Verhovayak Lapja, 1946 (29. évfolyam, 1-52. szám)
1946 / Verhovay Journal
Page 6 Verhovay Journal August 2Ö, 1946 The Verhovay Album of Branch Managers JOHN GYERMELI — BRANCH 168 — PALMERTON, PA. A native American and a lifetime resident of Palmerton, Pa., John Gyermeli was born on January 15, 1907. Three i mportant events marked the year of his 20th birthday, 1927. It was then that he entered the employ of the Palmerton Zinc Company. In the same year he married the former Mary Soos and their happy marriage was blessed with five children: Margaret, 18, Mary, 17, Agnes, 14, John, 12, and Theresa 9. And it was in 1927 that Mr. Gyermeli joined the Verhovay at Branch 168. This last event, however, seems to be even of greater importance to Branch 168 and the Association as a whole, than to fellow-rnember John Gyermeli whose wife and five children all are members of our organization. Being a man of great modesty, Mr. Gyermeli never aspired for public office even though he was aiways interested and active in social and fraternal activities. However, when fellow-member J. Bakos resigned from the management of Branch 168 in February, 1946, the membership unanimously elected John Gyermeli to this office, realizing that his qualifications will more than make up for his lack of experience in life-insurance business and fraternal management. And the new manager, assuming his office in March, 1946, justified the confidence of his fellow-members in every respect. Entering the 60th Anniversary Membership Contest only in its 5th month, manager Gyermeli ended with $5,500 and six new members to his credit, winning the portrait of the Verhovay Building. And as one of the star-performers in the 60th Anniversary Gold Ring Contest, he is credited with more than 25 new members secured during the first five months of his managership. He is a Verhovay builder of the first order! Of Trends and Friends in Chicago (Continued from Page 5) Said feller is the kind of guy we Women dream ' about, so listen Well! After working 8 hours on the job, he returns to his happy domicile and assists his frau with the new baby besides which he found time to get some higher education. Now he sports a diploma from one of Chicago’s colleges under one arm and baby plus paraphernalia under the other. Who is this phenomenon, you ask? Why, none other than our own V. P., William Feifar, Jr.! We know he will also take time out to help make our coming Social a success, now that he’ll have a little spare time. Pray tell, Mr. W. P., are there any more at home like you? WHAT A POP! We all know through either personal experience or the complaints of friends what a problem there is in finding even a vacant bird house to shield us from the elements, but Chairman Irocky is a fellow who beleives in action forthwith. His children, being offered only condolences by luckier individuals who already boast of bird nests (or at least dog houses), aroused in him the fighter instinct so what did he do but buy another 2-story building to house his married son, daughter-in-law and expected grandchild! The other apartment will be occupied by his daughter, Mrs. Margaret Schneider. So far—swell! Now the problem is . . . how to remove the present “homesteaders?” That’s where the trouble begins and goes on and on as we can personally vouchsafe for aren’t we having similar headaches? Suggestions cheerfully accepted for solving Mr. Irocky’s problem. BRANCH NEWS Hear ye! Hear ye! A new record was established at our regular Augiist monthly meeting. TEN persons were present! Disqualifying me because of distance and other difficulties, what’s the matter with the remainder of the local Chi membership? Or does the lake shore seem the better bargain these hot days? * * * Branch officers would like to call your attention to the fact that monthly dues should be paid before the 18th of each month so that the reports may be forwarded to the H.O. by the 20th, as requested in the By-laws. All insurance companies demand premiums to be paid in advance, therefore, if dues are paid after the 20th, they are not considered as paid in advance. For the convenience of the members, the Branch Manager is willing to call for the dues once a month before the 20th, but will be unable to repeat visits. }Jt * ❖ We take .this opportunity of welcoming Joseph Kaszar, Jr. and ex - G. T. William Schneider, Marge Irocky’s husband, into the folds of o u r ever-expanding Branch. In the juvenile department, we have added Linda Ellen Lowry, born July 9th, Marilyn M. Barry and Patricia Panozzo, both born July 19th. This seems to end my discourse for this month and the next time you hear from me, it will be from the confines of my 6x8 cubicle, accompanied by the whimpers and wails of the Rettmann heiress (we hope!) Until we meet again, I remain Your columnist, MIDGE. WJWWS.WS.W.W.W.V.WSMV.WJ■MVAWWVW.Y. I THE 376 HERALD j :■ — Prop. & Ed. John “Dirk" Fulop — i í ....... ' Í Vi'.'iV.V.V.VA’/AW.WAVV.WAViViV.V.'.V.ViV.V.V. tizo bachelor, died at 76 leaving 150 children, all milionaires, and a population that was 75% illiterate and 99.99% non-millionaires. He had a strange. malady that attacks all dictators, he was fearful of being poisoned. The biggest cities are Caracas, the capitol, (pop. 377,434) and Maracaibo, (pop. 136,434). Caracas has a university and a law that all autos blow their horns at intersections. Maracaibo has a lot of fancy hotels, clubs, etc. and exports 400,000 barrels of oil daily, which makes it the largest oil exporter in the world. In the gold-mining district around El Callao they wear pebble-sized twentycarat gold nuggets in their lapels. Not all Venezuelans have lapels. They have few roads and less railroads (like Indiana) apd most Venezuelans sleep in hammocks. Many snore. They have Ice fields 15.000 feet up and coastal-plains 112 degress in the shade. The jungle highlands are largely unexplored (like Indiana). They have pumas and boa constrictors, an asphalt lake, coffee, (lots) oil, balata trees (used in chewing gum) tonka beans (used in snuff) hides, copper (used in pennies), salt, iron, mica, vanilla- (used in vanilla ice cream), rubber, diamonds, gold, orchids (used in corsages), sloths, jaguars, egrets and a section of the Andes. Their typical orchestra consists of a hand-sized guitar, a kingsized Harp, and a gourd-sized gourd and, oh yes, they have the Orinoco river which has six foot electric eels. We have not as yet been able to figure out just why the Ferret and the Scribe of Kőszeg start their fortnightly stint with a quotation. It is a peculiarity that is all the more. perplexing because we find ourself this month with a stray quotation on our hand and an urge to let go with it. So if you run across a Napoleonic mouthing along in here some place you’ll know that we were unable to resist. We read recently that they are installing a drive-in window in a bank somewhere, so that you can drive up and make deposits or withdrawals without disembarking from your vehicle. A Psychiatrist says that the end of the war has made people go on a buying spree, purchasing such things as folding baby carriages, electric pants pressers and books on Atomic energy. They feel driven to it. Napoleon once said (kill us we can’t help it we are weak); I feel myself driven toward an end I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it an atom will suffice to shatter me. Until then not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me. Napoleon of course failed to foresee that one day he could drive up to a bank and cash a check without getting out of his car. He died believing he would have to get out. There really is no vision. And speaking of Napoleon we know of another great guy who may be of more interest to you; Karoly Bodnar, Recording Secretary of Branch 138, Gary, Indiana, for the past 35 years. Without launching into a series of excessively laudatory remarks we would like to say that it is men like Mr. Bodnar who deserve all the recognition and acclaim that the Association can give them. Readers should remember that his daughter Ann’s column used to grace the pages of the journal. We visited there recently and it was quite a trip traveling by train through Indiana. They had to stop periodically to push the cows off the track. From the train they, have an ingenious method of transportation. Having been unable to beat a path through the wilderness, to reach downtown Gary all you do is swing in on the vines, ala Tarzan. Now if you will all sit up straigth and promise to pay attention we will be “Good Neighbors” and tell you about Venezuela, the northernmost country in South America. Its name in Spanish means Little Venice and I think it’s called that because the first explorers saw the Indian villages built on stilts in the coastal waters. About 4,000,000 Venezuelans live there, 85% of whom have Indian or Negro blood, or both, in which case they are called “zambos.” The Spanish-Indian combination is called Mestizos. The United States recognized their new government last winter sometime. Having once been a member of the Republic of Great Colombia they set up their own Republic in 1830. Since then it has had 51 armed Revolutions, 20 Constitutions and lots of dictators, the most dictatorial of whom was Juan Vincente Gomez, (whose descendant didn’t pitch for the Yankees.) J. V., a Mes-LAUGH AT YOURSELF It often happens that hardpressed man can save himself if he can laugh at himself. If you can see the humor in your predicament, if you can laugh with the crowd at your mistakes, if you can ridicule your folly, if you can joke about your awkwardness, and if you can make fun of your own seriousness at times, you are out on the highway and on the road to victory. Try standing on the side lines, watching yourself go by. Laugh at the unnecessary loads you are carrying. Hold your own scowls up to ridicule, bring yourself up before yourself as judge and pass sentence on the heart that has no laughter in it. Be. sure to laugh at yourself when you are pretending. —CENTRAL CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads. It has been woven over many centuries by the patience' and sacirfice of countless libertyloving men and women. It serves as a cloak for the proitection of poor and rich, of black and white of Jew and Gentile, of foreign and naive born. Let us not tear it asunder. For no man knows, once it is destroyed, where or when man will find its protective warmth again. WENDELL WILLKIE. To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. Oliver Wendell Holmes. The best and most important part of every man’s education is that which he gives himself. EDW. GIBBON. Vincent J. Sutch, M. D. Promoted to Lt. Colonel Lt. Col. Vincent J. Sutch, M. D. California Verhovayans are verj proud of Vincent J. Sutch, M. D. who joined Branch 525 last sum ner when visiting his mother ir Los Angeles. He was introducer is a Major in the July 11, 1945 ssue of the Journal when mentior was made of his career in the U. S 4rmy. Fellow-member Vincent J sutch, M- D., was born in Arac Hungary, on October 11, 1898 same to America with his parent: when three years old, joined thr LI. S. Medical Corps in 1942 as ; captain and was promoted in 194: to Major. Last April he was pro moted to Lt. Colonel and we tak< this opportunity to extend oui congratulations to our distinguish sd fellow-member who now is sta tioned at the Veteran’s Hospital in Legion, Texas. Lt. Colonel Vincent J. Sutch visited with his mother, Mrs. John Sutch, for a week during July. He attended several affairs in Los Angeles and paid visits to a number of local Hungarian institutions on this occasion. Mrs. John Sutch, mother of the Lt. Colonel, 1986% Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, Cal., was very happy to have her son, his charming wife and their younger daughter, Marlene, at her home. Mrs. Sutch, one of the grand old ladies of the Los Angeles colony, respected and beloved by all, hopes that her son will- soon be transferred to Los Angeles. The members of Branch 525 wish to extend their congratulations to her, too, upon the recent promotion of her son whose love for Americans of Hungarian descent and interest in their institutions is a precious heritage from his late father and his ever active mother.-----------------v---------------ATTENTION ! BOWLERS ! CLEVEL AND, O. Branch J4 requests all fellow-members wishing to bowl on the Verhovay team to register either at the district office or at the bar of the Verhovay Home, 8637 Buckeye Road Cleveland, 4,0.- You can sign up any night at the bar or during the daytime at the office. JOSEPH M. TOTH manager.
