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Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 to: SPJST Home Office, P. 0. Box 100, Temple, Texas 76503 ISSN-07458800
April 23, 2003
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Wow! 100 Pennies Scholarship Drive donations top $22,000 March
31, 2003 marked the end of a very successful year for the SPJST 100 Pennies Scholarship Fund Drive and the SPJST Memorial Scholarship Fund. Donations totaled over $22,000—the largest amount ever collected. This represents the equivalent of 22 $1,000 scholarships and does not include the cash stipend extended by the SPJST Supreme Lodge for the Scholarship Program. This success is a credit to each of you. Thanks to all of the lodges and districts that held fund raisers for the fund. Thanks to each of you who donated. Through the end of March, 1,065 donations totalling $22,014.33 were made. The total eclipses this year's goal of $15,000 and outdistances the amount collected last year by more than 20 percent! Thank you for your generous donations. Because of your continued generosity, many young SPJST members will be able to attend or continue with college. While this posting concludes the 2002-2003 100 Pennies Scholarship Fund Drive, donations, including memorials, are gratefully accepted
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Thanks for Giving to the SPJST 100 Pennies Scholarship Fund 2002-2003 Donations $22,014.33 2001-2002 Donations $18,739.94
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2000-2001 Donations $15,319.20 year, round. The names of donors received between now and the beginning of next year's drive will be held and posted when the 2003-2004 drive begins on October 1, 2003. Next week's Vestnik will include the final listing of contributors to the 20022003 drive. If you 'have any questions or comments regarding this program, please contact me at (800) 727-7578. Fraternally, Gladys Yates State Fraternal Activities Coordinator.
Through March 31, 1,065 donations totalling 02,014.33 were made. The total eclipses this year's goal of $15,000, outdistancing the amount collected last year by more than 20 percent. Gladys Yates SPJST State Fraternal Activities Coordinator
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Lodge 183, Arlington hosts Melodion Band from the Czech Republic Lodge 38, Kovar Annual Picnic Lodge 63, Sweet Home Benefit Stew Dinner for Sweet Home Volunteer Fire Department District Three Spring Meeting at Lodge 25, Ennis District Four Spring Meeting at St. Ambrose Fellowship Hall in Wall hosted by Lodge 160 District Five Youth Garage Sale at Lodge 88, Houston Lodge 29, Taylor May Fest - Dinner and Dance Lodge 172, Pasadena Social - Dinner, Dance Lodge 24, Cyclone Mother's Day Barbecue State Horseshoe Tournament, Lion's Park, Temple District Seven Spring Meeting hosted by Lodge 133, San Antonio at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Lodge 80, Holland Annual Picnic SPJST Education and Nature Center Retreat at Greene's Family Camp in Bruceville Memorial Day • SPJST Home Office Closed
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Lodge pays tribute to Stanley Broz Supreme
District Four Director and SPJST Supreme Lodge Vice Chairman Stanley Broz knew something was up when he looked across the room and saw two young ladies smiling at him. It was Wednesday night, April 9 and members of the Supreme Lodge — in town for their quarterly meeting — were dining out at the Beef Barn in nearby Morgan's Point. "It took a while for it to register — then all of a sudden I realized the two ladies were my granddaughters," recalls Stanley. The girls, Shawna Broz and Roxie Halfmann, along Stanley Broz with other family members, were on hand to join Supreme Lodge members and 'mark Brother Broz's 30 years of service as SPJST District Four Director. "That really surprised me," says Brother Broz, a semi-retired farmer and rancher, who has served in the director's spot since 1972. Stanley's father, the late R.E. "Bob" Broz held the District Four director's seat from 1960
through 1970. Ten counties comprise the district: Baylor, Foard, Haskell, Jones, Knox, Lubbock, Lynn, Runnels, Tom Green and Wichita Counties. It's a big area, acknowledges Brother Broz and one which he has been happy to serve. "My greatest joy as a director is knowing that I have been able to help a lot of younger folks — some older ones too — to buy a farm or home. That's a good feeling," he says. "The life insurance, too . . . That's always been important," says Brother Broz. "You know you're doing good when you provide someone with adequeate coverage." Without question, life insurance is a subject that Stanley and his wife of 52 years, Martha, know a lot about. Martha, who has been a perennial top-producing SPJST sales representative, and Stanley have been an inseparable team when it comes to promoting membership in the Society. "Things have changed a lot in just these past 30 years," observes Brother Broz. "While we still have active lodges, we don't have the kind of involvement that we did a generation ago. There are just so many activities competing for everyone's time. "Our fraternal challenge is to keep the lodge experience meaningful for (Continued on page 3.)