ˇ ´ VESTNIK S P J S T
Volume 107 Number 10
Benevolence
H E R A L D
★ Humanity
★ Brotherhood
March 27, 2019
ISSN —07458800
Good Golly Gee . . . Lodge 196, Houston-West youth meet Mollie B Gabriela and Isabella Kapplinger of Lodge 196, Houston-West are all smiles as they meet Mollie B at SPJST Lodge 88, Houston on Sunday, March 10, 2019. The young ladies enjoyed listening and dancing to Mollie B and the Squeezebox band at Lodge 88. More on page 15.
2020 SPJST CRUISE
NOW BOOKING! Based on your response, SPJST is working with Travel Associates International to organize a fivenight “Western Swing Caribbean Cruise” for SPJST members and friends for February 12 - 17, 2020. This Valentine’s Week cruise out of Galveston will be aboard Royal Caribbean International’s Enchantment of the Seas. Grammy Award Winner Bobby Flores & The Yellow Rose Band will provide entertainment at special SPJST functions.
Cruise costs, including all taxes and applicable fees — two persons per room — are as follows: Inside Cabin .....................$1,133.62 Outside Cabin .................$1,233.62 Balcony ............................$1,693.62 Junior Suite .....................$2,233.62 Additional charges apply for incidentals including excursions, dining in specialty restaurants and beverage packages. For more information, including booking, call:
Bob Landreth Travel Associates International 432.689.3500
Thank you to the SPJST members who have already booked passage for this 2020 cruise event. If you are planning to join in the fun but have not already done so, please consider making your reservations by the end of March. Beginning in April, the “Western Swing Caribbean Cruise” will be made available to outside interests wanting to participate in the cruise event.
2017 SPJST State Queen:
“Orange ya glad I’m going to Syracuse! By April Dvorak • Lodge 25, Ennis
studying in Prague, Budapest, Bratislava, Vienna, Berlin, Krakow, and New York has been quite an adventure! Warsaw. Luckily, every single class I I am studying international relations take abroad will count towards my with a focus in international security and major. Also, on the weekends I have off, diplomacy. My geographical region of I plan to travel to many other places in study is Russia and Central Europe. I am Europe. I am mostly excited about travcurrently loving all of my classes, but I eling to the Czech Republic because I have discovered that learning to speak will have the opportunity to see where my ancestors Russian is lived. I have a difficult. friend and Although I relative, am havAnna, who ing a currently h a r d lives in the t i m e Czech Relearning, I public, and I w o u l d am beyond argue that I excited to am somemeet her for what хоthe first time. р о ш о I am al(good) at it. Without April, far right, and friends at a Syracuse Orange ready planning on a doubt, I football game. More photos on page 7. traveling to k n o w the Czech Republic multiple times to Syracuse was the right college for me. Amongst my classes, I have joined have Anna show me around the less many clubs including Residence Hall popular areas and help me navigate the Association, National Residence Hall towns my ancestors lived in. My freshman year at Syracuse UniHonorary, College Republicans, International Relations Learning Commu- versity has been such a wild ride, and it nity, The International Magazine, and is not even over yet! I have met some of Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority. Although the most incredible people, learned so I stay very busy, I am having the best much, become involved in multitudes of time of my life. organizations, and have been given the In regards to having the time of my opportunity to study across the world. I life, I recently was accepted into the am thrilled to keep Vestnik readers upCentral Europe Study Abroad Program. dated on all the exciting things that are I will be living in Wroclaw, Poland, next to come! Until then . . . S pánem Bohem. semester, but I will be traveling and —SPJST—
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( ( ( ( ( Inside This Week’s Věstník ( ( ( ( ( Important Dates ...................................3 Interest Rates.......................................3 District News........................................3 Lodge Section......................................5 Youth Section ....................................12 Puzzle Fun..........................................15
Decorated Rock Contest ..................15 In Memoriam ......................................16 Czech Culture ....................................18 Advertisements .................................20 Lodge Calendar .................................22 Annuity Information ..........................24
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Lodge 84 Dallas members meet at Rudolph’s Market
Lodge 107 Floresville hosts hall clean-up day Page 9
Lodge 88 Houston youth collect can tabs for RMH Page 13