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Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 o: SUPREME LODGE, SPJST, P.O. Box 100, Temple, Texas 76501 VOLUME 64, NUMBER 7 FEBRUARY 18, 1976
FRO F ME EDITOR'S DESK
Convention time is nearing once again and your editor's thoughts revert to the pre-convention meetings of our Supreme Lodge prior to the last one and in January, 1972, your editor asked the direct question: -Will we have a convention issue and a separate 75th anniversary issue for our Society, or will the convention issue serve for both occasions? The answer received was: The convention issue will serve both purposes; there will be no special issue. The excerpts of that meeting revealed that the issue was discussed. Then in the June 7, 1972 issue, page 16, second column (Excerpts from the Minutes of Second Quarterly Meeting of SL held April 11, 12, and 13, 1972), we read: Messrs. Bill Shropshire, Bill Lawler, and Marlin Griffith of the Steck-Warlick Company presented the material to be used in the brochure for the 75th anniversary of the SPJST. A motion was made and duly seconded to order 25,000 of the 24page brochures at a cost of $15,384, delivered. Motion carried. Prior to the convention in 1972 there were a number of questions asked about the cost of printing our Vestnik on glossy paper and the cost of the brochure was called to the attention of the delegates. One delegate, evidently not listening to the words, took issue with the
WEBSTER . . . ON WASHINGTON "We are met to testify our regard for him whose name is intimately blended with whatever belongs most essentially to the prosperity, the liberty, the free institutions, and the renown of our country. That name was of power to rally a nation, in the hour of thick-thronging public disasters and calamities; that name shone, amid the storm of war, a beacon of light, to cheer and guide the country's friends; it flamed, too, like a meteor, to repel her foes. That name, in the days of peace, was a loadstone, attracting to itself a whole people's love, and the whole word's respect; that name will forever be pronounced with affectionate gratitude by everyone in whose breast there shall arise an aspiration for human rights and liberty." statement that the cost of the brochures was high, which was not the intent of the sentence. (The conversation on my tape reveals both statements.) The argument of said delegate was that the brochure was a very valuable selling point for our sales representatives. I hope it has been used by them successfully. Why am I writing these lines? In the January 28, 1976 issue of the Vestnik, page 7, column 1, our excerpts from the SL minutes
read: SPJST DOCUMENTARY FILM — As was agreed upon during our October meeting, Mr. Zack Belcher of Educational Services, Inc., appeared before the body and proposed to produce a film presenting the SPJST story. The meeting was moved to our classroom where the Supreme Lodge members viewed several films Mr. Belcher's firm had produced. Mr. Belcher answered questions and stated the cost of a film usually runs $1,000 to $1,500 per minute. Recess was taken far lunch. The board resumed discussion of the idea of having an SPJST doeUmentary film produced. A vote revealed that the body was in favor of such a film. It was moved that a committee be appointed to be authorized to study and make specific plans and proposals for the production of an SPJST documentary film, such committee to be made up of the Supreme Lodge officers and two directors and such committee is to report at the April Supreme Lodge meeting. After second, the motion carried. Director Kubena and Director Pokladnik were appointed to serve on the SPJST documentary film study committee. Here we see- that the SL officers and two directors, namely Directors