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"Joining Hands To Touch Lives- Fraternalism for the Family and Our Nation'
ITiSTNIK SPJST Herald Official Publication Of The Slavonic Benevolent Order of the State of Texas, Founded 1897 HUMANITY
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Postmaster: Please Send. Form 3579 to: SUPREME LODGE, SPJST, P. 0. Box 100, Temple, Texas 76503 January 29, 1997 ISSN-07458800 VOLUME 85 NUMBER 5
SPJST 100 Pennies Scholarship Drive tops $13,000 mark Through January 22, the SPJST 100 Pennies Scholarship Drive had collected a total of $13,254.08 — enough for 26 additional scholarships. The seventh listing of members who have donated to the 1996 100 Pennies Scholarship Drive follow. Contributors of $50 or more are listed in bold print. Teresa, Charlie, E.J. and J.B. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Roy Belz Hilda Blahuta Mrs. Louis Blazek Timothy, Thomas, Deborah and Ruby Bowen Matilda Bravenec Dennis and Alene Brosh Shirley Ann Bryson Agnes E. Burge Ida Chlapek Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Chlapek Gayenell and Alton Chudej Timothy Coburn Dolores R. Coufal Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cuba Arthur E. Curtis Emory Davenport Nell Davenport Debbie and Shane Desselle Leona Dubcak Della Elzner Ken and Barbara Enoch Roxie Frnka Gisele Gee Carol, John and Josh Globke Gregory Goedeke Kathleen and Renee Guenther Jonathan Haag W.F. Hejny Evelyn M. Henry Scott Holly Jerry J. Sr. and Shirley Hosek Mrs. E.P. Howard Alyssa Hudler Taylor Hudler Joe and Estelle Hurtik Patti James Erin Jatzlau Jim and Edith Kalina Jeremy Kalmus Mr. and Mrs. R.L. Kennedy Julie D. Kinnamon Jeffrey Kirby Jessica Kirby Mark and Cindy Knobles Wanda P. Kopecky Tim and Rosa Lee Kostom Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Koudelka Larry and Yvonne Kovar Raymond and Delores Krampota Adolph and Marion Krchnak Charles Krusekopf Frank and Norma Kubin (Continued on page 4.)
Olympics '96 Membership Drive Winners Named Atotal of 196 new members
were enrolled as a result of the four-month Olympics '96 Membership Drive which ended on December 31. "It was a great membership drive," says Supreme Lodge Vice President Leonard Mikesksa, whose department conducted the drive. "Recruiting new members is important to our organization," he says. "For that reason, we want to extend our appre-
ciation to each and every one of the 59 `recruiters' who participated in the '96 membership drive. Thank you for helping us grow." Under the program's guidelines, members who actively "recruited" members for membership became eligible for five levels of recruiter achievement awards. Top recruiters for the four-month contest are posted below. All contest recruiters are posted on page three. —SPJST-
* TOP RECRUITER * $250 and special recognition at the 1997 Annual Awards Banquet
Shelly Machu • Lodge 29, Taylor * LEVEL FIVE RECRUITER * $250 Cash Prize
Monica Ivicic • Lodge 80, Holland * LEVEL TWO RECRUITER * $100 Cash Prize
L.H."Dutch" Kopecky • Lodge 40. El Campo - Hillje * LEVEL ONE RECRUITERS * ti t
$50 Cash Prize
Ruby Bowen Lodge 18, Elgin Marie Ripple Lodge 29, Taylor Rosemary Stabeno Lodge 29, Taylor
Leslie Beseda Lodge 6, Cottonwood Matthew Beseda Lodge 6, Cottonwood Cindy Wheeler Lodge 88, Houston
Charlene Domak Lodge 91, Crosby Alvin Franta Lodge 91, Crosby Anna Moss Lodge 79, Corpus Christi
* WINNERS OF RECRUITER DRAWING * $25 Each
Monroe Jimenez Lodge 47, Seaton
Martha Milan Lodge 154, Fort Worth
Bettye Hawk Lodge 177, Academy
Lorrie Anderle Lodge 183, Arlington
Members of the SPJST Insurance Department conduct the final drawings for the "Olympics '96 Membership Drive." Pictured, from left, are: Doris Tyroch, Cynthia Bravenec, Vice President Leonard Mikeska, Ruth Hanusch and Kathy Fritz.
Sister Rose Ancinec Achieves Grand Age of 96
Lodge 157, Lubbock member devotes life to building family The SPJST congratulates Sister Rose Dusek Ancinec, who celebrated her 96th birthday on October 25, 1996. As such, Sister Ancinec is entitled to all SPJST member benefits with no further dues or assessments required
Rose Dusek Ancinec was born October 25, 1899 into a long lived family. Her earliest known direct
ancestor in the 1700s lived to be 81 years old. Fortitude and determination have been her strengths. Rose's ancestors came from , Dolni Cermna in Czechoslovakia. Both her parents were Duseks. Her father, Frank Dusek, came to this country in 1887. Her grandfather, Ludvik Dusek, and her great-grandfather, Vincenc Dusek, came here in 1857, just two years after the end of the American civil war. The Duseks are a very large family and when growing up, Rose and her brother Edward were teased, loved and spoiled by a dozen aunts and uncles. Edward Dusek, her next younger brother, and Lumir Dusek, the youngest in the family, are deceased. Her younger sister, Dorothy Tomcik, lives in San Angelo. Rose was born in Placedo, Texas. She lived in Elgin, Texas for the first six years of her life and at New Colony, near Rogers, Texas, until she was 20. At that time, she married Joseph Rose Ancinec Ancinec and went to live in the Red Ranger community. Until Joe and Rose retired, they always lived on a farm. She cooked and she sewed. She gardened, canned, washed clothes on a rub board after carrying her own water and heating it on a wood stove. There is very little on a farm that she did not tackle, from battling snakes and hawks to building whatever was needed, be it nests or coops or stoops. She milked cows and she sewed most of the clothes for herself and her seven children. She never sat down except to rock a baby. Sick or well, she persevered. Now, at age 97, she is still determined to do for herself. (Continued on page 3.)