Official Organ Of The Slavonic Benevolent Order Of The State Of Texas. Founded 1897. ViENEVOLEN E VOLUME 54. — NO. 45
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Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 with Undeliverable Copies to: SUPREME LODGE, SPJST, POB 100, TEMPLE, TEX. '76501
NOVEMBER 9, 1966
OPERATIONS AND ANALYSIS COMMITTEE REPORT: PART I (Editor's Note: We are happy to bring the membership the first in a series of reports on the findings of the Operations and Analysis Committee. The information contained in this first part was made public, for the first time, to the membership of District III by the secretary of that committee, Brother G. Louis Kudrna, member of Lodge 25, Ennis. Keep in mind that these are only recommendations, and that others will be forthcoming in the not too distant future. As we mentioned in this column last week, this committee is a completely autonomous body, which was handed a very serious mandate by the last convention in 1964. Please note the committee's appeal in the last paragraph of this report. It is suggested that members keep this issue of the Vestnik, plus others on the same topic, handy for future reference. Our thanks to the committee, and especially to Brother Kudrna for making these recommendations known to the membership of the SPJST). The Operations and Analysis Committee is composed of three members: Chairman -- Frank Olexa, Lodge 88, Houston; Secretary—G. Louis Kudrna, Lodge 25, Ennis; Melvin Skrabanek, Lodge 17, Caldwell. The committee was delegated authority by the 1964 convention in three
major endeavors: 1. Examine and make recommendations that will streamline the 1968 and future conventions. 2. Examine and make recommendations regarding procedures of the SPJST Order. 3. Make recommendations regarding the request for land and a new home office for the SPJST. We are making our recommendations in three phases as follows: 1. Recommendations to the Supreme Lodge Officers and Directors regarding things that need to be done and planned prior to the convention. 2. Recommendations that should be adopted by the convention after election of chairman and vice-chairman so that the convention business will follow a systematic and logical sequence. 3. Recommendations regarding items that will come up during the convention, such as the proposed new home office. The proposals and recommendations we are listing here are not the only proposals that we plan to recommend but only the beginning. We have gone over most of these proposals with the Supreme Lodge Officers and Directors, not for their approval or disapproval but because they wanted to know if the committee was functioning. SAVE THIS ISSUE - (SEE COVER)
Proposed Recommendations: 1. Work up a schedule and program to cover the flow of the convention proceedings. This would be reviewed with the Supreme Lodge President pertaining to items, prior to the election of the chairman and vice-chairman. The remaining part of the schedule and program would be reviewed with the chairman and vice-chairman for their approval and suggestions. It is possible and highly probable that the two delegates voted these positions will not know they are going to carry this responsibility until the first morning of the convention. They will not have the advance notice to be able to work out a schedule without falling into the same old ruts or falling over the same stumbling blocks that have been showing up in prior conventions. Here we will point out to them some of these pitfalls, such as reading of letters and • telegrams, recognition of visitors, going from one item to another and back again, so they can try to avert them if at all possible. 2. Begin all morning sessions at 8:30 a.m., including the first day. 3. Have all written supplemental directors, legal advisor, medical examiner, editor, submitted in time to be placed inside the convention packet that goes to each delegate u pon reg -istraon.Thwilemnathecessity of taking time to pass out this