Verhovayak Lapja, 1950 (33. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1950 / Verhovay Journal
VOL. XXXIII. MARCH 15, 1950 bl NO. 3 OFFICIAL NOTICE i 'j'' • . In accordance with instructions from the Board of Directors, I hereby call to the attention of all branchmanagers and officers as well as members of the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association that the NEXT MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS WILL BE HELD BEGINNING MARCH 27, 1950. Those who wish to contact the Board of Directors in regards to any kind of official business, should inform the National Secretary of their intention to do so not later than i March 20, 1950. Matters received after the above time limit or during the course of the meeting, shall not be discussed and the Board of Directors shall not consider them until the following meeting of the Board of Directors in September, 1950. JOHN BENCZE. National President. 1950 BIRTHDAY GIFTS LESS THAN LAST YEAR — Many Members Make Great Sacrifices To Help Handicapped Children and Disabled, Aged Members, But Overall Response To Verhovay Charity Day Appeal 40% Less Than In 1949. — Yes, we bad high hopes for this year’s Verhovay Charity Day appeal and mir hopes were greatly encouraged by the veritable avalanche of gift envelopes that reached the Home Office around February 21st, the 64th birthday ot our Association. And the letters that accompanied some of these donations! What tales they told of suffering and need than which only the charity and generosity of the writers was greater . . . Typical of these letters is that of an old miner who wrote: “I’m 72 and my pensions had been cut off, but of the little I have, I’m glad to contribute a dollar. I regret only that I am unable to do more . . .” Or here is what a member from New Jersey wrote: '1 have been bedridden for the last three years. That’s why I can’t contribute more than a dollar to your splendid appeal . . .” An old lady from the midwest writes: I am a widow, I live all by myself, and I have no other income but my small old age pension, but to this fine cause I’m glad to donate two dollars. May God bless you for what you are trying to do for those unfortunate children and the disabled aged members . . .” Reading- such moving and inspiring testimonials, how could anyone resist high hopes for the outcome of this year’s birthday appeal? Yet, when the receipts were counted it was found that the response to the appeal this year lagged far behind that of last year. To be sure, the number <‘f the contributions still is an impressive one. And the average size of the donations is up to last year’s standard. There is every reason td' be deeply grateful to many hundreds of Verhovay fraternalists who gave generous response to the noble cause of aiding our handicapped juvenile members and our disabled, aged fellow-members. Still, the sad fact remains that up to March 1st, 40% less individual contributions had been received than by the same date last year. Surely, the cause is a worthy one. Nor can there be any doubt about it, I he charitable generosity of true fraternalism still is in existence: 1,2.10 contributions totalling a little over $1,800, received up to March 1st, 1010, are proof to that. Why is it then that less, rather than more, members felt moved to make contributions to this fund, than last year? It is quite possible, that the slowly spreading economic consequences of the coal strike have discouraged many otherwise generously inclined members from making a contrbution this year. Then, too, the ever growing frequency of public appeals and solicitations, most of them if not all of them for worthy causes, can hardly fail developing some resistance. If memory doesn't fail us, it was said of Henry W ard Reecher that he invented what in his time was a new method of raising money for charitable purposes: he asked for it. The method may have been unique in his day, but today we are asked for money every day of the year, around the clock, at every turn, and even if all of the people were to give freely to every cause, the funds thus raised necessarily would be thinly spread, none of the causes receiving enough for their purposes. Americans on the whole, including Verhovay members, are contributing more, we believe, than nnv former generation, to religious and charitable causes, and if contributions fall short of the needs, that is due not to charity and generosity going out of existence, but rather to the over-abundance of appeals and solicitations. Still, we maintain that this particular cause of the Verhovay merits more than ordinary support, because the Association aims to render help of vital necessity to those mem tiers who can expect no help whatsoever from any other source of either private or public charity in their desperate Flight the alleviation of which is a very special obligation to us. the members of the Verhovay. Wc sincerely hope, therefore, that many of those tens of thousands of Verhovay’s members who have made no contribution yet to this year’s appeal will now make up for w hat has been lacking in the response to our urgent appeal. 20,000 letters had been mailed out by the Home Office, but only 6% BEAVER FALLS GRID STAR AND MUSICIAN SISTER AT KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY BILL AND MARGIE ROLLER Well known for his successful work" over a period of many years in managing our large Branch 39 in Beaver Falls, Pa., Andy Boiler has been even more successful as a father. For proof see the picture of his son and daughter, Bill and Margie, ready to take off together for a school dance, far away from home, deep in Dixie, at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Bill, a former all-sports hero at Beaver Falls High, a football scholarship winner, half-back star of the Kentucky Wildcats, was named last January a Kentucky varsity football letter-winner for his outstanding play during .he 1949 season. What the newspapers have written about the performances of this husky grid star, whom Harry .Jones of Cleveland describes as “a. runner, a passer, a blocker, and a tackier of surprising talents,’’ already has ’illed three large scrapbooks at home in Beaver Falls. A few selections from these volumes appear elsewhere in this issue, together with Bill’s picture in action when nothing is seen of that tender, boyish smile with which he hovers over his beautiful sister, Margie, in the picture cbove. In their hearts as close as brother and s’ster can be, in talents these iwo occupy opposite poles. If Bill is described as “by far and wide the wildest of a pack of Wildcats,” Margie may well be depicted as the daughter of the Muses. She, too, has earned a scholarship: in music . . . She is majoring >n Oboe, but she also plays the piano, violin and trumpet ... In high school she earned three letters in the band with which she played for four years. In her sophomore year she won honors in the Mid-Western Band contest held at Ellwood City, Pa., and in college she was voted into the Honorary Music Fraternity. That’s Bill and Margie Boiler . . . Who can tell what wealth of success the future has in store for them? But one thing we can tell: for Mr. and Mrs. Andy Boiler of Beaver Falls, Pa., they already are the greatest success in the world a father and mother can hope for . . . of those addressed have responded up to this date. Surelv, even with an abundance of worthy causes to satisfy, there is some way for a little more of our fellow-members to make a modest contribution to a cause which is our very own. We do hope that in the next issue we will be able to gratefully rejoice that Verhovav’s members went over the top in helping the crippled juvenile members and the disabled aged members of the Association. (Continued on page 10)
