William Penn Life, 1988 (23. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1988-02-01 / 2. szám
WILL OFFICIAL PUBLICATION PENN LIFE WILLIAM PENN ASSOCIATION Volume 23 February 1988 Number 2 ■HMBBHi Apparently, the holiday season brings out the child in all of us, including National President Stephen G. Danko. Mr. Danko presented his Christmas wish list to Santa during the Branch 352 Coraopolis, Pa., family Christmas party held Dec. 19 at the Home Office board room. A source close to Santa Claus said Mr. Danko asked Santa if he had received his letter containing all the items he wants the Board of Directors to approve in 1988. A visit with Santa Members’ enthusiasm increases as contest begins PITTSBURGH - The William Penn’s Lake Balaton Fonyod Camp/Membership Campaign Contest ’88 is quickly developing into one of the most exciting fraternal programs in the Association’s history. The Home Office has already heard from many members asking how they can win the contest’s grand prize — a trip to Hungary for their children. The fact that the Association’s juvenile members will be the real winners is creating a high amount of enthusiasm in the contest/ membership campaign. This comes as no surprise to National President Stephen G. Danko. Contest Rules and Entry Form appear on Page 5 "For a long time, our adult members have been eager for the Home Office to develop more interesting and more exciting fraternal programs for their children,” President Danko said. "This contest fills that desire and shows that this administration is serious about building better programs for our juvenile members,” he said. Up to 40 children will win the all-expenses-paid trip, with the Association paying for each child’s roundtrip air fare, camp fees and tour costs. Contestants must be between, the ages of 8 and 14 and members of the William Penn prior to Feb. 1, 1988. Winners will be those children who accumulate the most points based on the amount of premiums paid by new life-benefit members enrolled in their name between Feb. 1 and May 15. The trip will begin with a twoweek stay at the Fonyod Camp on the banks of Lake Balaton, one of Hungary’s most popular vacation spots. From July 6-19, the children in the William Penn group will be vacationing together with Hungarian children in the camp. See 'Contest’ Page 2 South Bend readies for tourney SOUTH BEND, IN — The members of Branch 132 are busily preparing to greet hundreds of William Penn bowlers who will converge on their hometown for the 45th Annual National Bowling Tournament and Scholarship Days. The three-day fraternal event will be held over the Memorial Day weekend, May 27-29. Bowling entry forms and hotel and banquet reservation forms will be mailed to branches soon, said tournament Co-administrator Frank J. Wukovits Sr. Headquarters for this year’s tournament and Scholarship Days will be the South Bend Marriott Hotel. "It’s the most beautiful hotel in the city,” Mr. Wukovits said. The bowling competition will take place at Chippewa Bowl, 225 W. Chippewa Ave. The fiveperson team events will be held on Saturday, May 28, with the singles and doubles events scheduled for Sunday, May 29. Complimentary bus service for the seven-mile trip between the hotel and bowling alleys will be provided for the bowlers, Mr. Wukovits said. The fraternal weekend will open with the annual meeting of the W illiam Penn Fraternal Association Scholarship Foundation. Tentative plans call for the meeting to convene at 5:00 p.m. Friday, May 27, at the Marriott, Mr. Wukovits said. This meeting will be followed immediately by the annual meeting of the Louis L. Varga Scholars Guild. Later that evening, bowlers and See 'Bowling’ Page 2 The voice of tradition William Penn member sings his way into the hearts of Hungarians everywhere By Joan Campion The (Bethlehem, Pa.) Globe-Times BETHLEHEM, PA — Looking at burly Frank Mikisits, you would take him for a retired steel worker, which he is. You probably would not peg him as the host of a radio show, owner of his own recording company, and celebrity in two worlds — yet he is all of these things, too. For, Frank Mikisits, a member of William Penn Branch 98 Bethlehem, a man who has made 10 Hungarian-language recordings in the United States and hosted his own Hungarian music program on local radio for 35 years, may be one of the finest singers of Hungarian music in the world today. His albums, all of them issued under his Tatra Records label, are in demand in Budapest and have been sold as far afield as Australia and Spain. He is popular as well with a generation of immigrants from Hungary and their children living in the United States and Canada. Born in Northampton, Pa., in 1918, Mikisits and his brother were taken back to Hungary by their mother the following year. "She was sickly,” Mikisits explained. "She had three operations there and two here.” Though a natural-born American citizen, Mikisits therefore grew up in a small Hungarian village, where he went to school, worked in the fields — and sang. "That’s what I’ve been doing ever since I can remember,” he said with a laugh. And from the beginning, his rich tenor voice excited favorable comment from all who heard him. But he wanted to be in America, so in 1936 he came to New York. He was a young American who did not know English — he had to learn it from a first cousin already in New York — and who See 'Mikisits’ Page 3 Inside____ ■ Members receive a special 'Thank You’..............Page 2. ■ Branches celebrate holidays, elect officers.... Pages 4-10. ■ A special welcome to more new WPA members........Page 8. ■ 'In Memóriám’ and 'Recent Donations’ ... ........Page 11. ■ Hungarian heritage center nears completion ... Page 12. ■ The Catholic Hungarians of Bridgeport.............Page 12. Next Deadline February 19
