Volume 96 Number 45
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Lodge 54, West member shares Czech heritage with schools, children
In the state of Texas, October is Elementary, West Intermediate, and Czech Heritage Month, and Texas St. Mary’s School in West. Her power Czechs celebrate their heritage by par- point program presentation covered such subjects as ticipating in festigovernment, hisvals and tory including presenting prothe founding of grams to students Czechoslovakia, across the state. what is commuThese activities nism, the capital are aimed to encity Prague, courage the Czech food, casyounger generatles and knights, tion to become and language. interested in their But the majority Czech heritage of her program and to educate consisted of eduthem about the cating the stuCzech Republic. dents about their Jana M. Vacuancestors’ emilik, youth direcgration from the tor for the Czech lands to McLennan-Hill Texas. chapter of the Jana Vaculik speaks Most of the Czech Heritage at West Elementary. children know Society of Texas and member of SPJST Lodge 54, they are Czech, and some even have West, spoke to 300 to 400 children grandparents who speak some Czech. during the month of October. She was Continued on Page 14. invited to three different schools: West
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November 12, 2008
U.S. Navy Veteran Greg McCarthy: B-17 Experience
Each year, the time around Veterans flight deck of the USS Dwight D. Day brings back many memories to Eisenhower.” This medical disability those who served. For Greg Mc- ended Greg’s military career. On November 2, 2008, Greg, his Carthy, the time created an experience wife Jennifer, and six-month-old son that he will never forget. Lodge 187, Round Rock member Luke visited the Georgetown Airport to see a B-17 and United aircraft. “I States Navy was overveteran Greg whelmed just McCarthy being in the served the presence of a United States B-17,” Greg of America says. “Then, from October, we got to tour 1990, to Octothe inside of it ber, 1994. An and take Luke, aviation metoo.” Greg chanic and was speechhelicopter resless by the excue swimmer, Six-month-old Luke McCarthy Greg served in touches a B-17 as father Greg looks on. perience. Information Operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm, and Up- about the plane and its history, subhold Democracy (Haiti). “My mitted by Greg’s wife Jennifer, apsquadron served on the USS John F. pears below. Greg, Jennifer, and Luke Kennedy (CV-67) and the USS are all members of Lodge 187, Round Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69),” Rock. Greg says. “On November 12, 1993, Continued on Page 15. the helicopter I was in, crashed on the
SPJST 100 Pennies Scholarship Fund Drive
100 Pennies Scholarship Fund Drive c/o SPJST Home Office P.O. Box 100 Temple, Texas 76503
Inside This Week’s Vestnik
Interest Rates ......................................3 Family Fun Dates ................................3 Sales Agentsʼ Class Dates..................3 District News........................................3 Lodge Section......................................6 Youth...................................................15
In Memoriam ......................................17 Death Claims......................................19 Czech Culture ....................................20 Advertisements .................................21 Activities Calendar ............................22 Thanks................................................24
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Scenes from District One Fall Meeting
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Lodge 88 Houston celebrates Czech Day
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Lodge 47 Seaton youth collect tabs for RMH