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Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 to: SPJST Home Office, P. 0. Box 100, Temple, Texas 76503 ISSN-07458800
November 20, 2002
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It Only Gets Better! Supreme Lodge Vice President Gene McBride celebrates the SPJST's year-end godl of achieving 2100 insurance applications. The performance objective was realized on Wednesday, November 13.
The SPJST achieved its production objective of writing at least 2100 new membership applications during the 2002 calendar year. And they did it early! "We planned our work and then we worked our plan," says Supreme Lodge Vice President Gene McBride. "This is great news as it kicks into effect some super incentives for lodges, lodge officers and lodge members." As a result, for each lodge that achieves its lodge quota, the lodge will receive 1 1/2 times its lodge incentive amount. For example, if a lodge had a quota of 25 new members and meets the quota, the local lodge will receive $1,000 x 1 1/2 = $1,500. What's more, all lodges, that exceed their quotas by 50 percent will receive two times their lodge incentive amount. Other lodge and youth club incentives, previously outlined in the Vestnik and with lodge officers, also apply.
Through the end of the week, the SPJST insurance department had received a total of 2,114 applications, well in line with the sales pace established in 2001 when a total of 2,379 applications were written. "Achieving the 2100 mark was actually our secondary objective," says Brother McBride. "The primary objective was and continues to be meeting the life insurance needs of our meinbers and prospective members." SPJST-
Dorothy goes to Washington by Dorothy Urbanovsky Stiff Lodge 54, West
Inasmuch as this "doesn't have to be a tale of war", it gives me a good chance to tell about my experiences during my "years in the service." This time was served as a clerk typist in Washington, D.C., for the "duration of the war and six months after," as the contract read. However, mine lasted for
23 years and eight months! But that's another story ... While I was attending West High School, my father, Raymond Urbanovsky, was drafted into the Army on August 30, 1942. Being an accountant, he was assigned to the Finance Office at Camp Wolters, Texas. Besides his office duties, he was also appointed as a Troop Escort for recruit assignment transports. He was discharged on March 19, 1943, having passed the maximum age limit for active duty military personnel. Not long after his discharge, he was selected to serve as the Financial Secretary of the Supreme Lodge of the SPJST, then located in Fayetteville, Texas. He continued in that capacity until his retirement in 1973. He passed away in 1988.
Editor's Note: This is Part II in a series of articles devoted to SPJST How It All Started After graduation from West High in members who have served their country both on the warfront and on the 1943, I moved to Dallas to work for Southwestern Bell. During that time, I homefront. Whenever posible, the stories are in their own words, providing took the Civil Service Exam for a a first-hand glimpse of life through the wartime government job. The government had set a quota for a number of eyes of someone who was there.
girls and boys from each state to be sent to various government agencies throughout the United States. I requested to be sent to New Orleans Port of Embarkation, as that would put me nearer to home. However, the government had other ideas. I was assigned to the Veterans Administration in Washington, D.C.
After graduating from West High School in West, Texas in 1943, Dorothy Urbanovsky took the Civil Service exam for a wartime government job. Little did she know that it would lead her to Washington, D.C. for an adventure that would last a lifetime. (Continued on page 3.)