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Official Publication of the SPJST, originally chartered as the Slovanska Podporujici Jednota Statu Texas, in 1897
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Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 to: SPJST Home Office, P. 0. Box 100, Temple, Texas 76503
VOLUME 90 NUMBER 25
July 3, 2002
ISSN-07458800
Refer your friends and family for membership! Many lodge, youth club and referral incentives apply! Please contact a lodge sales representative or call the SPJST Home Office at WOW 727-7578 for details.
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Flag Raising Ceremony National Guard members unfurl the flag during the SPJST Flag Day Observance held Friday, June 14 at the SPJST Home Office in Temple. Activities included the reading of the winning SPJST Youth Flag Day essay, patriotic songs and a Flag Day proclamation by Temple Mayor Bill Jones, Ill. Please see related photos on page three.
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"We must continue to work together to keep the SPJST growing with new members. We have wonderful incentives in place for Vision 2002 to reward lodges me , ers, officers, sales representatives, youth leaders, youth memers, and Home Office staff, but we must meet the 2,100 goal again. " — Gene McBride Supreme Lodge Vice President
SPJST presents Flag Day tribute to Old Glory SPJST members and friends gathered to pay tribute to Old Glory at the annual Flag Day Observance held Friday, June 14 at the SPJST Home Office in Temple. Afterwards, visitors
United — That means that we have all come together. States — Individual communities that have united into forty-eight great states. Forty-eight individual communities with pride and dignity and purpose. All divided with imaginary
boundaries, yet united to a common purpose, and that is love for country. And to the And to the Republic — Republic, a state in which sovereign power is invested in representatives chosen by the people to govern. And gov-
enjoyed refreshments in the Home Office lobby. Following the singing of the National Anthem by KCEN-TV News Anchor Lisa Heitman, Temple Mayor Bill Jones, III issued a Flag Day proclamation, followed by a thoughtful commentary on the Pledge of Allegiance, which he attributed to the late comedian Red Skelton. He explained what the pledge means as follows: 1—Me; an individual; a committee of one. Pledge—Dedicate all of my worldly goods to give without self-pity. Allegiance — My love and my devotion. To the Flag — Our standard; Old Glory; a symbol of Freedom; wherever she waves there is respect, Winning because your loyalty has given her Stephanie Vanicek, 9, a member of the Lodge 24, Cyclone Youth a dignity that shouts, Freedom is Club, presents her grand prize winning essay at the SPJST Flag Day everybody's job. Observance as Stare Youth Director Melanie Zavodny looks on.
Flag Day Essay
eminent is the people; and it's from the people to the leaders, not from the leaders to the people. For which it stands, One Nation — One Nation, meaning, so blessed by God. Indivisible— Incapable of being divided. With Liberty — Which is Freedom; the right of power to live one's own life,without threats, fear, or some sort of retaliation. And Justice — The principle, or qualities, of dealing fairly with others. For All — For All--which means, boys and girls, it's as much your country as it is mine. Following the the Mayor's presentation, Stephanie Vanicek of Lodge 24, Cyclone delivered her grand prize winning essay entitled "The American Flag." Her essay follows: There are many words that describe the American Flag. Today I will tell you twelve letters that can tell some important things about the Flag that flies high on flagpoles around America. (Continued on page 3.)