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Volume 102 Number 25
Benevolence
★ Humanity
“Step Up To The Plate” May Top Agents
Linda Eureste
Lodge 171, Lockhart • District One Associate Agents Certificates Issued $50 Award
2nd - Albin Machu, CFFM Lodge 29, Taylor (2) 3rd - Susan Skrabanek, FIC Lodge 17, New Tabor (1) 4th - Jerry Sijansky, FIC Lodge 79, Corpus Christi (7) 5th - Oda Ruth Martin Lodge 226, Corsicana (3)
Associate Agents Earned Premium $50 Award
2nd - Albin Machu, CFFM Lodge 29, Taylor (2) 3rd - Jerry Sijansky, FIC Lodge 79, Corpus Christi (7) 4th - Linda Eureste Lodge 171, Lockhart (1) 5th - Oda Ruth Martin Lodge 226, Corsicana (3)
1st Place Associate Agent
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$200 Award
★ Brotherhood
June 18, 2014
Members, Guests visit Home Office during TCGS event
$200 Award
Susan Skrabanek, FIC
Lodge 17, New Tabor • District One
1st Place Career Agent $200 Award Each Category
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SPJST Home Office in Temple was the site for Texas Czech Genealogical Society’s “From the Ship to the Plow” event on Saturday, June 7. See pages 19 and 20 for event summary and photos. LEFT PHOTO: Jackie Watson, left, and Lisa Gammill look through past Vestniks in the newlyopened Vestnik Reading Room that features 80 years of past Vestniks and an online Vestnik archive. RIGHT PHOTO: Sisters Betty Grier, left, and Bobbie Bickle, both of Lodge 84, Dallas, visit the Home Office for the first time. Their dad, Charlie Staglik, served as bartender at Lodge 84 for 40 years. BELOW: Jerry Sijansky of Lodge 79, Corpus Christi; Libbie Vrla of Lodge 154, Fort Worth; and Gerilyn Donnell of Lodge 79, Corpus Christi tour the SPJST Home Office during one of the breaks.
Kerry Herrington
Lodge 172, Pasadena • District Five
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Important Dates ...................................3 Interest Rates.......................................3 Readers Write ......................................4 SL Vice President’s Posting ...............4 Step Up to the Plate Updates .............5 Lodge Section .....................................6
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1st Place Associate Agent
H E R A L D
Inside This Week’s Vestnik
In Memoriam ......................................10 Death Claims......................................11 Youth Section ....................................12 Czech Culture ....................................18 Advertisements .................................21 Lodge Calendar .................................22
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Lodge 32 Victoria remembers SPJST Veterans
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Lodge 155 Austin hosts summer social
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Lodge 49 Rowena Youth Club members enjoy social