411111111N11A111111111i. ....a tcoirr.
Joining Hands To Touch Lives... . . . Fraternalism for the Family and Our Nation
ESTNI ,40 T Leralci %\
moo
Official Publication of the SPJST, originally chartered as the Slovanska Podporujici Jednota Statu Texas, in 1897
BENEVOLENCE
Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 to: SPJST Home Office, P. 0. Box 100, Temple, Texas 76503 VOLUME 91 NUMBER 22 ISSN-07458800
Recipes wanted for new SPJST cookbook The SPJST Anniversary Cookbook was a big success! It is still a best seller and we have ordered a few more. Thanks to all who sent recipes. At the last Supreme Lodge meeting, it was decided to do another cookbook. I need your help in making the new cookbook as successful as the last one. We need recipes from all the cooks in the SPJST. You must be an SPJST member to submit a recipe. You may also submit as many recipes as you like; however, there is no guarantee that all recipes a member submits will be used. Recipes may be submitted on a recipe collection form which has been provided to local lodges or on regular paper. These recipes need to be received at the Home Office by July 1, 2003. Please mail these recipes to: SPJST Home Office Attention: Cookbooks P.O. Box 100 Temple, Texas 76503 You may also email your recipes to lanitaa@spjst.com . Please include your address, phone number, and lodge number. Any assistance you can provide us in collecting recipes will be appreciated. We want this cookbook to be as successful as the last one. We hope to have the new cookbook ready for sale by the first of next year. Reprint of 100th Anniversary Cookbooks on the Way Two thousand copies of the SPJST Anniversary Cookbook have been ordered. The books, which include 1,100 recipes by SPJST members, are expected here at the Home Office in approximately three weeks and will be
Funding available for SPJST cemetery restoration projects In the early years of the SPJST, several of our lodges founded cemeteries for the interment of their members and families. Based on Home Office records, the following lodges established cemeteries: Lodge 10, Shiner; Lodge 11, Praha/Lodge 21, Engle; Lodge 23, Moravia; Lodge 35,
11111111•11
Jul
=I
NM /NM 1
AIIIIIICNV I 1111111•111■ 111 1111111111111P /11111111. =NW A
ansurin9 CF Enriching Lives BROTHERHOOD
HUMANITY
Calling all cooks!
111/111111/
May 28, 2003
Family Fun anti important SPIST Dates May 31 June 1 June 1 June 8 June 8 June 13 -15 June 10 June 14 June 14 June 21 June 22 June 22 June 25 June 27-29 June 29 June 29 July 1 July 4 July 12 July 13
Lodge 148, El Maton Appreciation Dinner Lodge 47, Seaton Annual Picnic/100th Anniversary Lodge 88, Houston Homecoming Lodge 189, Bryan - College Station Incentive Luncheon Lodge 202, Jourdanton Picnic Leaders-in-Training (LIT) Workshop Lodge 87, Temple Member Appreciation Banquet Flag Day Blessing Volunteer Fire Department Barbecue Cookoff Lodge 92, Fort Worth Special Fund Raiser/Dinner, Dance District Three YAD at Lodge 25, Ennis Fund Raiser Dance at Lodge 92, Fort Worth No Vestnik Published District Six Camp at Camp Lone Star, La Grange Lodge 9, Snook Family Fun Day District Five YAD at Parish Hall in Wall SPJST founded, 1897 Independence Day • SPJST Home Office Closed Lodge 17, New Tabor Tarok Tournament District Seven YAD at Poteet VFW —SPJST-
To date, more than 24,000 copies of the SPJST Anniversary Cookbook have been sold. for sale at that time. Since it came out in 1997, 24,000 copies of the SPJST Anniversary Cookbook have been sold. During its first year, profits of $17,000 from the sale of the book went to the Ronald McDonald House. Since then, book profits have been directed to the SPJST Scholarship Fund. For information on either the SPJST Anniversary Cookbook or recipes for the new cookbook, please call Roxanne in the SecretaryTreasurer's office (800) 727-7578. Fraternally, Lanita Anglin Secretary Treasurer —SPJSTElk; Lodge 38, Kovar; Lodge 73, Seymour; Lodge 80, Holland and Lodge 186,Caldwell. To help preserve these final resting places, delegates to the 1988 and 1992 SPJST Conventions allotted a total of $10,000 for cemetery restoration. Again, in 1996, convention delegates allotted $3,000 for cemetery restoration. To date, $8,260 of the appropriation has been used, leaving a balance in the Cemetery Fund of $4,740. (Continued on page 3.)
47, Seaton to Observe Centennial
Lodge The original lodge home of Lodge 47, Seaton, pictured above, was dedicated on Labor Day in 1906. This Sunday, June 1, the lodge observes its 100th anniversary with a day-long celebration, including games, demonstrations, musical entertainment and food.