Verhovayak Lapja, 1949 (32. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1949 / Verhovay Journal

VOLUME XXXII

DECEMBER 21, 1949

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instrument Of Love

— A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE TO THE MEMBERSHIP —

This Association was born, nearly 64 years ago, of man’s loving concern for the widows and orphans. Devoted husbands, fond fathers, conceived in their hearts the thought of saving their loved ones not only from certain destitution but also from the humiliation of being dependent on public charity, by creating an organization for the purpose of executing, immediately after their death, their last will and testament in supplying their survivors once more with the necessities of life. The idea loas not to build a charitable institution but rather an organization of mutual protection and self-assistance with which the survivors of a deceased breadwinner could deal with self-respect, in the proud assurance of claiming only what has become due to them as to the lawful heirs of one of the owners. Only love enriched by the noblest conception of human dignity could have conceived such a plan.

Out of such beginning developed later various other ways for realizing the purposes of Love’s provident care. The Association became the executor of motherly love by protecting the husband and children from the economic tragedy arising from the death of a wife and mother. This led, finally, to the inclusion of the children in the plan and, thereby, to the attainment of complete family protection.

Progressing still further, the Association became an even more effective instrument of Love’s purposes by developing plans designed to serve man’s hope for life in addition to the aims arising from his preparedness for death. By these plans the Association enables, for instance, even the stnall wage earner to attain old age security by accumulating a modest fortune. It enables the small wage earner in the same manner to provide a better start in life for his children.

Very few small wage earners are able to attain any of these aims by the way of savings. With the help of the Association, however, they can be CERTAIN of attaining ALL of these aims even if death should prevent them from carrying through their program. Thus the Association becomes the magnificent instrument of every father’s devotion, every mother’s love.

This being the case, the progress of the Association should be a matter of great interest to every loving person, because only by progressing can the Association become a more effective instrument of Love’s purposes for more and more people. However, since the operations of the Association are based on and dedicated to Love, its progress cannot be effected by other means than that of Love. Just as cleaning cannot be done with dirt, the purpose of Love cannot be served by the methods of selfish hate..

We appeal, therefore, to all of our members to help the progress of our Association with goodwill and charitable understanding, because working for the realization of Love’s purposes is the only source of happiness which, we pray, may be granted for Christmas and the Neio Year to every member of our Association.

JOHN BENCZE. National President, COLOM AN REVESZ. Nat’l Secretary, JOHN SZALANCZY, Nat’l Treasurer, JOHN SABO, Nat’l Auditor; JULIUS MACKER, V,Pres., Chairman of the Board. ANDREW KOVÁCS, VPres., ALOYSIUS C. FALUSSY. HENRY GROSS, JOHN A. HORNYAK. COLOMAN KOLOZSVARY. MICHAEL KOROSSY. STEPHEN LANG, STEPHEN NYERS, RICHARD PHILLIPS, JOSEPH S. TAYLOR, JOSEPH TURNER, LOUIS VIZI, directors; SAMUEL GOMORY, Chief Medical Adviser. STEPHEN J. MAT ASSY. Legal Counsel, ALEXANDER. NY I RAT I, GÁSPÁR PAPP, WILLIAM C. KOHUT, Auditing Committee, FRANK J. CHER. FRANK WUKOVITS. Field Supervisors, and the HOME OFFICE OF THE VERHOV AY FRATERNAL INSURANCE ASSOCIATION.

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The Home Office of the Verhovav Fraternal Insurance Association announces with profound sorrow the death of STEPHEN GABOR,

former Supreme Secretary of the Association from 1909 to 1925, and a member of the Home Office staff since 1936, on Tuesday. November 29, at 7 a.m., at the Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pa., at the age of 79, after an illness of one month.

Services were held on Friday, December 2, at 9 a.m., at the Beinhauer Funeral Home and St. Catherine’s Roman Catholic Church. Internment was at St. Michaels Cemetery.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Becsey Gabor, a daughter, Miss Margaret Gabor, a son, A. S. Gabor, M.D., a daughterin-law, Mrs. A. S. Gabor, and a granddaughter, Stephanie Joy, in Betlehem, Pa., a sister-in-law, Mrs. James Kane, and a niece, Mrs. E. C. Phillips, M. D.

Sharing in their sorrow are the Board of Directors and the National Officers of the Association, the Home Office employees, and tens of thousands of Verhovay members, all of whom had known and loved Stephen Gabor as a man of irreproachable integrity, goodwill, understanding and loyalty, a true friend, a great fratemalist, whose memory will be held dear among all Verhovayans.

Stephen Gabor was born in Szilas, Abauj-Torna county. Hungary, on January 17, 187Q. He came to the United States in 1901 and joined the Association at Branch 17, Lorain, O., in 1907. Quickly recognized for his outstanding qualities he was elected Supreme Secretary of the Association, only two years after his admission to membership, by the special Convention held in Pittsburgh, Pa., in November, 1909.

He was the first among the leading members of the Association to propose the reorganization of the Verhovay on the basis of sound actuarial principles and he was instrumental in the establishment of the Association as a legal reserve life insurance organization.

Opposition to the proposed change was powerful and determined. It took Mr. Gabor nearly sixteen years to gain sufficient support for effecting the reorganization that not only saved the existence of the Association but provided the impetus for the subsequently rapid progress of the Verhovay. Leadership in the long struggle for the adoption of the highly unpopular measure required immense resources of courage, character and unselfishness. But Mr. Gabor, encouraged by the support of a small group of farseeing men, persevered in the face of growing resistance that brought him so much bitterness that he finally resigned in 1919 only to be recalled the following year by the Cleveland Convention. In the end. opposition was overcome and the Association bqcame a legal reserve life insurance organization in 1923. For the next two years, while the immensely difficult task of reorganizing the Association was carried through, Mr. Gabor continued in his office until his final resignation in November, 1925. As Supreme Secretary he had rendered services of inestimable value to the membership of the largest fraternal organization of the American Hungarians.

The moving of the Home Office to Pittsburgh, another change proposed by Mr. Gabor while Supreme Secretary, was effected a year after his resignation. By that time, however, Mr. Gabor had moved far away from Hazleton where he had spent the best sixteen years of his life in the great struggle for Verhovay’s future. He was one among the first Hungarian settlers in Florida where he tried to make a new beginning as an orange grower. Some of the Hungarians were fortunate in what to them was an entirely new enterprise, but Mr. Gabor was not among them. Disillusioned, but undaunted, he returned north and worked for a year for the Northwestern Railroad Company. Then he opened a restaurant in Pittsburgh. For a year he lived in Ronkonkoma, N. Y. Whatever iob he tackled, he always was noted for his scrupulous honesty, untiring industry and courageous ambition.

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