ˇ ´ VESTNIK S P J S T
Volume 107 Number 4
Benevolence
H E R A L D
★ Humanity
★ Brotherhood
January 30, 2019
ISSN —07458800
LAST CALL!
Deadline is Monday, Feb. 4 SPJST Accounting Assistant Dorothy Stuchly, left, and Communication Assistant Doris Tyroch share a Home Office picture from 50 years ago. Dorothy has 53 years of service at SPJST, and Doris has 52 years of service.
Home Office Twins . . . 105 Years of Service By Drake Lawson story originally aired on KWTX on Sunday night, January 20, 2019
District Seven Director Bob Bayer recognized for 30 years of service Congratulations to District Seven Director Bob Bayer! Brother Bayer was recognized for 30 years of service to SPJST at a dinner hosted by the SPJST Supreme Lodge at Ratibor Country Grill on Tuesday, January 22, 2019. Special guests were his family members. Pictured with Brother Bayer are, left to right, son-in-law Larry and daughter Roxy Bertrand; wife Polly Bayer; granddaughter Lian Pruski; daughter Wendy Pruski; son John and daughter-in-law Peggy Bayer. Director Bayer and his family are all members of Lodge 107, Floresville. More on page 5.
TEMPLE, TX (KWTX) Since 1966, twin sisters Dorothy Stuchly and Doris Tyroch have worked together at SPJST in Temple. The Czech life insurance company hired the sisters only 10 months apart. Dorothy who began working at the company first, remembers the day Doris was hired. “The president of the company called me into his office one day, and I went wow . . . what does he want? He asked me, ‘would your twin sister be interested in working for SPJST?’” Doris accepted the offer and has been working along with Dorothy for more than 50 years. “I needed a job because every person has to work somewhere. You have to give everyone a chance, and I was given that chance here,” says Doris. Through the years, the sisters were
even able to confuse their bosses. “She had a boss (Doris) that had a hard time discovering who was Doris and who was Dorothy. Her boss called after me and asked me to do a job. I said, ‘I don’t know how to do it’ . . . I asked him, ‘Do you know who you are talking to?’ And his eyes lit up because he couldn’t tell the difference between us,” says Dorothy. Both Doris and Dorothy agree they wouldn’t trade their years of working with one another for anything. When asked what it meant to work with her sister, Doris didn’t hesitate in saying,“It’s wonderful, it really is. We are close. Someday when one of us passes, it will be hard on the other because we are so close.” Editor’s Note: Thanks to KWTX television station and Drake Lawson for sharing this story, which can be viewed on SPJST’s Facebook page. —SPJST—
N N N N N N N N Inside This Week’s Věstník N N N N N N N N Readers Write ......................................3 Interest Rates.......................................3 Important Dates ...................................3 Recipes.................................................3 100 Pennies Fund Donors ..................4 District News........................................4
Lodge Section......................................5 In Memoriam ......................................9 Youth Section.....................................10 Czech Culture ...................................12 Advertisements .................................13 Lodge Calendar .................................14
District Seven youth enjoy skating party
Lodge 47 Seaton welcomes new member Page 7
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Lodge 84 Dallas youth meet at Whataburger Page 11