motion, the United States Congress has passed a law, granting us a charter, on the basis of which we are still functioning. We have paid respect to the memory of Madarassy and Brick with an impressive ceremony at their graves in South Bend, Indiana, on April 11th, 1937. The Second Decade. In the beginning the Federation held its conventions annually, however, the convention in 1906 made a resolution, that the coventions be held biannually and only branches with “sufficient” members be represented. However, we could not establish from the records, what was considered “sufficient” at that time. Consequently conventions were held in 1908, in South Bend, Ind.; 1910 in Pittsburgh, Pa.; 1912 in Cleveland, Ohio. The next convention, however, was convoked only three years later, in 1915, in Toledo, Ohio, and the next one after that four years later in Buffalo, N. Y. This meeting began September 26, 1919, when a final resolution was made: that conventions of the Federation be held once every four years in accordance with the laws relating to fraternal societies. The most important convention of the second decade was held in Pittsburgh at which time the Federation’s work was reorganized on a new
