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BROTHERHOOD HUMANITY Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 to: SUPREME LODGE, SPJST, P. 0. Box 100, Temple, Texas 76501 LISPS — 658480 VOLUME 69 — NUMBER 27 JULY 15, 1981 I am so proud to submit this picture taken this week and to announce that June 25, 1981, they were married 60 years. A party had been planned June 20, but it was cancelled due to hospitalization of my brother, Jerry. Mom and Dad were married June 25, 1921 at Kaufman, Texas. They had seven children: Jerry Vytopil, Lillie Matejka, Gladys Monthie, Rosie Rice, Albina Matejka, Joe Vytopil, and Frank Vytopil who lost his dear life in World War II. They also have 19 grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren. Both of them have been members of the SPJST for over 50 years. Dad has served as secretary-treasurer and president for many, many years in the past. He was also an organizer sales representative of our SPJST lodge and has many awards to his credit. My mother talked me into starting the first youth club in our lodge at Lodge No. 39. They and Brother Steve Regmund planted all the trees around our hall when it was built. This will remain always in their memory. I am so proud that we still have L to R: Paula Holecek, Terry Craig Sefcik, Kelly Kreder and Gary Uptmore. Seaton Choral Group seated in background. Morn and Dad with us. Dad will be 84 years old and mother will be 79 this (Vestnik Editor.) (Photo submitted by SPJST Supreme Lodge) Theyy love company, cards and (Article and picture appearing on the front page of the June 27, 1981 issue of the Temple Daily Telegram. Reprinted by faletters, so if any of you have a permission and submitted by SL SPJST.) minute, please write or visit or call them. Couple Married We love them very much and pray By JULIE JEROME that we will have them in our midst Sixty Years The orchestra, Jerry Haisler and Bright flowers and scarves flowed the Melody Five, which consisted of many more years. and the sounds of saxophones and a female saxophonist-vocalist, three Dear Relatives, Friends, Fellow We love you, Mom and Dad. accordions filled the air as the folk accordionists including a button Members of my parents, Frank and (Submitted by their daughter, Mrs. dances of Czechoslovakia opened the accordionist, a tenor saxophonist, Albina Vytopil: Lillie Matejka) fourth performance of the Temple bass player, drummer and guitar Centennial Pageant Friday night. player, played Czech tunes while a It was Czechoslovakian Heritage 40-member choir sang along. Day, and the West Czech Dancers The polka music and dancing was performed in Wildcat Stadium as the probable cause of over one-half nearly 5,000 pairs of feet tapped to of the audience professing their Czech heritage as they clapped and polkas and favorite Czech tunes. Dick Bennett, a dancer in the sang along with the music. troupe, said he had been performing with the group for three years and added he has thoroughly enjoyed it. The troupe of about 15 dancers meets every week and travels more than 30,000 miles a year performing at festivals and fairs, he said. A Czechoslovakian Folk Dances The repertoire of the group is Workshop with Frantgek Bonus will called a Beseda, which is a medley of be held Wednesday, July 15 at the Czech songs and dances handed Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church, 3/8 down by their Czech ancestors. mile West of Walnut Hill Lane on "This way we not only entertain Webber Chapel Road, in Dallas, our audiences," he said, "but we beginning at 7:30 p.m. teach them something of the Czech The next folk dances workshop will heritage." be held Friday, July 17 at the Sokol Recently, the West troupe Athletic Center, 7448 Greenville gathered the favorite songs and Avenue, also in Dallas at 7:30 p.m. dances of today, including "CottonThe fee to both workshops will be Eyed Joe" and "The Freeze" and $3 per person at each location. formed a Beseda of their own to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Vytopil hand down to their children. -SPJST-
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